Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone: A Fifth-Dimension Guide to Life
Now with important life lessons from the Jordan Peele reboot, the earlier TV reboot, and the 1983 movie.

Can you live your life by what The Twilight Zone has to teach you? Yes, and maybe you should. The proof is in this lighthearted collection of life lessons, ground rules, inspirational thoughts, and stirring reminders found in Rod Serling’s timeless fantasy series.

The notion that “it’s never too late to reinvent yourself” soars through “The Last Flight,’’ in which a World War I flier goes forward in time and gets the chance to trade cowardice for heroism. A visit from an angel blares out the wisdom of “follow your passion” in “A Passage for Trumpet.” The meaning of “divided we fall” is driven home with dramatic results when neighbors suspect neighbors of being invading aliens in “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” The old maxim about never judging a book by its cover is given a tasty twist when an alien tome is translated in “To Serve Man.”

An unauthorized tribute, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone, written by veteran TV critic Mark Dawidziak, is a celebration of the classic anthology show; but also, on another level, a kind of fifth-dimension self-help book, with each lesson supported by the morality tales told by Serling and his writers.

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Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone: A Fifth-Dimension Guide to Life
Now with important life lessons from the Jordan Peele reboot, the earlier TV reboot, and the 1983 movie.

Can you live your life by what The Twilight Zone has to teach you? Yes, and maybe you should. The proof is in this lighthearted collection of life lessons, ground rules, inspirational thoughts, and stirring reminders found in Rod Serling’s timeless fantasy series.

The notion that “it’s never too late to reinvent yourself” soars through “The Last Flight,’’ in which a World War I flier goes forward in time and gets the chance to trade cowardice for heroism. A visit from an angel blares out the wisdom of “follow your passion” in “A Passage for Trumpet.” The meaning of “divided we fall” is driven home with dramatic results when neighbors suspect neighbors of being invading aliens in “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” The old maxim about never judging a book by its cover is given a tasty twist when an alien tome is translated in “To Serve Man.”

An unauthorized tribute, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone, written by veteran TV critic Mark Dawidziak, is a celebration of the classic anthology show; but also, on another level, a kind of fifth-dimension self-help book, with each lesson supported by the morality tales told by Serling and his writers.

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Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone: A Fifth-Dimension Guide to Life

Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone: A Fifth-Dimension Guide to Life

by Mark Dawidziak
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone: A Fifth-Dimension Guide to Life

Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone: A Fifth-Dimension Guide to Life

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Now with important life lessons from the Jordan Peele reboot, the earlier TV reboot, and the 1983 movie.

Can you live your life by what The Twilight Zone has to teach you? Yes, and maybe you should. The proof is in this lighthearted collection of life lessons, ground rules, inspirational thoughts, and stirring reminders found in Rod Serling’s timeless fantasy series.

The notion that “it’s never too late to reinvent yourself” soars through “The Last Flight,’’ in which a World War I flier goes forward in time and gets the chance to trade cowardice for heroism. A visit from an angel blares out the wisdom of “follow your passion” in “A Passage for Trumpet.” The meaning of “divided we fall” is driven home with dramatic results when neighbors suspect neighbors of being invading aliens in “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” The old maxim about never judging a book by its cover is given a tasty twist when an alien tome is translated in “To Serve Man.”

An unauthorized tribute, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone, written by veteran TV critic Mark Dawidziak, is a celebration of the classic anthology show; but also, on another level, a kind of fifth-dimension self-help book, with each lesson supported by the morality tales told by Serling and his writers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250621504
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date: 07/07/2020
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 139,334
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author
MARK DAWIDZIAK is the television critic at Cleveland’s Plain Dealer and the author of two histories of landmark series: The Columbo Phile and The Night Stalker Companion. Also a nationally recognized Mark Twain scholar, Dawidziak has written several books on the author in addition to his work on the horror side of the street, which includes Grave Secrets, The Tell-Tale Play, The Bedside, Bathtub, & Armchair Companion to Dracula, short stories, and comic book scripts. He lives in Ohio.

Table of Contents

Overture for Another Dimension xiii

Foreword Anne Serling xv

Lessons from The Twilight Zone: Submitted for Your Improvement 1

Rod Serling: "A Moralist in Disguise" 18

One Giant Spoiler Alert 43

Lesson 1 Always keep your heart open to the magic that comes your way 45

Lesson 2 Follow your passion 50

Lesson 3 Read every contract … carefully 55

Lesson 4 Nobody said life was fair 60

Lesson 5 Keep your inner child alive 67

Lesson 6 Divided we fall 72

Lesson 7 Don't live in the past 78

Lesson 8 Dogs really can be your best friend 84

Lesson 9 Beware the person who says, "I dare you" 89

Lesson 10 It's never too late to reinvent yourself 95

Lesson 11 Getting to the top comes with a price-staying there 101

Lesson 12 Take care of your own inner demons before you go meddling with others' 106

Lesson 13 Beauty truly is in … 111

Lesson 14 Be your own person 117

Lesson 15 Count your blessings 122

Lesson 16 Don't let superstitions rule your life 127

Lesson 17 Let it go 133

Lesson 18 You're only truly old when you decide you're old 138

Lesson 19 If you get unbelievably lucky, don't push your luck 144

Lesson 20 If life gives you another chance, make the most of it 147

Lesson 21 Death, where is thy sting? 152

Lesson 22 Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not every man's greed 159

Lesson 23 When you reach a fork in the road, take it 163

Lesson 24 When nobody else believes in you, keep believing in yourself 167

Lesson 25 That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger 174

Lesson 26 Never judge a book by its cover 179

Lesson 27 If something looks too good to be true, it probably is 184

Lesson 28 The grass is always greener … or so you think 189

Lesson 29 Respect your elders 194

Lesson 30 Judge not lest ye be judged 198

Lesson 31 Share with others 202

Lesson 32 Imagine a better world 207

Lesson 33 To thine own self be true 211

Lesson 34 Suffer the little children 217

Lesson 35 Make the most of the time you've got 223

Lesson 36 Nobody lives forever 227

Lesson 37 Remember your happy place 231

Lesson 38 Fill your life with something other than hate 238

Lesson 39 To forgive is divine 241

Lesson 40 Payback is a … or, what goes around comes around 244

Lesson 41 Don't fear the unknown 249

Lesson 42 Play nice with others 253

Lesson 43 Be careful what you wish for 257

Lesson 44 Don't be a bully 261

Lesson 45 Remember the people who got you where you are 267

Lesson 46 The civilization that does not value the printed word and the individual is not civilized 271

Lesson 47 Everybody needs somebody sometime 275

Lesson 48 The universe does not revolve around you 280

Lesson 49 Never cry wolf 284

Lesson 50 Angels are all around you 287

One Final Lesson 293

Jordan Peele Reopens The Twilight Zone for Business 297

Other Voices, Other Zones 303

Timeless as Infinity 309

Acknowledgments 313

The Twilight Zone episodes (with airdates and writing credits) 317

Index 329

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