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The Twilight Zone airs 'To Serve Man'

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Publicity portrait of Rod Serling, 1959
Rod Serling, creator and host of The Twilight Zone CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

CBS aired To Serve Man, Rod Serling's Twilight Zone adaptation of Damon Knight's 1950 story about seemingly benevolent aliens, the Kanamits. Its 'It's a cookbook!' twist became one of television's best-known lines about trusting visitors from space.

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  1. PressThe man who wrote The Twilight Zone's 'To Serve Man' used to give the story out to family as Christmas giftsMeTV
  2. OtherToday in Television History: March 2nd, 1962, the iconic Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man premieredWestport Tech Museum

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