The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

From Syndicated with Lesley and Ben by Infinity Break

June 9, 2026 · 1h 8m · Season 5 · Episode 1

About this episode

Lesley and Ben analyze the classic anthology series The Twilight Zone and its impact on science fiction storytelling.

We invite you into a podcast, not too different from our own, a podcast of only sound. Lesley and Ben enter The Twilight Zone, the 1959 CBS produced anthology tv show about the strange, bizarre and unnatural. Written and produced by Rod Serling, the Twilight Zone is an eerie half hour format show that rides the line between science-fiction, horror and mystic and plunges audience members into tales from a bizarre dimension of the mind. What happens in The Twilight Zone? Neighbors turn against each other in The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, a jilted millionaire fakes a nuclear war in One More Pallbearer, and a sasquatch like gremlin attacks William Shatner in Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. We’re starting off our new season of Syndicated with Lesley and Ben by analyzing our favorite science-fiction shows. Ray guns, alternate dimensions, robot butlers and planetary fleets. Science fiction is a lens through which we can view all other issues and the two episodes we picked To Serve Man and Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? are prime examples. In Season 2, Episode 28’s Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?, two state troopers find an unidentified flying object has crashed into a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Lesley, Ben

Topics covered

  • science fiction
  • anthology series
  • horror
  • bizarre stories
  • Rod Serling
  • TV analysis

Keywords

  • Twilight Zone
  • Rod Serling
  • science fiction
  • horror
  • anthology
  • TV show
  • bizarre stories

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Twilight Zone, The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, One More Pallbearer, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, To Serve Man, Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

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