When William Froug joined “The Twilight Zone” in 1963 for its fifth and remaining season, he was already a seasoned radio and tv writer-producer. His CBS Radio adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s sci-fi traditional “Courageous New World” was thought of one of many medium’s most interesting achievements, whereas his tv producing credit included the distinguished likes of “Playhouse 90,” “Alcoa Theatre,” and “Adventures in Paradise.”
Froug was good, and he had the important plaudits to show it. So it is a reduction to know that when his assistant Adele T. Strassfield approached him about writing an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” he did not act the boor like too many males in his place possible would’ve carried out. As he advised Marc Scott Zicree in “The Twilight Zone Companion:”
“[Strassfield] was an exceptionally brilliant girl, and she or he mentioned to me, ‘I can present you I am a author. I need to write a “Twilight Zone.”‘ So she got here up with a notion. She’d by no means written a script earlier than and has by no means written as soon as since. In impact, I kind of wrote it along with her. I wished her to have the credit score, and she or he bought an awesome thrill out of it.”
Okay, that is a tad self-complementary, however a minimum of Strassfield bought her first tv writing credit score out of it. And although the episode was harking back to a memorable installment from season 3, it labored fairly nicely by itself phrases.