The Twilight Zone is technically science fiction, but some of the episodes involve concepts that are more realistic than anyone would like to admit. Looperrecently named a few episodes from the series that “predicted the future,” including stories based around plastic surgery and AI companions.
One of the most underrated episodes on the list took place during season three. The story, which was written by the creator and host Rod Serling, was titled “The Midnight Sun.” It was about the planet mysteriously changing its orbit and growing closer to the sun every single day, raising the temperature of the Earth.
Looper compared the story to global warming, saying, “Even though the rising heat of ‘The Midnight Sun’ is, unlike ours, not caused by humans, it's still staggering to watch a 65-year-old TV episode so accurately capture a familiar — if fantastically exaggerated — experience of climate stress.”
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According to SyFy, director Anton Leader revealed that this 1961 episode "nearly gave his cast and crew heatstroke." It was filmed in Los Angeles during the summer with a $52,000 budget, but the director wanted the set to feel as uncomfortable as it would if the planet were really heating up.
"With a very limited budget and facilities, we had to do a lot of improvising," Leader said when speaking about the three-day shoot. "We had to use every means available to us to project the fear of this developing heat and this cataclysmic ending to the world. I think we did a pretty good job."
Leader continued, "I remember that there were a couple of scenes in which I asked the electrical grip to add heat, not so much heat that it would show on the film, but heat that we would feel on the set. It made us distinctly uncomfortable, but I think it helped us develop the feeling that we had of heat. I didn't do that throughout, because its effect would have been lost eventually. We would have just been plain simply miserable and angry with each other for being involved in this thing."
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