episode #097 - The Gift

**BoG** Sat Jan 03, 2015 1:47 am

Air Date: 04/27/62 Idea

Writer(s): Rod Serling Idea

Director: Allen H. Miner
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An alien visitation story with a dull lecture; Buzzfeed ranked this as the 23rd worst episode of the series:

Ahhhh this is…not The Twilight Zone’s best, which is a shame, because there are so few episodes featuring non-white casts! And yet, here we are: An alien who lands in a small Mexican town is killed in a witch hunt, after which the villagers make the too-late realization that he was carrying the (eye roll) cure to cancer. We get it, we get it.