The Twilight Zone: A World of His Own

The Twilight Zone’s first season wrapped up with “A World of His Own.” In aggregate the show has been appealing to me. While thinking of reasons for that I’ve wondered if it has something to do with getting a new and complete story in under thirty minutes with every episode. I can get to contemplating the handful of volumes of “The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction” from the 1950s I managed to find at used book sales, for all that The Twilight Zone is more “fantasy” than “science fiction.” There’s also the recurring thought that there’s a bit more to each episode than just “an element of the fantastic,” much less “the concluding plot twist.” In any case I’d noticed from the next-episode preview this concluding story would involve a writer; I did think of that old saw “write what you know.”
( Writing what you know )