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5. Science fiction was a tough sell in the 50s

Rod Serling — previously esteemed in the television writing community — saw his star take a considerable hit in the early days of The Twilight Zone. At one point Mike Wallace even told him, “[Y]ou’re going to be, obviously, working so hard on The Twilight Zone that, in essence, for the time being and for the foreseeable future, you’ve given up on writing anything important for television, right?”

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