"The Twilight Zone" and its creator Rod Serling provide three lessons all filmmakers should heed.

As a tribute to my other yearly Thanksgiving Day tradition growing up, today we have a bonus episode devoted to one of the most influential television shows of all time.

This is the first episode co-written and co-starring one of my partners in crime, assistant producer Chris Huslage. Chris provided most of the episode research.

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Music in this Episode

Music from today's episode was curated from the Free Music Archive, Incompetech and SoundCloud. In order of appearance:

• Andrew Bisset: Cultural Dis-Ease by Sergey Schepkin. CC-BY-SA.
• "Labyrinth" by Sergey Cheremisinov. CC-BY.
• "Echoes of Time" by Kevin MacLeod of incompetech.com. CC-BY.
• "Behind Your Window" by Kai Engel. CC-BY.
• "Zed's Dead: Twilight Zone" by Zed's Dead. CC-BY-SA.

Videos Featured in Today's Show

Mike Wallace 1959 TV interview of Rod Serling.