64 years after its debut on CBS, no series has been able to match the consistency of quality or the rigorousness of thought that Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” demonstrated over its five stellar seasons.
For many, the series’ most memorable episodes set us on edge via science fiction or straight-up horror elements, but Serling and his roster of first-rate writers could be just as brilliant when using nothing but plain old reality to freak us out.The Red Scare metaphor “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is probably the finest example of this (especially in an era where a massive blackout could easily plunge millions of technology reliant humans into utter chaos), but it’s closely followed by the pilot episode that established the series as a one-of-a-kind mindf***.
Written by Serling himself, “Where Is Everybody?” sets up as a post-apocalyptic nightmare.
Earl Holliman plays an amnesiac who finds…
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