Monday, July 14, 2014

Television and Cinema Verities



“I think it failed in terms of its consistency. It was very good some weeks, quite bad other weeks. But this, I think, is pretty much the track record of most television, by virtue of its desperate overexposure and the brevity of time allotted to us to produce something that is qualitative. But overall I would say that it was a creative series.  We did much more creating than we did imitating.”

- Rod Serling discusses The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) and its legacy.

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