How This Classic Twilight Zone Ep Shocked Audiences Without Saying a Word
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I can't imagine anyone but Moorehead playing the part. Masterpiece.
Agreed. I was meant to be a story where anyone not watching wouldn't know what was going on.
Dave Harris :: Elsa Lanchester, long before Moorehead !
Margaret Hamilton ("I'll get you, my pretty!") would probably have been able to give a good accounting of herself. :)
Or maybe Granny from _The Beverly Hillbillies_ (Irene Dunne, IIRC--Correction! Irene _Ryan_ (thx to Michael Palmieri below).
But yeah, Moorehead did a fantastic job.
But if, say, Patricia Routledge had played the part in a remake, she would have just talked the invaders to death.
Edit to correct Irene Dunne to Irene Ryan.
So true!!! Her presence in the episode truly made it a perfect work of art!
One of my favorites, next to Death in the person of Robert Redford.
This is a masterpiece and Moorehead's performance was nothing short of brilliant. She overcame the significant challenges that comes from having no dialog with amazing vigor. This is in my top 5 favorite episodes and is quintessential Twilight Zone. Having no modern equivalent!
@Ann Pommer It scared me too!
The episode was fantastic. This is of course thanks to the wonderful acting experience of Agnes Moorehead!!!
I remember reading an article where Rod Serling’s wife said that he would go out to their pool a sit and write 2 or 3 scripts in a couple of hours. The man was a genius!
A brilliant man.I wish I had his imagination. Died to soon of a heart attack at only 50 years old. Granted he was a heavy smoker. But so was my dad who was born in the same year as Rod. He died at 92 in 2017. Life is a lottery. Good genes and a lot of luck is involved
@@debbieanne7962 Rod smoked 5 packs of cigarettes a day. Defiantly a recipe for a short life. 🥴
What can be said about Agnes Moorehead is that her roles in suspense and imagination have left people around the world dazzled.
I thought the unnatural movements of the little creatures actually made them more creepy, myself. And although it's not about this show, I have to say that Moorehead as Endora was one of those perfect roles.
With heavy blue eyeshadow 😋
She didn't look like her earlier characters at ALL
Agree. Those little men in their cute spacesuits were very entertaining
@annpommer52
Most of Agnes Moorehead's acting in the late 1930s was on radio. Among other things, she was the original voice of Margo Lane on the crime and mystery show "The Shadow," during the time when the title character was first played by Orson Welles, and later, by William Johnstone, who is considered the best of the radio actors who played the "master of other men's minds."
Both Agnes Moorehead and Orson Welles made their movie debuts in the classic "Citizen Kane" (1941), with Welles as newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (a character supposedly based on William Randolph Hearst) and Miss Moorehead as Kane's mother, Mary Kane. (They didn't have any scenes together, but Moorehead did have a brief segment with a boy playing the younger version of Charles Foster Kane)
Welles and Moorehead were all part of the Mercury Theater troupe. They and other members of the troupe all appeared for the first time on the big screen in "Citizen Kane." Most of them had previously worked with Welles on their former weekly radio show called "The Mercury Theater On The Air." The most famous episode of the program was the legendary "The War Of The Worlds" broadcast (10/30/1938), which allegedly scared many listeners across the country into believing that the earth was being invaded by creatures from the Planet Mars.
Agnes as Endora, a menace for Darrin, made the show. However, she was slumming, and making good money. Ms. Moorehead had been a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater Players. See her as the warden in the original women in prison movie, "Caged," a minor cult classic. I loved her as a fellow Ohioan, as was Uncle Arthur, Paul Lynde.
I saw this one when it first aired, and at around 11 years old, it scared the crap out of me - and I loved every second of it!
I was also 11 when I saw it and it gave me nightmares. The episode with Robert Redford was one of my favorites.
Moorehead was great in almost every thing she played. She could make you love her and turn around an make you hate her like roll she played in Dark Passage with Bogi and Bacall. A lot of great actors and actresses' couldn't fail with all the great writhing on the Twilight Zone. One of my most favorites.
Two of Agnes's colleagues from "Bewitched"(Liz Montgomery and Dick York) also appeared on "The Twilight Zone".
She was an amazingly gifted actress.
I've seen Dark Passage several times as I love classic movies. She was excellent at being two-faced.
Fun to note that the "Flying Saucer" shown is one of the production models for the United Planets Cruiser C-57D from "Forbidden Planet."
@Lee Bronock You got that fact out before I could, well done.
I instantly recognized the ship's design. Thank you for mentioning that fact.
Oh, yes, you’ll find sets and props from Forbidden Planet were used all over the place. Robbie, the robot was used in one of the TZ episodes and The Time Tunnel comes to mind.
@@stubbsmusic543 Yes, that is why Stanley Kubrick had all the models he used in 2001 broken up after filming so they couldn't be 'recycled'.
Anything by Matheson is an automatic watch. Love his work. Twilight Zone had some of his best.
He wrote my favourite episode A world of difference
Oh man, this is one of my most recommended episodes for people who aren’t familiar with the series. My favorite episodes was the doppelgänger at the bus stop episode. The movie scared me the most. I will never forget the criminal story with the gold bars in the desert, the masks at midnight and the aliens wanting to escape their planet because it’s too oppressive. Finding terror among the mundane is so fascinating to me.
Mirror Image, Th Rip Van Winkle Caper and The Masks are also among my favorite episodes.
Doppelgänger at the bus stop? Is that the 3 eyed Martian & the 3 armed alien from Venus? Love that episode and “To Serve Man” and “It’s A Very Good Life” ….those are my 3 all time favorite episodes
@@crittoneida958 That was Mirror Image. The Martian had 3 arms and the Venusian had 3 eyes in Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
@@daleupthegrove6396 got it. I haven’t seen mirror image…..maybe it’s on RUclips…gonna look for it
@crittoneida It's reversed; The 3 armed man was from MARS. And the 3 eyed man was from VENUS. Made at a time when we really thought there might be life on both planets. 1961 Season 2 Episode 28; *Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up!*
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", "The Shelter, and To Serve Man" are three that come to mind. I have many more favorites.
The one about the killer doll (with Telly Savalas) creeps me out to this very day.
I remember watching this. I was surprised by the ending.
Agnes Moorehead had roles in Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons, Johnny Belinda and Showboat, to name just a few. She portrayed Endora on Bewitched for years. In this iconic episode, she gave a tour de force performance without speaking a word. Superb!
That spaceship model definitely earned its keep during the 50s and 60s. It turned up all over the place.
It was the same spaceship that was used in the movie “Forbidden Planet”.
It was featured in a few Twilight Zone episodes dealing with space. It was in The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street(but it was upside down), the episode about the three astronauts landing on a planet only to discover all too late that it was a cemetery. And the episode when three astronauts land on a planet and find an exact replica of their ship and themselves crashed into the planet’s terrain. I forgot the titles of the last two episodes but that spaceship was one of the most iconic designs of the 50’s.
Agnes Moorehead completely owns and utterly "rocks" in this powerful, outstanding, intense performance.
A significant high point, in a TV series with many high points!
I think I saw this when I was about 6 or 7 and it was very scary. Especially the part at the beginning when they said the house didn't have any electricity or gas. How was the poor lady supposed to watch Saturday morning cartoons? Absolutely terrifying! But yeah, the spacemen were scary too. 🤣
The airing of this 1961 Twilight Zone episode was one of my earliest childhood memories. I was just four years old. I can still clearly remember the moment when Agnes climbed up to the attic. I think that small memory fragment stuck so well because it truly frightened me! At that age, there was no concept of fiction. Everything seemed real, even when projected from a black-and-while television screen. That episode will always hold a special place in my heart ! Thanks for the recap!
I have two episodes I can tell you all the way through. This and the book reader. Agnes Moorhead and Burgess Meredith MADE those episodes. And the endings to both still resonate in my stomach! Utterly fantastic acting and shocking endings. Both still perfect in my 77 yo mind!
Watched in the 60s as a kid!💖👍!
It's difficult to pick only one TZ episode as a favorite. Fun Fact: four people who appeared in TZ episodes went on to appear in "Bewitched."
Have you seen 1980s TZ
a few of them, are great
One of a man walking up, saying hi to a neighbor, neighbor saying his dog gave birth to encyclopedias
Instead of puppies
Later, he went to work, and the word LUNCH became DINOSAUR 🤔
Creepy
I remember seeing one with William Shatner in it.
@@kathleenking47 Did Robert Klein star in that one?
@@brianew I think so
@@Cynsome1 He was in more than one episode...
Yes, a terrific episode! As an 11-year-old kid, my favorite Twilight Zone episode was “The Odyssey of Flight 33.” However, back then I didn’t know about plate tectonics or glaciation - and I guess Rod Serling didn’t, either. (The plane is thrust back in time and dinosaurs are seen grazing on Manhattan Island, between the Hudson and East Rivers, as the pilot said.)
Fun fact: Nobody knew anything about plate tectonics when the Twilight Zone was on. "Continental Drift" was a little known theory in geology at that time and not well accepted, mostly because there was no proposed mechanism. Plate Tectonics, as it became known, didn't start to gain traction till a bit after Twilight Zone ended.
I actually hated that episode because it dodged the main story--the plane was running out of fuel and had a chance to land in early 1940's US and give the allies a big technological advantage, and this was missed. Yet the idiots behind the wheel decided to keep on flying, on fumes. Edit: missed word.
@@josepherhardt164 I can’t disagree with that!
I was a kid during the 1960s, so my first experience watching Agnes Moorehead act was on Bewitched. Going back and watching this 1961 Twilight Zone episode showed me her brilliance as an actor. She had no dialog, yet she filled the screen! Afterward, I started looking for other performances of hers during the decades previous. Highly recommended.
I was two when this episode was first aired, and didn't see it (when I could appreciate it) until I was around seven or eight on a rerun. But the end of that episode caught me with a surprise when I saw the "US Air Force" markings on the saucer that I wouldn't feel again until a few years later when I saw the end of "Planet of the Apes" and the remains of the Statue of Liberty on the beach. A truly surprise ending!
Just the mention of it gave me chills! That was intense.
Another anthology series worth mentioning along the lines of TZ is The Outer Limits !!
This was a fantastic episode. I also liked Nightmare at 20,000 Feet as a favourite. Thanks for sharing.
This as one of the top episodes they ever showed. I can think of no actress other than Moorehead that could have pulled it off. The fear was so well portrayed you feared right along with her. The ending was mind-blowing. You never knew it wasn't earth!
Great job on this, thank you. Agnes Moorehead a treasure ever since her Mercury Theater days. Everything you state is true from my perspective. Puppets. They tried to avoid a neutral non-earthly set, but fireplace, bricks, wood construction is still 100% earth. But man this really works. This coming from a 67 year-old that feels like the 7 year-old that first saw this episode. And Rod Serling, a great American. Look him up.
I well remember this one when it was first shown. Spooked me big time and I've never forgotten it.
I am the proud owner of all the DvD s of the series .
This episode is really good 😀
Thanks for going in depth about it😀
Loved this 1, but my all-time favorite is the hillbilly & his dog who died and the dog saved the nan from going into hell
I love that episode too. It is "The Hunt." A good dog will sense evil and always protect his master from danger! 🐶❤
The only episode that gave me a nightmare as a child. I can still remember it!
The ship is the C57-D from "Forbidden Planet".
Such amazing show with casts too, plus host 👍👍👍👍
It's so hard to pick a favorite episode of "Twilight Zone." They're all so amazing. This one would definitely be in my top 10. I also like Masks, To Serve Man, The Hunt, People Are Alike All Over, and Two (another one with very little dialogue.)
I was about 10 when this episode first aired. When the camera finally flashed on the flying saucer and I saw it was stamped-U.S. Air Force, Space Probe, me and my friends who were staying the night at my house lost our shit. Being so young, I didn't appreciate the genius of that episode, but as I grew older I began to really appreciate Rod Serlings masterful writing. He was the master at building suspense. Another favorite TZ episode of mine was the one where the girl thought she was hideously ugly, so she repeatedly had surgery to make herself look normal so she could fit in with society and not have to be shunned. When they removed her bandages and the doctors and nurses acted with such revulsion at the sight of her, I thought, man, this bitch must be really ugly. But, no, the doctors and nurses were the actual monster lookin folks. Mr. Serling, once again shocked us all with his brilliant writing with this great episode. There were many more fantastic episodes I loved-To Serve Man, Nightmare at 20,000' (Captain Kirk episode), The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, and plus many more fantastic, suspensful episodes that made Friday nights when I was a kid so much fun. I imagine anyone who reads my drivel here will also fondly remember anxiously waiting on Friday nights for 10pm to finally arrive so we could watch TZ. I miss those long gone days. Shit, I blinked my eyes and 50+ years just zipped by. 😋
I was 10 yrs old when I saw this, suprised and scared me, but I was glad for the lady
Great twist with this one. It is one of my favorites. Thanks for the memories.
Everything Richard Matheson writes is good!
I remember the first time I saw this episode.
One of the best twists ever!
My two favorite writers for 'Twilight Zone' are Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont, of course Rod's no slouch either.
I saw this as a kid on TV in the early 60's and it totally freaked me out! IMO one of the creepiest episodes of The Twilight Zone ever, and probably one of the creepiest things I've ever seen on TV. I hope Agnes Moorehead came around and realized that she didn't need any dialog to do this part justice. She was absolutely brilliant!
My mom talks about this episode whenever TZ is brought up. It made a big impact on her as a child
The shocker ending to this episode was brilliant and classic!
The Agnes Moorhead episode the Billy Mummy one and the little girl lost through the wall were 3 of my favorite Twlight Zone episodes!😬😬😬👍🏻
I hated the Billy Mumy episode because the writer had to give a character the idiot ball to keep the plot going. Of course, I kinda get it that 1960's TV wasn't ready for infanticide. Speaking of the same scenario, wasn't there an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents where another little boy keeps his parents in thrall with his powers as well? Been trying to find the name of that episode but without success.
Which Billy Mumy one? He was in 3 (I'm talking the original series, not the movie or later versions of the show.
I just started watching Babylon 5 (never got into it during its original run) and was surprised to see Mumy as a recurring character in that show!
PS, I'm pretty sure I know which TZ episode you're referring to. I just wanted to see if you knew he had done other episodes in the show, too! 🤪
@@seanryan3020 I’m talking about the one where he sent people that he thought were bad (to him) to a secret place and they never returned! 👍🏻😬 Tell me what the other two were, I’ve forgotten them I guess.
@Cat&Fish M. Yeah, I figured it was that one; it's the one most people know. The others were "In Praise of Pip," which starred Jack Klugman as a guy who had lost a son or brother many years ago, who Mumy played, and the other was one in which Mumy was a boy whose recently-deceased grandmother kept calling him on a toy phone. I forget the title of that one.
Don't know if you knew this, but Mumy played a bit part in the Twilight Zone movie (the remake of his powerful kid story), and he even reprised that kid role in the early 2000s Twilight Zone as an adult with an equally powerful daughter (played by his real-life daughter). Chloris Leachman, who played the mother in the original episode, also reprised her role for the 2000s version.
@@seanryan3020 I’m kinda remembering the other episodes especially the one with the toy phone. They must not of scared me as much as the other one or didn’t see them replayed as much! Thanks for the info. Do you remember if an episode called Kick the Can was a Twlight Zone? Where people in a home for the elderly would go outside to play at night and become younger again, all except one man that didn’t believe them?
Oh man, my favorite episode! I remember as a little kid watching this & it still freaks me out.
I remember it well! Fantastic!
There’s just so many episodes I liked. I started watching this when I was pretty young, I have 3 old siblings.
So, I had a Chatty Cathy doll so when I saw the episode called “Living Doll” I didn’t want “Tina” anymore & another one with Bill Mumy in it called “It’s a Good Life”, also scared the heck out of me.
She could scare the 💩out of Chuckie! Damn she killed Kojak!
Saw this when I was a boy. The terror I felt then is still with me today. I watched this episode just a month ago. Yup! Still terrifying.
Landmark series. Superior entertainment even today.
Another superior series in the same time frame that had a moral message in the same vein as Twilight Zone was the original "Outer Limits". (FYI, the newer "Outer Limits" didn't have the class of the original series.
The first episode of the reboot had some solid chops in material, but after that.....yeah not so much lol
As a young kid, it was this episode and To Serve Man that really stuck with me. The twist endings blew my young, little mind.
Agree, one of my favorites too! But there were so many, what a great series!
"Incident at Owl Creek Bridge" is another masterpiece of Twilight Zone silence, not a word of dialog and another shock twist ending.
I love this episode, which, like all the other episodes, I saw at the time it came out. This is one of my favorites along with The Hitch Hiker" ("going my way ?") and probably my number one, the one about the little girl who falls out of bed in the middle of the night and rolls into the 4th dimension through a wall . I can't remember every episode, but I know those 3 are my favorites .I own the first 2 seasons, which have all 3 of those . The early 60s were the Golden Age of TV. with Twilight Zone. One Step Beyond (started in 1958), The Outer Limits (my favorite) and Route 66 . I had the time of my life watching TV .
One of the greatest Si-Fi stories put to film. Absolutely classic.
This is my favorite TZ of all time! Fun fact: The spaceship is the same model used in the MGM movie Forbidden Planet.
Loved this episode. The Outer Limits is my other favorite series from this era. Outer Limits has the only episode that every truly scared me (when I was eight) - it was called “The Zanti Misfits” and had these weird bugs with freaky faces.
The Invaders was a classic. Agnes Moorehead’s performance was outstanding as a woman alone and under attack. The rule in theater is not to act, but to react. What would anyone do In Agnes’ character’s situation?
The Twilight Zone had quite a number of classic episodes like Dead Man’s Shoes or The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, or The After Hours.
Every story in The Twilight Zone(except for one called Cavendish Is Coming), had climaxes that surprised, frightened and provoked many thoughts about the episodes.
There will never be a show like this.
The TV episode that creeped me out the most was an Outer Limits episode in 1967, "The Zanti Misfits". I never looked at Ants the same way after that!
Agnes Moorehead was incredibly talented and proved it here. The anxiety and terror she conveyed without speaking was riveting.
The nervous passenger who sees a grinning creature on the wing.....best show ever
Brilliant episode and very cool ending. I recall Moorehead in the Bogart film, Dark Passage. I thought shw was a very good actress.
Thank you for putting this video together. This is one of my favorite episodes. This is an example of acting by Agnes Moorehead. The twist at the end was amazing .
I love this episode in so many ways
This has always been my favorite. I watched it with my dad, Twilight Zone was a household "together time".
All TZ episodes were Great. Especially the one where a WW1 pilot flies into a cloud and lands at a modern US Air Force base. He’s amazed at how advanced we are. RFC Decker……..😊
I actually watched that episode a few weeks ago, that was a good time traveling episode.
"The Last Flight" is a memorable tale of a self-professed coward getting a second chance.
This episode was excellent! As is stated, Moorehead did an incredible job at portraying all the emotions especially fear, plus determination to survive. Needless to say the ending was surprising, bordering on shocking, and made one think deeply. I want to see it again. Joe
An amazing series! Only Black Mirror in the modern day comes close. Outer Limits back then was pretty good, too. Rod Serling was a remarkable writer and influencer, and anything he had a hand in was worth seeing. There are lots of first rate episodes in those five years that it ran, often combined with excellent performances from top actors.
One of my absolute favorite episodes. That "country cabin" is reminiscent of the cabins that some of my ancestors lived in, so the authenticity is on point. Not a soul could have pulled off the performance of the old woman other than Agnes Moorehead, she was superb.
I remember seeing this episode as a young boy and it was the first time I had seen Humans in space portrayed as anything other than heroic. The change of perspective changed the way I saw many things after that, with Twilite Zone shaping much of my vision of Humanity. You might say they taught critical thinking with stories that weren't weird just for weird's sake but to present different perspectives, what could be, not what we are told must be in a conformist state, as was the case in the 1950s.
I also really enjoyed the episode " The Grave " with Lee Marvin , and " The Howling Man " with John Carridine ... Agnes Moorehead was spectacular in this episode ..
This was a friend's favorite episode of the series....until I pointed out the blooper that runs through the whole episode. She's supposed to be a poor woman who does her own chores, cooks and cleans and probably farms and chops wood. All while having long, perfectly manicured nails!! Other than that, great acting.
You mentioned that it was not obvious she was on Earth. Funny, I never thought about it consciously, but somehow that always caught my attention anyhow. I kind of kep[ expecting to understand exactly who she was or where she was, but the answer never came.
Yes; it was a masterful form of foreshadowing.
This was one of the first episodes I ever saw and the twist ending had me floored. Definitely got hooked on watching it whenever it was on Sci-FI or the marathon on New Year's.
If this is the one I'm thinking of, yeah. This scared me when I was a kid.
There's another great 1980s one with a grandma in the bed.
I’m pretty sure I know which one this is and it scared me as a kid. I rate it as one of the top 3 scariest ones for me along with Talking Tina and Billy Mummy wishing folks into the cornfield.
This show was from the 60s.
@@reglook1 A new Twilight Zone series aired in the 80’s .
The title Nothing In The Dark with outstanding English actress Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford. I didn't particularly like this episode. It in no way compares with The Invaders!
@@roberttelarket4934 Agreed; that one was not much more than the elegy of Death appearing in many forms to those who live being afraid of Death. Very common story.
I vividly remember seeing this episode as a kid. The twist reveal at the end totally shocked me. It taught me the power of story telling and how magical it was that you could invent a world with your own ideas.
Loved this episode and like most, pulling for her until the camera on the ship.
Richard Matheson of course: A legend in the world of science fiction, horror and literature in general.
This episode is in my top 10 favorite TWILIGHT ZONE episodes but my favorite episode is one from the first season called "ONE FOR THE ANGEL'S".
I remember seeing this episode as a rerun on local TV when I was 10 or 11 and just being blown away by the ending. A true masterpiece.
This episode scared the 'bejesus' out of me !
I must of been 6 years old at the time, it is my all time favorite episode.
This was a classic episode. I remember watching it when I was a kid and feeling afraid throughout the episode. The ending was such a surprise twist that I remember being a little confused and shocked. Thanks for bringing back some good memories.
I watched this as a teenager, Agnes Moorehead was the old lady. Great episode.
I appreciate you. There is never any hatred or bigotry or misogyny or sexism in any of your content wonderful job.
I still love this episode! Great in every way.
Agnes Moorehead did an amazing job in The Invaders! Her character was so different, and she played it so well, I would NEVER have guessed that that was the same actress who played Endora!
I loved watching that show when i was growing up. I was a huge fan of Rod Serling.
This was an absolute favorite, and completely unforgettable episode of The Twilight Zone. And now realizing that it was the same writer for the unforgettable story from Trilogy of Terror makes perfect sense - both were epic!
Speaking of being able to convey emotions, I once saw a film test, I think it was Vivien Leigh, but I've never been able to find it subsequently. At any rate, the actress fronted the camera and proceeded to very effectively go through every emotion you could think of. How someone could conjure up stuff ranging from hopeless love to utter disgust one after the other so seamlessly will always amaze me. I can't imagine any director seeing that without saying, "Yeah, cast her".
The cabin and contents were homemade farmhouse, superbly authentic.
Masterclass in acting. Moorehead is incredible. Also, unbeknownst to people in 1961, but the awkward stilted movements of the spacemen is exactly how people in spacesuits would actually move in 69.
I would like to add to that. Given the twist at the end, landing on a planet with humanoids of that size, the gravity would be greater. Stands to reason "normal" humans would struggle to move easily.
Absolutely outstanding episode. Cool to see the parallels to Trilogy of Terror which was itself another awesome tale with the Devil Doll.
Yes, this is one of my favorite episodes, like talking tina ect!!
Karen Black in the Trilogy of Terror, w/ that maniacical little piranha-toothed doll finishing out the trilogy, was great cinema and terrified my little sisters, who gave up all their dolls after watching the movie. Twilight Zone was/is a must-watch for anyone wondering what the 50s/60s were like. The War of the Worlds radio broadcast had put the entire US in a panic over possibilities of alien invasions in the years preceeding WW2 and the technological advances of the Atomic Age that followed that war were firmly in the minds of most Americans. I recall the drills for nuclear attack, when I attended grade school, in the early 60s - had me so worried I stopped eating for a couple weeks, fearing I was just going to die by nuclear bomb. smh This stuff merely preyed upon those fears and doubts and were great entertainment. Agnes Moorehead was an excellent pick for part and her training w/ Marcel Marceau really shows through in the terror she portrays. I catch myself watching re-runs of these episodes of Twilight Zone whenever I get the opportunity.
Zuni Fetish Dolls… never forgot!
@V.E. The Zuni Fetish doll episode of Trilogy of Terror was fantastic! I remember the night it premiered. The next day at school, all everyone was talking about was the killer doll. Guys were running around imitating the doll and making stabbing motions with their hands. To this day, I remember that one, but can barely recall what the other two segments were!
What a shock at the end when the Invaders turned out to be Earth men!
I love this episode!!!!!!! This is her best performance ever!!!
Rod was a genius. Dead man's shoes is one of my favourites but there was so many and I can't remember the names.
Overall, a wonderful series that explored that what we believe is true isn't always so.
Shortly after receiving a DVD set along with a guide to the episodes, I had rewatched the first episode, "Where is Everybody?".
I was chatting about the episode to a patient who was in a procedure room (the patients only have local anesthesia and are thus fully awake). As it turns out, his father had worked on those experiments in isolation while he was in the US Air Force.
Small world.
Yup! This Episode remains etched in my mind and is one of my favorites. Topping my list is The Changing of the Guard - Everyone has either had a teacher like this, or is a teacher like this. Very emotionally accurate and heart felt.
That episode was one of the best of the program because of the twist.
This episode had a great twist to the story in the end.
In my Top Ten for The TZ.