A direct satire of the American television industry, the episode features a parody of Marlon Brando by Burt Reynolds, and concerns an inept screenwriter, who through the use of black magic, employs William Shakespeare as his ghostwriter.

And although he may never get a writing credit on the Twilight Zone, he's to become an integral character in it.A bumbling screenwriter, Julius K. Moomer, is becoming desperate for a sale after years of working on unproduced scripts.

Julius's next assignment, a TV special on American history, seems doomed to failure until he remembers his book on black magic, and uses it to conjure up Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Pocahontas, Daniel Boone, Benjamin Franklin, and Theodore Roosevelt to act as consultants.

Mr. Julius Moomer, a streetcar conductor with delusions of authorship, and if the tale just told seems a little tall, remember a thing called poetic license, and another thing called the Twilight Zone.Notes: Weston and McGiver appeared in the other episodes, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" and "Sounds and Silences".

In the book The Twilight Zone Companion, Serling is quoted as saying that things were so bad with the overcautious executives that "one could not ford a river if Chevy was the sponsor."