Twilight Zone Amazing Facts, Coincidences, and Goofs

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In this video we journey into the Twilight Zone for amazing facts, coincidences, and a couple of interesting goofs from this classic television series narrated and created by Rod Serling.
I cover the first episode, "Where is Everybody" town location where Back to the Future would be filmed years later. Also, some interesting facts and coincidences like those neat connections between the television series Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes, and Star Trek.
I even find a connection to the Three Stooges involving space suits and lots of strange coincidental connections in one episode to Superman and Batman.
The Twilight Zone episodes covered had great stars like William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jackie Cooper, Russell Johnson from Gilligan's Island, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Charles Bronson just to name a few.
The Twilight Zone featured so many great sci-fi themes like time travel, aliens, and psychological thrillers that make viewers question reality. It's fitting that this series would have so many coincidences.
#twilightzone #startrek #backtothefuture #superman #batman #rodserling #scifi #sciencefiction #betwitched #gilligansisland #williamshatner #classictelevision #classictv
0:00 Introduction
0:38 Back to the Future and Twilight Zone filming location
1:51 Hogan's Heroes Twilight Zone connection
2:53 Almost all of the Star Trek cast appeared on the Twilight Zone even sound effects
4:34 Gilligan's Island star Russell Johnson starred in two Twilight Zone episodes featuring time travel
5:25 Bewitched coincidental connections to the Twilight Zone
6:57 The Three Stooges got costumes from the Twilight Zone
7:11 Goofs
8:15 Coincidences linking to Superman and Batman

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@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

I hope you all enjoy this look at interesting facts from the Twilight Zone. I didn't know until I came across it last week that the first episode of the Twilight Zone and Back to the Future were filmed in the same location.

@kali3665 10 ай бұрын

Both Zone and Back to the Future were mostly filmed on the MGM lot, and MGM kept EVERYTHING ... at least until they sold off the backlot in the 70s. But that town square was around for a very long time. Nearly all the spacesuits used on Twilight Zone came from Forbidden Planet, along with the flying saucer. And, of course, Robby the Robot made appearances in two Zone episodes. We also saw Robby's fancy car, which appeared in The Rip Van Winkle Caper (with the front section moved to the rear). It didn't actually drive particularly well, so that's why we never saw it actually move in the episode.

@frankt285 10 ай бұрын

I definitely enjoyed this.. Keep up the good work.. Thanks much..

@pl5624 10 ай бұрын

Caesar as in Caesar romero....joker in Batman.

@apollo21lmp 10 ай бұрын

6:10 Charles Bronson was very tough. he didn't even flinch when the frying pan hit his wrists.

@wb3381 10 ай бұрын

Wow, Kim Hamilton appeared on Sanford and son at least twice

@j.woodbury412 3 ай бұрын

She was in more than two episodes of Sanford and Son, where she played Fred's girlfriend Donna, and she was also in an episode of Good Times, where she played the mother of a gang leader named Mad Dog, who shot J.J.. I'll never forget the scene where she told Mad Dog that she hated him and she sometimes wished he had never been born.

@wb3381 3 ай бұрын

@@j.woodbury412 You mean Lynn Hamilton

@j.woodbury412 3 ай бұрын

@@wb3381 Yeah, you're right. My mistake.

@brianarbenz1329 10 ай бұрын

You really know your Batman facts. Good job on this. I would suggest one more coincidence between "Caesar and Me" and Batman: The actor Caesar Romero played the Joker in the series.

@daler.steffy1047 6 ай бұрын

I was a preteen when "Twilight Zone" was on the air, and I believe it was on Friday nights between 9:00 and 9:30 p.m. (or it could have been on a little bit earlier); anyway, it was an exciting show to look forward to seeing each week. Thank you for highlighting some of the interesting aspects of this television show. One correction I would like to point out to you is that Olan Soule's last name is phonetically pronounced "sue lay," as two (2) syllables. An aside: Mr. Soule stayed busy as a character actor, and one place you can see him is in some of Jack Webb's "Dragnet" TV shows from the 1950s.

@oldschoolsinger 10 ай бұрын

I'm glad you pointed out the two Russell Johnson time-travel episodes and the 1920's scene in "A Kind Of A Stopwatch". Those are two that I've always noticed. Here's a coincidence for you: Don Gordon, who played in "The Four Of Us Are Dying" and "The Self-Improvement Of Salvadore Ross" ended both of the episodes he was in by being shot and killed by an old man.

@j.woodbury412 3 ай бұрын

Burgess Meredith appeared in two Twilight Zone episodes where he played characters whose life revolved around books. In "Time Enough at Last" he played Henry Bemis, whose favorite hobby was reading, and in "The Obsolete Man", he played Romney Wordsworth, a librarian.. Claude Akins starred in the episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" about a group of townspeople driven to paranoia and madness by an alien invasion, and Joe Maross starred in the episode "Third from the Sun" where he and Fritz Weaver plan to leave their home planet that is doomed to destruction for another planet, which turned out to be Earth. Both Akins and Maross starred in the episode "The Little People"as astronauts who crash land on an asteroid where they encounter a race of tiny humans. All three episodes. "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (Starring Claude Akins), "Third from the Sun" (Starring Joe Maross) and "The Little People" (Starring Akins and Maross) dealt with aliens or space travel.

@oldschoolsinger 3 ай бұрын

@@j.woodbury412 Good catch! I hadn't thought about those episodes.

@j.woodbury412 3 ай бұрын

@@oldschoolsinger Thank you! I could say the same about your comment on the two Don Gordon episodes.

@michaelhughes432 10 ай бұрын

@Tvcrazyman. FYI, you might be interested to know, just as Star Trek later had, had 2 piolet episodes. I read it in a book I highly recommend to all Twilight Zone fans, "The Twilight Zone Companion, before the Twilight Zone Episode, where is everybody, Rod Serling wrote an episode for Playhouse 90, called "The Time Element." It starred William Bendix, as a man whom was living @ Pearl Harbor on 12/6/41 whom knew of the upcoming attack, and tried to warn everyone living @ Pearl Harbor of the upcoming attack, but no one believed him. It was very well done! Thanks for the video, it was very educational & entertaining!😀😁

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, I think I saw "The Time Element" on youtube last year or so ago. It was pretty good.

@cadeevans4623 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video loving this man

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

Appreciate it

@ndiamond3405 10 ай бұрын

Just stumbled on your channel, and I’m so glad I did! Great content👍🏻

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@nikkicat254 10 ай бұрын

I just recently watched your last video on the Twilight Zone, but the most shocking now is that the first episode, which I remember as one of my favorites from the show, that the town they used was the same one used in the Back To The Future movies, I would have figured they would have used some town built on the studio backlot or something, lol! Not a real town, but also the fact that Back To The Future used it too, I wonder if the producers of the movie chose the town because it was used in the Twilight Zone! If not what a real coincidence that was! And I don't how you manage to find all these goofs and other strange things about all these shows, it must take hours and hours of going through different old shows, to find all these goofs and spot all the big stars who appeared in the shows, before they were big stars!

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

Thanks. It does take some time watching shows and researching.

@GilGunderson-xz9qz 10 ай бұрын

Wasn't Ivan Dixon also the pastor in the episode I am the night, color me black. When daylight didn't come for the town that was going to hang a prisoner? Also staring Goober from Andy Griffith and the Marshell from the Rifleman?

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

Yep, you are correct.

@That_AMC_Guy 10 ай бұрын

It's also crazy how many Star Trek alumni either starred or guest-starred on Columbo! To name a few: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig, Ricardo Montalbon, Marriette Hartley..... and more if I had to think about it.

@johnjames-glover4630 10 ай бұрын

Another really enjoyable video. Good work👍

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

Thanks

@shawnamiller191 10 ай бұрын

I learn so many interesting facts everytime I watch one of your videos. Keep up the great work

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@user-wp4ju4hp5w 10 ай бұрын

It's A Good Life episode with Billy Mumy was epic.

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

I have to admit when I was a kid that one freaked me out really bad for some reason.

@user-wp4ju4hp5w 10 ай бұрын

@@tvcrazyman Agreed. The way in which Billy Mumy turned that guy into a Jack n the Box was horrific

@vincentschmitt7597 10 ай бұрын

Billy Mumy said his mother drove him to the studio for that episode and he was pretending to change the traffic lights on the way.

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

That's funny. 😀@@vincentschmitt7597

@zapdunga12 10 ай бұрын

Billy Mumy also played Dr. RICHARD KIMBALLS nephew in an episode of the greatest TV drama in history. The Fugitive. That show has a lot of future stars in it as well. What is amazing is Barry Morse spoke with a heavy British accent as that's where he was from. Yet on the Fugitive he talks as American as apple pie.

@Pratman 10 ай бұрын

Another top video as always bud 😀

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@NS-ks5qc 10 ай бұрын

Hope no one was on the outside of William Shanter's window when he really went into space. The stopping time bit, has been done a few times, remember one called The Magic Boomerang, but footage is hard to come by now. In it a boy throws the boomerang and time stops, although you can tell it's film footage. The one with the ventriloquist's dummy coming alive reminds me of Magic. Wonder if it inspired it?

@1lovesgreatness 10 ай бұрын

Wow, just found out that famous episode of the Twilight Zone starred William Shatner.

@jons.6216 10 ай бұрын

Aww! You didn't mention the episode David "Larry Tate" White was in - "I Sing the Body Electric"! Very sad episode!

@zapdunga12 10 ай бұрын

CAESAR was called CAESAR as a tribute to gangster Little CAESAR played by Edward G. Robinson who also made a guest star appearance on Batman at a window as the caped crusaders are climbing.

@kali3665 10 ай бұрын

Another connection with Bewitched: William Froug, who produced the 5th season of Twilight Zone ... also produced Bewitched. Bill Mumy, 4-time visitor to the Zone, also appeared once on Bewitched ... as a child version of Darrin when Endora makes him younger. Jack Warden starred in two Zone episodes, and both focused on robots! (The Mighty Casey and The Lonely.) Of course, he wasn't intended to appear in Casey since originally Paul Douglas was cast in the role, but Douglas was in very bad health during filming - he died before the episode aired - and since it was far too obvious on camera, they refilmed most of his scenes with Warden. There are a few long shots with Douglas left in the final episode - most prominently, the closing sequence where his character runs after Casey's creator (it's not Warden since he had shattered his leg during WW2, which made running very difficult for him). Regarding A Kind of a Stopwatch, when McNulty starts testing the watch, this section is full of odd stock footage choices, even using a barnstorming scene that's been around since the silent era! And remember, McNulty is in his apartment triggering the watch, so he can't actually see ANY of these timestops. Also, they filmed the closeups of the watch after filming the episode itself, and supposedly no one could find the watch they used in the episode. So, that's a completely different watch used in the closeups.

@Galantski 10 ай бұрын

As Will Robinson in Lost in Space,_ Billy Mumy had a costar who also appeared on _TZ_ episodes: Jonathan Harris ("Dr. Zachary Smith") as a hospital doctor in "Twenty-Two", and a member of the gentleman's club in "The Silence". Another bit of interesting trivia is to observe the cast members of "The Grave", who also appeared in _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance:_ Lee Marvin, Strother Martin and Lee Van Cleef. The film was released six months after the episode with Marvin as the lead villain and Martin & Van Cleef as his henchmen.

@BenSkyLakewood 10 ай бұрын

17000 subscriber nice

@fanaticat1 10 ай бұрын

Many of the actors that starred in Twilight Zone have also starred in One Step Beyond. Both of these shows are among my favorite shows of all time, along with Star Trek!

@martinboyle9163 10 ай бұрын

James Doohan was also in that one with the concentration camp.

@morgunstyles7253 8 ай бұрын

355. "Im tellin you right now...."

@STho205 10 ай бұрын

Here are ideas in this vein of you want to do a deeper dive into this theme, besides just casting coincidences: Star Trek's first pilot was an adaptation of the TZ episode "People are Alike All Over" with Susan Oliver and Roddy McDowell. Charlie X is obviously Billy Mumy character, but found as a teenager. Strange New World's last episode is filmed on the same main street lot as "Where is Everyone?" and every other TZ town, which is being visited by the *USS Cayuga* . Cayuga Productions made TZ. "The Great Big Wish" was adapted into a "The Waltons" episode in the mid 70s with Clevon Little and was directed by Ivan Dixon. Every senior cast member on ST was in Bonanza Both Barrett and Nimoy were in an episode of The Lieutenant as was Nichols and her co guest star who were both in ST. Shatner and Doohan were in a low budget Canadian sci fi series in the 50s. Piece of the Action was a parody script of Desilu's "The Untouchables" using the same sets, costumes and cars...as well as actors that played gangsters on the series that wrapped just before ST aired. Oh and Elizabeth Montgomery and White were in an episode of The Untouchables together where she played a club dancer and ended up in Larry Tate's lap

@tvcrazyman 10 ай бұрын

interesting stuff! Thanks for the info. 😀

@johnderfler5183 4 ай бұрын

Actor Albert Salami played a murderer in the episode execution, in real life Salami murderered his wife then killed himself. Now that's a real Twilight Zone.

@daler.steffy1047 5 ай бұрын

Character actor Olan Soule's last name is pronounced as two syllables: "Sou-lay."