i wonder what Rod Serling ...........
thought of this series?
shareI think he probably dug it.
sharei wonder if he was ever asked.
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He prolly liked it!
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It was probably okay with Rod, although my sense is that it lacked his "social consciousness", with race, Holocaust and, more broadly, social and economic injustice not on the front burner, as they so often were on The Twilight Zone.
The Outer Limits was, in terms of the issues it dealt with, more purely cerebral, a Thinking Man's series, while the Zone, while it went there, was geared more toward the Common Man than the educated professional, or, where younger viewers, teens, for instance, were concerned, more "honors" student, Advanced Placement, than just plain average kids.
Let's not forget that by 1963, the year OL debuted, TZ was, for the most part, creatively shot and Serling's series was on its last legs.
Anyway, they were two different TV shows. The continual comparison between the two is very irritating.