By: Vickie J. Rubinson
Sci Fi Channel 6a.m.
If you're up this early, your head's probably spinning anyway, so why not compliment the hangover with a full day of Rod Serling's genius?
The Twilight Zone is a TV series created by Rod Serling. Each episode (156 in the original series), is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to serious science fiction and abstract ideas through television. CBS purchased a teleplay in 1958 that writer Rod Serling hoped to produce as the plot of a weekly anthology series.
The Twilight Zone episode "The Time Element" marked Serling's first entry in the field of science fiction.
The story is a time travel fantasy of sorts, involving a man named Peter Jenson visiting a psychoanalyst, Dr. Gillespie (Martin Balsam), with complaints of a recurring dream in which he imagines waking up in Honolulu just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
"I wake up in a hotel room in Honolulu and it's 1941, but I mean I really wak up and it's really 1941," he explains concluding that these are not mere dreams; he actually IS traveling through time.
However Dr. Gillespie insists that time travel is impossible. During his dream, taking advantage of the situation, he bets on all the winning horses, all the right teams and eventually, tries unsuccessfully to warn others--the newspaper, the military, anyone--that the Japanese are planning a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
His warnings are seen as crazed ravings and are either ignored or met with physical violence as he is punched out by an engineer who works on the USS Arizona, after insisting that it will be sunk on Dec. 7th. Jensen's dream always ends as the Japanese bombers fly overhead on the morning of Dec. 7, prompting him to yell out "I told you so! Why wouldn't anybody listen to me?"
TRIVIA:
-The time element is rarely aired on television and it is available only in an Italian DVD box set.
-Despite his esteem in the writing community, Serling found The Twilight Zone difficult to sell. -Few critics felt that science fiction would catch on among viewers.
-Serling was reportedly nervous about hosting the show and had to be persuaded to appear on camera.
-According to some sources, Leonardo DiCaprio, a fan of The Twilight Zone, is planning to make a new movie with Warner Brothers.
But you can watch the whole series on New Years Day at 6:30 a.m. on the Sci Fi Channel.
Sci Fi Channel 6a.m.
If you're up this early, your head's probably spinning anyway, so why not compliment the hangover with a full day of Rod Serling's genius?
The Twilight Zone is a TV series created by Rod Serling. Each episode (156 in the original series), is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to serious science fiction and abstract ideas through television. CBS purchased a teleplay in 1958 that writer Rod Serling hoped to produce as the plot of a weekly anthology series.
The Twilight Zone episode "The Time Element" marked Serling's first entry in the field of science fiction.
The story is a time travel fantasy of sorts, involving a man named Peter Jenson visiting a psychoanalyst, Dr. Gillespie (Martin Balsam), with complaints of a recurring dream in which he imagines waking up in Honolulu just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
"I wake up in a hotel room in Honolulu and it's 1941, but I mean I really wak up and it's really 1941," he explains concluding that these are not mere dreams; he actually IS traveling through time.
However Dr. Gillespie insists that time travel is impossible. During his dream, taking advantage of the situation, he bets on all the winning horses, all the right teams and eventually, tries unsuccessfully to warn others--the newspaper, the military, anyone--that the Japanese are planning a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
His warnings are seen as crazed ravings and are either ignored or met with physical violence as he is punched out by an engineer who works on the USS Arizona, after insisting that it will be sunk on Dec. 7th. Jensen's dream always ends as the Japanese bombers fly overhead on the morning of Dec. 7, prompting him to yell out "I told you so! Why wouldn't anybody listen to me?"
TRIVIA:
-The time element is rarely aired on television and it is available only in an Italian DVD box set.
-Despite his esteem in the writing community, Serling found The Twilight Zone difficult to sell. -Few critics felt that science fiction would catch on among viewers.
-Serling was reportedly nervous about hosting the show and had to be persuaded to appear on camera.
-According to some sources, Leonardo DiCaprio, a fan of The Twilight Zone, is planning to make a new movie with Warner Brothers.
But you can watch the whole series on New Years Day at 6:30 a.m. on the Sci Fi Channel.
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