My favorite and most heartwrenching episode, was the one with Burgess Meredith as the last man on earth. He loved to read and was at a library. The heartwrenching part was when he broke his glasses and couldn't see.
Back in 1961 my mother and I were watching The Twilight Zone around 9:30pm. It was an episode where cars were starting up in driveways with no one behind the wheel... it was on Elm or Maple Street, I believe. At that time, our telephone rang, which startled us. A neighbor called to tell us our 1957 Rambler station wagon was in the middle of the street. We were both freaked out, so my mother went out to look... and, sure enough our car had rolled out of the driveway. It was beyond creepy. I was only 12 years old, so I will never forget that night. I think my mother was kind of embarrassed as she put the car back on the driveway. Apparently she had forgotten to set the emergency brake. Of course later on, we laughed about that night.
@@thesongbird2383 yes, I just watched it about a week ago, but forgetful me just had to look it up again. "The Monsters are due on Maple Street" , but you probably know that by now. The mania in that episode is a little over the top, but I think it illustrates how easily things can go sideways in groups or cultures, nevermind the addition of alien happenings.
@@stevedriscoll2539 I've been recording TZ from SyFy channel lately. Hopefully it's one of them... I'd love to see it again. Three of my favorites are (1) the elite men's club guy who wouldn't stop talking; and (2) a guy named "Franklin" who went to Vegas and got addicted to a slot machine; and, (3) "To Serve Man". You recall those?
I read a book by Ann Serling, she wrote about her her dad went into the hospital for what she believe was just a normal doctors visit but it was for advanced cancer, she mentioned it was a bright sunny day that he died and she couldn't believe he was gone. I emailed her about how I enjoyed her book and how badly I felt about her losing her dad at such a young age. She replied to me and said losing him was very difficult for her and she has never really gotten over his loss. I felt really bad for her, she obviously loved her dad very much. ❤😓
he didnt die of cancer. he was having surgery on his heart and had a heart attack during the surgery. per Wikipedia. Im surprised his "sister" didnt know this.
Comunication is key. If she could have gone on his illness journey, she would have been ready (to some excent) when he died. It is easier for a brain to accept sutution if it has been prepared.
That episode with the pig faced people who were considered "normal" and the beautiful woman who they thought was ugly and tried to change into them affected me for life!
Not long after the airing of The Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner as the lone witness on a passenger plane of a monstrous creature on one of the wings, my parents were on a plane themselves. Having just watched the episode, imagine their surprise when they saw a man sitting alone by a window looking out. It was William Shatner.
Oh my. I think I would have told Captain Kirk, "Excuse me for needing to change seats, but as soon as we land safely (once I know the little gremlin has stopped tearing apart the plane), would he mind pausing to sign an autograph for me?
It really does feel like we're currently living in the twilight zone with the way everything is currently heading. It's more frightening than any TV show.
Being a kid growing up The Twilight Zone really left an indelible mark on my psyche. The stories were interesting and very thought provoking. Rod Serling certainly led an interesting life.
‘Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown.’ Serling was not only a great writer and war hero but also a profoundly thoughtful man.
@@aimeekubik8803 thank you for your comment. This is the truth. The older I get, the more I find it silly and sad that so many are preoccupied with the trivialities of life, mistakenly pursuing what divides us-whether it’s wealth or reputation or idols or prejudices. But the truth is so simple: You can’t take it with you and we all have one last breath. Some understand their ‘condemnation’ earlier than others. Some perhaps never.
The planets recently have been in Retrograde so you'll probably feel a shadow of it in the coming weeks, but things will continue to go back to normal as time passes, I feel like
My favorite episode was "Next Stop Willowby" (Serling said it was his favorite as well). There must be something in the human psyche that wishes we could all return to a simpler, happier time when we were children and the problems of the world didn't exist for us.
That's so sweet. Sadly so untrue. Adults can come from families who make them abused and terrified children, such that they tolerate all the complexities of adulthood, having survived the horror of their first and only model of life through a brutal damaged childhood.
As a kid, the "Eye of the Beholder" episode blew my mind and still affects my views on humans, societies, and shifting standards in cultures throughout time, history, and location. The Twilight Zone and Star Trek actually made me think and question things around me.... long after the episode was over. Most modern shows I forget about before the next commercial.
So much on the Twilight Zone became truth. I especially remember the one where the people were told what to think and do by the computer hanging in the room. When the computer stopped working, they just stood there unable to think for themselves. Remind anyone of some people you know now with their phones?
@spirals 73 I sat in a restaurant yesterday and at four tables around me, the patrons were all on their phones the entire time. They didn’t speak to their companions except to show them something on the phone. We like to think it’s a stereotype but sadly it’s true. That’s how most stereotypes come to be. Oh and by the way, I’m a former director of information systems for a Fortune 500 company married to a software guy.
@@nikkil764 You are so right. I'm no luddite. I used to program for the PC. I understand technology, and I also despise what it has done to us. I think of my smart phone as a boat anchor. If I'm not carrying it, people think I'm careless or weird. I don't care. There's a world out there, with REAL people, beautiful skies, nature. For ***** sake, PUT DOWN THE PHONE AND LIVE. No one cares about how many likes you have, or what's hot on reddit. No one cares about your selfie. If we could go back to a basic flip phone where you actually talk to people (and that's it) I'd be overjoyed.
I tell people all the Times Twilight Zone was ahead of it's time, Way ahead. Everytime I watch an episode I need to put myself in a time capsule in order to understand the feeling and emotions people had back then just seating there watching it at night. Twilight Zone is very captivating and I'm sure a lot of people got freaked out about society and question where and what life Is about. This TV series was really mind blowing for that generation.
The twilight zone is still a favorite with me decades later. The episode with ghost of Civil War soldiers killed in battle walking down a road away from the combat is the one I most remember. It was truly haunting. RIP Rod Serling you are gone not forgotten.
Being a Star Trek Fan as well, that episode is a favorite of mine because there are three actors who also appeared in that show in it. There's also an episode of M*A*S*H titled "Follies Of The Living, Concerns Of The Dead" which ends very much like "The Passersby"--with the ghosts of soldiers (from both sides!) walking down a lonely road towards an unknown destination! Makes me wonder if writer/director Alan Alda was influenced by that episode of Twilight Zone!
This was "The Passersby", one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes also. As a Civil War aficionado I found the Abraham Lincoln portrayal at the end to be just about the most realistic onscreen depiction of our beloved 16th president that I have ever seen, almost as if one was viewing the genuine article.
I used to watch this with my brother late at night in the early 80s. I was a young mother separated from my husband living at home with my parents again. My brother had just gotten out of the Army and back home. I worked until around 9 to 11 at night and so we would watch this really late and I would rock my baby. My brother passed in 2017 from diabetes complications. I sure do miss him and can’t watch The Twilight Zone without thinking of him.
I was born in the late 90’s but my dad used to watch this show with me when I was a kid. To this day I’ll go back and watch episodes. Some episodes are deep and creepy. Very well written
This was a well done video though,...And one of the few where I watched the whole thing. Extra, extra bonus points because he thanks you for watching and says goodbye. He doesn't beg for Likes and Subscribes.
I feel the lessons learned in these are almost of a modern type Aesop. He used a medium that was just up and running to a culture almost the same way. Serling was a master of the art.
There was always a good moral to the story that could be easily applied to real life, without being preachy, and with Rod's great commentary at the end. Having a moral to the story is one aspect that I love about classic TV shows and movies. Modern stuff doesn't really pull it off the same way when it tries to do the same thing.
I'm still watching... And when William Shatner looks out that airplane window I still get a knot in my stomach... When Burgess Merideth's glasses crackle I feel his eternal agony... Ah yes the great 'unmasking' at the father's death bed...and for so so many more brilliantly scripted and performed episodes I am truly grateful we get to continue to enjoy Mr. Serling's genius!
@@louisvario1087 I tell friends That the machine in cafe is like Google, Syri n Alexa in today's 🌍. Wat do U think. Yea or Nay? Except we don't have 2 keep feedn $ to that machine that answers all Willm Shattners & his wife's "?'s.
So many wonderful episodes, I never tire of the show. The Angel of Death with Robert Redford and the Santa one with Art Carney, the Hitchhiker with Inger Stevens and the ones with lessons of war. He truly was a man way ahead of his time. Thank you Mr Serling wherever you may be !
Rod Serling is a great uncle on my fathers side and closely resembles my father in looks and size. Rod was an extraordinary man! His legacy will never be forgotten.
You have every right to be proud! He was a great man, but taken far too young. (I blame those stupid cigarettes.) I wish he had lived many more years. There's no telling what he could have written and directed for us. Even his supposed "failures" were really great ("Night Gallery" was considered one because it could never compete with The Twilight Zone's" success).
Rod Serling was a genius. He could do more in 25 minutes of black-and-white with few special effects than all of today's computer-assisted razzle-dazzle could ever hope for. Episodes often had a moral that was not revealed until the very end, leaving the viewer to figure it out. It is a terrible loss that his omnipresent cigarettes killed him at such an early age.
I’m a lover of psychology, psychological drama. I watched the Twilight Zone marathons every year, since I was 12 years old. I’m a Psychotherapist now, I feel like the Twilight Zone shaped me and taught me about human nature. 💛☀️
“Next stop, Willoughby!” I hear that name every once in a while and it still gives me the creeps. I also remember the episode where the neglected children jump into a pool and end up in another place where they’re treated wonderfully with other neglected children. Boy, that was creepy.
After watching the original "Twilight Zone" on TV as a young boy I would sometimes have nightmares on those nights! They were as good and entertaining as the TV broadcast!!!
I will never forget how I yelled at the screen when Bergess Merideth stepped on his glasses in "Time Enough At Last"! To me, that was the most horrible thing ever!!! Such a brilliant ending!
My youngest son and I's absolute favorite episode (saw it together a doxen or so times) was the one called "A Stop at Willoughby" where the overstressed working man and nagged upon at home caught the train home and would fall asleep on trip "waking up in Willoughby a peaceful, happy place. With kind people treating him nice. He got the choice to "stay" which he eventually did walking off train happily smailing. Then you see a snowbank with police and men speaking about the man who jumped from the train. Closing the door to what I assumed was the ambulance, the back door had "Willoughby and Sons - Funeral Parlor"! My son passed in 2015 and I sometimes smile thinking if him living ha living happily in Willoughby (Heaven!)
Yes Randy, his audience was respected. That’s because they were smarter and more sophisticated than todays audience.( sorry to say it ). Today, shows are all dumbed down to the lowest denominator for the idiot audiences.
Thankfully, Rod Serling is now recognized for the genius he truly was. I put him in the same class as HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, and other top SciFi/horror writer greats. I miss him so much.
@@jimzielbauer6112 Good call for Arch Oboler. He pushed the bounds of radio drama, not just imitating stage plays but using the unique characteristics of the medium to tell stories distinctively, using things like audio montage. It. Is. Later. Than. You. Think.
Around the same time, the Western series "Rawhide" was like that too. Many of the show's regulars and guest actors went on to become famous shortly after.
Robert Redford, Robert Duval, George Takei, William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Elizabeth Montgomery, Charles Bronson, Leonard Nimoy, Dennis Hopper, Ron Howard, Carol Burnett, Jonathan Winters, Martin Landau, Sydney Pollack, James Doohan, Jack Klugman, Dick York, Dennis Weaver, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Falk .....to name a few.
The story of the food crate killing the soldier could also be the origin of many of Serling's ironic endings. Imagine the troops sharing rations from that crate later on. Sometimes, the simplest things come at an unexpected cost.
The Twilight Zone was nothing more than one of the 3-4 best television shows of all time. Thought provoking, with writing that was simply superb, the show is timeless and is just as good now as it was in the early 1960's.
I actually disagree. "The Twilight Zone" along with "Star Trek" were 2 shows of very questionable quality, yet they provoked a pop culture response that still reverberates into this century. They were a couple of little meteors that burned quickly through the atmosphere yet left marvelous impact craters. And guitar players _always_ botch that intro lick😝 I'm no guitar slinger, but at least I can figure out the correct notes to that thing.
@@BigBri550 For the time, the "quality" was quite good! But even that paled beside the originality. You must allow for any advance in technology, in order to see enough in it, that someone looking back decades later sees not the state of technology but the innovation it meant to get there.
"The Monsters are due on Maple Street" should be compulsory viewing at school and college. It has a lot to say and more, about what is happening now regarding the mass hysteria and fear sweeping the world. Definitely prophetic.
I believe it is actually. My school gave a lesson on this episode, and my younger siblings also remember having to learn about that episode in particular. But that could just be my county’s curriculum
@@wesstewart2677 I assume an American school? Makes sense if it was, as it was an American TV show and has more following there than perhaps here in Australia. In any event, good to know that your school values it enough to include it for study and discussion. I do remember it being broadcast here back in the 1970s. Wasn't until I was an adult and started watching it on DVD back in the early 2000's that I really came to appreciate it for what it had to say about the human condition and its amazing thought provoking stories. One of a kind.
@@axnyslie Good to know it was being studied/analysed in achool. How long a go was that? How did the class react to it? There must have been some interesting discussion about it. Did you ever watch the actual episode and/or others of the twilight zone?
The black and white film was the perfect genre for "The Twilight Zone". I've seen the movie and the newer series, both in color, but from a visual perspective, they never have the mystique of the original. Heard an interview with Rod Serling's daughter on "Coast to Coast A.M.", probably from about 2005 or so, and it was amazing hearing her recount "The Twilight Zone" and talking about her father. It seems that all great writers have been through some kind of Hell, and that they use writing to exercise the demons.
Eye Of The Beholder. Donna Douglas played the “ugly” woman so well. Being escorted off to the new place where she would live with others of her kind. My favorite episode of all time. And the shocked doctor and nurses unwrapping her bandages to determine the final surgery had failed. Priceless.
I liked the episode about a couple trying to escape their neighborhood. Actually, they were dolls in a little girl's playhouse with a neighborhood setting.
Some of the story lines were really preposterous or just too dated now, but many are truly so timeless that they've walked with me through life. But for me, the show would have badly suffered without benefit of CBS's superb production music library. Some of the best music ever heard on TV was pulled from composers like Dan Alexander, Van Cleave, Bernard Hermann, Fred Steiner and other giants by the editors to score the entire series. Bravo!
"The Hitchhiker" and the killer doll episodes are two of the most disturbing stories ever written. They creeped me out when I saw them as a kid, and they still have that same effect today. Rod Serling was one heck of an imaginative and talented man.
When I was a little girl, I was not a fan of dolls. They gave me the creeps and I always made practical play clothes for them out of old denim or fabric scraps. The "talking Tina" episode validated my weirdness, ha ha.
He wrote of the horrors that had happened and were happening around him in an attempt to warm us to never let history repeat itself. But humans are selfish, so evil people will always exist, and evil people copy the deeds of past evil people, only taking it a step further.
Twilight zones were like reading short stories that always made you think hmm? My favorite memory of all was sitting in a recliner with my grandmother. The only two awake and the only light was the one coming from the television. That is my favorite memory when I think of reruns of The Twilight zone.
When I was a kid, we loved this show. We had to beg my mom to let us watch it. She was worried it was too scary but we promised it wasn't, it was but we never let on. We loved it! Don't forget Night Gallery which he did later. RIP and thank you for your service.
" Yes somebody remember the night gallery ,I was kid who grew up on horror movies ,but my mom was worried about bad dreams, I love the three line up from the Night gallery ,when the guy I'm not sure what sinero the killed the guy for money ,in the painting they would show him coming Out the grave,every frame he getting to the house,then the last painting he's knocking at the door,. The next one Betty Davis was blind she get s a new pair eyes living in new York, ,they had a black ,she took off blind fold She thought the eye surgery wasn't a success She snapped out ,she could really see ,it was a black out. She thought she was still blind. The last one was a man always going to look
@@firebird2485 The first sounds like he borrowed it from an old story The Mezzotint...where a man buys a painting that shows a character getting ever closer to the house of a man that had him hung for poaching.
Night gallery was the best!! The episode where Joan Crawford playing a wealthy blind women pays to have sight again for one day only to have it be a blackout
To this day I drop EVERYTHING to watch The Twilight Zone Marathons on July 4th & New Years Eve. Rod Serling & The Twilight Zone are the best ever & I thank God for blessing us all with this timeless genius.
Here in Australia the Twilight Zone has never been played on TV, I've got Netflix but TZ isn't on the play list. I stumbled apon TZ when I borrowed a DVD from my local library. The very first episode I watched was 'In praise of Pip' about 5 years ago. I've now got the boxset and the TZ companion book, love the series!
Night Gallery was a favorite. Similar format with Rod Serling narrating. It seemed a bit darker and more monster oriented. A bit less philosophical than Twight Zone
Yes, I remember that program. The one, which sticks out, after all of these years, is the painting episode. The husband wanted so badly to be in a painting of a guy fishing on a boat to escape his life. One night, the lights were off when he went to the same spot as the painting always was, but they had removed it and replaced it with painting of Jesus on the cross. He went into that painting, instead. Horrible. Ha ha.
Watch this video! This took me back to when I was a kid. Occasionally, there were a few moments while watching this when I was spellbound. I used to watch this with my stepdad. I remember it so well. I still use the phrase where I will tell people that in regards to a lot of things that I see today that we are going through as a country and culture that it feels like we are entering the twilight zone. So many things strike me as being upside down. I fear for our kids and grandkids. I had a good childhood and I’m grateful for it. I’m afraid they won’t be able to be kids.
Rod Serling is partially responsible for my marriage. My wife and I initially bonded over our mutual love of the Twilight Zone. We still watch the show regularly six years later.
My Sister and I once briefly bonded over an episode of the New Twilight Zone (NightCrawlers) But We went back to fighting as soon as the episode was over. I'm glad. I don't want to marry my sister.
When I was a young boy the opening of the Twilight Zone would scare the crap out of me. When the announcer says “Do not attempt to turn that Dial!” , I would be in fear. When I was around four years old I finally waited next to the tv awaiting that announcement and then I was bold and changed the channel. I was scared out of my wits, however, I’m still here! 😂 Those shows were a launching pad for some of the most iconic actors and actresses of the era.
It was definitely The Outer Limits, and yes that would also scare me for some reason as a kid watching these reruns late at night. I suppose as a kid you kinda think the TV might actually be talking to you lol.
We supplied the magic, via that 5th dimension of imagination! Think of those episodes, keeping you mind open, for days weeks months years and decades, waiting for that "TWILIGHT ZONE" moment in our own lives!
I remember that 1980s episode entitled Button Button. A broke couple were given an opportunity to have all their financial woes ended and live in luxury just by pushing the button on a very plain box. If they pushed it, they would get untold riches, but someone on earth would have to die as a consequence.
That's based on a story called "The Monkey's Paw." I have an image in my mind that I will never forget from an episode written for the 80's version of Twilight Zone. I think it was titled "Quiet, please!" It's about a mother who's overwhelmed by all the noise around her (ie children; husband; TV blaring; etc.) Somehow she she's able to freeze time by yelling "Quiet!" or something like that. She can also unfreeze time at will. So she has some fun with this for awhile then goes downtown to do some shopping. She hears news from radios around her regarding a conflict between the US and Russia. Suddenly, air raid sirens start going off, and people are panicking. She doesn't understand what's going on, and the noise is overwhelming. She freezes time then walks around the corner of the street she's on. She sees some people looking up at the sky and pointing, so she looks up and notices something terrible: a nuclear warhead is frozen just above the building where the people are standing. She's frozen the impending bomb detonation along with everything else. BUT she can't unfreeze time ever again, or the bomb will kill all the people. So basically she ends up stuck with that choice: unfreeze time or leave it frozen and be the only unfrozen person on earth? Pretty lonely place to be. Anyway, the image of missle frozen above the building with everyone is looking at it is forever embedded in my mind. A truly frightening scenario!
My favorite episode way back in the ‘60s was about the banker who loved to read. Not long ago I finally got to see that episode again and I was so excited.
For my money, the scariest episode of TTZ was 'Shadow Play' which starred Dennis Weaver as a man who is sentenced to die in the electric chair and he tries to tell everybody that at the moment of his death, he will find himself back in the courtroom being sentenced to die in the electric chair and that each time it happens, everybody switches roles!
And the black & white format made the backdrops easier to make without looking fake. Color makes it easier to spot the backdrop, so just like the carefully hired and soon to be expensive stars, the quality appears 1st rate...
After 60 years of watching television with time off for bathroom breaks, my five favorite shows are as follows: 5. The Fugitive 4. Gunsmoke 3. The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson 2. Seinfeld And the number one is: (drumroll.......) THE TWILIGHT ZONE
There were ad breaks for fridges, wash powder, cigs etc in the middle of every episode, when it was first broadcast. Enough to kill any mood created. Also, the passage of time since the early 60s has added a layer of interest and affection. Trying to avoid the word nostalgia.
This show was way ahead of its tyme it dealt with all the human frailties love, hate, fear, envy, death, life etc with twist & turns producing a very shocking ending no one saw coming while teaching a life moral lesson...no show 2day can touch it hands down...Rod Serling you da man👍🏾...
In 2021, many of the episodes depicting government overreach, silencing speech/ideas, banning books, etc are even more relevant than they were 60 years ago.
When I was a lil girl, my older brother LOVED the Twilight Zone and it scared me to no end. Now, at 60-years old I LOVE the Twilight Zone, and even though I can watch it any time I want, sitting in front of the TV for the annual New Years Marathon has been a tradition of mine for decades. I could never really get into the remakes because the original is the absolute best.
@@janish3059 I’ve watched a lot of the new ones, it’s not the same, without using video quality or cgi quality as factors in debate, I have to say the old ones are better, they aren’t scary- but unsettling, almost like how u feel when u wake up from a weird dream
I'm 52 now and have been watching this show since I was around 5 or 6. I've seen every episode at least a dozen times by now, some maybe 50 to 100 times. In many ways this show has shaped my character and who I am as a person. I got a chance to meet two of the original writers about 20 years ago and have had several of the actors sign my Twilight Zone Companion book. I owe a dept of gratitude to Mr. Serling for his contributions to the enrichment of our lives.
They show mini-marathons throughout the year. 4th of July is a big one. Over 60yrs old and still showing marathons. Can't argue that this show is timeless. Mankind (unfortunately) will never change.
Out of so many memorable shows birthed by Rod Serling, one has always stood out in my memories - that of the spaceship that returned to Earth, but somehow was not supposed to. Each of the three crew mates gradually disappeared, and no one remembered them when they did - except the captain. In the end, he and the spacecraft itself were mere phantoms. What genius, one of many of Serling's creations.
Trust fund kids and the grumpy patriarch who worked hard and intelligently on building his wealth and did not like the notion of being the gravy train for a clan of ungrateful undisciplined flakes. Great episode
The elderly woman getting phone calls from her deceased husband and they go out and see that the telephone line is buried in his grave that one kind of creeped me out pretty bad
Art imitating life, and vice versa: Most recently at the Florida Champlain condo collapse, a family received 16 phone calls from their parents phone number one day, while it was still a recovery mission, I think, shortly before the bodies of the parents were found buried in the rubble of the site! I’m so sorry for that family, they will always have that memory, and the what if’s playing with their minds and hearts. 🕊God bless you❣️😇🎉🎶💝
Twilight Zone was just before my time. When I was a kid, I remember Rod hosting, "The Night Gallery." Just the freaky, distorted opening would scare the crap out of me?!!
@Mike Gross This is a fantastic comment! Rod Serling made a TV show that was fun and imaginative and intelligent, much like Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. Best of all, my young children can suspend their disbelief enough to be on the edge of their seats for these reruns. How many TV shows from the early 1960s still carry that kind of weight today? I can’t think of any.
My bedroom filled with the gray light from my old black and white with Twilight Zone and Outer Limits all night while my parents were asleep. Some of my favorite memories of my life
This and other programs of the era were somewhat committed to promoting family and moral values as well as the difference between right and wrong. Really miss those days. I’m certain those types of programs helped to reinforce a more sound and balanced society.
Now you have shows that glorify criminality, obscure the difference between right and wrong, etc. And you wonder why society is hellbent on destroying itself
one of many things wrong with the present day--everyone questions and messes with time-tested concepts of goodness many mock traditional values like family,right and wrong and the rest of us are too polite to challenge them the whole CENTURY stinks of misguided political correctness and freakish behavior running unchecked we deserve better,my friends
As a kid in the 1980’s the first Twilight Zone episode I ever saw was about a guy that had a stopwatch that would stop time. I was absolutely obsessed with the show after that and it’s still one of my all-time favorite series.
As a kid of the 60's I caught exactly one episode on the b/w tv. I couldn't have been more than 5 years old. Never saw it again until moocho later....and it was on my young bucket list. What I remembered for all those long years was the hamburger guy behind the bar with that sneaking 3rd eye on his noggin. Funny, I prolly haven't seen TZ through more than a couple of times. Didn't have to. Seems like I have all of the shows memorized. Made quite an impression on me, it did.
For some strange reason I find The Twilight Zone very relaxing and comforting. There is some type of surreal dream like quality to it that I can't quite put my finger on. This series still continues to amaze me and even more so now knowing what Rod went through, saw and endured in his young adult life.
He sure mastered the English language along the way too ! Guy was brilliant. Saw an interview with his widow. She claimed the pressure of writing the T.Z. really burnt him out.
The fantasy of it is also comforting-the idea that there could be a world out there where people get the treatment they deserve out if life; where the just are rewarded and the cruel are punished, and all in accordance with their actions; where things always get better for those who are willing to learn a lesson; where thinking things through can guarantee success.
@@AlexanderStHill I used to feel like that for a long time. Now it depends on the episode, some of them are a bit too slow. Specially after I watch them more than once like most of us have done. So I skip to the ones that keep me engaged. Cheers!
.. Hi there 🙂🌻✌️ excuse me .. It was the round parachutes🤨 - not the candy chutes we see in use today...😖😕😡...I suggest to show proper photo of the old chutes ...a BIG ERROR ...🙄🤔 ... the round ones were very risky ... actual safe deployment of these chutes was very problematic.😔.. bad design meant it was almost a 50/ 50 chance they would open correctly .😱🤪😵⚰️..⚰️⚰️...⚰️.... and he TESTED these nightmare parachutes ?!? 😱🙄.💪.. even tested an ejector seat that THREE MEN actually DIED testing previously..?!??😬.😵😵😱😮 💺 ?!??!!? ...the man had balls the size of an 🐘...🤯..I will Love Rod Serling ...forever ..❤️. . . the bravest military man ever .👮 ..just my humble opinion..HE should be on Mt. Rushmore 🕵️🧔...💪🤳 . . 🤴 🗿. ...Rest In The Sweetest Peace , Sir.. ❤️🦊🙏🕯️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🙁... Absolute Legend ... and yes. .. A writing GENIUS.🚭.🎓..👑.🧠
You left out the fact, either by accident or by design, that Rod Sterling was known to have smoked up to four packs of cigarettes a day. Which, more than likely, contributed to his death at the age of 50.
It's weird how the show's ratings were never off-the-chart back when it premiered, but retrospectively, people now regard it as one of the crown jewels of television.
He WAS brilliant!! While he didn’t create and write all the stories, he brought us a different type of…? To call it “entertainment”, doesn’t do it justice! Food for the mind! Highly innovated the genre of SciFy! Although I was too young to watch it during its initial run, I loved seeing it in reruns. Even though it was done a very long time ago, the ideas never seem “dated” even now! I also loved his “Night Gallery”! Both are must haves for any collector of Iconic American Television!!
Axtually, the episodes he wrote himself are generally considered some of the shows worst installments. He couldn't compete with some of the writers that contributed to the show, certainly. Serling's talent lay in having brilliant ideas and, more importantly, in gathering brilliant writers and creators around him.
I remember the one with the gremlin riding on an airplane wing. I was seven years old and my dad was in the Air Force. He was stationed in Taiwan. I remember fearfully keeping the window panel closed, peaking out at rare times to make sure a gremlin was not on the wing, lol
I miss the late 50's and 60' watching Rod Serling, Ernie Kovacs. Edward R. Murrow, and Walter Cronkite's 'The 20th Century, and Air Power as well as Victory at Sea. THAT was great TV.
@@jasonjmarchi Yes he did have great writers. All great shows depended on writers. The writers strike in the 90's ended all that and now we have these horseshit reality shows that are anything but reality and anything but entertaining. Next show will be "The Pawn Stars on Naked and Afraid" and I will blow up my TV.
@@forcesightknight - Man, I thought that was an acronym until it clicked in my memory. I don't think I've heard that brand in at least 50 years. A laundry detergent, I think. Thanks for that. Be well.
@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus . I have not read yet. If all space look alike, how can i discern its relative movement? Does Time, as a function of Space, needs an observer to be measured?
I think being a child during this period made the show extra poignant. As an adult, this would have been an interesting series, but to a child, it was downright riveting, and I think it really affected the way I think.
_In my humble opinion, The Twilight Zone was the best series EVER produced and no other series will stand the test of time as this one still does! EVERYTHING, and i do mean everything about the show was iconic; the actors, the themes, some of which are still relevant to this day, the sound effects, the props, the acting, the music, the titles of some of the episodes, the scripts, the intro and outro commentary by Rod Serling, Rod Serling himself...like I said, EVERYTHING!!! -Nemesis_
@Cb K not only as it was aired, but at that time there was of course no DVR'S, etc., ..so you better believe we were sitting in front that TV, way before the show was to start, (our Mom always made popcorn) and we didn't talk while the show was on! I had 5 older brothers, a younger brother, and one sister. Being 6th in the line of 7 still left at home, I remember hiding my face in a blanket many times when things were too scary for me, 😆
The first time I was allowed to watch Twilight Zone -- I was in grade school. And it was great: "The Howling Man," staring John Carradine as a stern monk keeping the Devil himself locked up "forever" after WWI. We know what happened, of course.
My favorite show was about the Army company on maneuvers in Montana and rolled into a time shift during Custer's Last Stand. The troops armed with M1 Garands went over the hill to join the battle and were never seen again except as names of the deceased troopers on the memorial columns.
When I was a kid in the 60's TZ and Outer Limits were my two favorites. Then in the 70's Rod Serling came back with Night Gallery. That was a good one too!
Imagine..no one allow or have an interest in you reading!! No place/ time to read and finally you have time and yr glasses break...what F..k up karma..😱😓and you are the one to break yr own/ only lens..thats messed up!!! DAMNN..
Agreed. Burgess Meredith was a very talented actor. My favorite episode with him is the one where "the state" declares his character "obsolete." That gave me chills.
I absolutely love this show. Found a box set unopened at a thrift store. I now make this a yearly event where I watch all the episodes on new years eve.
There has always been times where i caught some episodes of the WPIX11nyc marathon on New Years eve. No matter my age, the party or the place, there is always a tv with The Twilight Zone on during New Years, before and after the 30 minutes surrounding the ball drop. Its like a magnet that draws myself and others in, then people looking for us join in and it becomes a thing until its time to play or jam out..
Wow! You got lucky! Lol 😂 🎰🎭🇺🇸🗿🗿🗿🏗🏖🍀🌿🎠🎠🎠🎠🦄🎡🎡⛲🎢🚀🛩🛫🛬🛫🚁🚂🚢⛵🚤🚣🚆 are they on DVD or VHS??? I taped a lot of them on New Year's eve on VHS tapes📼📼📼📼📼🎥 for a VCR Lol 😂 i would like to have all of them?
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Yeah, me Mum & me were good mates, damn we have watched them all Damn good show👍🏿
This was a great show
@@hestergreen2031 you
These series out do today's shows..they always had a meaning left to contemplating. I miss these shows.
@@hestergreen2031I totally agree 💯 percent.
Even in England we loved the twilight Zone, and even Rod had the looks of a film star. RIP Rod. Thanks for the upload.
💂♀️⚓even in Jamaica ,West Indies , we saw rr runs,in black* white only ,
Rod really was a Christmas gift of the 20s.
RS was A Legend Nothing on MSM have ever bettered The Twilight Zone A few have come close Yet not quite
The series were loved worldwide, I used to watch it as a child in Peru
My favorite and most heartwrenching episode, was the one with Burgess Meredith as the last man on earth. He loved to read and was at a library. The heartwrenching part was when he broke his glasses and couldn't see.
Time Enough at Last
The Twilight Zone: Season 1, Episode 8
Have you seen Meredith in those 'how American G.I's should behave' when stationed in England shorts?
That's a great one
One of my favorites, probably next to “Little Girl Lost.“
I still hear him softly saying, in a broken tone " it's not fair... not fair..."💔
Back in 1961 my mother and I were watching The Twilight Zone around 9:30pm. It was an episode where cars were starting up in driveways with no one behind the wheel... it was on Elm or Maple Street, I believe. At that time, our telephone rang, which startled us. A neighbor called to tell us our 1957 Rambler station wagon was in the middle of the street. We were both freaked out, so my mother went out to look... and, sure enough our car had rolled out of the driveway. It was beyond creepy. I was only 12 years old, so I will never forget that night. I think my mother was kind of embarrassed as she put the car back on the driveway. Apparently she had forgotten to set the emergency brake. Of course later on, we laughed about that night.
Great story! 🤣🤣🤣
@@stevedriscoll2539 Well, thank you Steve! Do you recall the episode I described?
@@thesongbird2383 yes, I just watched it about a week ago, but forgetful me just had to look it up again. "The Monsters are due on Maple Street" , but you probably know that by now. The mania in that episode is a little over the top, but I think it illustrates how easily things can go sideways in groups or cultures, nevermind the addition of alien happenings.
@@stevedriscoll2539 I've been recording TZ from SyFy channel lately. Hopefully it's one of them... I'd love to see it again. Three of my favorites are (1) the elite men's club guy who wouldn't stop talking; and (2) a guy named "Franklin" who went to Vegas and got addicted to a slot machine; and, (3) "To Serve Man". You recall those?
Our old ford started and backed down the driveway. My Dad, in his underwear, caught it before it got to the road.
I read a book by Ann Serling, she wrote about her her dad went into the hospital for what she believe was just a normal doctors visit but it was for advanced cancer, she mentioned it was a bright sunny day that he died and she couldn't believe he was gone. I emailed her about how I enjoyed her book and how badly I felt about her losing her dad at such a young age. She replied to me and said losing him was very difficult for her and she has never really gotten over his loss. I felt really bad for her, she obviously loved her dad very much. ❤😓
he didnt die of cancer. he was having surgery on his heart and had a heart attack during the surgery. per Wikipedia. Im surprised his "sister" didnt know this.
Comunication is key. If she could have gone on his illness journey, she would have been ready (to some excent) when he died. It is easier for a brain to accept sutution if it has been prepared.
Loved this show.
It doesn't matter how he passed on, rather that he's missed by many.💙
@@SmilingBeaver-ou7nc Actually, with all so respect the details do matter and I think Mr. Serling would agree especially considering he was a writer.
That episode with the pig faced people who were considered "normal" and the beautiful woman who they thought was ugly and tried to change into them affected me for life!
Like Marylin in The Munsters..
@@ZekeThePlumber86 Exactly! Only the Munsters were less fearsome to a 9 year old than those Twilight Zone weirdos lol
@@sallymiller1359 Especially with the unnerving totalitarian society! Twilight Zone will always be my favorite show!
Same here.
That was one creepy episode
Rod Serling was a genius. I watched when I was a kid. Twilight Zone was brilliant
Not long after the airing of The Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner as the lone witness on a passenger plane of a monstrous creature on one of the wings, my parents were on a plane themselves. Having just watched the episode, imagine their surprise when they saw a man sitting alone by a window looking out. It was William Shatner.
My favorite episode ...William Shatner airplane episode
He also appeared in another episode as a regular guy who was fascinated with a fortune-telling toy in a restaurant...
Oh my. I think I would have told Captain Kirk, "Excuse me for needing to change seats, but as soon as we land safely (once I know the little gremlin has stopped tearing apart the plane), would he mind pausing to sign an autograph for me?
He was probably rehearsing to redo the scene. Remember, this is the twilight zone.
@@JeffWells-cw2sw Thanks. I vaguely remember that - I'll check it out.
It really does feel like we're currently living in the twilight zone with the way everything is currently heading. It's more frightening than any TV show.
I've said those words to my family lately. That I feel like we are all in a bad episode of the Twilight zone. 😂
Yes, just told my sister this afternoon it's as if we're living in a bad movie 🍿....ugh
It's not even a bad episode, it seems like one of the best written and directed TZ epsiodes, which is the most frightening thing about it.
I heard that a couple years ago, through the use of CERN, scientists did something that threw the planet into another parallel universe.
You BETTER NOT be talking about the the LGTBQI+ Community!!!
Being a kid growing up The Twilight Zone really left an indelible mark on my psyche. The stories were interesting and very thought provoking. Rod Serling certainly led an interesting life.
Shaddup$$$$!!!$$$
Me too. To this day, I can't watch Tina Palentina!
Yes. Twilight Zone, Amazing Stories and Thats Incredible.
Ditto... I have been very open minded to all this Earth offers us as a result
Serling had PTSD ....interesting.guess he used his disability to actually fuel a career...
‘Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown.’ Serling was not only a great writer and war hero but also a profoundly thoughtful man.
This is so profound; it is also the only justice in the UNIVERSE, you live, you die, no MATTER how much money or status you have.
@@aimeekubik8803 thank you for your comment.
This is the truth.
The older I get, the more I find it silly and sad that so many are preoccupied with the trivialities of life, mistakenly pursuing what divides us-whether it’s wealth or reputation or idols or prejudices. But the truth is so simple: You can’t take it with you and we all have one last breath. Some understand their ‘condemnation’ earlier than others. Some perhaps never.
What a waste of time! It's like clickbait all kinds of wasted information but the headline could have been resolved in 30 seconds
@@aimeekubik8803 death is the great equalizer!
Knowing that everyone will die isn’t being profoundly thoughtful 😂😂😂😂
2020-2021 feels like an episode from the Twilight Zone that will never end. just saying
You just took me down the rabbits hole
To some of us 20-21 is the real world proving we’ve been living in the twilight zone all this time.
AMEN!
When you right you right
The planets recently have been in Retrograde so you'll probably feel a shadow of it in the coming weeks, but things will continue to go back to normal as time passes, I feel like
My favorite episode was "Next Stop Willowby" (Serling said it was his favorite as well). There must be something in the human psyche that wishes we could all return to a simpler, happier time when we were children and the problems of the world didn't exist for us.
That's so sweet. Sadly so untrue. Adults can come from families who make them abused and terrified children, such that they tolerate all the complexities of adulthood, having survived the horror of their first and only model of life through a brutal damaged childhood.
My favorite too !
My favorite also!!
That one was my favorite too.. push push push
*Willoughby
As a kid, the "Eye of the Beholder" episode blew my mind and still affects my views on humans, societies, and shifting standards in cultures throughout time, history, and location. The Twilight Zone and Star Trek actually made me think and question things around me.... long after the episode was over. Most modern shows I forget about before the next commercial.
Notice that the girl -- unmasked -- is Elly May Clampett?
The first time I went to a Doctor's appointment after everyone started wearing masks, I thought about that episode.
I loved that episode, that and “Death and Mr. Bookman.”
Semper Fi (77-83) good post. 👍
TV does not affect me or my attitudes. Grow up and get an education.
So much on the Twilight Zone became truth. I especially remember the one where the people were told what to think and do by the computer hanging in the room. When the computer stopped working, they just stood there unable to think for themselves. Remind anyone of some people you know now with their phones?
True it resonates with the modern times
@spirals 73 I sat in a restaurant yesterday and at four tables around me, the patrons were all on their phones the entire time. They didn’t speak to their companions except to show them something on the phone. We like to think it’s a stereotype but sadly it’s true. That’s how most stereotypes come to be. Oh and by the way, I’m a former director of information systems for a Fortune 500 company married to a software guy.
@@nikkil764 You are so right. I'm no luddite. I used to program for the PC. I understand technology, and I also despise what it has done to us. I think of my smart phone as a boat anchor. If I'm not carrying it, people think I'm careless or weird. I don't care. There's a world out there, with REAL people, beautiful skies, nature. For ***** sake, PUT DOWN THE PHONE AND LIVE. No one cares about how many likes you have, or what's hot on reddit. No one cares about your selfie. If we could go back to a basic flip phone where you actually talk to people (and that's it) I'd be overjoyed.
or, teleprompters.
Or the magic conch
The Twilight Zone is still one of the best sci-fi anthologies ever produced. Rod Serling was a master at his craft!
Yep
What other sci-fi anthologies are there??
Hahaha
Agreed!!!😊
@@spike7334 the darkside was good. Also outer limits ☺️
It got so even the intro music freaked me out back then !
I tell people all the Times
Twilight Zone was ahead of it's time, Way ahead. Everytime I watch an episode I need to put myself in a time capsule in order to understand the feeling and emotions people had back then just seating there watching it at night. Twilight Zone is very captivating and I'm sure a lot of people got freaked out about society and question where and what life Is about. This TV series was really mind blowing for that generation.
I can only imagine how it impacted it people back then when it first aired.
It still is.
So was "Outer Limits." Both told us stuff that we witness, now.
The twilight zone is still a favorite with me decades later. The episode with ghost of Civil War soldiers killed in battle walking down a road away from the combat is the one I most remember. It was truly haunting. RIP Rod Serling you are gone not forgotten.
Being a Star Trek Fan as well, that episode is a favorite of mine because there are three actors who also appeared in that show in it.
There's also an episode of M*A*S*H titled "Follies Of The Living, Concerns Of The Dead" which ends very much like "The Passersby"--with the ghosts of soldiers (from both sides!) walking down a lonely road towards an unknown destination! Makes me wonder if writer/director Alan Alda was influenced by that episode of Twilight Zone!
This was "The Passersby", one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes also. As a Civil War aficionado I found the Abraham Lincoln portrayal at the end to be just about the most realistic onscreen depiction of our beloved 16th president that I have ever seen, almost as if one was viewing the genuine article.
I loved this one as well.. prob in my top 3
When I was a kid I saw that William Shatner episode on the plane. I thought that was Lucille Ball out on the wing and looking in the window. 🤭
"The Passers By" I think was the name of that one.Abraham Lincoln comes along at the end if I remember correctly.
I used to watch this with my brother late at night in the early 80s. I was a young mother separated from my husband living at home with my parents again. My brother had just gotten out of the Army and back home. I worked until around 9 to 11 at night and so we would watch this really late and I would rock my baby. My brother passed in 2017 from diabetes complications. I sure do miss him and can’t watch The Twilight Zone without thinking of him.
That was beautiful, thank you for sharing
My brother and i watched together also . He passed away in 2012 , i think of him when i see anything to do with Twilight or Outer Limits 😊
@@lesleymiller6513 , wow so many memories
I’m sorry about your brother. He’s not gone forever.
@@ritadyer9295 Star Trek was another one of his favorites 🙃
I was born in the late 90’s but my dad used to watch this show with me when I was a kid. To this day I’ll go back and watch episodes. Some episodes are deep and creepy. Very well written
You should also see his show Night Gallery if you get a chance.
6:00 is when he actually starts talking about the banned episode.
Watch out for spoilers if you are planning to watch the episode.
wow that's deep in the video. Should have just been 2 min
Thnx
After 30 seconds I hit fast forward.
This was a well done video though,...And one of the few where I watched the whole thing. Extra, extra bonus points because he thanks you for watching and says goodbye. He doesn't beg for Likes and Subscribes.
The Twilight Zone will always be the best series on TV. The irony in so many episodes are timeless in their 'lessons'.
War is timeless, unfortunately.
This
this and the sopranos are my favorite shows of all time.
I feel the lessons learned in these are almost of a modern type Aesop. He used a medium that was just up and running to a culture almost the same way. Serling was a master of the art.
There was always a good moral to the story that could be easily applied to real life, without being preachy, and with Rod's great commentary at the end. Having a moral to the story is one aspect that I love about classic TV shows and movies. Modern stuff doesn't really pull it off the same way when it tries to do the same thing.
I'm still watching... And when William Shatner looks out that airplane window I still get a knot in my stomach... When Burgess Merideth's glasses crackle I feel his eternal agony... Ah yes the great 'unmasking' at the father's death bed...and for so so many more brilliantly scripted and performed episodes I am truly grateful we get to continue to enjoy Mr. Serling's genius!
OhMyGosh!!! The thing on the wing one is one of my favorites!! I like the one with John Lithgow too. Love TZ!!
hi babee Shatner other eposide where his car breaks down & eats in the diner with fortune teller machine was great 2
@@louisvario1087 I tell friends That the machine in cafe is like Google, Syri n Alexa in today's 🌍. Wat do U think. Yea or Nay?
Except we don't have 2 keep feedn $ to that machine that answers all Willm Shattners & his wife's "?'s.
Yea, and don't forget the "Going my way?" Line of "Hitchhiker "episode.
Love Twilight Zone to this day.
The one episode that sticks with me is when the lost stranger releases the devil back onto the earth again from the monastery prison cell.
So many wonderful episodes, I never tire of the show. The Angel of Death with Robert Redford and the Santa one with Art Carney, the Hitchhiker with Inger Stevens and the ones with lessons of war. He truly was a man way ahead of his time. Thank you Mr Serling wherever you may be !
Rod Serling is a great uncle on my fathers side and closely resembles my father in looks and size. Rod was an extraordinary man! His legacy will never be forgotten.
You have every right to be proud! He was a great man, but taken far too young. (I blame those stupid cigarettes.) I wish he had lived many more years. There's no telling what he could have written and directed for us. Even his supposed "failures" were really great ("Night Gallery" was considered one because it could never compete with The Twilight Zone's" success).
Rod Serling was so handsome!
How cool is that?
I love his work When they have marathons on I will watch all day and text back and forth with a friend who is watching from several states away.
Rod Serling was a genius. He could do more in 25 minutes of black-and-white with few special effects than all of today's computer-assisted razzle-dazzle could ever hope for. Episodes often had a moral that was not revealed until the very end, leaving the viewer to figure it out. It is a terrible loss that his omnipresent cigarettes killed him at such an early age.
@Tina Field Howe Word.
Not quite
Exactly. Bring it all back !
Just shoes that the most important element in a successful entertainment venture is quality of writing.
Cigarettes are calming. He needed that.
I’m a lover of psychology, psychological drama. I watched the Twilight Zone marathons every year, since I was 12 years old. I’m a Psychotherapist now, I feel like the Twilight Zone shaped me and taught me about human nature. 💛☀️
In this day and age it's probably prepared you for the real thing 😁
Too much sunshine makes a desert Sunshine.
@@razieluchiha7580 pancakes taste good 🥴
That's scary
There's this guy, his name was Freud ....
The Twilight Zone was a classic. It made a point in every episode. Truly a great show and one we have no replacement for. Thank you 💛
“Next stop, Willoughby!” I hear that name every once in a while and it still gives me the creeps.
I also remember the episode where the neglected children jump into a pool and end up in another place where they’re treated wonderfully with other neglected children. Boy, that was creepy.
After watching the original "Twilight Zone" on TV as a young boy I would sometimes have nightmares on those nights! They were as good and entertaining as the TV broadcast!!!
Loved the Willoughby episode. My favorite one.
Love that episode
@@anthonysmall5090 Creepy GOOD!!!
I love that one
I will never forget how I yelled at the screen when Bergess Merideth stepped on his glasses in "Time Enough At Last"! To me, that was the most horrible thing ever!!! Such a brilliant ending!
I have spare glasses everywhere because of that episode.
As a kid 10 years old watching it the 90's had me shook, movies make you understand the importance of life.
“It’s not fair….” That was a great ending to a great episode.
I always think of that episode and that great ending.
Hey Pam, he did not step on them, he dropped them on the library step. Submitted for your approval.
My youngest son and I's absolute favorite episode (saw it together a doxen or so times) was the one called "A Stop at Willoughby" where the overstressed working man and nagged upon at home caught the train home and would fall asleep on trip "waking up in Willoughby a peaceful, happy place. With kind people treating him nice. He got the choice to "stay" which he eventually did walking off train happily smailing. Then you see a snowbank with police and men speaking about the man who jumped from the train. Closing the door to what I assumed was the ambulance, the back door had "Willoughby and Sons - Funeral Parlor"! My son passed in 2015 and I sometimes smile thinking if him living ha living happily in Willoughby (Heaven!)
Serling respected his audience. His stories age well because he challenges your intellect, morals, and values.
Yes Randy, his audience was respected. That’s because they were smarter and more sophisticated than todays audience.( sorry to say it ). Today, shows are all dumbed down to the lowest denominator for the idiot audiences.
@@bobareeniobobareenio2935 I am one of those, and folks weren't smarter then get off that!
Serling is the greatest TV show host in history.
Um, christian guy, eviction does not violate the 2nd law because it isn't a closed system.
@Justin Gary Mara'natha
Thankfully, Rod Serling is now recognized for the genius he truly was. I put him in the same class as HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, and other top SciFi/horror writer greats. I miss him so much.
You need to add Arch Obler's radio plays to that list. They can scare the #^(*(%# out of you with just words and sound effects
@@jimzielbauer6112 Good call for Arch Oboler. He pushed the bounds of radio drama, not just imitating stage plays but using the unique characteristics of the medium to tell stories distinctively, using things like audio montage.
It. Is. Later. Than. You. Think.
He was like a Midas touch for actors - a lot of big names appeared on that show when they were unknowns...
Bill Bixby before he started the incredible hulk
Around the same time, the Western series "Rawhide" was like that too. Many of the show's regulars and guest actors went on to become famous shortly after.
Robert Redford, Robert Duval, George Takei, William Shatner, Burt Reynolds, Elizabeth Montgomery, Charles Bronson, Leonard Nimoy, Dennis Hopper, Ron Howard, Carol Burnett, Jonathan Winters, Martin Landau, Sydney Pollack, James Doohan, Jack Klugman, Dick York, Dennis Weaver, Lee Van Cleef, Peter Falk .....to name a few.
For movies it would be the original Midway movie. More stars( past and present) than you can shake a stick at...the cast list will shock some.
He used a lot of actors were mostly known for comedies and gave them serious roles.
The story of the food crate killing the soldier could also be the origin of many of Serling's ironic endings. Imagine the troops sharing rations from that crate later on. Sometimes, the simplest things come at an unexpected cost.
The Twilight Zone was nothing more than one of the 3-4 best television shows of all time. Thought provoking, with writing that was simply superb, the show is timeless and is just as good now as it was in the early 1960's.
Was nothing “less” than one of the best
I was thinking the same thing.
I actually disagree. "The Twilight Zone" along with "Star Trek" were 2 shows of very questionable quality, yet they provoked a pop culture response that still reverberates into this century. They were a couple of little meteors that burned quickly through the atmosphere yet left marvelous impact craters.
And guitar players _always_ botch that intro lick😝 I'm no guitar slinger, but at least I can figure out the correct notes to that thing.
@@BigBri550 For the time, the "quality" was quite good! But even that paled beside the originality.
You must allow for any advance in technology, in order to see enough in it, that someone looking back decades later sees not the state of technology but the innovation it meant to get there.
@@karenp1687 Actually, I was referring to scripts, acting, and directing.
This was one of my favorite shows to watch when I was a child. I'm so grateful my mother let me watch it!
Born in 1979. This is one of the Greatest television shows of All Time.
Will never be duplicated.
Rod Serling Legend!
"The Monsters are due on Maple Street" should be compulsory viewing at school and college. It has a lot to say and more, about what is happening now regarding the mass hysteria and fear sweeping the world. Definitely prophetic.
I believe it is actually. My school gave a lesson on this episode, and my younger siblings also remember having to learn about that episode in particular. But that could just be my county’s curriculum
@@wesstewart2677 I assume an American school? Makes sense if it was, as it was an American TV show and has more following there than perhaps here in Australia. In any event, good to know that your school values it enough to include it for study and discussion. I do remember it being broadcast here back in the 1970s. Wasn't until I was an adult and started watching it on DVD back in the early 2000's that I really came to appreciate it for what it had to say about the human condition and its amazing thought provoking stories. One of a kind.
Quite prescient. I rewatched it recently.
My junior high literature class did a reading of the script in class. I got to read the "Alien One" part at the end.
@@axnyslie Good to know it was being studied/analysed in achool. How long a go was that? How did the class react to it? There must have been some interesting discussion about it. Did you ever watch the actual episode and/or others of the twilight zone?
The black and white film was the perfect genre for "The Twilight Zone". I've seen the movie and the newer series, both in color, but from a visual perspective, they never have the mystique of the original. Heard an interview with Rod Serling's daughter on "Coast to Coast A.M.", probably from about 2005 or so, and it was amazing hearing her recount "The Twilight Zone" and talking about her father. It seems that all great writers have been through some kind of Hell, and that they use writing to exercise the demons.
Twilight Zone is timeless and was ahead of the times.
It was ahead of its time
I a way seems to have paved the way for Star Trek, in imagination.
What's been happening in this country the last 18 months makes me feel that I am living in the Twilight Zone.
The last 18 months? Try the last four or five decades!
Invasion of the body snatchers too!
@@kazparzyxzpenualt8111 - my husband and I were just saying that we thought it's really Pod People making all this trouble!
AMEN!!!
Such is the effect of repetition and shock and awe.
Eye Of The Beholder. Donna Douglas played the “ugly” woman so well. Being escorted off to the new place where she would live with others of her kind. My favorite episode of all time. And the shocked doctor and nurses unwrapping her bandages to determine the final surgery had failed. Priceless.
Really?
Trippy and I've never forgotten that one
Liked that episode too, and ..."Serving Man"...about the "cookbook"
That episode is also my favourite.
@@mrb1619 The entire run of The Twilight Zone is outstanding, yet some episodes emerge like supernovae. This was one of them.✌😸
I liked the episode about a couple trying to escape their neighborhood. Actually, they were dolls in a little girl's playhouse with a neighborhood setting.
I was a kid when The Twilight Zone began. Many decades have passed since then, and it is still in a class by itself.
So true
Me too, I watched it every week. I now own a couple sets of the whole series.
Some of the story lines were really preposterous or just too dated now, but many are
truly so timeless that they've walked with me through life. But for me, the show would have badly suffered without benefit of CBS's superb production music library. Some of the best music ever heard on TV was pulled from composers like Dan Alexander, Van Cleave, Bernard Hermann, Fred Steiner and other giants by the editors to score the entire series. Bravo!
"The Hitchhiker" and the killer doll episodes are two of the most disturbing stories ever written. They creeped me out when I saw them as a kid, and they still have that same effect today. Rod Serling was one heck of an imaginative and talented man.
I was just telling my SIL about the killer doll episode yesterday. ☺️
Ug I wish you hadn’t just reminded me of Talkie Tina. No sleep tonight.
Agreed. Talking Doll is my favorite. Saw it as a kid and never forgot it. A Nice Place to Visit is also a classic.
When I was a little girl, I was not a fan of dolls. They gave me the creeps and I always made practical play clothes for them out of old denim or fabric scraps. The "talking Tina" episode validated my weirdness, ha ha.
You’re talking about talking Tina
Rod Serling was a genius and an oracle of the future. So many of his "warnings" have come to pass.
He wrote of the horrors that had happened and were happening around him in an attempt to warm us to never let history repeat itself. But humans are selfish, so evil people will always exist, and evil people copy the deeds of past evil people, only taking it a step further.
Ruh-Roh, I guess we'll never learn.
True so true
@@uhohhotdog9150 yep
Any predictions on the future sooner or later will pass….. basic mathematics son!
Twilight zones were like reading short stories that always made you think hmm?
My favorite memory of all was sitting in a recliner with my grandmother. The only two awake and the only light was the one coming from the television.
That is my favorite memory when I think of reruns of The Twilight zone.
When I was a kid, we loved this show. We had to beg my mom to let us watch it. She was worried it was too scary but we promised it wasn't, it was but we never let on. We loved it! Don't forget Night Gallery which he did later. RIP and thank you for your service.
" Yes somebody remember the night gallery ,I was kid who grew
up on horror movies ,but my mom
was worried about bad dreams,
I love the three line up from the
Night gallery ,when the guy I'm
not sure what sinero the killed the
guy for money ,in the painting
they would show him coming
Out the grave,every frame he getting to the house,then the
last painting he's knocking at the door,.
The next one Betty Davis was blind she get s a new pair eyes
living in new York, ,they had a black ,she took off blind fold
She thought the eye surgery
wasn't a success
She snapped out ,she could really
see ,it was a black out.
She thought she was still blind.
The last one was a man always going to look
@@firebird2485
The first sounds like he borrowed it from an old story The Mezzotint...where a man buys a painting that shows a character getting ever closer to the house of a man that had him hung for poaching.
What do you get when you plant little old ladies fingers?
Little old ladies.
Night gallery was the best!! The episode where Joan Crawford playing a wealthy blind women pays to have sight again for one day only to have it be a blackout
Rod Serling hated the Night Gallery. They just used his name. However, as a kid that intro scared me to death. A couple good episodes.
To this day I drop EVERYTHING to watch The Twilight Zone Marathons on July 4th & New Years Eve. Rod Serling & The Twilight Zone are the best ever & I thank God for blessing us all with this timeless genius.
Here in Australia the Twilight Zone has never been played on TV, I've got Netflix but TZ isn't on the play list. I stumbled apon TZ when I borrowed a DVD from my local library. The very first episode I watched was 'In praise of Pip' about 5 years ago. I've now got the boxset and the TZ companion book, love the series!
Me too! Love them.
I must be really addicted. I record them :)
Wasn't he also responsible for "Night Gallery"? That show scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Night Gallery was a favorite. Similar format with Rod Serling narrating.
It seemed a bit darker and more monster oriented. A bit less philosophical than Twight Zone
Yes, I remember that program. The one, which sticks out, after all of these years, is the painting episode. The husband wanted so badly to be in a painting of a guy fishing on a boat to escape his life. One night, the lights were off when he went to the same spot as the painting always was, but they had removed it and replaced it with painting of Jesus on the cross. He went into that painting, instead. Horrible. Ha ha.
Me too.
That came after Zone ended.
@@samprimera5545 my 2nd favorite of all.
Watch this video!
This took me back to when I was a kid.
Occasionally, there were a few moments while watching this when I was spellbound. I used to watch this with my stepdad. I remember it so well. I still use the phrase where I will tell people that in regards to a lot of things that I see today that we are going through as a country and culture that it feels like we are entering the twilight zone. So many things strike me as being upside down. I fear for our kids and grandkids. I had a good childhood and I’m grateful for it. I’m afraid they won’t be able to be kids.
Rod Serling is partially responsible for my marriage. My wife and I initially bonded over our mutual love of the Twilight Zone. We still watch the show regularly six years later.
That’s awesome!
My Sister and I once briefly bonded over an episode of the New Twilight Zone (NightCrawlers) But We went back to fighting as soon as the episode was over. I'm glad. I don't want to marry my sister.
you wouldn't happen to have a tape recorder that you talk into to conjure things up?
So, you were 'Submitted, for her approval'? NICE!
@David Mazuca p
When I was a young boy the opening of the Twilight Zone would scare the crap out of me. When the announcer says “Do not attempt to turn that Dial!” , I would be in fear. When I was around four years old I finally waited next to the tv awaiting that announcement and then I was bold and changed the channel. I was scared out of my wits, however, I’m still here! 😂 Those shows were a launching pad for some of the most iconic actors and actresses of the era.
That's The Outer Limits you're thinking of, not The Twilight Zone.
What he said. ^
It was definitely The Outer Limits, and yes that would also scare me for some reason as a kid watching these reruns late at night. I suppose as a kid you kinda think the TV might actually be talking to you lol.
That line was from 'The Outer Limits.'
@@rouninpanda6318 Scared the hell out of me too!
no remake compares to the original~ they can’t copy the magic.
that jordan peale stuff is pure crap maybe as bad as ray bradbury theater.
Usually happens with movies as well. Remakes somehow just don't cut it.
We supplied the magic, via that 5th dimension of imagination!
Think of those episodes, keeping you mind open, for days weeks months years and decades, waiting for that "TWILIGHT ZONE" moment in our own lives!
The 80s “New” Twilight Zone had some good original stories.
The UPN Twilight Zone and Peel’s Twilight Zone shouldn’t have been made.
Just like when the remake of Ghostbusters came out , it was very bad.
I remember that 1980s episode entitled Button Button. A broke couple were given an opportunity to have all their financial woes ended and live in luxury just by pushing the button on a very plain box. If they pushed it, they would get untold riches, but someone on earth would have to die as a consequence.
They did a version of that story on CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974 too.
That's based on a story called "The Monkey's Paw."
I have an image in my mind that I will never forget from an episode written for the 80's version of Twilight Zone. I think it was titled "Quiet, please!" It's about a mother who's overwhelmed by all the noise around her (ie children; husband; TV blaring; etc.) Somehow she she's able to freeze time by yelling "Quiet!" or something like that. She can also unfreeze time at will.
So she has some fun with this for awhile then goes downtown to do some shopping. She hears news from radios around her regarding a conflict between the US and Russia. Suddenly, air raid sirens start going off, and people are panicking. She doesn't understand what's going on, and the noise is overwhelming. She freezes time then walks around the corner of the street she's on. She sees some people looking up at the sky and pointing, so she looks up and notices something terrible: a nuclear warhead is frozen just above the building where the people are standing.
She's frozen the impending bomb detonation along with everything else. BUT she can't unfreeze time ever again, or the bomb will kill all the people. So basically she ends up stuck with that choice: unfreeze time or leave it frozen and be the only unfrozen person on earth? Pretty lonely place to be.
Anyway, the image of missle frozen above the building with everyone is looking at it is forever embedded in my mind. A truly frightening scenario!
Push the button. What’s the problem?
I remember that one😂
Rod Serling was a genius. The Twilight Zone is a noun that will live forever…
So true!
Get a life!
...Even the opening instrumental notes... "tee-dee-dee-dee etc". Everyone knows what those mean.
@@JohnSmith-eo5sp Stay mad.
Rod Serling was WAY ahead of his time.
@Jack Bonello Will take your word for it.
Well he was and he wasn't: He was ALSO a writer at the end of a literate tradition of wonderful movie-TV writers.
He was way ahead of his time for going back in time.
@Jack Bonello He was brilliant, and had something most writers today lack - a truly creative imagination.
@Gary Snow LOVE the Outer Limits, but Twilight Zone was by far the best anthology series ever. Outer Limits might have been the second best, though.
sometimes the twilight zone is a better alternate reality than the actual reality that we live in everyday.....
Truth is worse than fiction. It takes a while to see it though.
I thought that quite often.. even as a child. 🤔😋
My favorite episode way back in the ‘60s was about the banker who loved to read. Not long ago I finally got to see that episode again and I was so excited.
My vision has deteriorated so badly, I can no longer read much. I'd hoped retirement would give me more time to read. I think of that episode often.
For my money, the scariest episode of TTZ was 'Shadow Play' which starred Dennis Weaver as a man who is sentenced to die in the electric chair and he tries to tell everybody that at the moment of his death, he will find himself back in the courtroom being sentenced to die in the electric chair and that each time it happens, everybody switches roles!
That's a good one !
That is one of the most horrible, because it includes the gruesome Electric Chair .
That episode was just brilliant!
I remember it well. What a nightmare!
What’s this episode called?
Truly timeless TV - - it does not age at all. Rod Serling was a genius.......
TRULY, M.A.!
Meaning....?
His last name was sterling it was changed
And the black & white format made the backdrops easier to make without looking fake. Color makes it easier to spot the backdrop, so just like the carefully hired and soon to be expensive stars, the quality appears 1st rate...
An absolute genius. Always spellbound at his films
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone is an American Instituion!
Institution, too.
Just like slasher films, and paranoid thrillers.
Which reminds me, Science Fiction is the most misanthropic of all genres of fiction
Scripted back story. Aristocrat.
Night hawk's American dad
After 60 years of watching television with time off for bathroom breaks, my five favorite shows are as follows:
5. The Fugitive
4. Gunsmoke
3. The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
2. Seinfeld
And the number one is:
(drumroll.......)
THE TWILIGHT ZONE
I can’t believe it wasn’t that popular. Those shows were incredible especially for their time, super creative.
There were ad breaks for fridges, wash powder, cigs etc in the middle of every episode, when it was first broadcast. Enough to kill any mood created. Also, the passage of time since the early 60s has added a layer of interest and affection. Trying to avoid the word nostalgia.
This show was way ahead of its tyme it dealt with all the human frailties love, hate, fear, envy, death, life etc with twist & turns producing a very shocking ending no one saw coming while teaching a life moral lesson...no show 2day can touch it hands down...Rod Serling you da man👍🏾...
In 2021, many of the episodes depicting government overreach, silencing speech/ideas, banning books, etc are even more relevant than they were 60 years ago.
@@timmack2415 Also the PANIC that sets in when somebody "different" appears, and the general idea is "kill him, he is not one of us!"
Yes it was
When I was a lil girl, my older brother LOVED the Twilight Zone and it scared me to no end. Now, at 60-years old I LOVE the Twilight Zone, and even though I can watch it any time I want, sitting in front of the TV for the annual New Years Marathon has been a tradition of mine for decades. I could never really get into the remakes because the original is the absolute best.
I’m 19 and no remake can even shine a light to the original
The original is always the best but I have to disagree there are some remakes that I saw that are just as good and some even better
@@janish3059 I’ve watched a lot of the new ones, it’s not the same, without using video quality or cgi quality as factors in debate, I have to say the old ones are better, they aren’t scary- but unsettling, almost like how u feel when u wake up from a weird dream
Yes, so excited for remakes, but after 1 I knew I'd never watch another, the originals I realise can never be recreated.
I'm 22 and I understand you. I was scared of a lot of things as a kid.
I'm 52 now and have been watching this show since I was around 5 or 6. I've seen every episode at least a dozen times by now, some maybe 50 to 100 times. In many ways this show has shaped my character and who I am as a person. I got a chance to meet two of the original writers about 20 years ago and have had several of the actors sign my Twilight Zone Companion book. I owe a dept of gratitude to Mr. Serling for his contributions to the enrichment of our lives.
Yes, that 5th dimension is quite a timeless and vast space
They show mini-marathons throughout the year. 4th of July is a big one. Over 60yrs old and still showing marathons. Can't argue that this show is timeless. Mankind (unfortunately) will never change.
That is so cool you got to meet the writers!
🤣 Me too...
Whoa - are you in therapy ?
Out of so many memorable shows birthed by Rod Serling, one has always stood out in my memories - that of the spaceship that returned to Earth, but somehow was not supposed to. Each of the three crew mates gradually disappeared, and no one remembered them when they did - except the captain. In the end, he and the spacecraft itself were mere phantoms. What genius, one of many of Serling's creations.
One of the finest television shows ever. Road Serling was a genius.
There will never be another Rod Serling. I still watch Twilight Zone today. I never get tired of it.
@@maryjobraun1101 Me Too!
Who the hell is road?
Streets ahead you could say .
definitely original, still like watching it now
One of my favorite episodes is The Masks. It shows that you can't hide who you really are.
That’s one of my favorites!
Agreed
The REAL lesson about revealing people was The Shelter. YIKES!
Trust fund kids and the grumpy patriarch who worked hard and intelligently on building his wealth and did not like the notion of being the gravy train for a clan of ungrateful undisciplined flakes. Great episode
YES, I ALSO LOVE TO SERVE MAN!!! WOW!!
The elderly woman getting phone calls from her deceased husband and they go out and see that the telephone line is buried in his grave that one kind of creeped me out pretty bad
Portifoy!
That, and the episode Talking Tina doll “Hi I’m talking Tina and I’m going to kill you.”
That’s my favorite one! So creepy!
Art imitating life, and vice versa:
Most recently at the Florida Champlain condo collapse, a family received 16 phone calls from their parents phone number one day, while it was still a recovery mission, I think, shortly before the bodies of the parents were found buried in the rubble of the site!
I’m so sorry for that family, they will always have that memory, and the what if’s playing with their minds and hearts.
🕊God bless you❣️😇🎉🎶💝
That episode STILL creeps me out. I was a young kid when it first aired and it scared the bejeezus out of me.
Twilight Zone was just before my time. When I was a kid, I remember Rod hosting, "The Night Gallery."
Just the freaky, distorted opening would scare the crap out of me?!!
The episode with William Shatner on the plane still gives me chills to this day.
That pig faced yeti still creeps me out
The one with the woman in the farmhouse fighting the tiny spaceman is my favorite.
Good show captain kirk was a good actor all round
" there's ..someone on the wing...some....thing"....
Isn't that the Mom of Bewitched....Agnes Morehead I think...loved that!!
Rod Serling was to adults what Mr. Rogers was to children! Does that make sense?
Oh yes. Perfectly. ✌🏻👍🏼
@Mike Gross This is a fantastic comment! Rod Serling made a TV show that was fun and imaginative and intelligent, much like Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. Best of all, my young children can suspend their disbelief enough to be on the edge of their seats for these reruns. How many TV shows from the early 1960s still carry that kind of weight today? I can’t think of any.
YES!
@@tikijason It, also, made you think & question.
Amen, brother.
It was a thought provoking series....one that has stood the test of time !!!!!
My bedroom filled with the gray light from my old black and white with Twilight Zone and Outer Limits all night while my parents were asleep. Some of my favorite memories of my life
Show was ahead of its time and Rod was a genius.
This and other programs of the era were somewhat committed to promoting family and moral values as well as the difference between right and wrong. Really miss those days. I’m certain those types of programs helped to reinforce a more sound and balanced society.
Now you have shows that glorify criminality, obscure the difference between right and wrong, etc. And you wonder why society is hellbent on destroying itself
Gets back to the old question: Is it life imitating art or art imitating life?
Underrated Comment ☝🏻
i think maybe, yes.
one of many things wrong with the present day--everyone questions and messes with time-tested concepts of goodness many mock traditional values like family,right and wrong and the rest of us are too polite to challenge them the whole CENTURY stinks of misguided political correctness and freakish behavior running unchecked we deserve better,my friends
As a kid in the 1980’s the first Twilight Zone episode I ever saw was about a guy that had a stopwatch that would stop time. I was absolutely obsessed with the show after that and it’s still one of my all-time favorite series.
As a kid of the 60's I caught exactly one episode on the b/w tv. I couldn't have been more than 5 years old. Never saw it again until moocho later....and it was on my young bucket list. What I remembered for all those long years was the hamburger guy behind the bar with that sneaking 3rd eye on his noggin. Funny, I prolly haven't seen TZ through more than a couple of times. Didn't have to. Seems like I have all of the shows memorized. Made quite an impression on me, it did.
I remember that one
Look for the book "The girl, the gold watch, and everything" by J.D. McDonald. Same watch idea!!!
@Vera Mae That's a cool movie! I like the theme song too.
That you for enabling our travel to that other dimension. Your explanation of this nearly-forgotten series is fascinating.
For some strange reason I find The Twilight Zone very relaxing and comforting. There is some type of surreal dream like quality to it that I can't quite put my finger on. This series still continues to amaze me and even more so now knowing what Rod went through, saw and endured in his young adult life.
That's it! I couldn't express it like that but you did it for me.
He sure mastered the English language along the way too ! Guy was brilliant. Saw an interview with his widow. She claimed the pressure of writing the T.Z. really burnt him out.
That’s how I feel about the twilight zone … it’s very comfortable
The fantasy of it is also comforting-the idea that there could be a world out there where people get the treatment they deserve out if life; where the just are rewarded and the cruel are punished, and all in accordance with their actions; where things always get better for those who are willing to learn a lesson; where thinking things through can guarantee success.
@@AlexanderStHill I used to feel like that for a long time. Now it depends on the episode, some of them are a bit too slow. Specially after I watch them more than once like most of us have done. So I skip to the ones that keep me engaged. Cheers!
Rod Serling helped create the Movie, Planet of the Apes. He was a complete genius!
@doons403 planet of the idiots
There he is! That one guy who has to state something factual as if he the only one to know
Yep, apes of all kinds of shapes and colors! It’s funny how dna under a microscope can really tell you the real truth. 🤔🤷🏾♂️
@doons403 😃😃😃
Didnt know that.
The man had a side job testing parachutes and aircraft ejection seats for the military. Mad respect. 🤜🏻 🤛🏻. 👊🏻
I wonder why they used a picture of a Paraglider? Big difference.
.. Hi there 🙂🌻✌️ excuse me .. It was the round parachutes🤨 - not the candy chutes we see in use today...😖😕😡...I suggest to show proper photo of the old chutes ...a BIG ERROR ...🙄🤔 ... the round ones were very risky ... actual safe deployment of these chutes was very problematic.😔.. bad design meant it was almost a 50/ 50 chance they would open correctly .😱🤪😵⚰️..⚰️⚰️...⚰️.... and he TESTED these nightmare parachutes ?!? 😱🙄.💪.. even tested an ejector seat that THREE MEN actually DIED testing previously..?!??😬.😵😵😱😮 💺 ?!??!!? ...the man had balls the size of an 🐘...🤯..I will Love Rod Serling ...forever ..❤️. . . the bravest military man ever .👮 ..just my humble opinion..HE should be on Mt. Rushmore 🕵️🧔...💪🤳 . . 🤴 🗿. ...Rest In The Sweetest Peace , Sir.. ❤️🦊🙏🕯️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🙁... Absolute Legend ... and yes. .. A writing GENIUS.🚭.🎓..👑.🧠
@@jmason2838 What was that load of bollocks?
Was he cheating death?
You left out the fact, either by accident or by design, that Rod Sterling was known to have smoked up to four packs of cigarettes a day. Which, more than likely, contributed to his death at the age of 50.
His dad died of a heart attack at a young age too. Rod was not so smart about some things.
If people watched this show more now, less people would be duped by propaganda.
I thought that the whole purpose of TV was to spread propaganda. What would make this different?
@@qua7771 Careful, you're threatening their delusion of security.
@@qua7771 It had a foundation in TRUTH.
@@qua7771 Only conservative media is in the business of propaganda. TV was designed for education and entertainment.
@@qua7771 tv's are more or less computers now, so essentially TV's are technically dead
It's weird how the show's ratings were never off-the-chart back when it premiered, but retrospectively, people now regard it as one of the crown jewels of television.
Twilight Zone, Dick Van Dyke, Star Trek...many of the shows we consider treasures, were flops in their time.
Seinfeld had low ratings until season 4 when the fateful "The Contest" episode aired.
The 1950s and early 1960s were all about conforming, not questioning, thus series like this weren't culturally relevant at the time.
Yea it's definitely a "cult favorite".
It was an era of creating fear brought to you by the same folks today!
The whole Twilight Zone series was a good series . Rod Serling was an inventive individual . The stories he wrote were brilliant .
The Encounter was a brilliant episode and Takai was marvelous in it !
He WAS brilliant!! While he didn’t create and write all the stories, he brought us a different type of…? To call it “entertainment”, doesn’t do it justice! Food for the mind! Highly innovated the genre of SciFy! Although I was too young to watch it during its initial run, I loved seeing it in reruns. Even though it was done a very long time ago, the ideas never seem “dated” even now! I also loved his “Night Gallery”! Both are must haves for any collector of Iconic American Television!!
Apparently he did it to cope with his ptsd after the war.
Axtually, the episodes he wrote himself are generally considered some of the shows worst installments. He couldn't compete with some of the writers that contributed to the show, certainly. Serling's talent lay in having brilliant ideas and, more importantly, in gathering brilliant writers and creators around him.
@@jallenecs LOL...Worst installments? Your crazy. Serling was a brilliant writer which is why he won all those awards.
I remember the one with the gremlin riding on an airplane wing. I was seven years old and my dad was in the Air Force. He was stationed in Taiwan. I remember fearfully keeping the window panel closed, peaking out at rare times to make sure a gremlin was not on the wing, lol
Rod Serling was a genius. He was years ahead of any other writer.
I miss the late 50's and 60' watching Rod Serling, Ernie Kovacs. Edward R. Murrow, and Walter Cronkite's 'The 20th Century, and Air Power as well as Victory at Sea. THAT was great TV.
He was a great man, too.
Agreed.
I really agree he was really cool
@@jasonjmarchi Yes he did have great writers. All great shows depended on writers. The writers strike in the 90's ended all that and now we have these horseshit reality shows that are anything but reality and anything but entertaining. Next show will be "The Pawn Stars on Naked and Afraid" and I will blow up my TV.
"over budget" and yet studios still make bank on the series to this day.
This is coming from an old man. I bet you never heard this. The twilight zone brought to you tonight by Chesterfield cigarettes .
And I saw that episode with sulu from Star trek
@@denniscosban6145 also DREFT
@@forcesightknight - Man, I thought that was an acronym until it clicked in my memory. I don't think I've heard that brand in at least 50 years. A laundry detergent, I think. Thanks for that. Be well.
@@denniscosban6145 TZone alumni.... 'Sulu' 'Kirk' 'Scotty' 'Spock' and the doctor from the pilot episode with Captain Pike.
Mr. Rod Serling was way ahead of his time. Brilliant man.
What is time, X, Y, etc? The answer can be found only in the twilight zone.
except when it came to smoking before i was 10 i realized it wasn't good for you
@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus . I have not read yet. If all space look alike, how can i discern its relative movement? Does Time, as a function of Space, needs an observer to be measured?
I think being a child during this period made the show extra poignant. As an adult, this would have been an interesting series, but to a child, it was downright riveting, and I think it really affected the way I think.
Growing up, practically Everything I needed to know in Life about Human Nature and Spirit I learned from The Twilight Zone. Wonderfully Educational
Yeeeeeees
_In my humble opinion, The Twilight Zone was the best series EVER produced and no other series will stand the test of time as this one still does! EVERYTHING, and i do mean everything about the show was iconic; the actors, the themes, some of which are still relevant to this day, the sound effects, the props, the acting, the music, the titles of some of the episodes, the scripts, the intro and outro commentary by Rod Serling, Rod Serling himself...like I said, EVERYTHING!!! -Nemesis_
Although I agree 100 percent with this being the best series ever made I would add that the X-Files comes in at a photo finish second place
You've got a good argument. I was born in 1980, I'm still a huge fan. I can't imagine watching each episode as it was Aired
@Cb K not only as it was aired, but at that time there was of course no DVR'S, etc., ..so you better believe we were sitting in front that TV, way before the show was to start, (our Mom always made popcorn) and we didn't talk while the show was on! I had 5 older brothers, a younger brother, and one sister.
Being 6th in the line of 7 still left at home, I remember hiding my face in a blanket many times when things were too scary for me, 😆
@@reneet5858 _Those were beautiful times. Thank you for you poignant comment. Talk about a golden memory!_
You forgot to mention the brilliant lighting and set-design.
Rod Serling and Twilight zone made me forget how much I hated grade school, if only for a half hour or hour depending.
The first time I was allowed to watch Twilight Zone -- I was in grade school. And it was great: "The Howling Man," staring John Carradine as a stern monk keeping the Devil himself locked up "forever" after WWI. We know what happened, of course.
So true, I was born in 1954, and watched Twilight Zone every week
@@johnc2438 That episode aired about 2 days ago on MeTV
My favorite show was about the Army company on maneuvers in Montana and rolled into a time shift during Custer's Last Stand. The troops armed with M1 Garands went over the hill to join the battle and were never seen again except as names of the deceased troopers on the memorial columns.
Correction. The Twilight Zone is arguably the best TV series ever made.
I would say "The Prisoner" was its equal.
When I was a kid in the 60's TZ and Outer Limits were my two favorites. Then in the 70's Rod Serling came back with Night Gallery. That was a good one too!
@@davidrn2473 no
@It's curtains for you doll what a joke, Seinfield was garabge.
The Best!...
Burgess Meredith’s performance and the script in “Time Enough”are the paradigm of what incredible talent means
Also his performance in the obselete man
It was literally my worst nightmare. It still gives me chills.
Imagine..no one allow or have an interest in you reading!! No place/ time to read and finally you have time and yr glasses break...what F..k up karma..😱😓and you are the one to break yr own/ only lens..thats messed up!!! DAMNN..
Agreed. Burgess Meredith was a very talented actor. My favorite episode with him is the one where "the state" declares his character "obsolete." That gave me chills.
My favorite episode with Burgess Meredith is when he was a boxing trainer
I absolutely love this show. Found a box set unopened at a thrift store. I now make this a yearly event where I watch all the episodes on new years eve.
I watch them when I can...that would be cool to do a marathon like that!
There has always been times where i caught some episodes of the WPIX11nyc marathon on New Years eve. No matter my age, the party or the place, there is always a tv with The Twilight Zone on during New Years, before and after the 30 minutes surrounding the ball drop. Its like a magnet that draws myself and others in, then people looking for us join in and it becomes a thing until its time to play or jam out..
Wow! You got lucky! Lol 😂 🎰🎭🇺🇸🗿🗿🗿🏗🏖🍀🌿🎠🎠🎠🎠🦄🎡🎡⛲🎢🚀🛩🛫🛬🛫🚁🚂🚢⛵🚤🚣🚆 are they on DVD or VHS??? I taped a lot of them on New Year's eve on VHS tapes📼📼📼📼📼🎥 for a VCR Lol 😂 i would like to have all of them?
@@stevedriscoll2539 They already did a marathon on Twilight Zone🎯🇺🇸🎭 🌌🏞🌈🌐🌎🌍🌏🌝🌞 on New Year's eve! A few years ago or maybe 2017??? 📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼📼🎥🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌
Lucky find!
Time Enough at Last was my favorite. Burgess Meredith was awesome. It was tragic, but so well done!