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Rod Serling - How Censorship Led to The Twilight Zone (1959)

submitted by Grimm

9 years 11 months ago

Rod Serling explains how censorship led to the creation of ‘The Twilight Zone’.

By 1959, Rod Serling had had it with the dumbing down of American television by what he saw as overly sensitive TV sponsors who forced writers to edit scripts...

In this fiery discussion , which aired (according to IMDB) on September 22, 1959, we find Serling on The Mike Wallace Interview talking about his early writing career and the heavy hand of corporate sponsorship that led to his creation of a soon-to-debut science fiction and fantasy television series called The Twilight Zone (the first episode would air a little over a week later on October 2, 1959). A passionate exchange about early TV’s potential, thoughts about what Wallace calls “the battle of the writer to be his own man” and copious on-air smoking ensues.

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Rambaldi says...

That was fascinating.

ant

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I love where Mike Wallace suggests that The Twilight Zone isn't important for television (10:50 or so). Talk about not picking your moments.

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Good find.

Sniper007 says...

14:00. He stays in the medium because he thinks he'll fail outside of it. Humbling admission of inability to perform generally as an independent man, and the depedence on socially provided speciality.

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