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1963 Twilight Zone episode warned how fascism spreads

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 25, 2025
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The Twilight Zone,

If you feel like you're living in an episode of The Twilight Zone right now, you would not be wrong.

Fascism comes to America in this 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, titled "He's Alive," written by Rod Serling. It stars a young Dennis Hopper as a scummy sociopath who is coached by the ghost of Adolf Hitler on how to win over the mob.

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