"Rod intended his episodes as allegorical commentaries on problems of his own time. He knew the networks and sponsors would refuse to air anything that came down hard on some then-controversial theme (race relations, atomic weaponry, the gnawing sense that America had become a culture of conformity). Serling was wise enough to realize that if one couched his statements within the context of imaginative-fantasy (As Gene Rodenberry would likewise do with 'Star Trek') you could get away with saying pretty anything you wanted."
Douglas Brode in The Shreveport Times marks the fiftieth anniversary of the debut of The Twilight Zone.
And in 2014, Bill Flanagan on CBS's Sunday Morning praises Rod Serling as a television pioneer.
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