Yikes!  This is a long episode.  Jennifer does the show she was born to produce:  an exploration of Rod Serling's work.  A life-long Serling fan, Jennifer indulges in a trip down memory lane to a television series she first fell in love with as a little girl:  The Twilight Zone.  But first, she explores themes Serling returned to again and again in his stories and breaks down two of his pre-Twilight Zone masterpieces--Patterns and Requiem for a Heavyweight to highlight the mastery with which those themes are depicted.  Serling was a beautiful writer, but not even he could write a classic every time.  Jennifer does a countdown of what are, in her opinion, the worst Twilight Zone episodes, and then takes a look at the series pilot, a fabulous little gem called "Where is Everybody?"  As always, she wraps up with her Favorite Thing of the Week.

Because Jennifer loves stories more than anything in the world, and because The Twilight Zone is spilling over with them, this episode of Circa Sunday Night ("Serling Sunday Night"--see what she did there?) is planned as the first in an occasional series under the Circa Sunday Night banner that will examine that show.

Nicholas Parisi's amazing book on Rod Serling:
Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination

Watch the Shows:

• Patterns (Live Television Version)
• Patterns (Film Version)
• Requiem for a Heavyweight (Live Television Version)
• The Twilight Zone

Jennifer's Favorite Thing of the Week:

• (Video) Goodbye Summer

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