Why This One TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE Was BANNED For 52 YEARS!

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The Twilight Zone is one of the most iconic TV shows of all time but there's an episode that was banned for 52 years. Why was it so controversial to air at the time? And why did it take so long for this episode to come back into circulation? In this video, I answer all of those questions and more!
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@dougmiller5608 Жыл бұрын

My favorite and most heartwrenching episode, was the one with Burgess Meredith as the last man on earth. He loved to read and was at a library. The heartwrenching part was when he broke his glasses and couldn't see.

@jasonrist6582 Жыл бұрын

Time Enough at Last The Twilight Zone: Season 1, Episode 8

@kevindurand3237 Жыл бұрын

Have you seen Meredith in those 'how American G.I's should behave' when stationed in England shorts?

@seanohare5488 Жыл бұрын

That's a great one

@Gloriagal78 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorites, probably next to “Little Girl Lost.“

@moiralauten6924 Жыл бұрын

I still hear him softly saying, in a broken tone " it's not fair... not fair..."💔

@whiterabbitt2002 2 жыл бұрын

2020-2021 feels like an episode from the Twilight Zone that will never end. just saying

@690HOLLOWESPADA 2 жыл бұрын

You just took me down the rabbits hole

@seeqr9 2 жыл бұрын

To some of us 20-21 is the real world proving we’ve been living in the twilight zone all this time.

@shutterbug5519 2 жыл бұрын

AMEN!

@the-guy-on-your-moms-couch 2 жыл бұрын

When you right you right

@erowiid2000 2 жыл бұрын

The planets recently have been in Retrograde so you'll probably feel a shadow of it in the coming weeks, but things will continue to go back to normal as time passes, I feel like

@jeffsmith1798 Жыл бұрын

‘Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown.’ Serling was not only a great writer and war hero but also a profoundly thoughtful man.

@aimeekubik8803 Жыл бұрын

This is so profound; it is also the only justice in the UNIVERSE, you live, you die, no MATTER how much money or status you have.

@jeffsmith1798 Жыл бұрын

@@aimeekubik8803 thank you for your comment. This is the truth. The older I get, the more I find it silly and sad that so many are preoccupied with the trivialities of life, mistakenly pursuing what divides us-whether it’s wealth or reputation or idols or prejudices. But the truth is so simple: You can’t take it with you and we all have one last breath. Some understand their ‘condemnation’ earlier than others. Some perhaps never.

@JohnDoe-py7tb Жыл бұрын

What a waste of time! It's like clickbait all kinds of wasted information but the headline could have been resolved in 30 seconds

@SuperC888 Жыл бұрын

@@aimeekubik8803 death is the great equalizer!

@hmm6415 Жыл бұрын

Knowing that everyone will die isn’t being profoundly thoughtful 😂😂😂😂

@adamgorelick3714 Жыл бұрын

Not long after the airing of The Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner as the lone witness on a passenger plane of a monstrous creature on one of the wings, my parents were on a plane themselves. Having just watched the episode, imagine their surprise when they saw a man sitting alone by a window looking out. It was William Shatner.

@lindaschneider1596 Жыл бұрын

My favorite episode ...William Shatner airplane episode

@JeffWells-cw2sw Жыл бұрын

He also appeared in another episode as a regular guy who was fascinated with a fortune-telling toy in a restaurant...

@karenp1687 Жыл бұрын

Oh my. I think I would have told Captain Kirk, "Excuse me for needing to change seats, but as soon as we land safely (once I know the little gremlin has stopped tearing apart the plane), would he mind pausing to sign an autograph for me?

@wb7ptr Жыл бұрын

He was probably rehearsing to redo the scene. Remember, this is the twilight zone.

@adamgorelick3714 Жыл бұрын

@@JeffWells-cw2sw Thanks. I vaguely remember that - I'll check it out.

@sallymiller1359 2 жыл бұрын

That episode with the pig faced people who were considered "normal" and the beautiful woman who they thought was ugly and tried to change into them affected me for life!

@grantwileyesq.5962 Жыл бұрын

Like Marylin in The Munsters..

@sallymiller1359 Жыл бұрын

@@grantwileyesq.5962 Exactly! Only the Munsters were less fearsome to a 9 year old than those Twilight Zone weirdos lol

@grantwileyesq.5962 Жыл бұрын

@@sallymiller1359 Especially with the unnerving totalitarian society! Twilight Zone will always be my favorite show!

@worldwidevictoryteam Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@robindew9072 Жыл бұрын

That was one creepy episode

@thesongbird2383 2 жыл бұрын

Back in 1961 my mother and I were watching The Twilight Zone around 9:30pm. It was an episode where cars were starting up in driveways with no one behind the wheel... it was on Elm or Maple Street, I believe. At that time, our telephone rang, which startled us. A neighbor called to tell us our 1957 Rambler station wagon was in the middle of the street. We were both freaked out, so my mother went out to look... and, sure enough our car had rolled out of the driveway. It was beyond creepy. I was only 12 years old, so I will never forget that night. I think my mother was kind of embarrassed as she put the car back on the driveway. Apparently she had forgotten to set the emergency brake. Of course later on, we laughed about that night.

@stevedriscoll2539 2 жыл бұрын

Great story! 🤣🤣🤣

@thesongbird2383 2 жыл бұрын

@@stevedriscoll2539 Well, thank you Steve! Do you recall the episode I described?

@stevedriscoll2539 2 жыл бұрын

@@thesongbird2383 yes, I just watched it about a week ago, but forgetful me just had to look it up again. "The Monsters are due on Maple Street" , but you probably know that by now. The mania in that episode is a little over the top, but I think it illustrates how easily things can go sideways in groups or cultures, nevermind the addition of alien happenings.

@thesongbird2383 2 жыл бұрын

@@stevedriscoll2539 I've been recording TZ from SyFy channel lately. Hopefully it's one of them... I'd love to see it again. Three of my favorites are (1) the elite men's club guy who wouldn't stop talking; and (2) a guy named "Franklin" who went to Vegas and got addicted to a slot machine; and, (3) "To Serve Man". You recall those?

@Phyllis4505 2 жыл бұрын

Our old ford started and backed down the driveway. My Dad, in his underwear, caught it before it got to the road.

@terra2805 Жыл бұрын

It really does feel like we're currently living in the twilight zone with the way everything is currently heading. It's more frightening than any TV show.

@loriboulais2924 Жыл бұрын

I've said those words to my family lately. That I feel like we are all in a bad episode of the Twilight zone. 😂

@yodservant Жыл бұрын

Yes, just told my sister this afternoon it's as if we're living in a bad movie 🍿....ugh

@jeshkam Жыл бұрын

It's not even a bad episode, it seems like one of the best written and directed TZ epsiodes, which is the most frightening thing about it.

@ohnoao9847 Жыл бұрын

I heard that a couple years ago, through the use of CERN, scientists did something that threw the planet into another parallel universe.

@ministryoftruth8588 Жыл бұрын

You BETTER NOT be talking about the the LGTBQI+ Community!!!

@peterjones4621 Жыл бұрын

I read a book by Ann Serling, she wrote about her her dad went into the hospital for what she believe was just a normal doctors visit but it was for advanced cancer, she mentioned it was a bright sunny day that he died and she couldn't believe he was gone. I emailed her about how I enjoyed her book and how badly I felt about her losing her dad at such a young age. She replied to me and said losing him was very difficult for her and she has never really gotten over his loss. I felt really bad for her, she obviously loved her dad very much. ❤😓

@markjh1017 Жыл бұрын

he didnt die of cancer. he was having surgery on his heart and had a heart attack during the surgery. per Wikipedia. Im surprised his "sister" didnt know this.

@ShimmeringWind 11 ай бұрын

Comunication is key. If she could have gone on his illness journey, she would have been ready (to some excent) when he died. It is easier for a brain to accept sutution if it has been prepared.

@OldPirate1718 12 күн бұрын

Rod Serling died from complications from a third heart attack...

@electricdreams1616 2 жыл бұрын

Being a kid growing up The Twilight Zone really left an indelible mark on my psyche. The stories were interesting and very thought provoking. Rod Serling certainly led an interesting life.

@mr.martinez2333 2 жыл бұрын

Shaddup$$$$!!!$$$

@diananievesavellanet 2 жыл бұрын

Me too. To this day, I can't watch Tina Palentina!

@KNByam 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Twilight Zone, Amazing Stories and Thats Incredible.

@phriedokra6158 2 жыл бұрын

Ditto... I have been very open minded to all this Earth offers us as a result

@phriedokra6158 2 жыл бұрын

Serling had PTSD ....interesting.guess he used his disability to actually fuel a career...

@patriciamartinez5836 Жыл бұрын

Rod Serling was a genius. I watched when I was a kid. Twilight Zone was brilliant

@eNigma011 Жыл бұрын

My favorite episode was "Next Stop Willowby" (Serling said it was his favorite as well). There must be something in the human psyche that wishes we could all return to a simpler, happier time when we were children and the problems of the world didn't exist for us.

@raysapaw Жыл бұрын

That's so sweet. Sadly so untrue. Adults can come from families who make them abused and terrified children, such that they tolerate all the complexities of adulthood, having survived the horror of their first and only model of life through a brutal damaged childhood.

@virginiaschaefer9693 Жыл бұрын

My favorite too !

@sallygriffith8557 Жыл бұрын

My favorite also!!

@garytimmerhans8143 Жыл бұрын

That one was my favorite too.. push push push

@redastrachan8978 Жыл бұрын

*Willoughby

@nikkil764 Жыл бұрын

So much on the Twilight Zone became truth. I especially remember the one where the people were told what to think and do by the computer hanging in the room. When the computer stopped working, they just stood there unable to think for themselves. Remind anyone of some people you know now with their phones?

@RyanRoemer8624 Жыл бұрын

True it resonates with the modern times

@nikkil764 Жыл бұрын

@spirals 73 I sat in a restaurant yesterday and at four tables around me, the patrons were all on their phones the entire time. They didn’t speak to their companions except to show them something on the phone. We like to think it’s a stereotype but sadly it’s true. That’s how most stereotypes come to be. Oh and by the way, I’m a former director of information systems for a Fortune 500 company married to a software guy.

@kurtbjorn3841 Жыл бұрын

@@nikkil764 You are so right. I'm no luddite. I used to program for the PC. I understand technology, and I also despise what it has done to us. I think of my smart phone as a boat anchor. If I'm not carrying it, people think I'm careless or weird. I don't care. There's a world out there, with REAL people, beautiful skies, nature. For ***** sake, PUT DOWN THE PHONE AND LIVE. No one cares about how many likes you have, or what's hot on reddit. No one cares about your selfie. If we could go back to a basic flip phone where you actually talk to people (and that's it) I'd be overjoyed.

@melinda6024 Жыл бұрын

or, teleprompters.

@stevenschmidt12 Жыл бұрын

Or the magic conch

@MegaSickcat 2 жыл бұрын

The Twilight Zone will always be the best series on TV. The irony in so many episodes are timeless in their 'lessons'.

@elizabethsullivan7176 2 жыл бұрын

War is timeless, unfortunately.

@talichad6020 2 жыл бұрын

This

@hw5091 Жыл бұрын

this and the sopranos are my favorite shows of all time.

@AnonyMoose2012 Жыл бұрын

I feel the lessons learned in these are almost of a modern type Aesop. He used a medium that was just up and running to a culture almost the same way. Serling was a master of the art.

@yearginclarke Жыл бұрын

There was always a good moral to the story that could be easily applied to real life, without being preachy, and with Rod's great commentary at the end. Having a moral to the story is one aspect that I love about classic TV shows and movies. Modern stuff doesn't really pull it off the same way when it tries to do the same thing.

@vasheaglethevegan4090 2 жыл бұрын

6:00 is when he actually starts talking about the banned episode.

@evelynn4273 2 жыл бұрын

Watch out for spoilers if you are planning to watch the episode.

@gg-gn3re 2 жыл бұрын

wow that's deep in the video. Should have just been 2 min

@zelenskysboot361 2 жыл бұрын

Thnx

@chutcherson012258 2 жыл бұрын

After 30 seconds I hit fast forward.

@AnarchyDragon6 2 жыл бұрын

This was a well done video though,...And one of the few where I watched the whole thing. Extra, extra bonus points because he thanks you for watching and says goodbye. He doesn't beg for Likes and Subscribes.

@ritadyer9295 Жыл бұрын

I used to watch this with my brother late at night in the early 80s. I was a young mother separated from my husband living at home with my parents again. My brother had just gotten out of the Army and back home. I worked until around 9 to 11 at night and so we would watch this really late and I would rock my baby. My brother passed in 2017 from diabetes complications. I sure do miss him and can’t watch The Twilight Zone without thinking of him.

@rashaunjones1027 Жыл бұрын

That was beautiful, thank you for sharing

@lesleymiller6513 Жыл бұрын

My brother and i watched together also . He passed away in 2012 , i think of him when i see anything to do with Twilight or Outer Limits 😊

@rashaunjones1027 Жыл бұрын

@@lesleymiller6513 , wow so many memories

@ajm3474 Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry about your brother. He’s not gone forever.

@lesleymiller6513 Жыл бұрын

@@ritadyer9295 Star Trek was another one of his favorites 🙃

@Sanwizard1 Жыл бұрын

The episode with William Shatner on the plane still gives me chills to this day.

@AnAdorableWombat1 Жыл бұрын

That pig faced yeti still creeps me out

@darlamcfarland3323 Жыл бұрын

The one with the woman in the farmhouse fighting the tiny spaceman is my favorite.

@jamesshenkenberg2656 Жыл бұрын

Good show captain kirk was a good actor all round

@PCHGWHS Жыл бұрын

" there's ..someone on the wing...some....thing"....

@PCHGWHS Жыл бұрын

Isn't that the Mom of Bewitched....Agnes Morehead I think...loved that!!

@truckerman8301 2 жыл бұрын

The Twilight Zone is still one of the best sci-fi anthologies ever produced. Rod Serling was a master at his craft!

@Hello-1814 2 жыл бұрын

Yep

@spike7334 2 жыл бұрын

What other sci-fi anthologies are there?? Hahaha

@jullietowner2226 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!!!😊

@jullietowner2226 2 жыл бұрын

@@spike7334 the darkside was good. Also outer limits ☺️

@kathybouziane5269 2 жыл бұрын

It got so even the intro music freaked me out back then !

@Mushroomguy88 2 жыл бұрын

The black and white original series was definitely the masterpiece of scifi horror

@thomasschwarting5108 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up on that stuff. LOVED IT!!

@travisjohnson6358 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@clivegetliff1293 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah... And a stark warning to future events

@thehashishin7118 2 жыл бұрын

As I grew up I decided to check out the black and white. Freaked me out in my twenties! I don't freak easy. I was watching freddie, Jason, and the rest. Lep, and Chuck. So I thought I was ready. Then the do do do dos, twisted my brain. The first episode is a trip. The beginning of this month felt like a ghost town. Haha

@thehashishin7118 2 жыл бұрын

@@clivegetliff1293 I see the events. It's easy to surf the waves. It will be okay, for the most part. Haha.

@davkatjenn Жыл бұрын

The Twilight Zone was nothing more than one of the 3-4 best television shows of all time. Thought provoking, with writing that was simply superb, the show is timeless and is just as good now as it was in the early 1960's.

@tvojslauf Жыл бұрын

Was nothing “less” than one of the best

@simontemplar6772 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

@BigBri550 Жыл бұрын

I actually disagree. "The Twilight Zone" along with "Star Trek" were 2 shows of very questionable quality, yet they provoked a pop culture response that still reverberates into this century. They were a couple of little meteors that burned quickly through the atmosphere yet left marvelous impact craters. And guitar players _always_ botch that intro lick😝 I'm no guitar slinger, but at least I can figure out the correct notes to that thing.

@karenp1687 Жыл бұрын

@@BigBri550 For the time, the "quality" was quite good! But even that paled beside the originality. You must allow for any advance in technology, in order to see enough in it, that someone looking back decades later sees not the state of technology but the innovation it meant to get there.

@BigBri550 Жыл бұрын

@@karenp1687 Actually, I was referring to scripts, acting, and directing.

@SayHelloToOblivion 2 жыл бұрын

“Next stop, Willoughby!” I hear that name every once in a while and it still gives me the creeps. I also remember the episode where the neglected children jump into a pool and end up in another place where they’re treated wonderfully with other neglected children. Boy, that was creepy.

@geraldellis4875 2 жыл бұрын

After watching the original "Twilight Zone" on TV as a young boy I would sometimes have nightmares on those nights! They were as good and entertaining as the TV broadcast!!!

@maryh1421 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the Willoughby episode. My favorite one.

@anthonysmall5090 2 жыл бұрын

Love that episode

@geraldellis4875 2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonysmall5090 Creepy GOOD!!!

@rebeccib1970 2 жыл бұрын

I love that one

@robertgross578 2 жыл бұрын

What's been happening in this country the last 18 months makes me feel that I am living in the Twilight Zone.

@paxhumana2015 2 жыл бұрын

The last 18 months? Try the last four or five decades!

@kazparzyxzpenualt8111 2 жыл бұрын

Invasion of the body snatchers too!

@pawwalker3492 2 жыл бұрын

@@kazparzyxzpenualt8111 - my husband and I were just saying that we thought it's really Pod People making all this trouble!

@patricialisowski1080 2 жыл бұрын

AMEN!!!

@kazparzyxzpenualt8111 2 жыл бұрын

Such is the effect of repetition and shock and awe.

@queenpilar5794 Жыл бұрын

Twilight Zone is timeless and was ahead of the times.

@seekeroftruth1484 Жыл бұрын

Rod Serling is a great uncle on my fathers side and closely resembles my father in looks and size. Rod was an extraordinary man! His legacy will never be forgotten.

@karenp1687 Жыл бұрын

You have every right to be proud! He was a great man, but taken far too young. (I blame those stupid cigarettes.) I wish he had lived many more years. There's no telling what he could have written and directed for us. Even his supposed "failures" were really great ("Night Gallery" was considered one because it could never compete with The Twilight Zone's" success).

@valeriewise9903 Жыл бұрын

Rod Serling was so handsome!

@kentneumann5209 Жыл бұрын

How cool is that?

@duchess_of_petty9323 Жыл бұрын

I love his work When they have marathons on I will watch all day and text back and forth with a friend who is watching from several states away.

@DanielRyanScott 2 жыл бұрын

As a kid, the "Eye of the Beholder" episode blew my mind and still affects my views on humans, societies, and shifting standards in cultures throughout time, history, and location. The Twilight Zone and Star Trek actually made me think and question things around me.... long after the episode was over. Most modern shows I forget about before the next commercial.

@pennyrobinson9772 2 жыл бұрын

Notice that the girl -- unmasked -- is Elly May Clampett?

@LibraGamesUnlimited 2 жыл бұрын

The first time I went to a Doctor's appointment after everyone started wearing masks, I thought about that episode.

@miketufaro5915 2 жыл бұрын

I loved that episode, that and “Death and Mr. Bookman.”

@barrymorgan5104 2 жыл бұрын

Semper Fi (77-83) good post. 👍

@michaelwhisman7623 2 жыл бұрын

TV does not affect me or my attitudes. Grow up and get an education.

@pammentzer3584 2 жыл бұрын

I will never forget how I yelled at the screen when Bergess Merideth stepped on his glasses in "Time Enough At Last"! To me, that was the most horrible thing ever!!! Such a brilliant ending!

@JayM409 2 жыл бұрын

I have spare glasses everywhere because of that episode.

@jorgeyaquilugobeltran 2 жыл бұрын

As a kid 10 years old watching it the 90's had me shook, movies make you understand the importance of life.

@lorajohnson4115 2 жыл бұрын

“It’s not fair….” That was a great ending to a great episode.

@monalisarox78 2 жыл бұрын

I always think of that episode and that great ending.

@bobstark4020 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Pam, he did not step on them, he dropped them on the library step. Submitted for your approval.

@williamgarcia210 Жыл бұрын

When I was a young boy the opening of the Twilight Zone would scare the crap out of me. When the announcer says “Do not attempt to turn that Dial!” , I would be in fear. When I was around four years old I finally waited next to the tv awaiting that announcement and then I was bold and changed the channel. I was scared out of my wits, however, I’m still here! 😂 Those shows were a launching pad for some of the most iconic actors and actresses of the era.

@Kohntarkosz Жыл бұрын

That's The Outer Limits you're thinking of, not The Twilight Zone.

@TheSharron Жыл бұрын

What he said. ^

@rouninpanda6318 Жыл бұрын

It was definitely The Outer Limits, and yes that would also scare me for some reason as a kid watching these reruns late at night. I suppose as a kid you kinda think the TV might actually be talking to you lol.

@JosephPercel Жыл бұрын

That line was from 'The Outer Limits.'

@abc456f Жыл бұрын

@@rouninpanda6318 Scared the hell out of me too!

@gabriellashimone6546 Жыл бұрын

This was one of my favorite shows to watch when I was a child. I'm so grateful my mother let me watch it!

@desmondmaldonado6466 2 жыл бұрын

I graduated from the same high school as Rod Serling. We literally called the small city the Twilight Zone cause of how depressing it is. I understand why he created this show.

@graypony 2 жыл бұрын

Central high in Binghamton ny

@desmondmaldonado6466 2 жыл бұрын

@@graypony yes sir

@oreoblizzard1662 2 жыл бұрын

This is a really cool comment and I hope it becomes the #1 liked comment.

@fmart3617 2 жыл бұрын

I found that little nugget of information when I lived in Binghamton for 6 months for a job.

@mountainadventures7346 2 жыл бұрын

I find cities depressing.

@Angel-nu7fm 2 жыл бұрын

He was like a Midas touch for actors - a lot of big names appeared on that show when they were unknowns...

@tommymann69 2 жыл бұрын

Bill Bixby before he started the incredible hulk

@rookmaster7502 2 жыл бұрын

Around the same time, the Western series "Rawhide" was like that too. Many of the show's regulars and guest actors went on to become famous shortly after.

@stevenr6797 2 жыл бұрын

Robert Redford, Robert Duval, George Takei, William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Elizabeth Montgomery, Charles Bronson, Leonard Nimoy, Dennis Hopper, Ron Howard, Carol Burnett, Jonathan Winters, Martin Landau, Sydney Pollack, James Doohan, Jack Klugman, Dick York, Dennis Weaver, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Falk .....to name a few.

@stevenr6797 2 жыл бұрын

For movies it would be the original Midway movie. More stars( past and present) than you can shake a stick at...the cast list will shock some.

@DavidThomas-fb8bq 2 жыл бұрын

He used a lot of actors were mostly known for comedies and gave them serious roles.

@judithcampbell1705 Жыл бұрын

The Twilight Zone was a classic. It made a point in every episode. Truly a great show and one we have no replacement for. Thank you 💛

@davenelson8187 Жыл бұрын

This and other programs of the era were somewhat committed to promoting family and moral values as well as the difference between right and wrong. Really miss those days. I’m certain those types of programs helped to reinforce a more sound and balanced society.

@anthonyjenkins2001 Жыл бұрын

Now you have shows that glorify criminality, obscure the difference between right and wrong, etc. And you wonder why society is hellbent on destroying itself

@briansamuel246 Жыл бұрын

Gets back to the old question: Is it life imitating art or art imitating life?

@michaelschwab9563 Жыл бұрын

Underrated Comment ☝🏻

@davidfrank6666 Жыл бұрын

i think maybe, yes.

@BruceAlarie Жыл бұрын

one of many things wrong with the present day--everyone questions and messes with time-tested concepts of goodness many mock traditional values like family,right and wrong and the rest of us are too polite to challenge them the whole CENTURY stinks of misguided political correctness and freakish behavior running unchecked we deserve better,my friends

@armpitification 2 жыл бұрын

Rod Serling was before his time. TZ has so many deep, thought provoking themes that are still relevant today.

@theelectricunicyclist9069 2 жыл бұрын

And recycled.

@mechanicman8687 2 жыл бұрын

To serve man!!!!

@crabbingclammingboatcampin4962 2 жыл бұрын

@@mechanicman8687 The best episode EVER!!!

@LuciensMusic 2 жыл бұрын

It seems for every Hollywood movie there was an episode of TZ that spawned the idea for it.

@timw.9466 2 жыл бұрын

Ive always said this. These werent just scary there were moral messages narrated before and after every episode. He continued his theme years later on night gallery until executives thought they knew HOW and implemented their ideas he then backed away and died shortly thereafter. When commercial products had him CREATE. Fictitious product reviews it gave him a bad taste for execs at TV studios and there motives all before he wrote for the Zone series We will never see the likes of him again.

@carlbowles1808 2 жыл бұрын

The twilight zone is still a favorite with me decades later. The episode with ghost of Civil War soldiers killed in battle walking down a road away from the combat is the one I most remember. It was truly haunting. RIP Rod Serling you are gone not forgotten.

@lelandframe1029 2 жыл бұрын

Being a Star Trek Fan as well, that episode is a favorite of mine because there are three actors who also appeared in that show in it. There's also an episode of M*A*S*H titled "Follies Of The Living, Concerns Of The Dead" which ends very much like "The Passersby"--with the ghosts of soldiers (from both sides!) walking down a lonely road towards an unknown destination! Makes me wonder if writer/director Alan Alda was influenced by that episode of Twilight Zone!

@ijustgottasay1281 Жыл бұрын

This was "The Passersby", one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes also. As a Civil War aficionado I found the Abraham Lincoln portrayal at the end to be just about the most realistic onscreen depiction of our beloved 16th president that I have ever seen, almost as if one was viewing the genuine article.

@Suggestion_Box_Full Жыл бұрын

I loved this one as well.. prob in my top 3

@williamkeltner5119 Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I saw that William Shatner episode on the plane. I thought that was Lucille Ball out on the wing and looking in the window. 🤭

@wb7ptr Жыл бұрын

"The Passers By" I think was the name of that one.Abraham Lincoln comes along at the end if I remember correctly.

@PS-kw6il Жыл бұрын

I tell people all the Times Twilight Zone was ahead of it's time, Way ahead. Everytime I watch an episode I need to put myself in a time capsule in order to understand the feeling and emotions people had back then just seating there watching it at night. Twilight Zone is very captivating and I'm sure a lot of people got freaked out about society and question where and what life Is about. This TV series was really mind blowing for that generation.

@chumps7974 Жыл бұрын

I can only imagine how it impacted it people back then when it first aired.

@scootermom1791 Жыл бұрын

It still is.

@roybell8470 Жыл бұрын

Often imitated but never duplicated. Love this show and knowing the creators life story makes it even better .

@kentneumann5209 Жыл бұрын

Not even the newer tz episodes can compare.

@BruceAlarie Жыл бұрын

@@kentneumann5209 rockne obannons one was pretty good

@kentneumann5209 Жыл бұрын

@@BruceAlarie - Which one? Outline the plot. I recognize his name, but I didn't associate it with the show. It sez he wrote 8 episodes.

@reginaphilen9725 2 жыл бұрын

I'm still watching... And when William Shatner looks out that airplane window I still get a knot in my stomach... When Burgess Merideth's glasses crackle I feel his eternal agony... Ah yes the great 'unmasking' at the father's death bed...and for so so many more brilliantly scripted and performed episodes I am truly grateful we get to continue to enjoy Mr. Serling's genius!

@soulpower9570 2 жыл бұрын

OhMyGosh!!! The thing on the wing one is one of my favorites!! I like the one with John Lithgow too. Love TZ!!

@louisvario1087 2 жыл бұрын

hi babee Shatner other eposide where his car breaks down & eats in the diner with fortune teller machine was great 2

@Jesus.SaVeS77 2 жыл бұрын

@@louisvario1087 I tell friends That the machine in cafe is like Google, Syri n Alexa in today's 🌍. Wat do U think. Yea or Nay? Except we don't have 2 keep feedn $ to that machine that answers all Willm Shattners & his wife's "?'s.

@mr.j4294 2 жыл бұрын

Yea, and don't forget the "Going my way?" Line of "Hitchhiker "episode. Love Twilight Zone to this day.

@DigitalBridge. 2 жыл бұрын

The one episode that sticks with me is when the lost stranger releases the devil back onto the earth again from the monastery prison cell.

@colindolly 2 жыл бұрын

Even in England we loved the twilight Zone, and even Rod had the looks of a film star. RIP Rod. Thanks for the upload.

@brucemartin4423 2 жыл бұрын

💂‍♀️⚓even in Jamaica ,West Indies , we saw rr runs,in black* white only ,

@aemiliacarolphonetube9749 2 жыл бұрын

Rod really was a Christmas gift of the 20s.

@nicholasvaldez8322 Жыл бұрын

I was born in the late 90’s but my dad used to watch this show with me when I was a kid. To this day I’ll go back and watch episodes. Some episodes are deep and creepy. Very well written

@tedmccarron Жыл бұрын

You should also see his show Night Gallery if you get a chance.

@jamesweaver1738 Жыл бұрын

Rod Serling was genius. I've watched every episode. It's amazing that they're still on TV I also loved the night gallery

@peggygarlock-smith6048 Жыл бұрын

Night Gallery was one of my favorites too!

@princessgrace66 Жыл бұрын

@@peggygarlock-smith6048 🤣Yes!

@christinkilmetz9283 Жыл бұрын

sometimes the twilight zone is a better alternate reality than the actual reality that we live in everyday.....

@user-xl5hk3te9s 2 жыл бұрын

Rod Serling was a genius. He could do more in 25 minutes of black-and-white with few special effects than all of today's computer-assisted razzle-dazzle could ever hope for. Episodes often had a moral that was not revealed until the very end, leaving the viewer to figure it out. It is a terrible loss that his omnipresent cigarettes killed him at such an early age.

@moiralauten6924 Жыл бұрын

@Tina Field Howe Word.

@phreffable Жыл бұрын

Not quite

@QIKUGAMES-QIKU Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Bring it all back !

@velocitor3792 Жыл бұрын

Just shoes that the most important element in a successful entertainment venture is quality of writing.

@emariaenterprises Жыл бұрын

Cigarettes are calming. He needed that.

@pageribe2399 Жыл бұрын

The Twilight Zone was my babysitter's favorite show. I can well remember hiding in the little space between the sofa & the wall, eyes squeezed shut & hands over ears. To this day, my heart jumps a little whenever I hear the first strains of the theme song. Creepy

@sandracapps5543 Жыл бұрын

I HATED The Twilight Zone! Still do! Way to creepy for me. And I hid behind the couch in the same way whenever my mom turned on Dark Shadows!

@JD-bd2up Жыл бұрын

Born in 1979. This is one of the Greatest television shows of All Time. Will never be duplicated. Rod Serling Legend!

@lynnelaurence6859 Жыл бұрын

I watched "The Twilight Zone" every Friday night with my parents. Great messages from the episodes that taught me insight and depth in their stories they presented each week. Thank you 💞 ROD STERLING!!!

@lynnelaurence6859 Жыл бұрын

I spelled his name wrong--ROD SERLING!!!

@randyfoster5008 2 жыл бұрын

Serling respected his audience. His stories age well because he challenges your intellect, morals, and values.

@bobareeniobobareenio2935 2 жыл бұрын

Yes Randy, his audience was respected. That’s because they were smarter and more sophisticated than todays audience.( sorry to say it ). Today, shows are all dumbed down to the lowest denominator for the idiot audiences.

@charlestonbrown3383 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobareeniobobareenio2935 I am one of those, and folks weren't smarter then get off that!

@Ming_7322 2 жыл бұрын

Serling is the greatest TV show host in history.

@aprilmayem9820 2 жыл бұрын

Um, christian guy, eviction does not violate the 2nd law because it isn't a closed system.

@rightingtheirwrongs1422 2 жыл бұрын

@Justin Gary Mara'natha

@ReNinaMinter 2 жыл бұрын

I’m a lover of psychology, psychological drama. I watched the Twilight Zone marathons every year, since I was 12 years old. I’m a Psychotherapist now, I feel like the Twilight Zone shaped me and taught me about human nature. 💛☀️

@dans4270 2 жыл бұрын

In this day and age it's probably prepared you for the real thing 😁

@razieluchiha7580 2 жыл бұрын

Too much sunshine makes a desert Sunshine.

@dans4270 2 жыл бұрын

@@razieluchiha7580 pancakes taste good 🥴

@GT-43 2 жыл бұрын

That's scary

@gillygil8747 2 жыл бұрын

There's this guy, his name was Freud ....

@joygrantonio1984 Жыл бұрын

So many wonderful episodes, I never tire of the show. The Angel of Death with Robert Redford and the Santa one with Art Carney, the Hitchhiker with Inger Stevens and the ones with lessons of war. He truly was a man way ahead of his time. Thank you Mr Serling wherever you may be !

@andyhinds542 Жыл бұрын

I remember that 1980s episode entitled Button Button. A broke couple were given an opportunity to have all their financial woes ended and live in luxury just by pushing the button on a very plain box. If they pushed it, they would get untold riches, but someone on earth would have to die as a consequence.

@JeffChase Жыл бұрын

They did a version of that story on CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974 too.

@scootermom1791 Жыл бұрын

That's based on a story called "The Monkey's Paw." I have an image in my mind that I will never forget from an episode written for the 80's version of Twilight Zone. I think it was titled "Quiet, please!" It's about a mother who's overwhelmed by all the noise around her (ie children; husband; TV blaring; etc.) Somehow she she's able to freeze time by yelling "Quiet!" or something like that. She can also unfreeze time at will. So she has some fun with this for awhile then goes downtown to do some shopping. She hears news from radios around her regarding a conflict between the US and Russia. Suddenly, air raid sirens start going off, and people are panicking. She doesn't understand what's going on, and the noise is overwhelming. She freezes time then walks around the corner of the street she's on. She sees some people looking up at the sky and pointing, so she looks up and notices something terrible: a nuclear warhead is frozen just above the building where the people are standing. She's frozen the impending bomb detonation along with everything else. BUT she can't unfreeze time ever again, or the bomb will kill all the people. So basically she ends up stuck with that choice: unfreeze time or leave it frozen and be the only unfrozen person on earth? Pretty lonely place to be. Anyway, the image of missle frozen above the building with everyone is looking at it is forever embedded in my mind. A truly frightening scenario!

@slaughterhouse5585 Жыл бұрын

Push the button. What’s the problem?

@caspence56 2 жыл бұрын

"The Hitchhiker" and the killer doll episodes are two of the most disturbing stories ever written. They creeped me out when I saw them as a kid, and they still have that same effect today. Rod Serling was one heck of an imaginative and talented man.

@alyzu4755 2 жыл бұрын

I was just telling my SIL about the killer doll episode yesterday. ☺️

@great-garden-watch 2 жыл бұрын

Ug I wish you hadn’t just reminded me of Talkie Tina. No sleep tonight.

@jeffmejia3556 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Talking Doll is my favorite. Saw it as a kid and never forgot it. A Nice Place to Visit is also a classic.

@user-mv9tt4st9k 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a little girl, I was not a fan of dolls. They gave me the creeps and I always made practical play clothes for them out of old denim or fabric scraps. The "talking Tina" episode validated my weirdness, ha ha.

@275MsParis 2 жыл бұрын

You’re talking about talking Tina

@juletaurus 2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't he also responsible for "Night Gallery"? That show scared the crap out of me as a kid.

@kevinmoore4887 2 жыл бұрын

Night Gallery was a favorite. Similar format with Rod Serling narrating. It seemed a bit darker and more monster oriented. A bit less philosophical than Twight Zone

@nephthysbastet4809 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember that program. The one, which sticks out, after all of these years, is the painting episode. The husband wanted so badly to be in a painting of a guy fishing on a boat to escape his life. One night, the lights were off when he went to the same spot as the painting always was, but they had removed it and replaced it with painting of Jesus on the cross. He went into that painting, instead. Horrible. Ha ha.

@SJones-kk5lg 2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@samprimera5545 2 жыл бұрын

That came after Zone ended.

@jefferydraper4019 2 жыл бұрын

@@samprimera5545 my 2nd favorite of all.

@markdraper3469 Жыл бұрын

The story of the food crate killing the soldier could also be the origin of many of Serling's ironic endings. Imagine the troops sharing rations from that crate later on. Sometimes, the simplest things come at an unexpected cost.

@jonathanhandsmusic Жыл бұрын

I grew up watching this show. Never have seen the one with George Takei, but I remember the one with William Shatner. It was terrifying to me as a kid.

@gretchengraef3012 Жыл бұрын

There were two with Shatner.

@abc456f Жыл бұрын

@@gretchengraef3012 The fortune telling machine in the diner that he couldn't leave. Great stuff.

@tedmccarron Жыл бұрын

Well of course you didn't see the one with Takei. No one did.

@yminic55 2 жыл бұрын

Eye Of The Beholder. Donna Douglas played the “ugly” woman so well. Being escorted off to the new place where she would live with others of her kind. My favorite episode of all time. And the shocked doctor and nurses unwrapping her bandages to determine the final surgery had failed. Priceless.

@mrb1619 2 жыл бұрын

Really?

@MsTammi125 2 жыл бұрын

Trippy and I've never forgotten that one

@axxxingforanswers4648 2 жыл бұрын

Liked that episode too, and ..."Serving Man"...about the "cookbook"

@petahills579 2 жыл бұрын

That episode is also my favourite.

@PhoenixLyon 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrb1619 The entire run of The Twilight Zone is outstanding, yet some episodes emerge like supernovae. This was one of them.✌😸

@tonyblougoutas4988 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, we loved this show. We had to beg my mom to let us watch it. She was worried it was too scary but we promised it wasn't, it was but we never let on. We loved it! Don't forget Night Gallery which he did later. RIP and thank you for your service.

@firebird2485 2 жыл бұрын

" Yes somebody remember the night gallery ,I was kid who grew up on horror movies ,but my mom was worried about bad dreams, I love the three line up from the Night gallery ,when the guy I'm not sure what sinero the killed the guy for money ,in the painting they would show him coming Out the grave,every frame he getting to the house,then the last painting he's knocking at the door,. The next one Betty Davis was blind she get s a new pair eyes living in new York, ,they had a black ,she took off blind fold She thought the eye surgery wasn't a success She snapped out ,she could really see ,it was a black out. She thought she was still blind. The last one was a man always going to look

@biggusdickkus2956 2 жыл бұрын

@@firebird2485 The first sounds like he borrowed it from an old story The Mezzotint...where a man buys a painting that shows a character getting ever closer to the house of a man that had him hung for poaching.

@stephenhodges1688 2 жыл бұрын

What do you get when you plant little old ladies fingers? Little old ladies.

@user-yg7mp1xq8l 2 жыл бұрын

Night gallery was the best!! The episode where Joan Crawford playing a wealthy blind women pays to have sight again for one day only to have it be a blackout

@johnmcaleese8459 2 жыл бұрын

Rod Serling hated the Night Gallery. They just used his name. However, as a kid that intro scared me to death. A couple good episodes.

@mikeglick3886 Жыл бұрын

To this day I still get goosebumps while watching certain episodes. "Deaths head Revisited" and the" Purple Factor" are two that stand out. "The grave" is also one that will always stay with me. The grave yard seen is exactly what I would imagine what a scary graveyard would look like. And his sisters laugh when she lays Pinto's plate down is so haunting. I grew up on shows like the Twighlight zone and the Outer Limits. Although the effects can't match the effects of today, the writing and acting made these shows untouchable by anything on TV today. Quoting an episode I think was called "The Long Road" I may be wrong but the quote was "You play the song until the last note and then when the last note is played the song is over". You live until the end and then it is over. How powerful is that!

@WantedSquirrel Жыл бұрын

Loved this show. So many wonderful and thought provoking stories. My 2 favorites are "The Hunt". A man and his dog die during a night of raccoon hunting. Once the man realizes they are both dead he is presented with a choice as they travel down the road. The 2nd is "Nothing in the Dark" with Robert Redford. An old woman is so afraid of death that she refuses to ever open her door. Then a police officer is wounded just outside.

@mariereed8534 Жыл бұрын

Those are the best.They're my favorite episodes too.

@poplaughlin3296 Жыл бұрын

Man that's the one that always comes to mind never got to see it but once still cant remember how it ended something about D og couldn't go too HEAVEN watching from Beautiful BEDFORD VIRGINIA HOME of the NATIONAL D day MEMORIAL CHECK us out

@mollyhannah2003 Жыл бұрын

The Hunt was my fav too. It's perfect in every way! Written by Earl Hamner Jr - who was the creator/writer of The Waltons.

@yaries7076 Жыл бұрын

You knew something was wrong when the man said the dog wouldn't be let into heaven and bless the ole man's heart for not taking the devil's offer and remaining loyal to Reb...❤

@mariereed8534 Жыл бұрын

They both get into Heaven and his widow Rachel is expected to arrive shortly after. Classic episode.

@longroad5572 2 жыл бұрын

I was a kid when The Twilight Zone began. Many decades have passed since then, and it is still in a class by itself.

@tammi67able 2 жыл бұрын

So true

@Belynda 2 жыл бұрын

Me too, I watched it every week. I now own a couple sets of the whole series.

@greg1030 2 жыл бұрын

Some of the story lines were really preposterous or just too dated now, but many are truly so timeless that they've walked with me through life. But for me, the show would have badly suffered without benefit of CBS's superb production music library. Some of the best music ever heard on TV was pulled from composers like Dan Alexander, Van Cleave, Bernard Hermann, Fred Steiner and other giants by the editors to score the entire series. Bravo!

@Aussie1964 2 жыл бұрын

"The Monsters are due on Maple Street" should be compulsory viewing at school and college. It has a lot to say and more, about what is happening now regarding the mass hysteria and fear sweeping the world. Definitely prophetic.

@wesstewart2677 Жыл бұрын

I believe it is actually. My school gave a lesson on this episode, and my younger siblings also remember having to learn about that episode in particular. But that could just be my county’s curriculum

@Aussie1964 Жыл бұрын

@@wesstewart2677 I assume an American school? Makes sense if it was, as it was an American TV show and has more following there than perhaps here in Australia. In any event, good to know that your school values it enough to include it for study and discussion. I do remember it being broadcast here back in the 1970s. Wasn't until I was an adult and started watching it on DVD back in the early 2000's that I really came to appreciate it for what it had to say about the human condition and its amazing thought provoking stories. One of a kind.

@thetruthisthelight0910 Жыл бұрын

Quite prescient. I rewatched it recently.

@axnyslie Жыл бұрын

My junior high literature class did a reading of the script in class. I got to read the "Alien One" part at the end.

@Aussie1964 Жыл бұрын

@@axnyslie Good to know it was being studied/analysed in achool. How long a go was that? How did the class react to it? There must have been some interesting discussion about it. Did you ever watch the actual episode and/or others of the twilight zone?

@DeviantMotives Жыл бұрын

I can’t believe it wasn’t that popular. Those shows were incredible especially for their time, super creative.

@youareright5431 Жыл бұрын

Goes to show you how stupid we've been over the last 100 years, This is a series that could have run forever!! Absolutely best show ever made!!!!

@trudymaenza9672 Жыл бұрын

I know, that show could have went on for a few more years if not for that stupid man who decided to stop production, that's about the jest of CEO's who cancelled Star Trek because one of their wife's wanted some other show to keep running instead against the will of the majority of viewers politics! Twilight Zone and Star Trek ended up be the winners in the long run!

@josephstreppone9814 2 жыл бұрын

The elderly woman getting phone calls from her deceased husband and they go out and see that the telephone line is buried in his grave that one kind of creeped me out pretty bad

@tonymctony4551 2 жыл бұрын

Portifoy!

@rbrb69 2 жыл бұрын

That, and the episode Talking Tina doll “Hi I’m talking Tina and I’m going to kill you.”

@NeptuneRising70 2 жыл бұрын

That’s my favorite one! So creepy!

@amazinggrace879 2 жыл бұрын

Art imitating life, and vice versa: Most recently at the Florida Champlain condo collapse, a family received 16 phone calls from their parents phone number one day, while it was still a recovery mission, I think, shortly before the bodies of the parents were found buried in the rubble of the site! I’m so sorry for that family, they will always have that memory, and the what if’s playing with their minds and hearts. 🕊God bless you❣️😇🎉🎶💝

@namehere8433 2 жыл бұрын

That episode STILL creeps me out. I was a young kid when it first aired and it scared the bejeezus out of me.

@Jagdtoq 2 жыл бұрын

The creepiest show ever like being locked in a department store all night with the mannequins staring at you.

@maxjohnsonhatesutube 2 жыл бұрын

Bruh, i was up at midnight watching TZ by myself (10 yrs old, staying with family in another town) some one tried breaking into the house (trying on front door then going around to all the windows), i was a kid so i just thought it was fear playing with my mind, dont think i slept for a second that night.

@Sweetaccord 2 жыл бұрын

Does not compare to the Alien Cook Book of Man. 😬

@knottreel 2 жыл бұрын

Get off it Marsha.

@zefallafez 2 жыл бұрын

Anne Francis was the mannequin who had forgotten she was a mannequin.

@lothean2099 2 жыл бұрын

I really loved the librarian episode

@merrywalsh2809 Жыл бұрын

I can’t pick a favorite episode, because every one was so good. I remember Agnes Morehead gave a great performance in one. Then there was one with a guy living in a cage the size of a room. There was the one with a monster on the wing of a plane in flight. So many great actors lined up to be in episodes.

@youtubinyoutuber1989 Жыл бұрын

The Gremlin on the plane wing! I loved the John Lithgow one! I watched looney tunes as a kid and the bugs bunny gremlin plane episode and realized they are related and never forgot that one

@merrywalsh2809 Жыл бұрын

@@youtubinyoutuber1989 When I was six, I had a recurring stress dream where Wile E. Coyote was walking across the telephone wire outside my bedroom window, so he could get in. Kind of a similar scary scenario. Scared the bejesus out of me.

@Trollificusv2 Жыл бұрын

@@youtubinyoutuber1989 In the original TV episode, the passenger was William Shatner.

@scootermom1791 Жыл бұрын

The one with the guy living in a cage the size of a room was very thought provoking (like most of the episodes were). He was kidnapped by aliens, so-to-speak, and taken to their planet. He actually went willingly not realizing what the aliens were planning to do with him. They placed him in an exact duplicate of his earthly home. When he finds out he can't leave, though, he starts to panic. Then the truth is revealed: he's been placed in a cage in a zoo on their planet for visitors to observe. There was a similar alien episode where a guy goes willingly with the aliens thinking they are there "to serve man." That's what the translators were able to figure out from the book the aliens presented to the earthly leaders. They weren't able to translate the book quickly enough, though, to prevent people from boarding the alien spaceship. As it turned out, it wasn't a book about how to help humanity through service. Oh no, nothing noble like that! It was a cookbook! 😫

@stephaniestamps8256 Жыл бұрын

My youngest son and I's absolute favorite episode (saw it together a doxen or so times) was the one called "A Stop at Willoughby" where the overstressed working man and nagged upon at home caught the train home and would fall asleep on trip "waking up in Willoughby a peaceful, happy place. With kind people treating him nice. He got the choice to "stay" which he eventually did walking off train happily smailing. Then you see a snowbank with police and men speaking about the man who jumped from the train. Closing the door to what I assumed was the ambulance, the back door had "Willoughby and Sons - Funeral Parlor"! My son passed in 2015 and I sometimes smile thinking if him living ha living happily in Willoughby (Heaven!)

@strangequark3897 2 жыл бұрын

It's weird how the show's ratings were never off-the-chart back when it premiered, but retrospectively, people now regard it as one of the crown jewels of television.

@efandmk3382 2 жыл бұрын

Twilight Zone, Dick Van Dyke, Star Trek...many of the shows we consider treasures, were flops in their time.

@edgregory1 2 жыл бұрын

Seinfeld had low ratings until season 4 when the fateful "The Contest" episode aired.

@oglethorpezippelmeier2514 2 жыл бұрын

The 1950s and early 1960s were all about conforming, not questioning, thus series like this weren't culturally relevant at the time.

@samprimera5545 2 жыл бұрын

Yea it's definitely a "cult favorite".

@wasabiginger6993 2 жыл бұрын

It was an era of creating fear brought to you by the same folks today!

@talanigreywolf7110 2 жыл бұрын

"To Serve Man" is one of my favorite episode tbh

@jhavajoe3792 2 жыл бұрын

I remember discussing that as a kid with classmates ( 3rd or 4th graders).

@chasingembers6167 2 жыл бұрын

IT'S A COOKBOOK!

@stephaniebaker6001 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't that Richard Kiel aka "Jaws" from the James Bond movies who plays the alien? 😁

@1972mercurycougar 2 жыл бұрын

Love that one!

@matthewpoplawski8740 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite two: THE OBSOLETE MAN AND DEATHEADS REVISITED. I remember, when I was in the third grade, I asked my teacher about the FOURTH DIMENSION that was in the episode LITTLE GIRL LOST. She looked at me like WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??? She DID asked me where did I hear about that, and, I told her that I had seen an episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE the night before. In the mid-60's, this and black was all theorized as,SCIENCE FICTION. Today, that's no longer the case. While black holes do exist, they're still on the, now, possibility of a fourth dimension.✌✌✌✌

@Jesus_Saves_J2415 Жыл бұрын

I use to watch these with my dad... Now I feel like I'm living in an episode of the Twilight Zone

@dglorious1269 Жыл бұрын

One of my all time favorite TV shows. Rod was the best narrator for that show. Nobody did it like him. He was eerie yet very captivating and interesting .A lot of lessons in the episodes. And just about everyone had a cigarette in their hands back then even the women.😅

@scootermom1791 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was considered "elegant" for women to smoke cigarettes using a long cigarette holder. Too bad they didn't think about the implications of smoking. Even though they may not have been aware of things like lung cancer, they still should have realized how it affected them and those around them (ie making it difficult to breath; asthma; coughing).

@dglorious1269 Жыл бұрын

@@scootermom1791 I think that's what Rod died of, the big C. He kept a cigarette burning. Well I've known elderly people who smoked from their teens to adulthood, and they lived to be in their 80s and 90s. So I think it's more of an individual thing. They say that the cigarettes of today, are 100 times worse than back in those times. Because they've added so much crap to the tobacco.

@IvanRodriguez-hl4pg 2 жыл бұрын

For my money, the scariest episode of TTZ was 'Shadow Play' which starred Dennis Weaver as a man who is sentenced to die in the electric chair and he tries to tell everybody that at the moment of his death, he will find himself back in the courtroom being sentenced to die in the electric chair and that each time it happens, everybody switches roles!

@56cadd 2 жыл бұрын

That's a good one !

@axiomist4488 Жыл бұрын

That is one of the most horrible, because it includes the gruesome Electric Chair .

@chandac3839 Жыл бұрын

That episode was just brilliant!

@debbieolandese4912 Жыл бұрын

I remember it well. What a nightmare!

@SuperC888 Жыл бұрын

What’s this episode called?

@sugarcookiecube 2 жыл бұрын

Rod Serling was a genius. The Twilight Zone is a noun that will live forever…

@shanewhitefeather6298 2 жыл бұрын

So true!

@JohnSmith-eo5sp 2 жыл бұрын

Get a life!

@wmfife1 2 жыл бұрын

...Even the opening instrumental notes... "tee-dee-dee-dee etc". Everyone knows what those mean.

@sonofliberty8872 2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-eo5sp Stay mad.

@cm70707 2 жыл бұрын

Good-looking dude, too

@scottfranco1962 Жыл бұрын

I think being a child during this period made the show extra poignant. As an adult, this would have been an interesting series, but to a child, it was downright riveting, and I think it really affected the way I think.

@PrinceAlhorian Жыл бұрын

Twilight zone and The Outer Limits... So many good stories, so many nightmares as a youth, all worth it.

@tinabenson1492 Жыл бұрын

Ooh, and, the Night Gallery, too ! ❤

@PrinceAlhorian Жыл бұрын

@@tinabenson1492 Don't know night gallery. Is it the same in premise as The Outer Limits?

@tinabenson1492 Жыл бұрын

@@PrinceAlhorian yes🙂

@thegreatpickupthegreatpick2430 Жыл бұрын

@@tinabenson1492 How about Thriller!

@tinabenson1492 Жыл бұрын

@@thegreatpickupthegreatpick2430 Lol...yeah, that's good, too. 😊

@mewregaurdhissyfit7733 2 жыл бұрын

Rod Serling was a genius and an oracle of the future. So many of his "warnings" have come to pass.

@uhohhotdog9150 2 жыл бұрын

He wrote of the horrors that had happened and were happening around him in an attempt to warm us to never let history repeat itself. But humans are selfish, so evil people will always exist, and evil people copy the deeds of past evil people, only taking it a step further.

@metoo9360 2 жыл бұрын

Ruh-Roh, I guess we'll never learn.

@tammi67able 2 жыл бұрын

True so true

@tammi67able 2 жыл бұрын

@@uhohhotdog9150 yep

@mikeropaynus410 2 жыл бұрын

Any predictions on the future sooner or later will pass….. basic mathematics son!

@kellyo8324 2 жыл бұрын

Rod Serling was WAY ahead of his time.

@kellyo8324 2 жыл бұрын

@Jack Bonello Will take your word for it.

@dontherealartist 2 жыл бұрын

Well he was and he wasn't: He was ALSO a writer at the end of a literate tradition of wonderful movie-TV writers.

@dallasbrubaker6054 2 жыл бұрын

He was way ahead of his time for going back in time.

@jiyu9694 2 жыл бұрын

@Jack Bonello He was brilliant, and had something most writers today lack - a truly creative imagination.

@jiyu9694 2 жыл бұрын

@Gary Snow LOVE the Outer Limits, but Twilight Zone was by far the best anthology series ever. Outer Limits might have been the second best, though.

@Lauram618 Жыл бұрын

Twilight zones were like reading short stories that always made you think hmm? My favorite memory of all was sitting in a recliner with my grandmother. The only two awake and the only light was the one coming from the television. That is my favorite memory when I think of reruns of The Twilight zone.

@oldprankster7606 Жыл бұрын

Out of so many memorable shows birthed by Rod Serling, one has always stood out in my memories - that of the spaceship that returned to Earth, but somehow was not supposed to. Each of the three crew mates gradually disappeared, and no one remembered them when they did - except the captain. In the end, he and the spacecraft itself were mere phantoms. What genius, one of many of Serling's creations.

@mhughes6303 2 жыл бұрын

One of the finest television shows ever. Road Serling was a genius.

@maryjobraun1101 2 жыл бұрын

There will never be another Rod Serling. I still watch Twilight Zone today. I never get tired of it.

@fmayer1507 2 жыл бұрын

@@maryjobraun1101 Me Too!

@leolbenwayjr6561 2 жыл бұрын

Who the hell is road?

@davidparris7167 2 жыл бұрын

Streets ahead you could say .

@Sandra-bf5dx 2 жыл бұрын

definitely original, still like watching it now

@WestOfEarth 2 жыл бұрын

"over budget" and yet studios still make bank on the series to this day.

@denniscosban6145 2 жыл бұрын

This is coming from an old man. I bet you never heard this. The twilight zone brought to you tonight by Chesterfield cigarettes .

@denniscosban6145 2 жыл бұрын

And I saw that episode with sulu from Star trek

@forcesightknight 2 жыл бұрын

@@denniscosban6145 also DREFT

@onlyrick 2 жыл бұрын

@@forcesightknight - Man, I thought that was an acronym until it clicked in my memory. I don't think I've heard that brand in at least 50 years. A laundry detergent, I think. Thanks for that. Be well.

@heedmywarning2792 2 жыл бұрын

@@denniscosban6145 TZone alumni.... 'Sulu' 'Kirk' 'Scotty' 'Spock' and the doctor from the pilot episode with Captain Pike.

@cdncitizen4700 Жыл бұрын

Changing the format from 30 mins to one hour, changed the brisk mini-story format and unnecessarily prolonged the storyline. Great series, even my kids often reference "It's a COOK BOOK" in casual day to day references. I still walk past homes thinking "Look... Humans in their natural habitat".

@axiomist4488 Жыл бұрын

I cant believe it never had more than mediocre ratings ! I looked forward to it every week; it was one of my favorite shows (and still is) along with The Outer Limits, One Step Beyond and of course, Route 66 . I always say that I grew up during the Golden Age of Television . Let's not forget The Ed Sullivan Show, in which we saw, live, all the groups of the British Invasion, including the Beatles' first appearance in America and The Rolling Stones . There were several other major shows too., one of my favorites being The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, where we got to see Ricky Nelson sing, after each show . But Twilight Zone was probably the best and. I believe, the longest running .

@excelsior999 Жыл бұрын

I saw Sidney Fields (from the "Abbott & Costello Show") do a Stand-up comedy routine on the Ed Sulllian Show. Sidney Fields was one of the writers for that program, which had several surreal aspects to it. Joe Besser (a man in his 50's) dressed as Little Lord Fauntelroy and playing the character of a child? Brilliant.

@Trollificusv2 Жыл бұрын

It only ran for five years, far from the longest running.

@Araconox Жыл бұрын

The Networks were wrong as many times as they were right. So they cut back on the budget for the Twilight Zone and out right cancelled StarTrek after only a couple of years. Two of the best ever shows, and they screwed it up.

@rarebreed9208 2 жыл бұрын

When modern life is so screwed up, it makes the twilight zone seem normal and appealing.

@professorfukyu744 2 жыл бұрын

Were not living in the twilight zone?

@jameskeno2393 2 жыл бұрын

I agree too.

@macmac6318 2 жыл бұрын

@@professorfukyu744 Oh, but,,,, we are tho, and it's the longest, scariest episode yet.😲😱🤯 Be safe, Stay vigilant.⚡⚡⚡

@rzone9546 2 жыл бұрын

😂true

@talmoskowitz5221 2 жыл бұрын

I never took doo-doo doo-doo literally before, but yeah, we're in the Twilight Zone

@redriders7149 Жыл бұрын

I'm 45 yrs old. Twilight Zone was still on heavy replay as I grew up in the 80's ( such a fun era to grow up in!!!! ) I have very fond memories of watching Rod and listening to him. Wow this Man was a MAN!!!! What an awesome awesome guy. I never knew a lot of the info on this video. Thanks

@Hard_Car_Life Жыл бұрын

Sterling came up with the name "Twilight Zone" after serving in the military and being in the Army 11th Airborne Division. He said that pilots, while right before landing a plane, could not see the runway directly before touchdown, and called that moment in time "The Twilight Zone.". That's where he took that name and title of the show.

@ryanm7263 2 жыл бұрын

Rod Serling is partially responsible for my marriage. My wife and I initially bonded over our mutual love of the Twilight Zone. We still watch the show regularly six years later.

@kennyrogers3919 2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome!

@ViewThis. 2 жыл бұрын

My Sister and I once briefly bonded over an episode of the New Twilight Zone (NightCrawlers) But We went back to fighting as soon as the episode was over. I'm glad. I don't want to marry my sister.

@heedmywarning2792 2 жыл бұрын

you wouldn't happen to have a tape recorder that you talk into to conjure things up?

@Mike-gt1cs 2 жыл бұрын

So, you were 'Submitted, for her approval'? NICE!

@jonbell6865 2 жыл бұрын

@David Mazuca p

@veg4ev 2 жыл бұрын

Rod Serling's Twilight Zone is an American Instituion!

@No1KCfan6 2 жыл бұрын

Institution, too.

@JohnSmith-eo5sp 2 жыл бұрын

Just like slasher films, and paranoid thrillers. Which reminds me, Science Fiction is the most misanthropic of all genres of fiction

@getawaydriver5363 2 жыл бұрын

Scripted back story. Aristocrat.

@bigray-sd2kv 2 жыл бұрын

Night hawk's American dad

@jacksonmorganfroghin4815 2 жыл бұрын

After 60 years of watching television with time off for bathroom breaks, my five favorite shows are as follows: 5. The Fugitive 4. Gunsmoke 3. The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson 2. Seinfeld And the number one is: (drumroll.......) THE TWILIGHT ZONE

@bellanegrin3915 Жыл бұрын

Always liked the Twilight Zone. Back in the day, it was really scary, along with the show, One Step Beyond.

@katt9402 Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah! I remember that one too. My brother's and I use to love it as well....

@rachelramsey1245 Жыл бұрын

I loved watching the Twilight Zone.And still like watching the reruns. About the scariest one I watched was titled "Night Caller" I watched it alone one night and texted my daughter telling her how scary the episode was.Never wanted to watch that one alone again....

@MicheleMJJ 2 жыл бұрын

Rod Serling was a genius. He was years ahead of any other writer.

@billgrandone3552 2 жыл бұрын

I miss the late 50's and 60' watching Rod Serling, Ernie Kovacs. Edward R. Murrow, and Walter Cronkite's 'The 20th Century, and Air Power as well as Victory at Sea. THAT was great TV.

@l.w.paradis2108 2 жыл бұрын

He was a great man, too.

@valeriegoode9762 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@bloodybladeskore1874 2 жыл бұрын

I really agree he was really cool

@billgrandone3552 2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonjmarchi Yes he did have great writers. All great shows depended on writers. The writers strike in the 90's ended all that and now we have these horseshit reality shows that are anything but reality and anything but entertaining. Next show will be "The Pawn Stars on Naked and Afraid" and I will blow up my TV.

@spaceghost4474 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid The Twilight Zone used to scare the you know what out of me, but I rarely missed an episode.

@miriamhavard7621 2 жыл бұрын

Same...........

@christianmotley262 2 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean.

@sybilarroyo6929 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, me too

@michaelhughes432 2 жыл бұрын

The same with me Space Ghost. When I saw an episode that would scare me (such as "The Masks") I made sure I said my prayers before going to bed! Also, check out the book, "The Twilight Zone Companion". I forget the author's name, but it's worth the purchase and reading.

@professorfukyu744 2 жыл бұрын

Its all true in a fable sort of way.

@general5104 Жыл бұрын

I hardly did mis an issue of The Twilight Zone. The Trumpet one was my favorite, followed up by the girl that had a flat tire and a scary encounter...over and over. THANK YOU for posting. It was also good to see Sulu's face again. I was a STAR TREK trekie. I subbed.

@andreadaniel8792 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a lil girl, my older brother LOVED the Twilight Zone and it scared me to no end. Now, at 60-years old I LOVE the Twilight Zone, and even though I can watch it any time I want, sitting in front of the TV for the annual New Years Marathon has been a tradition of mine for decades. I could never really get into the remakes because the original is the absolute best.

@joeneateyskeety3576 Жыл бұрын

I’m 19 and no remake can even shine a light to the original

@janish3059 Жыл бұрын

The original is always the best but I have to disagree there are some remakes that I saw that are just as good and some even better

@joeneateyskeety3576 Жыл бұрын

@@janish3059 I’ve watched a lot of the new ones, it’s not the same, without using video quality or cgi quality as factors in debate, I have to say the old ones are better, they aren’t scary- but unsettling, almost like how u feel when u wake up from a weird dream

@mariaharrison7228 Жыл бұрын

Yes, so excited for remakes, but after 1 I knew I'd never watch another, the originals I realise can never be recreated.

@roxassora2706 Жыл бұрын

I'm 22 and I understand you. I was scared of a lot of things as a kid.

@vodkagal28 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite episodes is The Masks. It shows that you can't hide who you really are.

@princessmarlena1359 2 жыл бұрын

That’s one of my favorites!

@samueljudah9136 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@scottsyoutubeworld1824 2 жыл бұрын

The REAL lesson about revealing people was The Shelter. YIKES!

@baraksteady1341 2 жыл бұрын

Trust fund kids and the grumpy patriarch who worked hard and intelligently on building his wealth and did not like the notion of being the gravy train for a clan of ungrateful undisciplined flakes. Great episode

@henriettaparks586 2 жыл бұрын

YES, I ALSO LOVE TO SERVE MAN!!! WOW!!

@kystars Жыл бұрын

About the banned episode, I saw it before 2016. So I'm not sure why I was able to see it if it was banned. Also thanks to Rod for serving our country. So he got the Purple heart and some medals and was wounded. I never knew Rod served in world war 2. Interesting. Great pics of him also!

@Trollificusv2 Жыл бұрын

Well, they did say "banned on _broadcast TV_ , so you may have gotten a DVD or even VHS collection with that episode.

@ethellarry1670 Жыл бұрын

Which one was banned

@shirleyfunte3063 Жыл бұрын

My kids and I watched The Twilight Zone every Friday night. When it went off the air ,we were lost. Thank you for telling us what became of our show...

@froggy7570 2 жыл бұрын

For some strange reason I find The Twilight Zone very relaxing and comforting. There is some type of surreal dream like quality to it that I can't quite put my finger on. This series still continues to amaze me and even more so now knowing what Rod went through, saw and endured in his young adult life.

@stevedriscoll2539 2 жыл бұрын

That's it! I couldn't express it like that but you did it for me.

@johnmcaleese8459 2 жыл бұрын

He sure mastered the English language along the way too ! Guy was brilliant. Saw an interview with his widow. She claimed the pressure of writing the T.Z. really burnt him out.

@AlexanderStHill 2 жыл бұрын

That’s how I feel about the twilight zone … it’s very comfortable

@DistractedGlobeGuy 2 жыл бұрын

The fantasy of it is also comforting-the idea that there could be a world out there where people get the treatment they deserve out if life; where the just are rewarded and the cruel are punished, and all in accordance with their actions; where things always get better for those who are willing to learn a lesson; where thinking things through can guarantee success.

@jlove7723 2 жыл бұрын

@@AlexanderStHill I used to feel like that for a long time. Now it depends on the episode, some of them are a bit too slow. Specially after I watch them more than once like most of us have done. So I skip to the ones that keep me engaged. Cheers!

@charlotteautry2867 2 жыл бұрын

Will NEVER EVER forget the show that was "How to Serve Man" truly was a thing to think about. Other people that saw that show remember it well.

@theelectricunicyclist9069 2 жыл бұрын

It's a cookbook!

@tammi67able 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorites

@hammerheadcorvette4 2 жыл бұрын

"To Serve man" is one of the greatest pieces of a television series ever made.

@veronicaharraman4891 2 жыл бұрын

Also , one of my favorites as well . I love it , "It's a cook book" !! .

@wmfife1 2 жыл бұрын

@@veronicaharraman4891 Even Stephen Colbert quoted that line on a recent show. No explanation needed. Was just understood... fifty+ years after the fact!

@ddrogue474 Жыл бұрын

Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock were my favorite, my dad would often watch with me. Loved and enjoyed both immensely. I am also an Original Star Trek fan, but that is another story.

@guppyspop Жыл бұрын

I remember watching that episode in the 2016 Twilight Zone Marathon and being amazed that I had never seen this episode before , I prided myself as being a fan that had seen every episode.

@gwillis9797 2 жыл бұрын

We are living in a "twilight zone", " Outer Limits ", "One step beyond", " Touch of Evil ".

@maryjopaoni3597 2 жыл бұрын

Sterling's stories were so scary even for that time frame. So even the weird things occurring in real life today is sometimes even more scary than what Sterling came up with! He was one of the best, & there were times you had to wonder what kind of strange mind thought up his kind of ideas.

@rickfromthecape3135 2 жыл бұрын

... The book of revelation...

@gwillis9797 2 жыл бұрын

@@maryjopaoni3597 Movies are becoming " real life " now. Viruses, weather, uncontrollable emotions, etc. Imagine living in the Bible days and a Angle appeared or witness another Bible event.

@gwillis9797 2 жыл бұрын

@@rickfromthecape3135 People are blind or ( head turners ). I can see.

@karencourt5684 2 жыл бұрын

Hi g willis i agree.the way this world is going im glad i live off grid lol

@lindamulholland406 2 жыл бұрын

The whole Twilight Zone series was a good series . Rod Serling was an inventive individual . The stories he wrote were brilliant .

@MrManfly 2 жыл бұрын

The Encounter was a brilliant episode and Takai was marvelous in it !

@Geezer-yf8hv 2 жыл бұрын

He WAS brilliant!! While he didn’t create and write all the stories, he brought us a different type of…? To call it “entertainment”, doesn’t do it justice! Food for the mind! Highly innovated the genre of SciFy! Although I was too young to watch it during its initial run, I loved seeing it in reruns. Even though it was done a very long time ago, the ideas never seem “dated” even now! I also loved his “Night Gallery”! Both are must haves for any collector of Iconic American Television!!

@AnnaLVajda 2 жыл бұрын

Apparently he did it to cope with his ptsd after the war.

@jallenecs 2 жыл бұрын

Axtually, the episodes he wrote himself are generally considered some of the shows worst installments. He couldn't compete with some of the writers that contributed to the show, certainly. Serling's talent lay in having brilliant ideas and, more importantly, in gathering brilliant writers and creators around him.

@bohem5568 2 жыл бұрын

@@jallenecs LOL...Worst installments? Your crazy. Serling was a brilliant writer which is why he won all those awards.