The untold truth of The Twilight Zone

You are entering a dimension without color but rich in texture, a dimension where asking "what if?" could prove dangerous. You are at the crossroads of time, where the lessons of yesteryear continue to speak truths about the human condition in your modern life. Everywhere, there are faces and names that you recognize but cannot place, people you're sure you heard your parents and grandparents talking about in the past. Your mobile device will not work here, and you'll have to turn in your vape pen for an old-fashioned cancer-causing cigarette, because this... is The Twilight Zone.

CBS recently released the first real trailer for Jordan Peele's upcoming adaptation of Rod Serling's classic speculative fiction television series, which began its original run in October of 1959. The trailer shows that Peele will be eschewing the black and white film, but he has also chosen to include many little tidbits and references that fans of the original will instantly recognize. But even though pretty much everyone recognizes the "doo di doo doo, doo di doo doo" of the Twilight Zone theme song, not everyone is familiar with Serling and his mind-bending Cold War-era fiction. It is therefore worth taking a look at what made that unlikely series the cult hit that it remains to be to this very day.