Plot: A teen girl resists efforts to look, act, and think like everyone else around her.
“Number 12 Looks Just Like You” (Season 5, Episode 17)
CHANGING OF THE GUARD TWILIGHT ZONE SERIES
Where to begin? There are 156 episodes in the original series – ack! – and not everything works for classroom use. Like Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut’s work from the same era, some of Serling’s stories are eerily prophetic of our lives today. The stories are freaky and stick in our heads.They work as a lead into a longer unit on science fiction. Episodes work as a standalone lesson to fill those awkward in-between-unit days on the calendar.
CHANGING OF THE GUARD TWILIGHT ZONE TV
(It’s been reported that it’s Leonardo DiCaprio’s favorite TV show, if that holds any weight with your kids.) If you have students who want a career in media arts, they should watch this series and take notes. Serling worked with lots of talented directors and actors. You can also find open-access websites where episodes are being streamed both with and without ads. They can be purchased for $1.99 per episode via Amazon Prime Video and YouTube. Most episodes are available to Netflix and Hulu subscribers. For the fifth and final season, the series returned to its shorter format before CBS and Serling decided to part ways.) Those episodes are slow, filled with obvious time-stretchers. Then, CBS executives overruled Serling and ordered the series to be lengthened to fill an hour slot during the fourth season. For the first three seasons, the 25-minute format worked great. Twilight Zone ran for five seasons from 1959 to 1964. (Note: Do yourself a favor and skip Season 4. Episodes run about 25 minutes, the perfect amount of time for students to sit back and enjoy the show while still leaving plenty of class time to dig into an analysis of what they just watched.A lot of episodes have threads that can be tied to classic literature or current events.Here’s a guy who joined the Army to fight in WW2 the day after he graduated from high school, used entertainment writing as a tool of activism, and worked as a teacher even while he was a big-shot Hollywood producer. Yes, The Twilight Zone, that 60-year-old black-and-white TV show, earns what I call high praise from teenagers.īefore we get to my all-time favorite episodes to use as teaching tools, here are seven reasons to bring The Twilight Zone to your classroom: R., that was pretty good…for a school movie.”
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