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The Twilight Zone
In the original pilot for The Twilight Zone, writer Rod Serling came up with an interesting idea. What if a man from 1958 kept waking up in Hawaii on Dec. 6, 1941, the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor? What if he tried to warn everybody of the coming disaster? And what if nobody listened?

"The Time Element" was written when Serling was still just in college, but it included many of the elements that later episodes of The Twilight Zone would come to exemplify. Mind-bending twists, lonely or confused characters in unfamiliar surroundings, and maybe most importantly, internal commentary on the way these characters deal with the strange situations in which they find themselves.



SYNOPSIS

listen: The Twilight Zone - The Obsolete Man

This story takes place in the future; not a future which will happen, but a future which could happen....It is the artist's worst fear: the world of science and business has dominated the world. Gone are the uses for such things as poetry, philosphy and books. They simply create freedom of thought and this is not what this future is about. The State is in control. You need not think any longer; just be productive. If not, you will find yourself like our Mr. Wordsworth: in front of a jury ready to condemn you to death for living an obsolete life...that of a librarian! This is the tale of his final days...........

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EPISODES

The Twilight Zone - The Passersby
The Twilight Zone - The Rip van Winkle Caper
The Twilight Zone - 4 o'clock
The Twilight Zone - The Obsolete Man
The Twilight Zone - A Kind of Stopwatch