“Prejudices can kill, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own.”
Everybody knows that Rod Serling wrote and produced The Twilight Zone in 1960, and he also created The Storm and Night Gallery and won Emmys and Peabodys and Golden Globes. but what else he did was piss people off: They called him the angry man of Hollywood, a Jewish veteran and people’s intellectual who showed Americans the ugly side of postwar culture on their TV screens, the racism and the antisemitism and abuse and violence and greed of Americana. He got more death threats than Emmys in those days, but he still didn’t stop writing great TV at a time when most people didn’t even yet accept that TV could be great.
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