The original Twilight Zone was inspired by the Emmett Till case.

[Mandarin Duck]

Had no idea about this
Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" Created After Emmett Till-Based Project Was Censored - InsideHook

After the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy, ended in an acquittal, Rod Serling wanted to create a social conscious TV show about race in America.

He was denied. The television industry wasn’t ready.

The censorship that Serling was met with from advertisers and networks fearful of blowback from white, Southern audiences forced him to rethink his approach, according to Smithsonian Magazine.

His ultimate response in the face of this pushback was The Twilight Zone, “the iconic anthology series that spoke truth to the era’s social ills and tackled themes of prejudice, bigotry, nuclear fears, war, among so many others,” in the words of Smithsonian.

 

[Milk N Cookies]

 

[BaggerofTea]

"Almost" is only good in horseshoes

 

[Mastamimd]

interesting

 

[Marks]

Rod Serling was that dude man.

“In almost everything I’ve written,” Serling said in 1967, “there is a thread of this: man’s seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”

Dope speech he gave:
Rod Serling Rips Loyalty Oaths, the Vietnam War, and Social Inequity | Rod Serling Memorial Foundation

 

[KamikazePilot]

One of my favorite shoes of all time really have you sitting there like

 

[Stone Cold]

Crazy was just watching a few episodes earlier
And somebody else mentionedRod Serling today before that

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Rod Serling was that dude man.

“In almost everything I’ve written,” Serling said in 1967, “there is a thread of this: man’s seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”

Dope speech he gave:
Rod Serling Rips Loyalty Oaths, the Vietnam War, and Social Inequity | Rod Serling Memorial Foundation

That show was dope because there was a lot of social commentary in those episodes. Night Gallery is pretty dope too.

 

[SheWantTheD]

 

[Neuromancer]

That show was dope because there was a lot of social commentary in those episodes. Night Gallery is pretty dope too.

Night Gallery was so underrated.

 

[Cadillac]

Definitely can see that. You could tell the show was inspired by something like this given the social commentary and how many concepts were taken from civil issues

 

[Cladyclad]

One of my favorite shoes of all time really have you sitting there like

U pushing 60?

 

[L2014]

Moms put me on

Miss them big booty tv wit the foil antenna days... y’all remember when converter boxes came out?

 

[Dwight Howard]

Great show. The episode where death comes as a human to collect a life is one of my favorite.

 

[Mastamimd]

U pushing 60?

They used to show re runs all the time growing up