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. When I was doing my research into the episode, what you need, like I said in the last podcast,

there isn't a huge amount of trivia about this one, but there is one very interesting piece of

trivia, and that is that this episode of the Twilight Zone isn't actually the first time that the story has been adapted.

It was originally adapted for a television anthology science fiction show called Tales of Tomorrow.

Now Tales of Tomorrow began in 1951 and featured the first televised

adaptations of a few science fiction writers' work, people like Isaac Asimov and so on.

And apparently, and I'm not sure as to the extent of this, but apparently Rod Sailing used to pitch stories to the show.

But he certainly watched it.

I guess it is very much a precursor to the Twilight Zone.

But the show featured names like Lonchene Jr.

who played Frankenstein's Monster in an episode.

It featured Paul Newman, Leslie Nielsen, James Dewan from Star Trek, all kinds of names like that.

Now what you need was broadcast in 1952, performed live like apparently all of the shows were,

but it's more of a literal adaption of the story than the Twilight Zone one was, and

maybe, and this is certainly supposition on my part, maybe that played a small part in Rod Sailing,

not wanting to adapt the story as written. You know, maybe it was that it had already been done

pretty faithfully before that

he didn't want to do it again, but like I say, that's also position on my part.

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