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Jake Rosen<\/strong> and Mental_Floss<\/a> <\/strong>present Eight Bizarre Facts About Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. Here are three are my favorites…<\/p>\n 2. The Episode That Won an Oscar<\/strong> 4. Six Dimensions<\/strong> 8. God Complex<\/strong> Jake Rosen and Mental_Floss present Eight Bizarre Facts About Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone. Here are three are my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12618,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions\/12618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nWhen Serling\u2019s budget for the series tightened in the fifth and final season, he decided on an unusual cost-cutting measure: the writer paid $10,000 (by some accounts, $25,000) for the rights to broadcast An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge<\/em>, a French short based on the Ambrose Bierce story about a Confederate sympathizer who escapes the hangman\u2019s noose at the end of the Civil War. No dubbing was needed: the short was virtually silent, and its haunting cinematography was a perfect fit for the show. The year prior, it had won an Oscar for Best Short Subject. Bierce\u2019s story was also adapted into an episode of the other popular anthology of the day, Alfred Hitchcock Presents<\/em>, marking the only time the two series used the same source material.<\/p>\n
\nWhen Serling recorded his famous opening narration for the pilot episode in 1959, he began by intoning that there was \u201ca sixth dimension\u201d to explore. A CBS executive heard it and asked the writer why he had skipped a fifth dimension\u2014weren\u2019t there only four? Serling, puzzled, hadn\u2019t really considered it. \u201cOh,\u201d he said. \u201cAren\u2019t there five?\u201d The narration was re-recorded before any angry letters from physicists poured in.<\/p>\n
\nThough he spoke fondly of Serling through his entire career, Zone<\/em> teleplay writer Richard Matheson (\u201cSteel,\u201d \u201cThe Invaders\u201d) found one mandate puzzling: According to Matheson, only Serling could use the word \u201cGod\u201d in his teleplays. It was off-limits to the rest of the writing team. \u201cI used to get ticked off at Rod because he could put \u2018God\u2019 in all his scripts,\u201d Matheson said. \u201cIf I did it, they\u2019d cross it out.\u201d Matheson never asked, and was never told, the reason behind the rule. Chalk it up to a mystery worthy of The Twilight Zone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"