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The Twilight Zone Tv Series Torrent5/27/2023 For the above restrictions inevitably produced a product that was almost uniformly bland, superficial, and, by most accounts, boringly predictable- (One near exception was the series from that sly old subversive, Alfred Hitchcock.) But pity the poor writers who week after week had to search for fresh water in the middle of this much traversed desert. I mention this background, because it's hard to appreciate the cultural significance of Serling's Twilight Zone without it. Perhaps more important, producers were strait-jacketed by sponsors who insisted that programming should be as inclusive as possible so as not to risk offending or "confusing" any segment of the audience- all the better, of course, to sell the sponsor's product, a not unreasonable requirement, given TV's commercial basis. TV producers may have wanted to experiment, but were hamstrung by a production code that was even more restrictive than the notorious motion picture code (crime must not be rewarded moral transgressors must be punished the sexes must not be shown in the same bed, etc.). If little else, most of these were entertaining in a blandly narcotizing way. In 1959, network TV was dominated by pretty-boy detective shows (77 Sunset Strip Hawaiian Eye), law & order westerns (Gunsmoke Have Gun, Will Travel), and innocuous sitcoms, (Ozzie & Harriet Leave It to Beaver The Donna Reed Show).
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