There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man.

It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.

It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of

man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area

which we call the Twilight Zone. I'd like to start tonight's Twilight Zone podcast by just reading a couple of quotes from Rod Sailing.

Now these aren't particularly connected to the episode that we'll be discussing tonight walking distance.

But when I was doing my research for this one, I just came across these quotes and they just really stood out to me

you know considering they were made 50 years ago they still seem to be really relevant today which I guess is quite typical of the twilight zone anyway you know the messages within the episodes

pretty much still stand up today too i guess that's

why we're still here talking about it but these quotes were more about the business side of things

the struggle that rod sailing was having at the time with getting the show made getting the show out

there that kind of thing and I'm taking these from a book

called unlocking the door to a television classic by martin graham's junior and first quotes from a

nineteen fifty nine issue of tv guide um which featured a two-page article written by rod sailing explaining

why he made the series the twilight Zone and he said when Gunsmoke

corrals an audience the next season will see a herd of imitators varying in title and star but painfully similar

Peter Gunn goes off on a caper and the next season 14 other actors take our private eye

licenses and the television audience is exposed to a diet of sameness that makes dial

switching superfluous.

The exciting thing about our medium is its potential, the fact that it doesn't have to

be imitative.

The horizons of what it can do and where it can go stretch out beyond vision.

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