In 1959, CBS struck television gold when it took a chance on Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone." To that point, there had never been an anthology series meditating on the weird, strange, and macabre.

“The Night of the Meek” tells a sobering story about Christmas among the less fortunate. Corwin, himself, is unemployed outside of his seasonal job as Santa Claus, and his firing triggers an emotional ...