Editing Time Enough at Last (section)

===Similar episodes===
''The Twilight Zone'' often explored similar themes throughout its run.<ref name="nostalgia">{{cite web |url=https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1960s/twilight-zone/ |title=Twilight Zone, The|work=Nostalgia Central|date=22 June 2014 }}</ref> "Time Enough at Last" has strong thematic ties to a number of other episodes in the series, starting with that of isolation, first explored in the series [[Television pilot|pilot]], "[[Where Is Everybody?]]"  It is also a prominent theme in the previous episode "[[The Lonely (The Twilight Zone)|The Lonely]]". Additionally, in a plot very similar to that of "Time Enough at Last", "[[The Mind and the Matter]]" tells of a man who uses his mind to erase humanity, only to find that  existence without other people is unbearable. The notion of being an outsider, lost in a sea of [[conformity]], was one of the most common themes of the series.<ref name="zicree" />

Other thematic elements in this episode can be found throughout the series, as well. "[[The Obsolete Man]]" takes the episode's literary subtext—the notion that reading may eventually be considered "obsolete"—to an extreme: The state has declared books obsolete and a librarian (also played by Meredith) finds himself on trial for his own [[obsolescence]]. This notion, akin to [[Ray Bradbury]]'s short story "[[The Pedestrian]]" (1951), is also alluded to in the episode "[[Number 12 Looks Just Like You]]", in which a perfect and equal world considers works like those of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] "smut".<ref name="backstage" />