I'm dating myself here but I remember watching Twilight Zone on TV when I was a kid. It was on Friday nites when my parents went bowling and left me with the babysitter, and I'd watch TZ and then be afraid to go to sleep.
I never looked at shows as being liberal or conservative back then. I just remember getting the bejesus scared out of me by that talking doll, the guy throwing himself off the train when he really thought he was getting off at his station, and the beautiful girl undergoing plastic surgery so she could get a pig face like everybody else.
The story I remember most clearly was the one that depicted a group of men and women struggling to escape the planet in a space ship before the nuclear holocaust. It was only at the very end that we learned they were on some other planet - hoping to escape to Earth!!!!
And who can forget the other story in which an all-powerful alien comes to earth to present a book entitled "How Best to Serve Man", and only at the end, after a number of humans have climbed aboard his space craft to return home with him, do we learn that the book is a cook book!!!
And then of course the story of the librarian with the inch-thick glasses played by Burgess Meredith - who only wanted to be left alone to browse Free Republic....er...read his books. Then one day, thanks to some sort of nuclear war, he finds himself alone with his beloved books - however his glasses lay broken on the ground.
Twilight Zone was a classic indeed!