I was nine when the Twilight Zone first aired in 1959 on CBS. It is astonishing how many human emotions Serling covered in the first year. Paranoia, loneliness, love, bravery, racism, fear, acceptance. All within contexts of fantasy and sci-fi tropes.
Rod Serling gave us an enormous amount of entertaining stories. It was a terrible loss when he died at the age of 50. He just couldn't stop smoking cigarettes.
Well you're right? Actually it was the effect it had on his heart. My great grandmother smoked all of her life. How she made it to 95 years old is beyond me. I think some people are stronger than others. I don't know?
@@paulrodriguez8852 It depends a bit on the other aspects of a person's lifestyle, but it seems mostly that every cigarette is like a roll of the dice. Some people get lucky and never get a bad roll that damages their DNA. A bit of genetics, but mostly entirely luck... Sometimes it's the person who only smokes a few times in their life that ends up with lung cancer or something awful of the like
@@billolsen4360 I get what your saying. my great grandmother smoked all her life and lived until 95. I guess some people can tolerate it mor then others.
@billolsen4360 or maybe it's because tobacco picks up radioactive material and when we smoke it , that radioactive material gets out in our lungs. Alot of atomic bombs tested in the 50s and 60s
I have watched Rod Serling's "TWILIGHT ZONE" since it began in 1959 when I was twelve years old, and my family NEVER missed an episode until it ended in the summer of 1964 when I was 17. Watched it again when it started in reruns and even through today. LOVE the original "TWILIGHT ZONE" I didn't care for the more recent series that was run. Just was not as eerie as Mr. Sterling's series. Did you know WILLIAM SHATNER ("Captain Kirk" from the original "STAR TREK" series) starred in one of the episodes? ONE of MY favorites is an episode called "EYE OF THE BEHOLDER" EVERY year the "SYFY" channel has a "Twilight Zone" MARATHON from DEC. 31st which runs 24 hours a day until January 3rd, usually. I watch that as well and DVR many of them when I can't watch.
The most memorable Twilight Zone episode by far......IMO.....is The Invaders. Great acting and a story you will not forget. I saw it over 40 years ago, and I still remember it well.
3:48 Actor Richard Kiel played the very tall man in this episode. You might remember him as Jaws in a couple James Bond films, "Moonraker" and "For Your Eyes Only."
@@ClayLoomis1958 I LOVE that "TIME ENOUGH" episode, it really creeped me out when I first saw it back then....especially with what was going on during that time.
My favorite is "A Penny For Your Thoughts" when an ordinary banker gets telepathic abilities for a day. He can hear admiring thoughts from a female co-worker, but also detects that the bank could fail within days as one fellow employee has been embezzling for several weeks and another plans to rob the vault at closing time all by reading their thoughts.
This episode is, of course, a straight adaptation of Damon Knight's famous magazine story, "To Serve Man." A number of TZ's best episodes were taken from classic science fiction stories. Jerome Bixby's IT'S A *GOOD* LIFE, for one.
If you guys liked this, you should watch the two-part 1984 TV miniseries V. It explores similar themes with more depth and is still highly relevant today.
Oh, god, V, both versions, sucked unless you were 12 years old. Or, better, 9. Really, aliens are invading to steal earth's water? That's hydrogen, literally the most common element in the universe, and oxygen, also one of the most common elements in the universe. And the big reveal is that they look like lizards? And... that's it. What "themes" were there?
@54345sdfa No, "real" aliens probably wouldn't be interested in our water. Motivation is a weak aspect of many alien invasion stories. The show's creator intended people over the age of nine to interpret V as a social allegory, NOT a science documentary. I'm afraid I tried to describe some of the show's themes in this reply, but TH-cam deleted them... Three times... Somebody in charge certainly thinks they're a little TOO relevant. Which is actually one of the reasons why they are, ironically enough. If it's been a while, try watching the show again. Ignore the 80's hokeyness and read between the lines through the lens of current events while not taking it so literally. It's NOT really a show about lizard-like aliens stealing the water.
Clever writing, good acting for the most part & with no CGI/special effects...TZ kept you guessing. Don't good for a half hour show. Glad to see you guys doing more episodes, there are some really good ones.
I remember this episode was paying as a rerun on tv when I was a kid in the 80s. As a kid I stuck my nose up to most BW tv but my mom convinced me to watch it and I really liked it. Twilight Zone was a real great show
If you get the chance, read the short story "the aliens who knew, I mean, everything" by George Alec Effinger. It's a funny story about aliens who come to Earth and offer the same sort of wonderful peace and prosperity as here, but the result is very different (as is their motivation)
Cool video, just subscribed after seeing this video. I’m a huge Twilight Zone fan and enjoy watching peoples first time experiencing these great episodes. I’ve seen them all over 30 times each.
Mark 0:44. Greetings! 🖖 By coincidence, it sounded like you were trying to sing that tribute song about, "The Twilight Zone", but wasn't sure how to start it! 😆😅😂🤣😁
Great cast. Lloyd Bochner was one of those actors who you recognize but don't know their names. Same with Theo Marcuse and Richard Kiel, who also appear in this episode. Theo and Bochner have turned up in episodes of Hogan's Heroes, which, BTW, if the younger guys in your group have never watched, ought to react to.
They should have known. If it were really a book about being of service to mankind it would have been one page that said; like, subscribe and set notifications to all so you never miss new content.
One of my favs. Glad you guys saw through it!! LOL On the weight issue. If you want to lose weight get you mind in gear man. I used to weigh 400 pounds. Wore 56 inch pants. Then I lost 200 pounds. Took about a year and half. Semi-keto. Oh yeah my pant size 42 to 44 depending. Yeah, do it man!! Y'all be safe
Mark 9:24. If you guys watch the, Sunday Night "Animation Domination" series on "Fox", you may have seen both, "Homer Simpson" & "Peter Griffith", have fun with this episode! 🤓
Check out these Tilight Zone episodes too. Walking Distance, Back there!, The Masks, Will the Real Martin Please Stand Up. Changing of the Guard, and The Silence.
Please check out the original TV show "The Outer Limits" Great science fiction. Production dates were 1963 and 1964. You'll see many Hollywood legends who later made it big in leading TV and movies roles like Redford, Nimoy, Landau, Duvall, Shatner, etc.
Hi Guys, two more great episodes, it`s always good to see new people enjoying them. I didn`t discover (The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits) until the late `70`s early `80`s myself. Please consider (The 7th is made up of Phantoms & The Thirty-Fathom Grave) Season 5 Ep. 10 & Season 4 Ep. 2 respectively. Both are military based episodes.
You guys are too smart for your own good! You figured out the ending of Planet of the Apes too soon - but THIS one you got it right away! The first time I saw this I was about 14.......the ending came as a shock to me!
Rob Serling had gifted insight....he would be horrified to see what the world has become....Maybe this is a fate mankind or at least part of it deserves....At least we would be serving with a constructive purpose...
Like so many of your viewers, I was in front of the TV the Friday night that this episode was first broadcast. I was mesmerized and loved it. It's sort of unfortunate that you guys have the experience of decades of intervening tv and movies and can't view them as the truly groundbreaking shows that they were. You guys do a great job and I'm really glad that you watch and appreciate these episodes and give them the respect that they deserve. Thank you!!!!
@@papalaz4444244 I am over 60 (76 to be exact) and watched all those original "Twilight Zone" episodes since it started in 1959 when I was 12. My family and I would gather around our TV every Friday night to watch it. LOVE it.
Thumb Up #53! 👍 Thanks for the fun, DVR! 🎬✌️🖖🤓😎🤠 Notes: The episode is thought-provoking in more ways than one, as well as scary. Ahem. Thanks to your reáctions to it, I finally realized something about it. That civilization built spacecraft such as that, yet, couldn't manage the resources well enough on their home world. The writers were still being influenced by the, Western Genre. In Real Life, we have elderly religious people, wondering which will happen first. Dying mundanely or experiencing the Rapture. So why bother with Earth Conservation, as either way, they won't be here much longer. Then there are the younger ones, believing that their chosen deity won't allow something so bad to happen or if it does happen it was part of a, "Divine Plan", and who are they to judge. Then we have the faction of, Humanity, that has more faith in the Space Program, getting us to another place soon, before this one is totally exploited. Then there's the rest of us, who want to do well by this planet, since we are here and now, regardless of what the, Future, brings. 😎 These aliens are played like, "futuristic", cattle wranglers. Ugh.
@@RKnights I AGREE with you 100 % It is the ONLY "home" we have....and we are destroying it too quickly. I fear for my 45-50 year old sons and for my grandchildren.
One of the greatest classics of all time. But the Monsters are us, the Woke were worried about a food shortage this Summer, because of the war in Ukraine. Their people publicly suggested cannibalism was a good idea ;-(
I was nine when the Twilight Zone first aired in 1959 on CBS. It is astonishing how many human emotions Serling covered in the first year. Paranoia, loneliness, love, bravery, racism, fear, acceptance. All within contexts of fantasy and sci-fi tropes.
Rod Serling gave us an enormous amount of entertaining stories. It was a terrible loss when he died at the age of 50. He just couldn't stop smoking cigarettes.
Well you're right? Actually it was the effect it had on his heart. My great grandmother smoked all of her life. How she made it to 95 years old is beyond me. I think some people are stronger than others. I don't know?
@@paulrodriguez8852 It depends a bit on the other aspects of a person's lifestyle, but it seems mostly that every cigarette is like a roll of the dice. Some people get lucky and never get a bad roll that damages their DNA. A bit of genetics, but mostly entirely luck... Sometimes it's the person who only smokes a few times in their life that ends up with lung cancer or something awful of the like
@@paulrodriguez8852 Then there was Winston Churchill who smoked cigars constantly and they finally got him at age 91.
@@billolsen4360 I get what your saying. my great grandmother smoked all her life and lived until 95. I guess some people can tolerate it mor then others.
@billolsen4360 or maybe it's because tobacco picks up radioactive material and when we smoke it , that radioactive material gets out in our lungs. Alot of atomic bombs tested in the 50s and 60s
I have watched Rod Serling's "TWILIGHT ZONE" since it began in 1959 when I was twelve years old, and my family NEVER missed an episode until it ended in the summer of 1964 when I was 17. Watched it again when it started in reruns and even through today. LOVE the original "TWILIGHT ZONE" I didn't care for the more recent series that was run. Just was not as eerie as Mr. Sterling's series. Did you know WILLIAM SHATNER ("Captain Kirk" from the original "STAR TREK" series) starred in one of the episodes? ONE of MY favorites is an episode called "EYE OF THE BEHOLDER" EVERY year the "SYFY" channel has a "Twilight Zone" MARATHON from DEC. 31st which runs 24 hours a day until January 3rd, usually. I watch that as well and DVR many of them when I can't watch.
The most memorable Twilight Zone episode by far......IMO.....is The Invaders. Great acting and a story you will not forget. I saw it over 40 years ago, and I still remember it well.
Do put "the Invaders" on your list - very excellent 30 minutes of Twilight Zone
It's one of the greats, and that's for sure.
3:48 Actor Richard Kiel played the very tall man in this episode. You might remember him as Jaws in a couple James Bond films, "Moonraker" and "For Your Eyes Only."
Actually the Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. 1:08 1:09 1:11
There is one problem with the premise of this episode. Texas would not give up their guns and would be the only resistance to the aliens. LOL
Lol, that would be a problem 😄
Yeah, space aliens with tech advanced enough to get here would be all scared about your chemical pop guns.
Twilight Zone is the tits. I'm old, but so many of those episodes are classics.
The Obsolete Man is another one of the series' many monumental episodes. A simple premise with very deep and relevant connotations.
@@montag4516 All 4 Burgess Meredith episodes are pretty great. Time Enough At Last is probably even better known than The Obsolete Man.
@@ClayLoomis1958 I LOVE that "TIME ENOUGH" episode, it really creeped me out when I first saw it back then....especially with what was going on during that time.
My favorite is "A Penny For Your Thoughts" when an ordinary banker gets telepathic abilities for a day. He can hear admiring thoughts from a female co-worker, but also detects that the bank could fail within days as one fellow employee has been embezzling for several weeks and another plans to rob the vault at closing time all by reading their thoughts.
"Human smoothie.." Hahaha. I think my neighbors heard me laugh. Its been decades since I seen this episode. I will have to watch it again.
Lol 😄
Great reaction guys when this TV show came out in the sixties it blew everyone away
This episode is, of course, a straight adaptation of Damon Knight's famous magazine story, "To Serve Man."
A number of TZ's best episodes were taken from classic science fiction stories. Jerome Bixby's IT'S A *GOOD* LIFE, for one.
www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/8879/To-Serve-Man.pdf
This is the 1st " Twilight Zone " reaction I've ever seen . You might be onto something !!! IJS
A great take on this same theme, "V the Miniseries" from the 80s.
I have yet to see someone do a reaction of it. It was an excellent show.
If you guys liked this, you should watch the two-part 1984 TV miniseries V. It explores similar themes with more depth and is still highly relevant today.
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Oh, god, V, both versions, sucked unless you were 12 years old. Or, better, 9.
Really, aliens are invading to steal earth's water? That's hydrogen, literally the most common element in the universe, and oxygen, also one of the most common elements in the universe. And the big reveal is that they look like lizards? And... that's it.
What "themes" were there?
@@NoHandleGrr wow! you missed the 800 lb gorilla with Thor's hammer allegories slapping you in the face ?? Modern education at its finest. :(
@54345sdfa No, "real" aliens probably wouldn't be interested in our water. Motivation is a weak aspect of many alien invasion stories. The show's creator intended people over the age of nine to interpret V as a social allegory, NOT a science documentary.
I'm afraid I tried to describe some of the show's themes in this reply, but TH-cam deleted them... Three times... Somebody in charge certainly thinks they're a little TOO relevant. Which is actually one of the reasons why they are, ironically enough. If it's been a while, try watching the show again. Ignore the 80's hokeyness and read between the lines through the lens of current events while not taking it so literally. It's NOT really a show about lizard-like aliens stealing the water.
The original V was a fantastic miniseries. One of the most watched shows when it came out in the 80s.
Clever writing, good acting for the most part & with no CGI/special effects...TZ kept you guessing. Don't good for a half hour show. Glad to see you guys doing more episodes, there are some really good ones.
Richard Kiel played the alien. Later he played Bond Villain "Jaws"...
I knew I recognized him but I could not recall where from.
He was in Happy Gilmore with Adam Sandler
The alien voice is Joseph Ruskin. You probably saw him in Star trek - Gamesters of Triskelion
Citizen Gregori was also in a Star Trek: catspaw
Interesting. For the longest I thought it sounded like Vincent Price.
You guys would be considered a combo meal.
They would love us
@@RKnights ..not if it's TACO BELL !!
Richard Kiel played the role of the Kannanite who would later play Jaws on the Bond films.
I remember this episode was paying as a rerun on tv when I was a kid in the 80s. As a kid I stuck my nose up to most BW tv but my mom convinced me to watch it and I really liked it. Twilight Zone was a real great show
If you're doing TZ, you have to watch 4x04 "He's Alive." By far one of the most enduringly socially relevant episodes of TV ever.
If you get the chance, read the short story "the aliens who knew, I mean, everything" by George Alec Effinger. It's a funny story about aliens who come to Earth and offer the same sort of wonderful peace and prosperity as here, but the result is very different (as is their motivation)
@vincegamer I will check that out ASAP......that plot has me intrigued!
@@CoopyKatto serve man is actually a short story by Damon Knight
@@pablokaufervinent8012 I found both short stories in a PDF format, I'm reading them now.
gotta figure this show came out durring cold war russia era and Rod Serling was very outspoken for his time to say the least.... legend....
Great job. You guys called it right. A cookbook!!! 🤣
If you want to see what aliens would really do watch "Mars Attacks"
Great reaction! 📺 💓 🍿
If you've never seen "The Outer Limits", by far the most terrifying episode is "Cry of Silence".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_of_Silence
Been waiting for someone to react to this show. Lots of lessons to be learned. I recommend The Obsolete Man.
i love the fact the actor who play the big Alien was the actor on the Adam family as lurch lol
No it wasnt it was Jaws from the james bond movies you're thinking of Ted Cassidy and the actor that actually played this was Richard Kiel
They are serving man.
On a platter.
I have seen every episode of the Twilight Zone on dvd. Rod Serling was a genius.
Cool video, just subscribed after seeing this video. I’m a huge Twilight Zone fan and enjoy watching peoples first time experiencing these great episodes. I’ve seen them all over 30 times each.
Mark 0:44. Greetings! 🖖 By coincidence, it sounded like you were trying to sing that tribute song about, "The Twilight Zone", but wasn't sure how to start it! 😆😅😂🤣😁
The 80s Twilight Zone revival,which had several good stories,also had a variation on this episode.It was called A Small Talent for War.
Great cast. Lloyd Bochner was one of those actors who you recognize but don't know their names. Same with Theo Marcuse and Richard Kiel, who also appear in this episode. Theo and Bochner have turned up in episodes of Hogan's Heroes, which, BTW, if the younger guys in your group have never watched, ought to react to.
Mark 9:40. That starship of theirs looks like those used in, "Earth versus the Flying Saucers"! 😁🛸🤫🤭
One of my favorite shows
(Ray).." Oh, Thank You for the sandwich ... "Woooo-WAAAHHHH !!!" ... ( LMFAO)
They should have known. If it were really a book about being of service to mankind it would have been one page that said; like, subscribe and set notifications to all so you never miss new content.
Another great episode to check out, about gold thieves, is “The Rip Van Winkle Caper.” As always, the twist is just crazy.
One of my favs. Glad you guys saw through it!! LOL
On the weight issue. If you want to lose weight get you mind in gear man. I used to weigh 400 pounds. Wore 56 inch pants. Then I lost 200 pounds. Took about a year and half. Semi-keto. Oh yeah my pant size 42 to 44 depending. Yeah, do it man!!
Y'all be safe
Soylent Green
Mark 9:24. If you guys watch the, Sunday Night "Animation Domination" series on "Fox", you may have seen both, "Homer Simpson" & "Peter Griffith", have fun with this episode! 🤓
Really? will have to look into it
Check out these Tilight Zone episodes too. Walking Distance, Back there!, The Masks, Will the Real Martin Please Stand Up. Changing of the Guard, and The Silence.
The original short story depicted the aliens as pigs.
Metv has a Kanabis Cafe Tshirt you can buy that says serving man since 1962. It's a great shirt
Please check out the original TV show "The Outer Limits" Great science fiction. Production dates were 1963 and 1964. You'll see many Hollywood legends who later made it big in leading TV and movies roles like Redford, Nimoy, Landau, Duvall, Shatner, etc.
Awesome reaction. This is my second personal favorite episode of the series, my favorite episode is called jeopardy room.
Hi Guys, two more great episodes, it`s always good to see new people enjoying them. I didn`t discover (The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits) until the late `70`s early `80`s myself. Please consider (The 7th is made up of Phantoms & The Thirty-Fathom Grave) Season 5 Ep. 10 & Season 4 Ep. 2 respectively. Both are military based episodes.
You guys are too smart for your own good! You figured out the ending of Planet of the Apes too soon - but THIS one you got it right away! The first time I saw this I was about 14.......the ending came as a shock to me!
Try the scifi comedy movie by Tim Burton called Mars Attacks!
loved the vid :) great to kill time while impatiently waiting for the next B5 episode
It's coming. We have.recorded two more episodes this weekend
Rob Serling had gifted insight....he would be horrified to see what the world has become....Maybe this is a fate mankind or at least part of it deserves....At least we would be serving with a constructive purpose...
The Simpsons did a great send up of this episode.
I'm new here and just stumbled across this episode...
I'd like to suggest the episode, I Shot an Arrow into the Air. It's a hidden gem 👊😎
You have now watched five episodes.
Each one great!
Do yall have a full-length react on PATREON?
I will
Yeah! This episode is one of my favorities. Because no one discovers what the aliens are really here for until the end.
Like so many of your viewers, I was in front of the TV the Friday night that this episode was first broadcast. I was mesmerized and loved it. It's sort of unfortunate that you guys have the experience of decades of intervening tv and movies and can't view them as the truly groundbreaking shows that they were. You guys do a great job and I'm really glad that you watch and appreciate these episodes and give them the respect that they deserve. Thank you!!!!
How many of their 'viewers' are well over 60 to have seen this on the day it came out Gerald McBoingBoing
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@@papalaz4444244 I am over 60 (76 to be exact) and watched all those original "Twilight Zone" episodes since it started in 1959 when I was 12. My family and I would gather around our TV every Friday night to watch it. LOVE it.
It could be a cook book.,
Thumb Up #53! 👍 Thanks for the fun, DVR! 🎬✌️🖖🤓😎🤠
Notes: The episode is thought-provoking in more ways than one, as well as scary. Ahem.
Thanks to your reáctions to it, I finally realized something about it. That civilization built spacecraft such as that, yet, couldn't manage the resources well enough on their home world. The writers were still being influenced by the, Western Genre.
In Real Life, we have elderly religious people, wondering which will happen first. Dying mundanely or experiencing the Rapture. So why bother with Earth Conservation, as either way, they won't be here much longer.
Then there are the younger ones, believing that their chosen deity won't allow something so bad to happen or if it does happen it was part of a, "Divine Plan", and who are they to judge.
Then we have the faction of, Humanity, that has more faith in the Space Program, getting us to another place soon, before this one is totally exploited.
Then there's the rest of us, who want to do well by this planet, since we are here and now, regardless of what the, Future, brings. 😎
These aliens are played like, "futuristic", cattle wranglers. Ugh.
I am in the camp that we should do good by this planet. We are messing it up and we should take better care of our home. This episode is creepy though
@@RKnights I AGREE with you 100 % It is the ONLY "home" we have....and we are destroying it too quickly. I fear for my 45-50 year old sons and for my grandchildren.
@patticrichton1135 this may sound crazy but I think the earth would destroy us before we destroy it. I also have faith in future generations
I hope you also check out some of the outstanding episodes of NIGHT GALLERY -- another Rod Serling tv series.
Sort of reminds me of Coraline. It's a movie.
One of the greatest classics of all time. But the Monsters are us, the Woke were worried about a food shortage this Summer, because of the war in Ukraine. Their people publicly suggested cannibalism was a good idea ;-(
Why would a race of people travel across the universe to land here? Not very many choices as to a realistic answer.
The only good Twilight Zone is the original series!!!
Guy on the left is hot !