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* [[Actor Allusion]]: [[Buster Keaton]] in "Once Upon a Time".
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: The popular "Submitted for your approval" occurs in the opening monologue just three times. In contrast "In just a moment" occurs in the opening monologue 25 times, which makes this the most said four-word phrase that doesn't include "Twilight Zone". "In a moment" also occurs quite often.
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** [[Hogan's Heroes|Bob Crane]], at the time an L.A. disc jockey, provided the voice of one on the radio in "Static".
* [[Marathon Running]]: A long-standing tradition on the [[Sci Fi Channel]] (now Syfy) is to air three-day-long ''Twilight Zone'' marathons over holidays like New Year's and the Fourth of July.
* [[The Other Marty]]: A tragic example in "The Mighty Casey" - Paul Douglas was originally cast as manager Mouth McGarry, but in the rushes he looked like he was drunk. It turned out he looked like he was dying... because he was (he passed away from heart disease after shooting was completed). His scenes in the episode were re-shot, with Jack Warden playing McGarry, at Serling's expense.
* [[Reality Subtext]]: In "The Encounter", where a racist WWII veteran and a young Japanese man (played by [[George Takei]]) are trapped in an attic: Takei spent three years of his childhood in U.S. Japanese-American relocation centers, during the war. His impassioned performance is definitely informed by that experience.
* [[Recycled Script]]: Kept to a minimum for [[An Aesop]] anthology show. When it does happen, you'll frequently find that the moral of the story is a [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]] version of the previous episode's moral.
** "Steel" is being adapted into a feature film. Though it's somewhat subverted, as ''[[Real Steel]]'', despite being based on the same story as "Steel
* [[Write What You Know]]: Many episodes took place in Upstate New York, where Rod Serling was from. Similarly, Serling was a vet of WWII (as were many of the other writers), which led to many a episode.
* [[Author Existence Failure]] / [[Fatal Method Acting]]: The death of Vic Morrow in an accident during filming resulted in his segment being changed to have a [[Downer Ending]].
* [[Game Show Appearance]]: Brief footage of the original Art Fleming ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' (specifically April 24, 1974) appears in the "Kick the Can" segment of the movie, which is pretty much the only thing that dates those particular events.
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** On the writing side, [[Harlan Ellison]] and [[J. Michael Straczynski]] contributed to the 80's revival.
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