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TIL The Twilight Zone was initially a difficult series to sell, and critics were not impressed. In a 1959 interview with Rod Serling, Mike Wallace asked: "You're going to be working so hard on The Twilight Zone that, in essence, you've given up on writing anything important for television, right?".

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