Playing “Solitaire in the Twilight Zone”

The Artwork The time 1950’s, the setting is any run down hotel in any number of the countless cities as a tired travelling salesman relaxes after a hard days work to play a relaxing game of solitaire.  Only problem is: suddenly all the cards are blank!  What happens next?

Background:  As a child I had always looked forward to Sunday nights, when the Twlight Zone Show came on TV!  It was a family event, everyone excited about what the story; its message and of course the surprise ending would be.  We watched on our small screen black and white TV which was the standard at the time.

Years later I was an art student at Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia in the 1970’s when we had a visit from Rod Serling!  He told us about the workings of the twilight zone TV show.  He must have told us about the creative aspects of the show.   Locations, sets how to adapt a short story, but what I remember most is that he talked about the stress of producing a weekly show on a limited budget.   I guess it was that stress and heavy smoking that lead to his death on the operating table while undergoing open-heart surgery.

One question I would have liked to ask him was why in so many episodes there was a character named Corey?