Serling drew the title for "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Arrow and the Song."
He based his script on an idea pitched to him at a dinner party by Madeline Champion, a family friend. She was paid $500.
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"I don’t think I’ve ever done any other project that people talk to me more about than that show. Roughly every two or three months, someone comes up to me and mentions Time Enough at Last." -- Burgess Meredith
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#Zoners, as I reflect on 3 decades of the #TwilightZoneMarathon, I remember watching (mostly) by myself as a kid. Here I am years later watching along with our supportive community. Thanks to you, these have become 2 of my favorite days of the year 🖤
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Writing 94 of the 156 episode-run of #TheTwilightZone, creator Rod Serling was the ultimate creative rebel in fusing in many social themes via Sci-Fi. On writing, Serling said: "Imagination....its limits are only those of the mind itself."
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"It was filmed exactly as written. I know because I was on the set, watching, unable to believe that any of this was truly happening. An author was seeing his work treated with respect."
— Charles Beaumont, writer of "Perchance to Dream"
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While some episodes are a lock for either prime time or daytime during @SYFY#TwilightZone New Year’s marathon, Where is Everybody? has received several different time slots over the years. Tonight it airs in prime time for the 9th time
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So…by this point there are enough people, animals, and mutated creatures in the cornfield that they could start their own society, right? The Cornfieldians? The Shucksters? #TwilightZoneMarathon
"There's a lot of people who want to explain the hidden meaning of that show ... but to me, he was just the ultimate mutant, and really cranky."
— Billy Mumy, "Anthony Fremont" in Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life"
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