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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) script, however, was rejected and shelved for a year until Bert Granet discovered and produced it as an episode of "Desilu Playhouse" in 1958. The show was a great success and enabled Serling to finally begin production on his anthology series, "The Twilight Zone". Serling's editorial sense of ironic fate in the writing done for the series was identified as significant to its success by the BFI Film Classics library which stated that for Serling "the cruel indifference and implacability of fate and the irony of poetic justice" were recurrent themes in his plots. "The Twilight Zone" premiered the night