TMC
08-17-2017, 08:27 PM
http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/the-twilight-zone/261575/the-words-of-rod-serlings-the-twilight-zone-are-more-relevant-than-ever
We've seen this all before, and Rod Serling knew we'd see it again.
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“Where will he go next?” Rod Serling says at the close of “He’s Alive,” notably one of the most controversial episodes of The Twilight Zone.
In that particular chapter, which aired in January of 1963, a spectral Adolf Hitler, who is portrayed as a shadowy ghost-like figure, aids the leader of a small and unsuccessful neo-Nazi group named Peter Vollmer. Hitler shows Volmer, who is played by a young Dennis Hopper, how to captivate a vulnerable audience and ultimately convinces Peter to murder an elderly Jewish man who was a father figure to Peter earlier in the episode. This comes after Volmer has also murdered subordinates and learns from the phantom of the Fuhrer how to scapegoat minorities and rile up a crowd into wanting to expunge Jewish and African American elements.
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After the episode aired, Cayuga Productions received over 4,000 protest letters of varying severity due to the nature of the programming.
We've seen this all before, and Rod Serling knew we'd see it again.
http://cdn2us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/main_wide/public/2017/01/whitelash-rod-serling-1966.png?itok=JdU13_Oo
“Where will he go next?” Rod Serling says at the close of “He’s Alive,” notably one of the most controversial episodes of The Twilight Zone.
In that particular chapter, which aired in January of 1963, a spectral Adolf Hitler, who is portrayed as a shadowy ghost-like figure, aids the leader of a small and unsuccessful neo-Nazi group named Peter Vollmer. Hitler shows Volmer, who is played by a young Dennis Hopper, how to captivate a vulnerable audience and ultimately convinces Peter to murder an elderly Jewish man who was a father figure to Peter earlier in the episode. This comes after Volmer has also murdered subordinates and learns from the phantom of the Fuhrer how to scapegoat minorities and rile up a crowd into wanting to expunge Jewish and African American elements.
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After the episode aired, Cayuga Productions received over 4,000 protest letters of varying severity due to the nature of the programming.