{"title":"The Twilight Zone and Classic Horror","description":"\u003cp\u003eI am a huge fan of the Twilight Zone. I grew up watching the SciFi channel marathons every New Year when I was a kid. I bought the collector's box set while in the service and gave it to my parents for safe-keeping. I marathon the entire series every now and then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a veteran who also went to college to pursue creative dreams, Rod Serling was\/is a huge inspiration to me. I also love everything I have seen so far by Jordan Peele and am a huge fan of his work as well. Knowing he is also a Rod Serling fan too makes me love his work even more. (also, I hope the whole \"as a veteran\" doesn't sound like some cookie-cutter-robot saying, \"I like this thing because it culturally aligns with what I am expected\/supposed to like.\" I watched my first episode of the Twilight Zone when I Was very young. The first episode I remember seeing was \"The Gift.\" The one where the traveler shows up with a gift, but the villagers do not trust him. That opening is still one of my favorites - a lot of Rod Serling's quotes are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighly recommend this series if you like scifi, horror, philosophy, or entertaining content with substance. The Twilight Zone inspired The Plot Calls and the world it exists within. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e_\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Gift_(The_Twilight_Zone)\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTwilight Zone S.3 Ep. 32: \"The Gift\" from Wikipedia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe place is Mexico, just across theTexas \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eborder, a mountain village held back in time by its remoteness and suddenly intruded upon by the twentieth century. And this is Pedro, nine years old, a lonely, rootless little boy, who will soon make the acquaintance of a traveler from a distant place. We are at present forty miles from theRio Grande, but any place and all places can be the Twilight Zone.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlot:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA humanoid alien has just crash-landed outside a mountain village in Mexico, just across the border from Texas. He has accidentally killed a police officer\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand was wounded by another. When he reaches a village bar, he collapses. A sympathetic doctor operates on him, removing two bullets \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom his chest. The alien (who refers to himself as \"Mr. Williams\") becomes friends with Pedro, an orphan whose job is to clean the bar. Pedro receives a gift from Williams, who tells Pedro that he will explain it later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, the bartender notifies the army\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eabout Williams' location. Williams attempts to escape back to his ship, but soldiers \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand villagers corner him. He tries to explain that he has come in peace and that the police officer getting shot was an accident. He tells Pedro to show the gift to the doctor, but the villagers take the gift from him and set it on fire, claiming that it must be black magic or of the devil. As the villagers watch Pedro and Williams reaching for each other, fear drives them to shoot Williams before they believe he has a chance to harm the boy. With Williams lying dead, the doctor picks up the remains of the gift from the fire. He reads the note on it aloud: \"Greetings to the people of Earth: We come as friends and in peace. We bring you this gift. The following chemical formula\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis...a vaccine\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eagainst all forms ofcancer ...\" The rest is burned away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe doctor states, \"We have not just killed a man; we have killed a dream.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnding Narration:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Madeiro, Mexico, the present. The subject: fear. The cure: a little more faith. An\u003cspan\u003e Rx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoff a shelf in the Twilight Zone.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-twilight-zone-the-complete-series-blu-ray","title":"The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series Blu-ray","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"productDescription\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-small\"\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead-your next stop, The Twilight Zone.\" Submitted for your approval, Rod Serling's timeless series of fantasy and suspense, which ran from 1959-1964, with a roster of then-current and future stars that included Burgess Meredith, William Shatner, Gig Young, Lee Marvin, Inger Stevens, and Jack Klugman.156 episodes on 24 discs. 74 1\/2 hrs. 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