![]() The revolving door of Twilight Zone producers, following the game-changing departure of Buck Houghton at the end of season three, resulted in other kinds of sloppiness. The result was unbearable slop like "The Fear," an episode so painfully overwrought that, as Marc Scott Zicree suggests in his Twilight Zone Companion book, it sounds like two Rod Serlings talking to one another. To save time he unwisely penned them without the use of a pen, relaying them straight into a Dictaphone. By this point even his best shows - "In Praise of Pip" being the most famous example from season five - are generally derivative, going over ground done better before, while his storytelling logic and dialogue became particularly, inexcusably sloppy. Writer-creator Rod Serling had overworked himself into a state of total burnout from which he would never fully recover, as his later Night Gallery would demonstrate. A handful are outstanding, though slightly more than that are truly terrible, embarrassments far worse than just about anything produced during the first four years. It is by far the show's weakest, though instead of episodes generally worse than in years past they are instead all over the map, quality-wise. Twilight Zone came back to CBS for a fifth and final year during the 1963-64 television season.
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