What Plot of The Twilight Zone Would You Most Like To Live Through?

Without getting too deeply mired in philosophies, Rod Serling's parents were Jewish. When he married, he took to Unitarianism as I understand it..

The specific Season you're thinking of is most likely Season 4, which only came about because the hour-long sitcom commissioned to replace and/or take up the former 30 minute timeslot occupied by The Twilight Zone during its first three seasons proved a complete turkey with somebody (be it viewers, sponsors or whomever) and so was given the hook.



After the post-Season 3 cancellation, Serling took a teaching job and was doing that when CBS inquired about what amounted to a specially-tailored order of 18 one-hour episodes. In essence though you're correct. By the time the show was cancelled for the final time - that being announced in early January, 1964, he was ready to be done for at least a little while.

Within 15 months of the date "The Bewitchin' Pool" aired, Rod Serling was back on television, this time with a 30 minute western-themed program called "The Loner," starring Lloyd Bridges.

"The Loner" was a hit with critics but not so much viewers, running only 26 episodes until its own demise. The show was referred to as "a thinking-man's western" and that's a pretty fair characterization for my own nickel. I own a copy of the dvd set and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone. Folks often ask how Serling might have approached issues commonly discussed in recent years. At least two of those (post-traumatic stress and items symbolic of the Confederacy) are nodded to in the premiere episode, titled "An Echo of Bugles."