I'd really like to know how he could bare it at home, since his wife wasn't really a wife but a jailor.

This was, is, and always shall be one of the best and most important episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE for me. I still think it's one of the bravest performances by George Takei (I hope I'm spelling his last name right). I know the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still very prominent in the public mind then, and still is today, but the lesson this episode taught should never be forgotten.

I felt so sad for the guy, he was a good man, all he wanted to do was read. 😢

Wow. A long video of nothing.

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Nick of Time was a far superior TZ episode with Shatner

I love twilight zone

Jesus loves u bros

"Henrryyyy"!!

Nope

This video explains so much

Just a stutter step that’s all

And at home, the wall paper has stripes, like bars.

First time I saw this episode I thought it was so unfair. Felt so bad for Beamis. The Twilight Zone usually had endings where bad people were punished. I thought Beamis was an innocent. so I though the ending was odd. As I got older I realized what the moral of the story was. It's a cautionary tale warning not to put other things above human interactions. Beamis has NO REACTION to the fact that BILLIONS of people are dead. A normal person would be overwhelmed with grief if only a fraction of the people they knew died suddenly. Remember 911? Beamis didn't care that 911 multiplied by millions had just happened because HE got to read. It is his complete lack of empathy for his fellow man that he is being punished for.

Man Jurassic Park like the Book would be Intense.

Don’t forget the TZ episode where he places his fate in a penny wish machine - In the Nick of Time

His wife isn't intervening for his sake, but because she is mean

Have you people never read the damn book? It should have been, it wasn't a kids book.

I want to see that movie

Thought provoking analysis…my favorite Burgess Meredith Twilight Zone character is Romney Wordsworth from The Obsolete Man where he was persecuted for reading too LOL…keep up the great content and work…liked and subscribed 🤙🏽

I'll throw you for a loop. Marty doesn't look like either of his siblings. He looks exactly like the guy Marty they knew in high school... so what's going through George's mind when he thinks back and compares the two? He would suspect his wife hooked up with the old college flame Marty and got PREGNANT! In this timeline the thought eats at him and they eventually break up! Marty ends up destroying his family!!!

What the politicians did to the world with their nukes you mean

There is a second ending where he finds new glasses at a pharmacy and he can read and it's all happy again. And there's grocery stores. And then he finds another survivor nerd girl. But then her zombie girlfriend shows up...

After the ending there's another ending where he just finds some glasses at the pharmacy and now he can read and he has grocery stores etc. happy zone

Some insightful analysis of the story and its foreshadowing!

As a bibliophile and reading addict, I often think about Henry Bemis and the hell he must have been going through ... poor little guy 🤔

If Burgess Merideth is in it...... it is one of my favorite episodes. He was an amazing actor. His command of his voice was so subtle and yet profound.

An addict of reading? Sounds like a label for a person, today, who would rather read than watch.

You'd think he'd find his way to someone else's good enough glasses, a magnifier or something

Perhaps a thinking man would have tried to find a way home to retrieve his spare glasses. Just a thought.

I loved watching these shows when I was young, before HS lit. Symbolism ruins everything 😂.

His wife was a terrible person. Instead of divorcing a man who she didn't respect or love, she chose to stay in an unfulfilling marriage for the sole purpose of tormenting and belittling him. Just imagine how much time it took for her to scratch out every page of his poetry book. She should have used that time instead to find a good divorce lawyer.

I really enjoyed the video and you have a great presenter voice.

Burgess Meredith is one of the all time greats.

Something out there could be a superfan of William Shatner.

My favorite was how to serve man. Great episode next to this one, but most things you are pointing out like the prison cell, warden, and Helen name are more of a stretch. I'm not saying it isn't interesting, but not much groundbreaking. But, great video, hope you have more

This is one of my most favorite episodes of the Twilight Show. And I have never seen or heard a better break down of this particular episode. Well done! I thoroughly enjoyed!

Everything you point out is true and sort of obvious. The only part I cared about when I first saw this back in the 60's was the cruel twist of fate at the end. Most of the TZ shows were like this.

As an avid reader and apocalyptic movie lover, this is my favorite episode! ❤👓📚

I don't know. I think you're reading (no pun intended) too much into it. Henry hates the world around him and uses books to escape. When everything is destroyed, he thinks he is finally able to do what he wanted. There is peace in the ruins. Then the glasses break and he becomes one with the destruction faced by the rest of society. The theme is you can't escape your world and even if you dislike it- you are still irreversibly linked to it. I think it is a criticism of meek people who can get so caught up in their own worlds that they think they are removed from big events of war, the House of un-American activities and the like. But the same world that gave him the problems in his life also gave him books and the glasses to read them. This meek character is a common one in Sterling's work as from 'A Stop at Willoughby': "He's been cannonaded this afternoon by all the enemies of his life. His insecurity has shelled him, his sensitivity has straddled him with humiliation, his deep-rooted disquiet about his own worth has zeroed in on him, landed on target, and blown him apart." They have various fates. From the man who becomes Santa Clause, the man who dies and finds heaven in a small town of his childhood, or breaks his glasses in a wasteland. Sterling is a straight up story teller using metaphor rather than symbolism.

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My all-time favorite TWILIGHT ZONE episode that he did was "The Obsolete Man". That one is SO TRUE today, what with the political climate.

One of my all time favorite actors and TV series 🥰😎

Changing your past timeline isn't possible. You can create alternate timelines.

I think Back to the Future is a loop, of which you only see one side. There are two Martys. One whom you see, gets around via skateboard, so I will call him Skateboard Marty. Marty goes back in time, changes the future so that his more successful parents raise a Marty who drives a pickup truck. Pickup truck Marty. Remember when Doc came back from 2015 to tell Marty that Marty and Jennifer have a problem, and Marty asks, “what happens? Do we become a-holes?”. I think that is what happened to pickup truck Marty. He became a jerk. Doc probably sent pickup truck Marty back to 1955, just to spite him for being a jerk. When Pickup truck Marty goes back in time, he does not save Lorraine from being hit by a car, so George McFly does it. He also never sets up the scheme that leads to Biff trying to rape Lorraine and George defending her. The McFlys grow up as they originally did, and raise Skateboard Marty, to close the loop. Pickup Truck Marty goes back in time right after Skateboard Marty returns , so Skateboard Marty can take over pickup truck Marty’s life, as if nothing happened.

I’m curious why people think his parents don’t recognise him when he is growing up? Also they already name their child Marty, it wasn’t because of the time travel this happened. Before the time travel Marty was called Marty. Am I missing something?