The Twilight Zone
The Midnight Sun
TV Flash files “The Midnight Sun” as hour 75 of 156 in the TV Flash guide — The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) on CBS, season 3, episode 10, aired 1961-11-17, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E10: listed hour 75 of 156 in the The Twilight Zone guide, hour 10 of 37 in season 3. It aired 1961-11-17 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Deaths-Head Revisited” (S03E09). Next is “Still Valley” (S03E11).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The earth gets thrown off its orbit, and as a result, is getting pulled closer to the sun. Unable to leave their apartment building to find a cooler place to live, two women attempt to acclimate to their new living conditions. However, it soon appears to be nothing but a bad dream of one of the women, as they live on a freezing earth that is being pulled away from the sun.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Midnight Sun sit in the The Twilight Zone guide?
S03E10 is listed hour 75 of 156 — hour 10 of 37 in season 3, season 3 episode 10.
When did The Twilight Zone S03E10 air?
The Midnight Sun aired 1961-11-17 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with the empty-town opener, then the broken-glasses hour. Isolation first, stolen moral second; those two teach the anthology’s real instrument better than any twist ranking.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Serling used fantasy as a smuggled sermon when sponsors would not let a straight drama talk. Watch for isolation as craft, the twist as a bill coming due, and half-hours built to sit in the blood overnight — not to snack in a dump.
October 1959, CBS: a man walks into an empty town and the country learns a new address. The Twilight Zone did not invent the anthology. It invented the anthology as a national flinch — half-hour moral weather, a host in a dark suit, and a closing turn that was supposed to sting after the sponsor smile. Rod Serling had already fought live-drama censors and lost enough rounds to change weapons. Fantasy was the loophole. Aliens, bargains, small towns that eat themselves: the vocabulary of a writer who wanted to talk…
Filed against
- Rod Serling as Host / Narrator
Rod Serling created and hosted The Twilight Zone — moral fables in a black suit, twist endings that taught America to fear its own reflection. Sponsor and censor battles are as legendary as the episodes. On TV Flash he is prestige…