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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The Second Season 1960-1961.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what position was Buck Houghton suggested?
(a) Producer.
(b) Writer.
(c) Manager.
(d) Acting coach.

2. To when is Corrigan taken back in time?
(a) His parents' wedding.
(b) The date of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
(c) The date of his birth.
(d) George Washington's inauguration.

3. For what are the two Venusians looking?
(a) The Devil.
(b) A human on which to perform an intellectual experiment.
(c) Mr. Dingle's mother.
(d) The two-headed martian.

4. This series was intended to bring what?
(a) The best available drama to the television screen.
(b) The best available situation comedy to the television screen.
(c) The best available science fiction to the television screen.
(d) The best available comedy to the television screen.

5. What story revolves around a man serving a 50-year sentence for murder on an isolated asteroid?
(a) The Time Element.
(b) Playhouse 90.
(c) The Lonely.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Serling would be required to write what percent of the scripts for the show's first season?

2. Since "The Time Element" had already appeared on the "Desilu Playhouse," what was Serling required to do?

3. When Mr. Dingle decides to perform for a live television audience, what happens?

4. How did some refer to Houghton?

5. In 1946, Serling met who?

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