This TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE was BANNED For 50+ YEARS

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  • @DYR
    @DYR  ปีที่แล้ว +607

    FAVORITE TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE? 🤔

  • @tazmod7272
    @tazmod7272 ปีที่แล้ว +4421

    I grew up with the Twilight Zone. Today I think I am in one.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      Me too!

    • @davidflitcroft7101
      @davidflitcroft7101 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      Ditto, and the Internet has a lot to do with it. . .

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@davidflitcroft7101 Going...my way!?

    • @lincbond442
      @lincbond442 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      I can completely relate to your comment.

    • @DimitriosChannel
      @DimitriosChannel ปีที่แล้ว +122

      The Brandon Zone?

  • @bettychatfield2544
    @bettychatfield2544 ปีที่แล้ว +827

    There was an episode where an elderly woman is so afraid that death is stalking her that she won't open her door to anyone just in case it invites death in. She sees a young man played by Robert Redford beaten and hurt in the street and lets him in. HE is death and convinces her that death is not something to fear but to embrace. The conversation between them is so brilliantly written

    • @helenemaurer8623
      @helenemaurer8623 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I saw that show and I agree with you

    • @3VILmonkey
      @3VILmonkey ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Yep. One of the episodes that stays in my mind.

    • @joeclayton2121
      @joeclayton2121 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      i liked "kick the can" and " the old guard"

    • @duran007fan5
      @duran007fan5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      The name of that episode is nothing in the dark

    • @geraldmartin7703
      @geraldmartin7703 ปีที่แล้ว

      Propaganda for suicide.

  • @arnieus866
    @arnieus866 ปีที่แล้ว +474

    The best "gotcha moment" to me was the one where a woman was waiting to see the outcome of surgery to fix her face. The big moment comes. The bandages are removed and she is beautiful but doctors and nurses are horrified. Then you see them and they are grotesque which apparently is the norm in The Twilight Zone.

    • @funkyflights
      @funkyflights ปีที่แล้ว +20

      That was a good one !

    • @albirtarsha5370
      @albirtarsha5370 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      "Eye of the Beholder" -- it totally freaked me out as a young child.

    • @isiso.speenie5994
      @isiso.speenie5994 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I called them "the pig faces" traumatized the hell out of me when I was 8 yrs old !

    • @cb7324
      @cb7324 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Such a good lesson in judging people.

    • @freeguy77
      @freeguy77 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      The gorgeous Donna Douglas, in 1960, at 28 (1962-71, was "Elly May" on The Beverly Hillbilies) was the "ugly" one! Outstanding casting, ugly faces, and reverse psychology in "Eye of the Beholder" (aired Nov. 11, 1960) making it one of the best episodes, and certainly one of the most memorable! She lived to be 82 (Sep. 26, 1932 - Jan. 1, 2015).

  • @stevendonahue4832
    @stevendonahue4832 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +177

    The Obsolete Man is my all-time favorite episode. It's message about the rights of man over government still resonates with us today.

    • @BaptistJoshua
      @BaptistJoshua 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Is that the one where Burgess Meredith is being judged by the government that is a little too much like ours today?

    • @gadgetzloops7319
      @gadgetzloops7319 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Romney Wordsworth. Great name

    • @Sinistralx
      @Sinistralx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The unapologetic manner with which Rod closed out that episode, as with so many others with that final thought to ponder on. I can only wonder about the families who saw that air around dinner time, and the thought provoking conversations on the subject that ensued.

    • @TulsaKanette
      @TulsaKanette 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      that is one of my favorite episodes

    • @777bigbird
      @777bigbird 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ahead of its time . And 1984

  • @paulthanasse7405
    @paulthanasse7405 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    I'm 64 and been watching these my whole life..never get bored with them...what a brilliant landmark in tv entertainment...it didn't get much better...thank you Rod and all the fledgling stars...tons of memories...wow

    • @lesliedixon9225
      @lesliedixon9225 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      No it hasn't gotten any better than Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone in all these decades later

    • @tamaraprentice5940
      @tamaraprentice5940 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I’m with you. I never get tired of watching them.

    • @m.m.583
      @m.m.583 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I still watch the Twilight Zone reruns at the age 71

    • @lesliedixon9225
      @lesliedixon9225 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I''m 77 and watch them @@m.m.583

    • @MrWeliz
      @MrWeliz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Im 69 and watching them now

  • @willhall640
    @willhall640 ปีที่แล้ว +406

    As a kid growing up in the 70's Twilight Zone wasn't really that old. Now I'm old and the Twilight Zone is a reality.

    • @lp9194
      @lp9194 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You aint whisteling Dixi

    • @kerryalfaro9437
      @kerryalfaro9437 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      THAT PART

    • @marionmarcetic7287
      @marionmarcetic7287 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      TRUTH!!!

    • @amain325
      @amain325 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, we are witnessing the twilight of the USA. If this situation (in particular this government) is not reversed soon, it will be too late.

    • @Kinkle_Z
      @Kinkle_Z 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I grew up in the 50s/60s so the Twilight Zone and the Alfred HItchcock Hour were my TV mainstays before mom made us go to bed.

  • @glendanielson9006
    @glendanielson9006 ปีที่แล้ว +595

    Rod was so ahead of his time. I love the way he used the genre of horror/sci-fi to address social iissues.

    • @divinewon73
      @divinewon73 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Right Sterling was an absolute genius! The executives referred to him as “the angry Young Man“ because they would upset him by interfering with his shows. That is part of the reason why he decided to stop after five years… Burn out from dealing with all the BS. Then, a few years later, he was hosting the night gallery, but it was nowhere as good as twilight zone.
      Sadly, we lost him in 1975 at the age of 50 as he died on the operating table while they were dealing with his heart problems from smoking three packs of cigarettes every day. Damn, sad!

    • @glendanielson9006
      @glendanielson9006 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@divinewon73 Very Sad! He was a wonderful man & person. He was also so fair to all in his employ. (Other Writers.) When he won the award, he said we will all get together and carve it up like a Thanksgiving Turkey. (Thanksgiving or Christmas. I forget!) I have to say, I loved the show's "Hocus Pocus and Frisby."
      Too Cute!! 🛸

    • @rvnmedic1968
      @rvnmedic1968 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@divinewon73 Based on the description of when he returned from the war, I would add PTSD to the mix of stress and burnout. It was called "Shell Shock", the predecessor of PTSD. My Dad was in WW2, survived Peal Harbor and his ship getting torpedoed later on. I recognized my symptoms when I got back from Vietnam as the same symptoms he had. RIP, Rod...

    • @TheLAGopher
      @TheLAGopher ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@divinewon73
      Makes you wonder that had Sterling survived into the 1980s, would he have found vindication and a second chance in the post
      Star Wars,post Halloween SCI-fI,horror,fantasy revival of genre films of the 1980s,the way Gene Roddenberry did with Star Trek
      The Motion Picture, and Star Trek The Next Generation?
      Imagine Sterling working Steven Spielberg,John Carpenter, John Landis, Ridley Scott, and being reunited with Richard Donner on major
      films, or getting to do a syndicated show with no studio interference.

    • @christallaktorides6904
      @christallaktorides6904 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Rod Sterling was amazing

  • @Jjchg
    @Jjchg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    Rod Serling was The Twilight Zone. His voice was so soothing and when I heard it, I’d run to the tv set.

    • @alladar47.1
      @alladar47.1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Right on!!

    • @mr.blackhawk142
      @mr.blackhawk142 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Jjchg, Just like Pavlov's dog?

    • @DanielAppleton-lr9eq
      @DanielAppleton-lr9eq 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A ton of tv stars took up smoking just to look cool.

    • @sethschuyler2771
      @sethschuyler2771 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      30 fathom grave is the one that scared me the most

    • @DanielAppleton-lr9eq
      @DanielAppleton-lr9eq 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      & then turn green and die when they became 70 or thereabouts.

  • @verilyheld
    @verilyheld ปีที่แล้ว +404

    Changing of the Guard, one of the Christmas episodes. In which a forcibly-retired school teacher is visited by the ghosts of past students, informing him that he taught them loyalty, honour, courage, sacrifice, bravery, compassion, empathy. That their victories are also his, and sheesh, simply remembering the episode brings tears to my eyes.

    • @annaliselovespie
      @annaliselovespie ปีที่แล้ว +31

      That is my favorite episode. He wasn't sure if he had an impact on his students. He was meet with a resounding yes

    • @slim-oneslim8014
      @slim-oneslim8014 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Sounds like it's a good episode. I'll have to check it out.

    • @AlexanderJWei
      @AlexanderJWei ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@iracordem Donald Pleasance often played a villain. He was one of the Ernst Stavro Blofelds in the James Bond franchise, and he was also the bad guy in Fantastic Voyage. But he played against type as the saintly Reverend Septimus Harding in Barchester Towers.

    • @stevemisiaszek1524
      @stevemisiaszek1524 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Yes, one of my favorites. Having been a former school teacher, one tends to diminish one's influence on young impressionable minds and what a responsibility it is. This episode gets to the heartstrings of those who "get it".

    • @HadrianGuardiola
      @HadrianGuardiola ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Dude reading this brought tears to my eyes. I didn’t grow up with the twilight zone I found it later but I love it dearly. Rod Serling will never be matched.

  • @suzannecarter445
    @suzannecarter445 ปีที่แล้ว +346

    I loved it when one reviewer watching a present-day movie said, "Yes, it was a good idea, but it took him 2 hours to do what Rod Serling could have done in 22 minutes."

    • @larryarsenault
      @larryarsenault ปีที่แล้ว +26

      That's because today episodics contain two shows in one. The main show is the firemen, police, Doctors. The Secondary is their personal home lives. All the shows follow pretty much the same structure. A "soft" open with main characters talking about things cracking jokes interrupted by THE EMERGENCY! or THE CRIME! The heroes come near death as they battle the fire. The doctor shows use the old private eye trick where the police detective tolld the private eye not go near this crime. Of course he does and solves it despite pressure from on high. In the doctor shows, the doctor is told to stay off this patient for whatever reason. Of course he doesn't and saves the patient. To fill out an hour, personal lives are developed which also serves to make people identify with main characters so they will watch every episode. You could take the script of almost any of these shows and switch it to another cop/doctor/layer show with only minimal edits. Familiarity replaces creativity.

    • @anniedarkhorse6791
      @anniedarkhorse6791 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      So true, for most TV shows and movies these days.

    • @stuartlee6622
      @stuartlee6622 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bet that was me! I said that!!

    • @mr.blackhawk142
      @mr.blackhawk142 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@larryarsenault You mean REPETITION replaces creativity?

    • @mr.blackhawk142
      @mr.blackhawk142 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stuartlee6622 You said....WHAT? never mind.

  • @NReese-if1nm
    @NReese-if1nm ปีที่แล้ว +421

    I LOVED the Twilight Zone-- and I still think it was one of the very best, most imaginative, most thought-provoking TV shows ever created. Hats off to Rod Serling!

    • @geoffreymee7671
      @geoffreymee7671 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Couldn't agree moreNReeves...a body of creative work right up there. A benchmark series of creative writing and the cinematography was very strong too. Yes, an all time favorite of mine. Rod Serling - what he went through in war and possibly other significant events left us all with what emerged inhis writings from those experiences.

    • @MichaelClark-uw7ex
      @MichaelClark-uw7ex ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The Outer Limits and Night Gallery should be on that list as well.

    • @carolynking1625
      @carolynking1625 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@MichaelClark-uw7ex As an adult I love all three. When I was a child for some reason "Twilight Zone" was my favorite. It was more disturbing.

    • @guypehaim1080
      @guypehaim1080 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      What was neat about the TZ is that it brought issues to the screen that were current problems in society.🤔

    • @mitchb2305
      @mitchb2305 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It's weird that the show suffered low ratings at points, and also could not attract sponsors. What the heck? It's such a creative show. Maybe viewers were scared, literally.

  • @DeathSentryCoH
    @DeathSentryCoH 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    Absolutely loved all the episodes. And so well written that they impacted you differently at various phases of life. Like "Stop at Willoughby", "Kick the Can", and especially "Walking Distance"... all were good as a kid, but really resonated even more so as an adult in my 40s and 50s.. show is an absolute masterpiece

    • @Sinistralx
      @Sinistralx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "Stop at Willoughby". . .
      . . .you know that guy’s finally enjoying the bandstand playing under a summer evening sky with a glass of ice cool lemonade right?

    • @toddq6443
      @toddq6443 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I couldn't agree more completely. Well stated.

    • @DaveL188
      @DaveL188 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      " To serve man".
      "The last flight"
      "Long live Walter Jamison"🙂

    • @karensteele7860
      @karensteele7860 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I'm 70 and kick the can episode i often tell people about to rejuvenate them

    • @DeathSentryCoH
      @DeathSentryCoH 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Sinistralx That's my thought too!!! Especially now I'm in my 60s, I love that thought lol!!!

  • @2NDCBT
    @2NDCBT ปีที่แล้ว +285

    "Changing of the Guard" was and is my favorite Twilight Zone episode. Donald Pleasence played a boarding schoolteacher who thought that no one he taught through so many decades learned anything from him. When the ghosts of past students who were influenced in life by him came back to let him know that he made a difference in their lives. The only episode to make me cry!

    • @paulleckner8235
      @paulleckner8235 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      It made me cry too. It inspired me to be a schoolteacher. I have 22 years service, and I am 5 years from retirement.

    • @dalehood1846
      @dalehood1846 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You do make a difference. Hopefully, the younger generation LISTENS!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @mosesCordovero-uw5vw
      @mosesCordovero-uw5vw ปีที่แล้ว +20

      the movie Mr Holland's Opus was a kind of expanded version of that Twilight Zone episode

    • @paulleckner8235
      @paulleckner8235 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@mosesCordovero-uw5vw Agreed.

    • @isiso.speenie5994
      @isiso.speenie5994 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Awww That's so sweet. Heartfelt , I like it.I was a teacher for 6 years.

  • @1ring2rule3pigs
    @1ring2rule3pigs ปีที่แล้ว +230

    The best TV series in history. The writing, acting and direction was incredible.

    • @robdykejr
      @robdykejr ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The 2019 revival/rehash is much too woke!!!🤔

    • @1ring2rule3pigs
      @1ring2rule3pigs ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@robdykejr You can't remake a masterpiece. There can be only one Mona Lisa. And there is only one Twilight Zone.

    • @maskcollector6949
      @maskcollector6949 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@robdykejr Yeah they really need to stop trying that. There's nothing wrong with the old school 50's voice but writing over that kind of destroys American culture - his voice set the tone for the whole series. I never want to see anybody else try it in general now. The writing and directing in hollywood is too awful. Will take an avante garde writer to take it over. The irony is Serling was actually too progressive for producers. They censored a lot of his African American characters (such as based on Emmitt Till) for other fill ins (Jewish instead, etc). So it's not as if he wasn't for equality. But forcing a whole style change with a completely different host was indeed woke.

    • @robdykejr
      @robdykejr ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@maskcollector6949 :💯👌

    • @Nexusofgeek
      @Nexusofgeek ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robdykejr I didn't watch all the eps but I disagree. The one with the cop with an itchy trigger was great,,, it is good that Jordan Peele used the platform to write intelligent shows with social commentary, That's exactly what Rod Serling did too as alluded in this video, he would have approved

  • @williamleonard1644
    @williamleonard1644 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Like many of you, I have probably seen every episode of the Twilight Zone as a child or later as an adult. As a result, I can recognize every episode in less than :30. The 4 stories I've chosen may not be the scariest or as well known, but they have twisted surprise endings that are both thought provoking and disturbing.
    "The Howling Man" season 2, ep.5 - has one the most visually stunning transformations of the Devil incarnate on screen.
    "The Invaders" season 2, ep. 15 - This is the only story, to my knowledge, where the main and lone character (Agnes Morehead) has no dialog. It is a cinematic hypnotic experience.
    "Back There" season 2, ep.13 (my fav) - An answer to the question of cause and effect. When the main character, just by chance, travels back in time to the day Lincoln got shot.
    "Perchance to dream" season 1, ep.9 - Where the main character, in reality (Richard Conte), dies in the opening scene of the story.
    Submitted for your approval.

    • @MariBuilt
      @MariBuilt 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I was born in 1952. Our parents wouldn't have a TV in the house until we had graduated from public school in first place. My older sister didn't, but I did. The Agnes Moorhead episode cemented my interest in science fiction. I continued to sneak over to a girlfriend's house to watch Twilight Zone and Outer Limits on her .TV

    • @DeathSentryCoH
      @DeathSentryCoH 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      :-) The Howling Man.. whew...you're right, as a kid, that transformation..hard to sleep at night after watching. As an adult I can appreciate the themes so much more..and still love that episode

    • @mrsx7944
      @mrsx7944 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My favorite is 'Young Man's Fancy' and 'Ring a Ding Girl'.
      You picked good eps.

    • @suzyskye733
      @suzyskye733 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I have every episode on disc and every winter I tell myself I'm going to marathon through and watch all of the twilight zone episodes but I haven't done it yet. I'll go pick out these though, the ones people have suggested and watch them...

    • @MetFan37
      @MetFan37 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@suzyskye733 "Howling Man" and "The Invaders", "Night Call", "Living Doll" and "Stop at Willoughby" round out my Top 5

  • @SeraphimMessenger
    @SeraphimMessenger 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

    Best quote ever is Gangster says "what kind of heaven is this!?!?" Dark Angel says laughing historically "What makes you think this is heaven."

    • @daviddipasquale5479
      @daviddipasquale5479 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Ii remember that one, yes, He wins every game of pool.

    • @lorettatayor5840
      @lorettatayor5840 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      THIS IS THE OTHER PLACE, he maniacally laughs! Just call Pip!

    • @dr.christopherdiaz4473
      @dr.christopherdiaz4473 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I think of this episode every time I think something isn’t going “my way.”

    • @SeraphimMessenger
      @SeraphimMessenger 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dr.christopherdiaz4473 me too!!!

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      "Look, I don't belong in Heaven, see? I want to go to 'The Other Place'!"
      "HEAVEN? Whatever gave you the idea you were in 'Heaven', Mr. Valentine? THIS *IS* 'THE OTHER PLACE'!!!!!!!!!!"

  • @stingginner1012
    @stingginner1012 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    My father was a member of the 221 Airborne Medical Company in the 11th Airborne Division. He knew Rod personally during the war. So, when the beginning of any Twilight Zone episode started it was dead silence in the room so dad could hear what Rod had to say. Like Rod my dad had a cigarette in his hand constantly and died in his 50s of a different form of cancer then lung cancer. Many of the 11th Airborne Division were declared Nuclear Vets due to their occupation of Japan after the war and going to Hiroshima.

    • @ultimateactivitiesdude2685
      @ultimateactivitiesdude2685 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      That’s awesome. Thank you for your dad for serving

    • @user-zk2mk1np2rzlambchopu
      @user-zk2mk1np2rzlambchopu ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Horrible 😢hey I have a girljapanoccupied it says on the bottom of it was my nana's now I know what that means 😮😮Thank you sir for your service

    • @richardedwards6777
      @richardedwards6777 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My father loaded ordinance for circle R on Tinanin,Ennola Gay !!!

    • @charlesmeaux3954
      @charlesmeaux3954 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ultimateactivitiesdude2685 Do you actually hear yourself. You are thanking him for his dad in the military before he was born. You morons do not realize you say thank you to us Vets but its really a fuck you. It is quite insulting.

    • @mr.blackhawk142
      @mr.blackhawk142 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Military men are DUMB, STUPID animals to be USED in foreign policy". Henry Kissinger.

  • @Dodgerzden
    @Dodgerzden ปีที่แล้ว +410

    The one episode that immediately sticks out in my mind, and not necessarily the scariest, but was a combination of scary, humorous, and clever, is the one where the aliens were recruiting Earth people to go back home with them. After a book they provided to the humans was decoded or translated as, "To Serve Man". As the humans were boarding the spaceship, someone came out and said, "Wait, it's a cookbook!"

    • @rodprops
      @rodprops ปีที่แล้ว +29

      To Serve Man.....is the title of that episode.

    • @coolhand1964
      @coolhand1964 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      This was the most memorable episode for me as well. The way it started with the scientist in a room on the spaceship, trying to imagine what awaits him when the ship arrives at who knows where and being the only person to know that he is actually on the menu. I saw it in my teens on a late night re-run. It's hard for me to imagine that I am now 8 years older than Rod Serling was when he died, I tell myself to be happy that I am getting old, when so many other people are gone before they can be old.

    • @shepardsmith3235
      @shepardsmith3235 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It was completely ridiculous. They would come all the way to earth to eat us. Really

    • @rodprops
      @rodprops ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@shepardsmith3235 you acting like this was real! 🤣🤣

    • @shepardsmith3235
      @shepardsmith3235 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rodprops If I thought that way I would have gone into how we taste. etc. LOL

  • @kolohe5762
    @kolohe5762 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    "Time Enough At Last" with Burgess Meredith is just so heartbreaking to watch. "It's not fair!" is a fitting quote from it.

    • @UpRoaryus
      @UpRoaryus ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That one was the most emotionally traumatizing to me. I tear up just thinking about it, it made me so sad for him! Even as a kid, I felt the weight of that cruel irony, and the tragedy of his fate. Heart wrenching, indeed...
      Although the one with the kid making someone's mouth disappear was kind of horrific, as an image, none of the others affected me as deeply as that one did, maybe because I was an only child who could not get enough of books! It was a pain I could relate to, both in the solitary existence and his dismay at not being able to read after so briefly feeling the joy of having so many just waiting for him alone to enjoy at last! Yes, that one might have hinted at the idea that God, if real, might just be a huge asshole...

    • @amain325
      @amain325 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@UpRoaryus I always thought, he could just search through the rubble of countless drug stores until he found a pair of reading glasses

    • @UpRoaryus
      @UpRoaryus ปีที่แล้ว

      @@amain325 Oooh, if I had thought of that, it might have minimized the legitimate trauma that ep put me through. My heart hurt for him -,such a cruel misfortune!

    • @cindirose3390
      @cindirose3390 ปีที่แล้ว

      My favorite episode!🎉

    • @chocsise
      @chocsise ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Burgess Meredith said he received more fan mail over that one episode than any other performance. Perhaps his character could have eventually found another pair of glasses, but the point is inescapable: in all-out nuclear war, there are no winners.

  • @pa2jonah
    @pa2jonah 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +131

    “Living Doll” with Telly Savalas gave me the creeps for decades!! 😂

    • @KreemieNewgatt
      @KreemieNewgatt 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Both "Talky Tina" and Mattel's "Chatty Cathy" doll on which the episode was based, were voiced by the incomparable June Foray ❤

    • @cjasse
      @cjasse 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm talking Tina and I hate you! To Telly Savalas 😅

    • @creepjoeshorrorpeepshow4231
      @creepjoeshorrorpeepshow4231 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      She was the original creepy doll and still scary. Chucky and Annabelle don’t have anything on Talky Tina

    • @alkohallick2901
      @alkohallick2901 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Did it?

    • @Laura-jc3hm
      @Laura-jc3hm 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Me Too I still can't 👀@Night🤨👀

  • @charliechristie2949
    @charliechristie2949 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    I forgot to add.....The thing that made Twilight Zone so creepy was every episode was a assault on your mind. Almost no monsters. Mr. Serling got our attention and just as he has us watching a plot line, he reverses everything at the end to make you think.........."WOW"!!

    • @5610winston
      @5610winston ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "WOW!" or "WHOA!"?

    • @deborahfreedman333
      @deborahfreedman333 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There were plenty of monsters, but human ones, not BEMs.

    • @charliechristie2949
      @charliechristie2949 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@deborahfreedman333 You are right, Deborah. I stand corrected- human monsters it is !

    • @DMSProduktions
      @DMSProduktions ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deborahfreedman333 Oh, there WERE BEMS, don't you worry!

    • @elainewaller-rose9707
      @elainewaller-rose9707 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Agreed. Another thing that made the Twilight Zone so creepy was US. Those shows had the ability to shine a light on us humans at our most violent, bigoted, greedy, petty, egomaniacal, illogical, on and on. A story with those kinds of creatures will always be scarier than any made-up monster will ever be.

  • @annmarieknapp2480
    @annmarieknapp2480 ปีที่แล้ว +414

    So sad we lost Rod fairly early. He was such a creative genuis!!!!

    • @paulefstathiou1819
      @paulefstathiou1819 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Smoked himself to death !

    • @anthonymanson1487
      @anthonymanson1487 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The dude smoked on every episode

    • @elertfunk1
      @elertfunk1 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      My exact thoughts of him as well.

    • @gljm
      @gljm ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@anthonymanson1487 If you get the Blu-rays you'll see he does a cigarette commercial after almost every episode.

    • @Redmenace96
      @Redmenace96 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I'm in the camp of burned-bright. Nobody lives forever, and I think Rod Serling made his own choices.
      The dude did more great writing than 10 of his peers combined.

  • @ArianaLady
    @ArianaLady ปีที่แล้ว +328

    I loved the episode with Agnes Moorehead... a woman terrorized by small invaders who were actually our astronauts. She never spoke a word... pure acting.
    I also loved the episode where astronauts landed on a planet and there were tiny people on there. Then giants at the end.

    • @keithoneil9274
      @keithoneil9274 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      One of my favorites.

    • @elizabethblackwell6242
      @elizabethblackwell6242 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The best episode they made. It was supposed to be about Russian cold war hysteria.

    • @BaritoneUkeBeast4Life
      @BaritoneUkeBeast4Life ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That's really wild that you mentioned those episodes together because, "The Invaders" starring Agnes Moorehead was the very first episode of the Twilight Zone I ever saw, when I was a kid, and my second episode was the other one you mentioned titled "The Little People" that starred Claude Atkins and Joe Maross.

    • @guypehaim1080
      @guypehaim1080 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, that WAS a good one! I like the twist at the end.

    • @freeguy77
      @freeguy77 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elizabethblackwell6242 They could make that same hysteria about Russia today! Russia is NOT our worst enemy! Neither is China! The worst enemy of the people (wherever they live), is their own, lying government! None more so than the scheming, power-mad, money-hungry U. S. government! Liberal historian Howard Zinn, correctly noted and is quoted on YT saying, "governments lie, or they wouldn't last as a government for very long!

  • @PeteVanDemark
    @PeteVanDemark 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    The Howling Man scared the heck out of me. The Lonely and The Rip VanWinkle Caper have to be my runner-up favorites. Time Enough at Last is my all-time favorite.

    • @sassymess7111
      @sassymess7111 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Howling Man scare me too!

  • @maudiemoonbeam8946
    @maudiemoonbeam8946 ปีที่แล้ว +310

    The scariest episode I remember was Little Girl Lost. The girl disappeared into another dimension. Although she was eerily crying throughout the house, her parents couldn't figure out where she was. They finally figured out how to enter this other dimension to rescue her, and they drew a door in chalk on her bedroom wall. It was frightening for me, thinking that such a portal existed - and in a bedroom! I was so afraid that I would disappear like she did!

    • @AlanSenzaki
      @AlanSenzaki ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I remember this episode like it was yesterday!

    • @ppierquet1
      @ppierquet1 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yes, VERY scary and creepy!

    • @bernardkung7306
      @bernardkung7306 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I haven't seen that episode, but I have read the short story it was based on.
      Several Twilight Zone episodes were based on previously published, print stories, by some of the better writers out there at the time.

    • @cynthiabarrow1867
      @cynthiabarrow1867 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Do you think that was the protagonist for the movie, Poltergeist? I do. I think a lot of movies were inspired by a Twilight Zone episode.

    • @maudiemoonbeam8946
      @maudiemoonbeam8946 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@cynthiabarrow1867 Yes, most likely. (Poltergeist was frightening!)

  • @mdhbh
    @mdhbh ปีที่แล้ว +83

    I can't see my life without this show. It's an iconic part of American history.

    • @EleneDOM
      @EleneDOM ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You can just hum "doo doo DOO doo, doo doo DOO doo" and everyone knows what you mean.

    • @Cantthinkofahandle117
      @Cantthinkofahandle117 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You can't see life without a TV show? Oh boy...

    • @mdhbh
      @mdhbh 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Cantthinkofahandle117
      yup

  • @robertmontague5650
    @robertmontague5650 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    The episode "Litle Girl Lost" in Season 3 scared me for years as a kid. A time warp or portal had opened up on the wall of a little girl's bedroom. Her parents hear her cries "mommy where are you?" but they can't see her. Eventually they get her back in the bedroom before the time warp slams shut forever. I could not sleep next to my bedroom wall for years after that show.

    • @vessaj4482
      @vessaj4482 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Haha! Me too!

    • @blisterbrain
      @blisterbrain 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      That's probably where Spielberg got the idea for "Poltergeist"

    • @kelf114
      @kelf114 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@blisterbrainThat's exactly where he got the idea.

    • @dianemcgowan527
      @dianemcgowan527 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      yep me too, moved my bed

    • @frederickcooper8811
      @frederickcooper8811 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      when I was a young boy after seeing that episode I told my father we better check the walls this was one of the greats

  • @NanaBren
    @NanaBren 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    Twilight Zone, Night Gallery and Outer Limits have all been on the cutting edge of thrilling storytelling. As a kid, I loved to be terrified by Twilight Zone! My older brother and I were enthralled! Each episode was unique. Characters were believable and the story stretched your mind into unlikely places. The people who acted in the stories went on to become stars. It’s fun to see the younger version of these well known personalities. I remember the stories, but I can’t recall the names of the episodes. I think Rod Serling was a terrific writer and it was a sad day indeed when these awesome shows were cancelled. There has never been another series of short stories that could equal these gems. Thank you for sharing this glimpse into the past. I loved it! ❤

    • @daleberman516
      @daleberman516 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Amen to that accolade.

    • @carld3218
      @carld3218 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The was also One Step Beyond.

    • @toddq6443
      @toddq6443 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      100% Ditto my friend.
      All 3 that you listed were and still are some of the best, most creative short story platforms ever brought to television. Wonderful in my youth and still a treasure today.

    • @mr.blackhawk142
      @mr.blackhawk142 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "One Step Beyond" is the poor man's version of the Twilight Zone.

  • @DannyJane.
    @DannyJane. ปีที่แล้ว +94

    I loved every single episode that Burgess Meredith was in.
    1. The Obsolete Man; where he's a prisoner who's crime is reading books.
    2. Time Enough at Last, again the bookworm only this time he's a meek little guy whose love of books gets him abused by family and job until a nuclear war wipes them all out.
    3. Printer's Devil, where he literally plays Satan and was really scary. These were all fabulous performances.
    4. Twilight Zone: The Movie, where he was just the narrator.
    MY personal favorite, however, is the hilarious Mister Dingle, the Strong. A walk in the park for an actor of Meredith's skill, but so funny as the mild mannered, not-too-very-bright protagonist who becomes the center of a series of Alien experiments.

    • @vogelstev
      @vogelstev ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That was the genius of Rod Serling. You felt deep pity for a man because he broke his glasses. I really miss this kind of intelligent entertainment.

    • @ForAFreshStart
      @ForAFreshStart ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@vogelstevAbsolutely the best episode of the entire series, by far. It’s Greek tragedy. I first saw the episode when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. It haunted me so for many, many years. Even when I could only remember vague aspects of it, it disturbed me, even in my dreams. To this day I rewatch it whenever I can during the TZ marathons on Sci Fi network. Also, strangely, I have always had a somewhat compulsive need to handle my eyeglasses very gently and protect them at all costs… my wife says I’m maniacal about it. I always blame it on this episode, and she eases up on me. 🤓

    • @hiturbine
      @hiturbine ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ForAFreshStart You made me laugh - since I've manged to break THREE pair of eyeglasses in the past TWO months.

    • @wadeoden8464
      @wadeoden8464 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed, the Burgess Meredith episodes are my favorites too.

    • @v8281
      @v8281 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Time enough ar last was my favorite with the one with the kid Anthony a close second.

  • @misterd7843
    @misterd7843 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    An episode that made an impression on me as a kid was the one where this traveler stumbles on some monks who claim to have captured the devil and have him imprisoned. Of course, the guy doesn't believe them and lets him out. There's a memorable scene in which the prisoner transforms from an ordinary looking man into the devil in stages, as he walks past some pillars in the monastery after being released.

    • @marcsanders4776
      @marcsanders4776 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That episode was truly frightening!

    • @debracoronado3331
      @debracoronado3331 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That's the scariest one for me

    • @samsingh3753
      @samsingh3753 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Which episode was that ,,

    • @misterd7843
      @misterd7843 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@samsingh3753 It's called "The Howling Man," from Season 2

    • @grantyentis5507
      @grantyentis5507 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Serious life lesson about the consequences of trust. I have referenced this episode throughout my life.

  • @indridcold8433
    @indridcold8433 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    Death's Head Revisited was pure horror genius. The acting was incredible. The subject matter was horrific. Joseph Schildkraut rarely blinked in the episode. As Alfred Becker, the ghost of a concentration camp inmate, he acted extremely ghostly. It was pure genius.

    • @TeePole59
      @TeePole59 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The ep is one of my faves too. Oscar Beregi as the evil and unrepentant Capt. Lutze was also brilliant casting.

    • @rccomics
      @rccomics ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Schildkraut did actually survive the concentration camps.

    • @TheBuck1283
      @TheBuck1283 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I visited Dachau just a couple years after this was filmed. It is definitely a creepy place, but not much like the appearance in this episode.

    • @rccomics
      @rccomics ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@TheBuck1283 They used an old western set outside of Hollywood for the episode.

    • @indridcold8433
      @indridcold8433 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@TheBuck1283 The set where Deathshead Revisited was filmed was a set constructed for a western movie that was never finished. The set fell into disrepair and became weathered. It was perfect to shoot his episode because it was supposed to be abandoned since the end of World War II.

  • @the_bottle_imp
    @the_bottle_imp 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    The Grave - The acting talent in this episode is incredible; the cast includes Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Lee Van Cleef, and James Best.

    • @deep153
      @deep153 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Wow good information
      I remember the ACCIDENT VicMorrow was my crush

    • @deep153
      @deep153 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Now we've awakened in THE MATRIX knowing we are
      SIMULATIONS 😮

    • @why67152
      @why67152 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep!

    • @borgia1507
      @borgia1507 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes, that one gave me chills!

    • @DrDoom-uu3cj
      @DrDoom-uu3cj 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah, the wind wasn't blowing in that direction
      Creepy

  • @thomaswuliger
    @thomaswuliger ปีที่แล้ว +139

    There was an episode where a man and his dog go to the afterlife. He comes to a gate where the man in front describes a great existence. The dead man seems like he will go in, but then he is told no dogs allowed. He decides to go on. At the next entrance he asks the man guarding the entrance if he can bring his dog. The guardian says yes. The dead man says, "I couldn't bring him in at the other place." The guardian replies, "That was the 'Other Place'."

    • @paulleckner8235
      @paulleckner8235 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The devil will trick you any which way he can. Could not fool a hunting dog. Rachel will be along soon.

    • @xxvvkx9312
      @xxvvkx9312 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Oh yeah! I forgot about that one!
      An Excellent example of Deception

    • @paulleckner8235
      @paulleckner8235 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amen. The devil deceives, distracts, and discourages us from getting God's blessings. @@xxvvkx9312

    • @machwal4464
      @machwal4464 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I knew I would find someone else who loved this episode in the comments. I Really enjoyed this episode. 👍🏼

    • @paulleckner8235
      @paulleckner8235 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When we get to Heaven or the other place it will be the place best suited for us..@@machwal4464 Spending eternity in the Ozarks was his Heaven.

  • @nancyholcombe8030
    @nancyholcombe8030 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    They were all scary when I was a kid! As an adult, I was unsettled by the episode that starred Billy Mumy as a child who could 'do' things. Including get away with murder and worse! It did prove that he was an incredible child actor though!

    • @richardwilliams473
      @richardwilliams473 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Yes. I agree. Especially when Billy Mumy turned that guy into a Jack n The Box

    • @Mark-td5ux
      @Mark-td5ux ปีที่แล้ว +11

      In Lost in Space he was described as " Beyond Excellence".

    • @don_cc123
      @don_cc123 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Absolutely one of my all time favorite child actors. He was/still is incredible.

    • @judynichols2904
      @judynichols2904 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That was my favorite and it was chilling .

    • @scottstrain8388
      @scottstrain8388 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah, "It's A Good Day" is/was another of my favorites!

  • @rittherugger160
    @rittherugger160 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    I do not remember the title but I can quickly describe the episode that I remember the most.
    It takes place in a cabin/lake house. All shots are from within the home.
    An old woman (70s?) is home alone at night, the lighting in the home is pre-electric.
    Anyway, she is being attacked by 4" tall space-suited creatures and is in the fight of her life. You, the viewer are with her. Cheering her on.
    When she finally kills the last creacher you are rewarded with your first look through the window.
    On the ground is a 'flying saucer' with "USA" inscribed on it's side.

    • @s1234pro
      @s1234pro ปีที่แล้ว +48

      The woman never speaks, but she is terrorized by the small space ship. The woman was played by Agnes Moorehead and it was called "The Invaders".

    • @ellenflanery3363
      @ellenflanery3363 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My favorite, too. Scared the cp@p outta me.

    • @kellysouter4381
      @kellysouter4381 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Agnes Moorhead went on to play Endora the awful mother in law in Bewitched

    • @jacklow9611
      @jacklow9611 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I'm sorry, but there were a few shots where she was on the roof, trying to fight off/scare away the invaders. It starred the great Agnes Moorhead in her pre_Endora/Bewitched days. She also never had a single line of dialog except for a few grunts, groans and screams.

    • @habichiblah7534
      @habichiblah7534 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That sounds cool. I'm gonna binge old TZ today I think. I'm off because of the Coronation.🖖👌👍

  • @robedmund9948
    @robedmund9948 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Love the New Year's Eve Twilight Zone Marathon! Great way to ring in the New Year!!

  • @heruammen8522
    @heruammen8522 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    The one with Billy Mumy in it was classic. I was about 5 or 6 when that came out and Billy was my hero. Especially when he turned one of his antagonist into a jack in the box. The fear in the adults that had to deal with him was palpable.

    • @gilbertroland1953
      @gilbertroland1953 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The name of this episode is "It's a Good Life" and is IMO the most frightening, unsettling and hardest to watch TZ episode of all because of the utterly omnipotent power it ascribed to the selfish, unthinking, uncaring and completely capricious whims of a 6 year old! While many TZ episodes had an ending that left the characters & the viewers with some degree of hope for the future/survival if the story were true, this episode left both with no hope at all!

    • @nuqwestr
      @nuqwestr ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Don Keefer was the man turned into the Jack-In-The-Box, my boyhood best friend was his son, John.

    • @rodrudinger9902
      @rodrudinger9902 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Billy was not doing it in a good way, either; He was drunk with power, and the entire town feared, and hated him. In the opening scene, He makes a playmate disappear.
      It was interesting that this episode, and many others, were set in Ohio; Ohio at that time, was considered as American Middle Class, as you can get. Serling also attended Kenyon College, in Gambier; about 50 miles northeast of Columbus, and about 30 miles, north of Newark.
      The Movie, "Children of the Corn", was filmed in New England-influenced Northeastern Ohio, east of Cleveland and Akron; and some scenes from "Brubaker" were filmed at the now-closed Junction City State Prison, east of Lancaster, and south of Newark.
      Incidentally, Billy Mumy reprised his Role, as a grown man, who had a daughter, with his "power" on one of the newer "Twilight Zones". As I remember it, They ended up destroying the town, and its residents, and Billy tells his daughter, somewhat ominously; "Let's go, to the City" (Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati? Maybe a city, in a nearby State, or in Canada?).

    • @d.r.robinson9599
      @d.r.robinson9599 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yes... i just mentioned that one...

    • @sandraleigh4023
      @sandraleigh4023 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That was really was terrifying!!

  • @lusciousmayweather8385
    @lusciousmayweather8385 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    Rod Sterling was Way ahead of his Time With the Subject matters on Twilight zone.

    • @tobezone
      @tobezone ปีที่แล้ว +4

      True but the t.z. was a product of the the show one step beyond which was years before.

    • @matthewschwartz6607
      @matthewschwartz6607 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How was his other show, Night Call?

    • @tobezone
      @tobezone ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@matthewschwartz6607 Night Gallery.

    • @matthewschwartz6607
      @matthewschwartz6607 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tobezone - Yes, that was what I meant. Call was the episode of the Twillght Zone .

    • @lsingstock1646
      @lsingstock1646 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes all sci Fi writers are.

  • @mamab4720
    @mamab4720 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    My favorite episodes are "A Stop at Willoughby" which was truly horrifying. "Walking Distance" (another favorite) was so profound and I literally bawled the first time I saw it. The speech Gig Young gave at the ferris wheel was tragic. That show was way ahead of it's time and I adore it. I have seen every episode. The scariest for me would have to be "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "The Hitchhiker" is the most haunting. How horrifying would it be to be dead and on a loop. Night Gallery was brilliant as well.

    • @Thadmotor1044
      @Thadmotor1044 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A stop at Willoughby is great . Gig Young ?

    • @usafjoch
      @usafjoch ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Interesting that you found "A Stop at Willoughby" to be horrifying. It was one of my favorite episodes and hardly horrifying to me at all. To me, it was so gratifying to see an unhappy, miserable man, running the rat race of commuting from the suburbs to the city and back again, find happiness in the bucolic little village of Willoughby. Of course he had to die to get there permanently, but, having found the love and happiness he so desperately wanted, I like to think he would have made the same choice again. As a 13 to 15 year old unhappy child at the time, perhaps I saw the episode quite differently than some may have.

    • @musicluver1958
      @musicluver1958 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      A Stop At Willoughby. This is the episode that stuck in my mind from childhood.

    • @wangson
      @wangson ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I too suggested, "Walking Distance" - it's such a beautiful, nostalgia-inspiring episode.

    • @DaryMatera
      @DaryMatera ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@usafjoch Agree that it was more heartwarming than horrifying.

  • @Corporations8MyBaby
    @Corporations8MyBaby 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    It's really tough to pick a favorite. The ones I talked about as a kid were the one with the beauty standards and ugly doctors, the one with Burgess Merideth and the books. and of course we all talked about "To Serve Man" regularly. My school had us read "Monsters on Maple St." aloud and do a report on it. Classic. But it was my dad, who was on set for a Twilight Zone episode but they didn't use him at the last minute... who made me think about the show and talked about his favorites, one being "The Invaders" (season 2, episode 15) --the one with Agnes Moorhead as a wordless victim of tiny robots or something but the twist ending was perfect. We loved that one. Dad also loved "Shadow Play" where the trial kept resetting. And the 5 characters trying to get out of the trap... he wanted me to watch that one when I was pretty little. -- I realized as I grew to adulthood that the ones that got me the most were the misdirection ones like where things get reversed at the end like "The Invaders" but more than that I loved the Time Travel ones. The WW1 Pilot showing up in 1959 and having to get back to his time... gives me goose bumps... the one where the 1861 guy heads over the ridge for medicine and arrives in 1961 - But I think my favorite one for time travel was "Walking Distance" from season 1... the one with Gig Young arriving in his childhood town and seeing himself at 10 years old.. and remembering things long buried. Fascinating. I also still love "the Lonely" Jack Warden stranded on a planet for being a nuisance back on earth... and getting a companion. That kills me.

  • @zsigzsag
    @zsigzsag ปีที่แล้ว +156

    "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", shows how quickly "mob mentality" can quickly overcome once friendly people. I loved "Nightmare at 20,000 ft", the original and the remake with, John Lithgow. Both were well done. Richard Matheson, my all time favorite scifi screen writer co-wrote it with Serling both (RIP).

    • @aarondigby5054
      @aarondigby5054 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I like how you get to see actors in their early years making guest appearances: Burgess Meredith, John Lithgow, Edgar Buckhannan etc,...

    • @peteshallcross787
      @peteshallcross787 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I always seem to bring that up when we fly... and I always get the window seat! 😄

    • @medexamtoolscom
      @medexamtoolscom ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Did you see the 3rd rock from the sun episode where Shatner played "The Big Giant Head", an alien overlord, and he rode on an airplane and apparently made a fuss because "there was something on the wing of the plane!", to which Lithgow's character proclaimed "The same thing happened to me!"

    • @jimmyb.5356
      @jimmyb.5356 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The remake with John Lithgow scared the living crap out of me! The special effects on the "gargoyle" was just magnificent! Really made me scared shitless of flying.

    • @grantyentis5507
      @grantyentis5507 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@jimmyb.5356Lithgow played the part brilliantly and that made the gremlin even more terrifying!

  • @cberry6751
    @cberry6751 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    The episode with the department store manikins coming to life after closing…as a kid, that was terrifying to me & I’ve often thought of it.

    • @jackd.ripper3139
      @jackd.ripper3139 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Indeed‼️I was never the same after watching that episode😳🤨

    • @ShaneHill-mu4yi
      @ShaneHill-mu4yi ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That was one of the most haunting.

    • @Rotary-Motion
      @Rotary-Motion ปีที่แล้ว +6

      marsha marsha marsha come back marsha :)

    • @helenemaurer8623
      @helenemaurer8623 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now you are giving me the Creeps .Who was the actress ? She played in many TV shows.

    • @xxvvkx9312
      @xxvvkx9312 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Oh, come off it Marsha"

  • @ForAFreshStart
    @ForAFreshStart ปีที่แล้ว +91

    “Time Enough at Last” - absolutely the best episode of the entire series, by far. I’m heartened to learn that it was Rod Serling’s favorite as well. It’s pure Greek tragedy. I first saw the episode when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. It haunted me so for many, many years. Even when I could only remember vague aspects of it, it disturbed me, even in my dreams. To this day I rewatch it whenever I can during the TZ marathons on Sci Fi network. Also, strangely, I have always had a somewhat compulsive need to handle my eyeglasses very gently and protect them at all costs… my wife says I’m maniacal about it. I always blame it on this episode, and she eases up on me. 🤓

    • @amain325
      @amain325 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I always thought, he could just search through the rubble of countless drug stores until he found a pair of reading glasses

    • @patmelton43
      @patmelton43 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This episode was my favorite since I loved to read and got into so much trouble for reading. Such a strange life I had.

    • @frankwaugh1894
      @frankwaugh1894 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Time enough at last was to me a very wise cautionary tale that you can't take for granted that you will have all the time in the world to achieve all your bucket list items. You need to do some of those now while you can because you may not be able to in the future...even if you finally have all the time in the world...time at last ;)

    • @rattlecat5968
      @rattlecat5968 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That episode is one of my favorites, too. It's a testimony to Murphy's Law! Finally, having all the free time to indulge and losing the opportunity in a split second due to a careless mistake. 🤦

    • @2046mikey
      @2046mikey ปีที่แล้ว

      As a goggle-glassed bookworm I identified so closely with Burgess Meredith. I cried when I saw the original episode. Even now, as I write this, tears come to my eyes.

  • @doctorstrange2549
    @doctorstrange2549 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Pure genius, never will there be another, so many incredible memories, a classic until the end of time. Eternal thanks, Mr. Serling ❤

  • @sarahkeller-vp6hq
    @sarahkeller-vp6hq ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Time Enough at Last is, for a reader like me, absolutely the most terrifying episode of The Twilight Zone. To have all the undisturbed time in the world, and all the books at your finger, and not be able to read?
    It gives me the shivers.
    (But I'll read the ingredients list on the cereal box if there's nothing else. I will NEVER understand the people who say they haven't read even one book in the last year as if it's something to be proud of. I can tear through two a WEEK, depending on difficulty level.)

    • @jmgreenshields
      @jmgreenshields ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I always thought of this episode’s ending as rather mean-spirited. In many Zone episodes, people get what’s coming to them. This guy hadn’t hurt anybody, done anyone wrong as far as we can tell, and yet he gets screwed in the end. What was that all about?

  • @rgnyc
    @rgnyc ปีที่แล้ว +62

    They showed "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" in my school, and it made a deep impression on me. Years later, I learned that it was based on a terrific Ambrose Bierce story. Both the original story and the short film are incredible.

    • @MrArtVendelay
      @MrArtVendelay ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I too saw Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge. I too was in the NYC school system. I think I saw it in 9th grade, decades ago.

    • @Paine-yr9wd
      @Paine-yr9wd ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I saw the original airing and the story stuck with me all these years later!

    • @davidflitcroft7101
      @davidflitcroft7101 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This one was impressive! It moved me more than most any other episode. I'd say it is in the top five. There was one with a giant inflatable alien, the "real" aliens being tiny compared to us. Was that "The Invaders"? Another good one. . .

    • @lincbond442
      @lincbond442 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A livin man, a livin man, I want to be, a livin man.

    • @stevesalyards6228
      @stevesalyards6228 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I saw this in school as well in central Illinois (nice to see they showed this in schools across the country) and it definitely struck something in me so that I’d remember it all these years later, every detail. It’s like I was that guy in the film and could think and feel everything he was.

  • @renso522
    @renso522 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I can’t believe that this show wasn’t as popular when it first started. I remembered falling in love the first time I came across this show during NYE re-runs.

  • @alfredkowsky7374
    @alfredkowsky7374 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Fantastic presentation 😂! Being a Rochester native I was surprised to learn of Rod Serling's death here 😮. Rod Serling was a creative genius & national treasure 🤩.

  • @phoenixfunnels
    @phoenixfunnels ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Scariest episode had to be the one where people had gathered for the reading of a will but they all had to wear hideous masks. At the end when they took off the masks they had taken on the appearance of the mask they were wearing.

    • @garyclarke9685
      @garyclarke9685 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Loved this episode. What an ending. Has to make the top ten for that ending. Gave me chills seeing the 4 of them

    • @darlenegriffith6186
      @darlenegriffith6186 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, this was indeed a frightening episode of Twilight Zone. It was episode 145 titled The Masks.

    • @helenemaurer8623
      @helenemaurer8623 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What a good story that was.

    • @xxvvkx9312
      @xxvvkx9312 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes! That's the only one that freaked me out, l was just out of high school first time l saw it.

  • @MarcelaR-dh1ok
    @MarcelaR-dh1ok ปีที่แล้ว +71

    The most frightening for me was the one where the characters were lost by falling into the wall. Remember going to bed that night and scared as hell of the nearby wall.

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It was called "Little Girl Lost".

    • @ppierquet1
      @ppierquet1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep, I remember that....VERY scary....

    • @SafetySpooon
      @SafetySpooon ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, THAT was the scariest for me as well. One of the saddest is the mannequin one....

    • @BruceAlarie
      @BruceAlarie ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@SafetySpooon the creepiest was the mannequin one

    • @wintersskyer9249
      @wintersskyer9249 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Terrified me as a child, and at times still does.

  • @deborahlangnese7645
    @deborahlangnese7645 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Twilight zone was so great. People just don’t know that they canceled a wonderful show

  • @craigbrown7707
    @craigbrown7707 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    I liked the episode with Art Carney picking up trash and becoming Santa Claus

    • @janbentzen6814
      @janbentzen6814 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My favorite too

    • @BaptistJoshua
      @BaptistJoshua 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Every heard his song, Song Of The Sewer? It is rap before rap.

    • @stewartrind2275
      @stewartrind2275 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I didn't.

    • @Sinistralx
      @Sinistralx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      At the conclusion of the opening scene in that one, I believe Rod stands taller than he does in any other ep with his comments and that coat in the falling snow. I think a church bell even rings. The concluding sentiments of that particular ep will always bring a smile to my face.

    • @Svince54
      @Svince54 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "The Night of the Meek". I have loved this episode since I first saw it. Art Carney was superb. John Fiedler was the perfect antagonist, redeemed by the miracle. See the rest of the cast on Wikipedia or IMDB, see who else you remember.

  • @gordonshaffer5560
    @gordonshaffer5560 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    The Night of the Meek, starring Art Carney, 1960 is one of those 6 episodes originally recorded in videotape and then transferred to 16mm. Not a scary episode, unless perhaps you might see a bit of yourself in the main character, but definitely my very favorite episode and one that showcased Art's talent as a serious actor. "And a Merry Christmas, to each and all" - Rod Serling (1924-1975).

  • @marthajohnson2775
    @marthajohnson2775 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    On Thursday We Leave For Home was horrifying in that it portrayed a man (James Whitmore as William Benteen) so stubborn that he couldn't let go of his power and authority. He chose to stay behind rather than be rescued from a desolate planet. When the rescue ship took off, and he realized he'd made a huge mistake, it took a long time for me to forget the image of him running after the ship, crying for it to come back, come back.

  • @bertanelson8062
    @bertanelson8062 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I watched Twighlight Zone regularly as a kid. The episode I remember best is when a young woman wants an operation due to being ugly in the culture she's in. "No change" from the operation as the doctors look at her in horror & reveal THEIR faces, truly horrific to us. BEAUTY IS IN EYE OF BEHOLDER. A great lesson for a 10-year-old.

    • @kennethstaszak9990
      @kennethstaszak9990 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Liked that one. A pre Beverly Hillbillies Donna Douglas.

    • @freeguy77
      @freeguy77 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "Eye of the Beholder" (aired on Nov. 11, 1960), with a gorgeous Donna Douglas, then 28, two years before her "Elly May" role on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-71).

  • @loucroft9415
    @loucroft9415 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    To Serve Man is one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes

    • @sherriemaines1683
      @sherriemaines1683 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@loucroft9415 That was creepy!!!

    • @justmeisthatok7990
      @justmeisthatok7990 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How to serve man? Wasn't that the title? Akitchen guide? Best ways to cook to serve us humans. But i dont rember seeing any actual recipes! Guess would depend on which culture as other countries have vastly different diets. Why usda allows so much unhealthy ingredients i can not guess,think a cash payout made all types of non sugarcane raw natural sweeteners too use items otherwise disposable ,but if they treat it well, now we can bottle and sell it to McDonald's for milkshakes as example. Greedy people. Until its their child in a bind,private jet to any other country privately of course..because heathcare is much cheaper along with same meds.but so very much less expensive. Yet we keep installing wealthy people or those with a long list of people who ready to help for a favor. Working class family that struggling to pay rent or mortgage working 2 parents 2jobs..lets give them 100k a year! Folks that help neighbors and dont tolerate b.s! Just a thought.

  • @lorensims4846
    @lorensims4846 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    My favorites include the first one I ever saw, "Kick the Can" where old folks discover they can become young again if they will only play Kick the Can. I was a little freaked out a few years later when we moved to a neighborhood where they actually played Kick the Can. We played as if our lives depended on it.
    Billy Mumy in "It's a GOOD Life." I first read this as a short story, maybe in a book of Twilight Zone stories, about a kid who just has way too much influence on the things and people in his town. You sure don't ever want to get this kid angry at you.
    There was the one about the old lady who lives alone in a small cabin way out in the wilderness who hears really strange noises outside. She's scared to death, especially when she hears more spooky sounds and some banging up on her roof. She takes an ax up into her attic and finds a smallish flying saucer on her roof and has at it with the ax. Then we see the American Air Force insignia on the broken saucer and hear frantic radio calls back to Earth about the terrible monsters they have encountered. That one gave me nightmares.
    Oh, but it was "The Green Hills of Earth" that really gave me nightmares.
    A small group of people are stranded on a barren planet, where a kid sits on a rock and asks the old guy to tell him what Earth was like. The old guy talks about crowds of people, pushing and shoving, fighting and hurting one another. Great machines belching smoke that darken the skies and make it hard to breathe. The kid says he would still like to see it if he ever got a chance. The old guy argues that they've made a pretty good place for themselves here, but some of the others argue that it still doesn't compare to Earth.
    Then a rescue ship arrives to take them all home to Earth. The old guy says he doesn't want to go because they've built too much here to just give up on it. They end up leaving him behind, but he goes over to the rock the kid used to sit on and talks about the green meadows, clear rushing streams, the bright blue skies with beautiful clouds, it's all just so wonderful! So he turns back to the swiftly receding spaceship and yells, "Wait! Come back! I want to go too! Please take me back!" But it's too late.
    That one haunted me for a LONG time.

    • @pipermccool
      @pipermccool ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The second one featured Agnes Moorhead; no dialogue.

  • @leoandolino4668
    @leoandolino4668 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Serling was a compelling storyteller. Don't think he did movies or at least did very few. Amazing talent and with a conscience. The cliché: "never will be another" is appropriate here. How we need him today.

    • @cb7324
      @cb7324 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Long before The Twilight Zone (1959), he was known for writing such high-quality scripts as "Patterns" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight," both later turned into films (Patterns (1956) and Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)). "Patterns", was broadcast live and it won Serling an Emmy Award. He won a second statuette the following year, 1957, for "Requiem for a Heavyweight", which starred Jack Palance as a washed-up prizefighter.

    • @jmgreenshields
      @jmgreenshields ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He co-wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes.

    • @DaleRibbons
      @DaleRibbons 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@jmgreenshields I've heard he was personally responsible for the film's iconic ending scene.

    • @JoseMorales-lw5nt
      @JoseMorales-lw5nt 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Serling was the sole screenwriter behind SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, a great political thriller.
      He also wrote THE MAN, a great foreshadowing of Obama's election. Yup, the film dared to ask.... COULD A BLACK MAN ACTUALLY BECOME PRESIDENT?! Being an early 70's film, this subject matter was still taboo.❤

    • @leoandolino4668
      @leoandolino4668 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@JoseMorales-lw5nt thank you. I'm going to look up those films.

  • @michaelsaunders1509
    @michaelsaunders1509 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    My favorite was the the one starring Burgess Meredith , when he survived an atomic bomb blast ,discovering a treasure trove of books at the library but accidentally crushed his glasses. I was 8 years old in 1959 watching the Twilight Zone BCTV . My second favorite episode was when the devil tricked a man into freeing him from his cage..

    • @dianedow5292
      @dianedow5292 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yes that is another one of my favorites

    • @Jeannek4493
      @Jeannek4493 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Omg I saw that episode as a kid and it haunted me for years. And that beautiful and tragic title for the episode “time enough at last”

    • @D7H777
      @D7H777 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That episode was Serling's favorite and it is mine too. Sad, ironic ending, but couldn't have had any other ending.

    • @CherylKasson
      @CherylKasson 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      After having cataract surgery and needing to wear reading glasses for any close viewing, that episode with Burgess Merideth became very personal for me.

  • @Blivot
    @Blivot ปีที่แล้ว +68

    I loved the one where the old hillbilly thought he was at Heaven's Gates & they told him he couldn't bring his dog.
    He told them, "If he couldn't keep his dog he would just keep on walking." Down the road he found the real Heavens Gate.
    He asked them, "Can I bring my dog?" Yes you can sir!

    • @mobystwin
      @mobystwin 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The hunt is also one of my top three favorites.

    • @mobystwin
      @mobystwin 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The hunt, about the hillbilly he doesn’t realize he’s dead traveling to heaven with his dog. The Obsolete man and his execution by a communist state. A pitch for the Angels, the second episode ever released and most beautiful but an old man must make a pitch to the devil to keep him from taking the girls soul. And a trip to Willoughby, about a businessman of the 20tht century wishing for a simpler life

    • @vickyostenson6361
      @vickyostenson6361 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I love this one too. I could watch it over and over.

    • @Blivot
      @Blivot 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@vickyostenson6361 Rod Serling had the Right Stuff huh! Woot! Funny part is I don't remember them banning it....I always wondered what had happened?

  • @valkyrie1066
    @valkyrie1066 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I sat on the couch in the living room wrapped in a quilt, peeking out through a slit. (that protected me from ghosts, aliens, and scary people and monsters.) I watched them all. Rod Serling's voice would make me shiver. I LOVED IT! Dear Gods, has it been FIFTY odd years? I'm only now seeing familiar tv/movie stars in them! I'm enjoying them all over again. Thank you!!!! The Encounter!!!! George Takai!!!! I saw that one before discovering star trek fan. I STILL read everything he posts! (yes, 05/06/2023.) I thought Vic Morrow was a very sexy man when I was a kid, couldn't believe he was doing a Twilight Zone episode! I couldn't WAIT to see it......Ugh. Oh. That sucked. The accident, not the film. I still watched it in his memory, to see what he wanted to create. Loved the night gallery but it was a little less...Rod. Loved all the monster movies. I have since learned from Scooby Doo. People are the real monsters. Throw me all the vampires, mummies, and werewolves, I can take it and scarf down popcorn at the same time. It's the news that scares the crap out of me.

    • @davet766
      @davet766 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Encounter. George at his absolute best.

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're one of THOSE MEDDLING KIDS!

  • @Mahlercougar
    @Mahlercougar ปีที่แล้ว +104

    I think my scariest TZ episode was none other than "Talkie Tina" the pre-Chucky scary doll. That gave me nightmares when I was a kid watching this at my grandmother's in the early 80s reruns. Rod Seeking was way ahead of his time.

    • @cowboy4299
      @cowboy4299 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It was the scariest by far
      Great episode

    • @thing12games44
      @thing12games44 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah, how can no one bring up Talky Tina when talking about scariest episodes?!
      That was terrifying.

    • @youvesaiditall2597
      @youvesaiditall2597 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@thing12games44 Telly Savalas played he dad in that episode

    • @grantyentis5507
      @grantyentis5507 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      My brother and I used to tie strings to a doll my mom had and made it move at midnight. This was inspired by talking Tina

    • @vincewhirlwind1778
      @vincewhirlwind1778 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. My sister had a Chatty Kathy doll. After that episode I stopped pulling on Chatty Kathy's string! 😅

  • @kevstwistedhumor9468
    @kevstwistedhumor9468 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thrillseeker!!!! You have more than one channel! Good stuff!

  • @fernandogarajalde4066
    @fernandogarajalde4066 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    “The Howling Man” (season 2, episode 5) stands out in my mind as the personification of the idea that the Devil’s greatest trick is his ability to appear and disappear at will. The transformation sequence (camera follows him walking past several pillars and slowly transforming into the classic devil) was an impressive use of special effects on a very low budget that produced the desired result.

    • @Frankie5Angels150
      @Frankie5Angels150 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      According to Baudelaire, “the greatest trick of the devil is convincing people that he doesn’t exist.”

    • @glendanielson9006
      @glendanielson9006 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You know, that was scary!!! That transformation!!!

    • @dpcon
      @dpcon ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Watching that great episode on cable it seems to me the transformation has been trimmed - edited shorter than it’s full length. I recall the different shots of the transition were each a little longer and therefore scarier. It would be interesting to find out.

    • @jodi10704
      @jodi10704 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dpcon One of my favorite episodes. The TZ marathons on cable frequently trim the episodes for time or to get more ads in.

    • @thinkingman2
      @thinkingman2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This one still gives me chills

  • @davefairburn3298
    @davefairburn3298 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Burgess Meredith was in four or five episodes, all which are memorable. One episode with Jack Warden, who played a prisoner on an asteroid was financed by Sterling himself after the original actor who was to play the prisoner died. Many actors who were not known at the time took parts, Robert Duval in 'Everything in Miniature,' Robert Redford, Cliff Robertson, Cloris Leachman, Jonthan Winters, Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Mumy, Donna Douglas & my favorite episode - A Kind of a Stopwatch with Richard Erdman who also was in Stalag 17 as the Allied POW commander.

    • @markjaycox8811
      @markjaycox8811 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Would you like to see time stand still? Then you must increase your present thought speed. Please describe your present thought speed. I'm all ears!

    • @qazwiz
      @qazwiz ปีที่แล้ว +2

      was "A Kind of a Stopwatch" one where watch broke with time frozen? yeah i liked it too

    • @lincbond442
      @lincbond442 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Time Enough at Last", "The Obsolete Man", "Mr. Dingle the Strong", and "Printer's Devil".

    • @glendanielson9006
      @glendanielson9006 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Burgess was a powerful actor!
      "The Obsolete Man" was really something I thought......Rod's commentary before and after was also extremely thought provoking.

    • @markjaycox8811
      @markjaycox8811 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@glendanielson9006 LMAO, you have never had thought one, and you don't even know it. You have yet to answer the most obvious question there is: "is the ground there?" If you had, then the Time: 4,600,000,000 years it has "recorded" as being there would be "now playing" in your conscious moment, only you have never had a conscious moment or a thought of your own. You sit at your dish of time 2023 put in front of your mind. Your dog sits at its dish too, except your dog knows there is bag ( 10,000,000,002,023) that fills its 2023 dish, and you don't. YOU DON"T! I just proved your dog is more conscious than you! nana nana. If you were more conscious than your dog, it would be picking up your poop.

  • @glennaembrett610
    @glennaembrett610 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    My all time favourite show… ever.
    Started watching about 14 or 15 years ago, when my son bought a Twilight Zone DVD boxed set.
    I have been a huge fan ever since.
    His genius, and originality and influence over future writers,
    and future tv shows, is and was endless.
    Rod Serling gave us an endless catalogue of original and great stories that have gone unmatched , to this day.
    Thank you Mr. Serling!!

    • @Robert.Martyr
      @Robert.Martyr ปีที่แล้ว

      *Even as a ChiLd, I Considered TwiLight too StuPud to Watch!!!*
      *& THAT was 64-years ago!!!!*

    • @gregsmith1342
      @gregsmith1342 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Robert.Martyr sometimes them bullfrogs be taking off, whenever I have time they shuck them up a bit, but consequently the hummingbird was the one the got away

    • @robdykejr
      @robdykejr ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Robert.Martyr : Get woke,go broke-back...🤔

  • @theophilos0910
    @theophilos0910 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My favourite episode is ‘A Good Life’ (1961, filmed at MGM Studios Culver City CA) starring a 6-year old Billy Mumy playing the little brat Anthony with such iconic lines as : ‘You’re a BAD MAN ! You’re a VERY BAD MAN !’ Cloris Leachman delivered a solid performance as always as well as John Larch & Don Keefer - all solid stage & screen actors that know their business very well … and this episode shews how the necessary tension can be held just long enough to be most effective …

  • @Bill-jc1fy
    @Bill-jc1fy ปีที่แล้ว +52

    To me the scariest episode featured Billy Mumy as the kid who wished his neighbors out to the cornfield because he randomly chose those he believed had failed to please him or somehow offended him.

    • @yoliev.217
      @yoliev.217 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That might have been "It's a Good Life" based on a book by Jerome Bixby.

    • @paulmianulli1044
      @paulmianulli1044 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That episode was chillingly ahead of its time.
      Fifty years later, there are things we cannot say, even though they may be true, or we will get "banished to the cornfield." And what's right and wrong changes and is decided capriciously.

    • @BruceAlarie
      @BruceAlarie ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@paulmianulli1044 amen,paul

    • @patmelton43
      @patmelton43 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, Billy Mumy became an evil dictator. Amazing skills for that time in my life.

    • @michaelanderson2881
      @michaelanderson2881 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you think that was scary, read the story on which that episode was based.

  • @maeylamoy8148
    @maeylamoy8148 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Twilight Zone is one of my top 5 favorites. The one with Agnes Moorehead scared the pants off me. The Time Enough episode hit me because I was a kid when it aired and I loved reading and was nearsighted and there was still the threat of Russia nuking us, so I identified with the main character. I started off enchanted by fairy tales and moved on to sci-fi. The old black and white sci-fi movies used to be on tv Fridays and Saturdays. The ones with the 50 foot tall woman, giant spiders, giant ants. The Japanese sci-fis. Wonderful stuff. Sci-fi addresses our fears. There’s so much change going on in the world. And some of those fears actually come true in real life. I saw a movie a few years ago about a society where just about everyone was connected through brain implants and libraries were a thing of the past but some people’s brains were incompatible with that so when the glitch occurred in the “net” the unconnected guy figured it out by consulting old library books and saved the day. So now we have people like Musk pushing something like implants and I’m laughing and thinking, Yeah what could POSSIBLY go wrong and it’ll be a cold day in hell before I go THAT far. So sentimentally. I’m putting twilight zone first.

  • @gottobecool4695
    @gottobecool4695 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    One that scared me when I was a kid was the one about Martha White shopping for a gold thimble for her aunt or grandmother. She had to go to the 13th floor in a department building which actually wasn't there. When she got there, these mannequins became alive and started swarming her...... scared the heck out of me, LOL

    • @jpsned
      @jpsned 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "The After-Hours." I love that episode, too. Very spooky but the end is very touching.

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was the "9th floor"- which the store didn't have. Actual buildings don't have "13th floors", because they're considered "unlucky". They skip between "12" and "14".

    • @jpsned
      @jpsned 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *Marcia 🙂

  • @homerj2757
    @homerj2757 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    So many great ones. One of my favorites of all time was when they had the devil locked up in a castle and a stranger doesn't listen to the brothers of the castle and release him. Scary and intriguing episode. Loved Twilight Zone and couldn't get enough of them even though they aired years before i was born.

  • @stephaniecowans3646
    @stephaniecowans3646 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    My favorite episode has always been "Time Enough At Last" with Burgess Meredith. I can relate because, I need glasses for reading/needlework/computer use (I can walk around seeing things just fine, just need glasses for close work) and to see blind as a bat, Meredith not able to see anything when his glasses fell off his face just broke my heart. There is a great episode highlighting mob mentality/hysteria: "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street". There is a cul-du-sac I drive past every day where the homes remind me of that episode and I can visualize the homeowners banding together to blame the weird goings on on someone on the street.

    • @JPSE57
      @JPSE57 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is the one I find scariest, especially in light of today's political climate!

    • @subanakatz4943
      @subanakatz4943 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Monsters are due on Maple Street is one of my favorites too! People can suspect people that they know intimately of doing something suspicious.

    • @johnsoos6907
      @johnsoos6907 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Henry Bemis was his name in the episode.

    • @lincbond442
      @lincbond442 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      His wife was evil in that episode. She hated him so much that she took the time to cross out every page in his book of poetry.

    • @richardbale3278
      @richardbale3278 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I''ve never thought that much of this episode. If the books have survived. Why wouldn't have other opticals and glasses. He's just the laziest of whiny bastards.

  • @DaryMatera
    @DaryMatera ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Read deep into the comments and I'm surprised nobody mentions the episode where the little girl in the apartment hallway kept talking and singing to the troubled young woman in the apartment. It turned out the little girl was her as a child, and had come to warn her that the man who killed her mother was coming to silence her before her memory block from the tragedy she witnesses finally faded and she remembered him as the killer. Chills!

    • @wendysw714
      @wendysw714 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I saw that one the other day. Isn't that right, Helen? 😬

    • @DaryMatera
      @DaryMatera 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@wendysw714 Chills.

  • @alfonsopellegrini2697
    @alfonsopellegrini2697 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    The episode was "The Fever". I was about 10 at the time. I will never forget the slot machine calling "Franklin" over and over again. I may be misremembering it all, but the word franklin still sends chills up my spine. Great writing, acting directing. Plus: Rod Serling.

    • @jameswalters9516
      @jameswalters9516 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/a_9IvaNgT7s/w-d-xo.html

    • @frankwaugh1894
      @frankwaugh1894 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now that you have summoned me I will be watching you...every breath you take...every move you make...I'll be watching you...

    • @ostlandr
      @ostlandr ปีที่แล้ว

      OMG YES! I had forgotten about that one. They way they blended the voice saying "Franklin" with the sound of pouring coins was brilliant.

  • @soma4u289
    @soma4u289 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great Actors of the time. Thanks Rod for all your work and Defence Service.

  • @Bippy55
    @Bippy55 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Rodman Edward Serling (December 25, 1924 - June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator/on-screen host. I think he was a genius. So it's hard for me to pick a fave episode. But "Little Girl Lost" would have all the ingredients of future episodes. Also, each show was well acted and filmed. Kudos to the whole creative team.

    • @jeffreybennett8893
      @jeffreybennett8893 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Born in Binghamton NY. Hometown indeed!

    • @lorraineakers8147
      @lorraineakers8147 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sterling had an amazing voice for narrating !

  • @jimglatthaar4053
    @jimglatthaar4053 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I loved that show. For my scariest, my choice is "Nightmare as a Child" where a woman is visited by a man who killed her mother years earlier. A young girl seems to know all about the murder and forces the woman to confront her suppressed memories. The woman narrowly escapes from being killed by the same man. Great example of horror without gore.

    • @paulleckner8235
      @paulleckner8235 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Twinkle twinkle little star.

    • @jimglatthaar4053
      @jimglatthaar4053 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@paulleckner8235 You're right.

    • @lp9194
      @lp9194 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@paulleckner8235Stop it or ima tell mom

  • @geminiecricket4798
    @geminiecricket4798 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Always had a moral to the story. I grew up with this and Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Alfred Hitchcock Hour, then Night Gallery.

  • @rogernevin7461
    @rogernevin7461 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Used to watch it every week with my late father in the early 60's. It was one of his favourite programmes. Nightmare at 20000ft scared the crap outta me as a 7year old,72 now and can still remember William Shatner being dragged off the Plane in a straight jacket and the cowelling of the engine being torn back.

  • @ariston5433
    @ariston5433 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    My favorite episode was is “ Walking Distance” with Gig Young. I am a native of Binghamton NY and grew up here and spent many days riding the Carousel at Recreation Park in Binghamton which is right near the old Serling Family Home. So it has a very special meaning for me. So when I moved back to Binghamton after being away many many years I went to Recreation Park to ride that carousel and I truly felt like I was part of that episode. It’s great to be home again! By the way they plan on putting up a bronze statue of Rod Serling in Recreation Park I believe sometime this year if I remember correctly from the local newspaper. Just an FYI the Triple Cities area is the Carousel Capital of the USA. There is also the Twilight Zone Museum here in Binghamton as well. Better Known as the Bundy Museum

    • @pipermccool
      @pipermccool ปีที่แล้ว

      What does it have, props from the show?

  • @Sp1der44
    @Sp1der44 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    The Obsolete Man episode is to this day quite brilliant. "To serve man" I think may be the most psychologically terrifying one. Rod was a brilliant storyteller. I loved the the show as a kid watching it in re-runs late at night. Good video. 👍

    • @markbolei3065
      @markbolei3065 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I like talking Tina

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The State has declared you OBSOLETE, Mr. Wordsworth!

    • @kristinakilby6798
      @kristinakilby6798 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      “To serve man” i was a 70’s baby. I remember watching a few of these. But let’s just say. If aliens show up and invite us to their world. I will stay right here.

    • @cecilreed7543
      @cecilreed7543 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      2 SERVE MAN.,YES

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@cecilreed7543 "Mr. Chambers, don't get on that ship! To Serve Man,; it's a COOK BOOK!."

  • @dawngw26
    @dawngw26 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I grew up watching The Twilight Zone... and have so many favorite episodes. My absolute favorite is "Nightmare at 20,000 feet" and I also loved "Next Stop, Willoughby", "Time Enough At Last", that one where the mannequin came back to the dept store to find out she wasn't a real person on vacation, the one where the kids went swimming and escaped to a different place/time with nice people instead of their selfish arguing parents. So many more! I would love to see "The Encounter" some day, it looks like it is really great and I love George Takei.

    • @josephturnan415
      @josephturnan415 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I grew up watching The Twilight zone and gorgeous George the wrestler the best Twilight zone I watched was the guy on the wing

    • @Kinkle_Z
      @Kinkle_Z 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah... Willoughby! So Good!! My younger sister (born '54) loved that one too!

    • @robertbrescia3196
      @robertbrescia3196 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The episode with the kids and squabbling parents was called "The Bewitching Pool".

    • @bettyivy763
      @bettyivy763 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you want to watch the one they have not shown in 50 years down load the Pluto app it was on the other day

    • @GeekToMeRadio
      @GeekToMeRadio 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Next Stop, Willoughby" is ridiculously underrated!!!

  • @tricivenola8164
    @tricivenola8164 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you! Yes I have seen The Encounter. Don't remember the first time, most recently caught it on streaming. My Aunt Ricky was Japanese-American and had been in an internment camp as a teenager My uncle's marriage to her in 1953 split the family. I was lucky enough to be on the side of the split that included my Japanese cousin, Dean, and my aunt and uncle. We learned about all things Japanese. I was nine when The Twilight Zone premiered, and I lived for it. The episode that scared me the most was "It's a GOOD Life," followed by the one about the little girl who fell out of bed and rolled into another dimension. Serling's Twilight Zone has, in counterpoint to the truly terrifying, an adorable quality that all the remakes miss. The closest show in spirit is Black Mirror.

  • @Coolranchfrito
    @Coolranchfrito ปีที่แล้ว +29

    "The Grave" gave me chills at the end , The wind was blowing the opposite way so he came out the grave . Also, "Room for one more honey" had me shook to the bone

    • @timomostert5883
      @timomostert5883 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think about (or say to the crew) "Room For One More, Honey" every time I get on a plane.😧

  • @tntstorms7969
    @tntstorms7969 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I saw "The Encounter" only 10 years ago on Netflix. I was blown away by that episode. George Takei and the other co-star were magnificent. The intense moments were well done and the writing was excellent. It portrayed the amount of hate of a time period that we hope to never revisit.

    • @HaunaLee
      @HaunaLee 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I also saw "The Encounter." Unfortunately the "WOKE" crowd is promoting the kind of hate you are talking about. I thought as a country we were past that, but those who want to control everyone else can do a better job of it if we are fighting with each other. I pray we all wake up and stop fighting with each other before it is too late.

    • @davidlist7507
      @davidlist7507 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't vote for Trump that goes for everybody!!!@@HaunaLee

    • @joelbest2424
      @joelbest2424 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Are you sure you know what woke even means? It seems doubtful if you're blaming them for hatred. Or consider Trump and the Maga as being woke.

    • @betosvrodfloresjr.37
      @betosvrodfloresjr.37 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It appears to be rearing it’s ugly head again. Racist wyte nationalism should never be allowed to return!

  • @5610winston
    @5610winston ปีที่แล้ว +15

    0:56 Neville Brand was a fine actor, outstanding timing in comic roles, fine depth in drama, and terrifying as an antagonist.

  • @daler.steffy1047
    @daler.steffy1047 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you for the look back in time on our behalf, as viewers. I was a preteen when I started watching "The Twilight Zone," and I believe it was on Friday nights at 9:00 p.m. Occasionally, in the summertime, I would have a campout in our backyard with friends, but first we would go in and watch "The Twilight Zone," get scared, and then go out and sleep in the tent. This was in Columbus, Ohio. It was a time when our imaginations ran wild.

    • @2greek1
      @2greek1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ha! I literally did the same thing as a pre teen in Columbus, in my cousins backyard, they were my best friends at the time '71-'77.
      Good times!
      I also thought it so cool that RS incorporated Ohio towns in more than a few episodes!

  • @huha47
    @huha47 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I remember the Twilight Zone film accident quite well having worked at the studio. It was a very intense time for everyone working in production. Likewise I was involved in the reboot of the series at CBS and all of the background issues, both costwise, production issues, etc. There were very few stories which came remotely close to the original series. It was one of the first series to use the EditDroid, a precursor to computerized editing, which the Exec Prod continually changed story lengths and episodic placement in each episode practically missing delivery every week to the Network for the weekly broadcast, as well as other issues.

    • @clmuseum4412
      @clmuseum4412 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for the little peek inside

  • @robertljazz2796
    @robertljazz2796 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Twilight zone was way before its time! The Episode" Little Girl Lost" where a little girl is heard crying at night and her parents come into her room looking for her but cant find her but they can hear her crying for them is really good and shows the writing was very good and creative! I never thought they even knew about another dimension back in those days!

  • @positive___soul
    @positive___soul ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Twilight Zone fan present. ❤

    • @wanya_telborn
      @wanya_telborn ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Here

    • @babsb8636
      @babsb8636 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same!

    • @countdown2xstacy
      @countdown2xstacy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Big fan as well !

    • @fabiobigfoot
      @fabiobigfoot ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Loved watching the reruns afterschool in the 80s. Today'sTV shows do not even come close.

    • @positive___soul
      @positive___soul ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fabiobigfoot Yes. And the marathon's in the early 2000's on New Year's Eve on the Sci-fi network if I'm not mistaken.

  • @williamrice1955
    @williamrice1955 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Favorite Twilight Zone episode. "Willoughby" The main charcter is a stressed out business man commuting on a train It's winter and he e dreams of a train stop where it is summer and boys are walking by with fishing rods. So later when he dreams it again and hears "next stop Willoughby he gets off. He goes on with the boys with the fishing rods while the train stops. Somebody says he just said Willoughby and jumped off the train into a snow bank..When the hearse gets there it says "Willoughby Funeral Home".

  • @rayzaramon6598
    @rayzaramon6598 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I especially like the episode where the old lady doesn't want to let Death into her house because she doesn't want to die. Then Death eventually has her accept it and pass away comfortably.

    • @ForAFreshStart
      @ForAFreshStart ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Robert Redford as Death. Pretty cool.

    • @rayzaramon6598
      @rayzaramon6598 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ForAFreshStart 😮 What????!

    • @pleasurepanda3285
      @pleasurepanda3285 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@Rayza Ramon yup. He was young and of course super hot.

    • @matthewcollins5344
      @matthewcollins5344 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      One of the best Zones.

    • @rc1564
      @rc1564 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think Robert Redford played death

  • @michaeljoseph3475
    @michaeljoseph3475 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This show aged so well , I became a fan of this show decades after its release. My favs are : A Stop at Willoughby and The Bewitching Pool.

  • @1timepad
    @1timepad ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I was watching the reruns in the late 70's. Serling knew how to hold the audience and weave a tale. So many faves but I loved - "Will the real martian please stand up" from 1961.

  • @davidsutton2996
    @davidsutton2996 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My mother and I used to watch this while my dad worked at night. I miss those times

  • @richardreinertson1335
    @richardreinertson1335 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    One of my favorite episodes was "The Grave," with Lee Marvin as the bounty hunter, and with Elen Willard as the witchy Ione Sykes. My favorite scene is at the end, with Ione standing at her brother's grave, laughing as the wind blows her cloak.

    • @robertpollard7681
      @robertpollard7681 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes this one was awesome my #1 pick #2 the obsolete man

    • @dewfall56
      @dewfall56 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That is a very good choice.

    • @CP-kb1du
      @CP-kb1du ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Spot on ...great Actor

    • @lincbond442
      @lincbond442 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Great episode also starring Lee Van Cleef, Strother Martin, and James Best. "I don't get my nerve from a bottle, Mothershed".

    • @krismitchell1577
      @krismitchell1577 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Damn good choice!

  • @jamescarriere8478
    @jamescarriere8478 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Rod sterling was ahead of his time I’m a twilight zone junkie always watch New Year’s Eve marathon

  • @leroystea8069
    @leroystea8069 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "Mirror Image" is one of the episodes that spooked me the most. Woman at a bus station sees evidence of someone who looked just like her, yet she is alone most of the time. "When The Sky Opened" is my second favorite for its creepiness. Third is "The Howling Man".

  • @AngelZione
    @AngelZione 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I have several favourite episodes, but don't find all that many of them actually scary, as much as just wonderfully twisted. For pure fright value, I think that the episode entitled "22" is the one that creeps me out the most. It's the one where the professional dancer, who has been hospitalised for exhaustion and stress, has a recurring nightmare about being invited into the morgue by a mysterious nurse who always says, "Room for one more, honey." The dream turns out to be more than just a simple dream, but that episode definitely stands out in my mind as one that makes my skin crawl every time I see it.
    For scariness, I'll also give a runner-up nod to "Death Ship", where a crew of space explorers, captained by Jack Klugman, land on a planet and find a copy of their own crashed ship, complete with their own dead bodies, and have to try to solve the mystery of whether the situation is real or illusion.