At only 5' 4", Rod was an amateur boxer, who enlisted in the army the day after finishing high school. He served as an airborne paratrooper and received several accommodations including the Bronze Star. I loved your shows Rod and your clear word annunciation with that great baritone voice. May you forever RIP.
Jack Benny's personality was so well defined that he drew perhaps the longest sustained laugh ever on radio by saying nothing! When a robber demanded, "your money or your life", Benny didn't reply. The audience response increased with each second of silence. Finally, after what seemed an eternity of now hysterical laughter, the robber repeated the line. Jack responded with, "I'm thinking". Then, more laughter. Few born after 1955 will understand at all why that line was so funny.
I saw this when it was originally aired. Two of my favorites from that era, Rod Serling and Jack Benny! Who woulda thought. I love how gentle and silly humor was at the time. Not that everything has to be that way, but I'd appreciate bringing a taste of that back into our entertainment diets.
So do I, and I'm only 64, that's not that old. My cousin's partner flew Mosquito fighter-bombers at the end of World War II (at least 10 years before this episode).
@@jonnyq680 "but to cut off a man's legs..." Lt Col. Henry Blake in that M*A*S*H episode about the super cold snap, at the end when he's sitting by his desk top that's sitting on the floor--'cause it has no legs. Can't remember the title of the episode.
"Rochester,who's the greatest entertainer in America?" "Nat King Cole!" I busted up when I heard that! This was such an unexpected bit of fun! Thank you for sharing!
Mr. Serling should have done more on - camera work ... He was good ... and good - enough visually .. made a good impression 😎😃so ahead of his time . 🔮.. - a true pioneer. 🚪 🏆........ 🗿..... ... If only 🚫🚬🚬🚬. 💢 🤔😒. 😞😢😭🙏🕯️🏵️🌺💮🥀🌸🌼🌹🌻🏵️💐🙁☁️ 🦋💨. ⚰️😔☹️🕊️❤️👑🕵️. 🤞🖖✌️☕☕☕
@@jmason2838 Seriously? Try uninstallation of your idiotic emoji app. Most people do not use in 9 months what you have used in 2 lines. It looks as though a 3 year olds Speak-N-Spell blew up on the page.
R.I.P. Rod Sterling: 1924-1975. He was talented, handsome and he was such a cult. His show was so popular that many sketch shows parodied it, like SNL (twice(one in the 1970s and again in the 1990s)).
morskojvolk He did that in an episode of Twilight Zone as well. I can't remember the title of the episode, but it's the one where the author is having an affair on his wife and he can type things and make what he types either come to life or disappear. At the conclusion of the episode he types Rod Serlings name and throws it into the fireplace and Rod disappears. Not a great episode, but I do love that part.
That was "A World Of His Own", with Keenan Wynn as the playwright Gregory West. That was a Richard Matheson script. The original story Matheson submitted was a lot darker, but Serling and Buck Houghton suggested it should be reworked as a comedy. Matheson came up with the final gag with Serling being "erased" from existence as a spur of the moment joke. Serling loved it and decided to go with the scene and the episode as the closer for the season. Serling, as could be expected, had a great sense of humour, especially about himself.
Very impressed by how passionately Serling stressed how every aspect of his show was required to have a point. Bless him, I do not believe he was acting at that moment. The point of today's TV is to give the bovine masses the intellectual equivalent of bubble gum to chew on.
Today people watch reality shows on television. As I recall reality used to be where we all lived back in the 20th century and the 21st century was someplace that didn't exist except on television. Welcome to the Twilight Zone. :)
zoppie Everyone says that based on the TV. The 50's were NOT innocent. People were terrified of Nuclear war, The Korean war was happening, we had just come out of the bloodiest war in world history. Believe it or not 2015 is the most innocent time.
Growing up in the 50's and 60's I wasn't aware I was having fun. Kids take those things for granted you know. I miss those days and I miss my old black and white TV.
we only had a few channels back then but had far more quality shows to watch not all the crap we have today, 9999 channels and i have nothing to watch most of the time.
This brilliant. I wish I had the chance to have met Rod, he was so insightful and a tremendous talent in telling stories. Touching upon things the human race still struggled with then, and even till this day. A visionary, in many ways. And hilarious with Jack!
Bart Broadhead, Hey 👋. Thanks for this and the explanation comment, too. This is pretty cool 😎!!! I loved this show so much, as a kid!! Twilight Zone was already in repeats status, by the time I fell in love with it. Thanks, much. Nice of you to upload this. TC!
From the days of my early youth, I have LOVED the Twilight Zone. To me, it was the BEST suspense program on TV...and nothing has ever matched it. The stories keep you entertained and there was a lesson to be learned from each and every one of them...if you had the mind to realize it. Thanks for sharing this. I had never seen it before and I THOROUGHLY enjoyed it.
@patrick m I'm not a liar, rent was cheap enough to even live by the beach in Malibu in the fifties and early 60s ( if my dad and mom were still here they would tell you)
Actually, this is from an episode of Jack's program [originally telecast on January 15, 1963] that was never syndicated {there are a LOT of his filmed episodes that are waiting to be seen again, including 16 from the final 1964-'65 season}.
My Dad loved Jack Benny and Jackie Gleason. Television was so much better in those days. All we had was ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS but the programming was diverse and most of it could be enjoyed by the whole family.
Indubitably ! My dad loved Jackie Gleason too & we watched him mot Sat nights, along with Lawrence Welk & then the Hollywood Palace. And on Sunday nights, we usually watched Ed Sullivan. Ed was good about having a variety of acts to appeal to all age groups.
My first time seeing Rod doing a bit of acting, and in a comic skit with Jack Benny at that. Kind of radical for the Twilight Zone meister himself. Hm. Well, this is definitely different.
menckencynic It's cool man. Yeah Rod's forte and legacy was mainly in the screenwritng of tight thought-provoking dramas of the human heart and condition, particularly of modern Man's delimas and paradoxes of his own creating through the god of science and technology, replacing the biblical God, supposedly to make Man himself happier, yet that transformed him into a more conflicted, troubled, alienated and tragic creature no longer having a soul he can call his own, an existential condition that's seldomly funny, if ever. Yeah Rod did alright to treat this subject with a sharp seriousness not easy for him to shake off whenever making an attempt at comedy strictly for laughs.
menckencynic Yep. And that created something better of his endowed him a vital presence in the minds of many through the major impact he made with the TZ.
What a classic!!....brought back childhood memories of those times and TV classics.... kids nowadays will never get it.....us elders will never loose it.
How true ! He knew when to pause & look at the audience for greater comedic effect. He was not one of those selfish comedians. He (like Carol Burnett later on) surrounded himself with talented people & didn't mind letting them shine & get the laughs too !
Rodman was not only a great producer but also a great actor. I didn’t realize how short he was, I guess cause a lot of his interviews he was sitting down. I read he would smoke 3-4 packs of cigarettes a day. No wonder he died young and looked a lot older than his age. There will never be another Rodman Edward Serling. RIP.
Benny was the best and Serling superb! Their respective series were two of my favorites in the early '60s, the apogee of television's true "golden age." Serling's clipped existential delivery and Benny's dry deadpan burn are classic moments from quintessential performers at once both sublime and absurd. As in an episode from the Twilight Zone, I would love to step into a time machine and return to that era. RUclips is doubtless the next best experience. Thanks for this gem.
i never realized that Rod Serling was only 5' 4" tall until i saw him standing next to Jack Benny and Rochester in this viceo clip. i also didn't realize Rochester isn't spelled "Rodchester"!
Love the great Rod Serling -- the voice of a master story-teller and a genius imagination and persona. I miss him so much. And, of course, there's the wonderfully humorous Jack Benny. Love Jack, too, and miss him as well. RIP boys!
I knew I wasn't crazy. I knew Rod had played in his own episode!! I saw this episode only one time when I was a kid and hadn't seen it since until today. Thanks man.
One of the was with Keenan Wynn as a writer that could make people with his tape recorder. Loved the end when he pulled out an envelope with Rod's name on it.
Keenan Wynn's dad (Ed Wynn) also appeared on an episode of The Twilight Zone. He plays a salesman who tries to distract the Angel of Death (played by Murray Hamilton) so the angel won't come & claim the life on an injured little girl.
@@jubalcalif9100 I liked that one two. He wanted to make a pitch that would open up heaven. He had the Angel of Death eating out of the palm of his hand.
@@terrypetersen2970 Yes indeed ! It's a very heartwarming episode. At the end the Angel tells Ed that he must come along; but is assured he's going "up there" instead of "down there". Ed's character is a very kind & sweet man (just as Ed Wynn was off screen !).
@@jubalcalif9100 He was on a fifth season episode as well "Ninety Years Without Slumbering," based on a more superior story by George Clayton Johnson titled "Tick of Time."
Thanks for sharing, I got a lot of laughs from this one. Amazing how talented and funny those old performers were, Gleason, Benny, Skelton et al. Humor that wasn't forced, and good clean fun. A bygone era, and another trip into the Twilight Zone....
I had never seen this. Brilliant on so many levels. Serling was a fabulous collaborator, playing it masterfully straight. Jack and Rochester hurled their lines at each other par excellence. Jack’s writers wrote a fabulous. And CBS brass had the willingness to go along with it all and allow one wonderful to have fun with one of their prized shows. The Golden Era of TV comedy for sure! Enjoy! ❤
I have the complete Definitve Collection of The Twilight Zone on DVD. This "lost" episode would have been included in the DVD box set. The box set includes a documentary about Rod Serling. It shows clips of Rod Serling's appearance on The Jack Benny Show.
I'm a die-hard fan of the show and I've never seen this episode before. This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'm 44 and I've heard of Jack Benny but I've never seen him act and he's amazing. Rod Serling is a genius.
This was a really cool skit! I knew who Jack Benny and Rod Serling were, but, until my dad took me to our state fair, in the late 70s or early 80s, I did not know who Dennis Day was. Dennis was one of the headline singing acts at the fair and my father really liked the man's singing, so he took me with him and besides enjoying the animals and the other stands, we got to listen to this legend sing. I could tell his voice was not as it used to be, but, he could still sing quite well. I really enjoyed hearing him and at one point, I looked over at my dad and saw a tear go down his cheek. I asked him why he was crying and he told me that Dennis used to sing so well and he could tell his days of singing well were way over. It made him sad and my dad was not a crying man, by any means. I told him, I thought Mr. Day sang fine and sang some great songs, too. Well, when we got home, he played me an old album with him singing and I could see why my dad cried. What a difference. I still say he sang great and I also got to meet him and shake his hand. This is one of my favorite late teenager memories.......My dad and I having a day together, just us.......and Dennis Day, too, of course! =)
I don't know. In the medical records of his death they don't mention anything about his smoking habit being contributory. Maybe he ate 3 steaks a day, who knows. The only cause of death was heart failure. He was in the middle of an operation, and his genetic component added to the possibility of heart failure. If he was not on the operating table, then.... Any kind of surgery places extraordinary stress on a persons physical processes. A lot of people die during surgery because of it.
This is the first time I have ever laughed out loud at Jack Benny! And I'm old enough to remember him but Jesus this was funny!! Rod Serling with something else.
while it's very likely that smoking contributed to his death, he died of a second heart attack: "In May of 1975, when he was 50 years old, Serling had a heart attack while running on a treadmill. A couple of weeks later, he had a second heart attack, at his cottage on Cayuga Lake, and was sent to the hospital for open-heart surgery. On June 28, 1975, Rod Serling died at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York." www.biography.com/writer/rod-serling
They've been edited out, but these adds were at the end of most network shows from the era sponsored by cigarette companies: Lucy, The Beverly Hillbillys, etc. I even saw one on RUclips with Fred and Barney smoking at the end of the Flintstones. Seriously.
Rod Serling was a writer who was one of a kind and Jack Benny had a clean show that was funny unlike the trash on tv today. There is a bit somewhere with Raymond Burr as Perry Mason saying that Rod Serling is a friend of mine.
What a great crossover that would have made if this actually had been a full length Twilight Zone episode done as a stage performance on Jack Benny's show (or with a laugh track).
I loved The Twilight Zone when I was a kid, and still do. Rod Serling also had another TV series in the early 70s called Night Gallery, which I also liked. It was good, too!
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So great to see Rod being so funny in his signature deadpan manner.
Rod Serling, Irwin Allen, Gene Roddenberry, These guys made the 60's television so exciting for us youngsters.
You forgot to mention Leslie Stevens to that little group-he created "THE OUTER LIMITS" (1963-65) one the 1960s best science fiction TV series!!
Absolutely !!!. I do apologise for not mentioning such an iconic show.
Me too. Add a little LSD to the mix and SHAZAM!
I'm 21, but I agree with you 100%!! (except the Lost in Space carrot people...)
Any of you watch Science Fiction Theater and was it any good?
"Anyone who claims to be thirty-nine as long has he has is a permanent resident of The Twilight Zone." -Funniest Twilight Zone monologue line EVER!
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JB was known for giving the best lines to others. However, he was still the master of the slow burn!
I don't understand the line
@@lalboimanlun1230 Claiming to be 39 years old when it was obvious that he was well past that age was a running joke with JB.
The twilight zone was way ahead of its time! Rod Serling was a genius!
At only 5' 4", Rod was an amateur boxer, who enlisted in the army the day after finishing high school. He served as an airborne paratrooper and received several accommodations including the Bronze Star. I loved your shows Rod and your clear word annunciation with that great baritone voice. May you forever RIP.
Although not so tall, Jack Benny towered over Rod Serling. On another episode Clint Walker (6', 4.5")towered over Jack Benny!
Jack Benny's personality was so well defined that he drew perhaps the longest sustained laugh ever on radio by saying nothing! When a robber demanded, "your money or your life", Benny didn't reply. The audience response increased with each second of silence. Finally, after what seemed an eternity of now hysterical laughter, the robber repeated the line. Jack responded with, "I'm thinking". Then, more laughter.
Few born after 1955 will understand at all why that line was so funny.
@@Qrayon Here's a link to a recording of that episode: ruclips.net/video/-tVzdUczMT0/видео.html
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You're right, so I deleted my comment.
My great great great great grandkids loved to watch Jack Benny when it was originally on TV.
Jack was usually the straight man but he got a lotta laughs doing it.
@@ericolsen5798 Classic comedians of the 40's and 50's made fun of THEMSELVES instead of other people, which seems to be a norm now.
Jack Benny: "Had a rose delivered to his wife Mary Livingstone each day after his death until the day she died, almost nine years later."
Jack Benny made a career out of playing a grouchy penny pincher, but he was a kind and generous man in real life.
Rod Serling………. A GENIUS! RIP!
Amen to that !!
I'm so old, I remember when Rod Serling and Jack Benny were still alive!
And I'm so old, I remember when the Dead Sea was sick...
I saw this when it was originally aired. Two of my favorites from that era, Rod Serling and Jack Benny! Who woulda thought. I love how gentle and silly humor was at the time. Not that everything has to be that way, but I'd appreciate bringing a taste of that back into our entertainment diets.
We are not old we are gold.
I’m so old that when I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick !!
So do I, and I'm only 64, that's not that old. My cousin's partner flew Mosquito fighter-bombers at the end of World War II (at least 10 years before this episode).
Great to see these fantastic actors together. Alive and well in "The Twilight Zone"...................Miss them here on Earth...........
what's scary about this is the furniture in the house is still more modern than mine
you have furniture? We burned ours for heat 3 years ago! You must be rich!
You’re not alone.
At least we have a modern looking furniture.
Just the looks.
@@jonnyq680 "but to cut off a man's legs..." Lt Col. Henry Blake in that M*A*S*H episode about the super cold snap, at the end when he's sitting by his desk top that's sitting on the floor--'cause it has no legs. Can't remember the title of the episode.
@@jonnyq680 I steal plastic chairs from the college cafeteria room to have something to sit on at home.
Rod Serling had a hand in many sifi movies. To mention one planet of the apes. The famous they blew it up scene. He wrote that ending. Genius!
wow I didn't know that. cheers mate.
I had a feeling that ending had twilight zone written all over it
Rod could actually act.
Indubitably !!
He was actor, writer and recorder director
I always thought the best parts of The Twilight Zone were the opening and closing monologue
@@jimibarrett8362 same
"actually"
"Rochester,who's the greatest entertainer in America?"
"Nat King Cole!"
I busted up when I heard that! This was such an unexpected bit of fun! Thank you for sharing!
.....and Jack featured him a guest star a year later.
Patricia Harold was nat King cole on the games called fallout 3 and fallout New Vegas?
Rochester's reply was classic!
Me too! 😅
@algol29 True! Many of his episodes addressed racism and exposed it!
Incredible treasure for me! I grew up with Jack Benny and Rod Serling. I've never seen this lovely bit before and how happy I am to see it!
"Who's the Greatest Entertainer in America?"
"NAT KING COLE!"
LegoMatt222 was that Nat King Cole? who said
@@alfredorubiojr171 That was Eddie "Rochester" Anderson en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_%22Rochester%22_Anderson
That was an absolutely classic bit! I miss Jack Benny, and Rochester. To have them teamed up with Rod Serling was hilarious.
"Anyone who claims to be 39 as long as he has, is a permanent resident of The Twilight Zone"
I love it!
Rod Serling was very uncomfortable in front of the camera by all reports. Cool that he was willing to do this skit at all!
He's out of his element but being a good sport.
Mr. Serling should have done more on - camera work ... He was good ... and good - enough visually .. made a good impression 😎😃so ahead of his time . 🔮.. - a true pioneer. 🚪 🏆........ 🗿..... ... If only 🚫🚬🚬🚬. 💢 🤔😒. 😞😢😭🙏🕯️🏵️🌺💮🥀🌸🌼🌹🌻🏵️💐🙁☁️ 🦋💨. ⚰️😔☹️🕊️❤️👑🕵️. 🤞🖖✌️☕☕☕
@@jmason2838 Seriously? Try uninstallation of your idiotic emoji app. Most people do not use in 9 months what you have used in 2 lines. It looks as though a 3 year olds Speak-N-Spell blew up on the page.
He's actually really good if he is uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable? Sure couldn't tell it.
I can't believe I've never heard of, or seen this before, Thank You! Rod Serling is a hero of mine.
My s.o. bought me the entire Twilight Zone series a few years back! One of the best gifts I've ever received!!
What is an s.o.? I have heard on an s.o.b.........is it like that? Oh, wait, I figured it out; s.o. stands for 'son Oscar'.
Then the DVD player broke - but you finally had time to watch them all - Time Enough At Last.
R.I.P. Rod Sterling: 1924-1975. He was talented, handsome and he was such a cult. His show was so popular that many sketch shows parodied it, like SNL (twice(one in the 1970s and again in the 1990s)).
Brilliant! Serling parodying Serling. Thanks for uploading this.
morskojvolk He did that in an episode of Twilight Zone as well. I can't remember the title of the episode, but it's the one where the author is having an affair on his wife and he can type things and make what he types either come to life or disappear. At the conclusion of the episode he types Rod Serlings name and throws it into the fireplace and Rod disappears. Not a great episode, but I do love that part.
That was "A World Of His Own", with Keenan Wynn as the playwright Gregory West. That was a Richard Matheson script. The original story Matheson submitted was a lot darker, but Serling and Buck Houghton suggested it should be reworked as a comedy. Matheson came up with the final gag with Serling being "erased" from existence as a spur of the moment joke. Serling loved it and decided to go with the scene and the episode as the closer for the season. Serling, as could be expected, had a great sense of humour, especially about himself.
Very impressed by how passionately Serling stressed how every aspect of his show was required to have a point. Bless him, I do not believe he was acting at that moment.
The point of today's TV is to give the bovine masses the intellectual equivalent of bubble gum to chew on.
Today people watch reality shows on television. As I recall reality used to be where we all lived back in the 20th century and the 21st century was someplace that didn't exist except on television. Welcome to the Twilight Zone. :)
@zoppie: I think that's what everybody said was the point of 1950s TV too... ;)
Charlotte Tan The 50's were a more innocent time. No one had any idea of how low TV would sink in just a few decades.
From Queen For a Day? lol
zoppie Everyone says that based on the TV. The 50's were NOT innocent. People were terrified of Nuclear war, The Korean war was happening, we had just come out of the bloodiest war in world history. Believe it or not 2015 is the most innocent time.
Growing up in the 50's and 60's I wasn't aware I was having fun. Kids take those things for granted you know. I miss those days and I miss my old black and white TV.
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we only had a few channels back then but had far more quality shows to watch not all the crap we have today, 9999 channels and i have nothing to watch most of the time.
I never thought at the time, that someday I'd be telling my daughter about these wonderful shows.
This brilliant. I wish I had the chance to have met Rod, he was so insightful and a tremendous talent in telling stories. Touching upon things the human race still struggled with then, and even till this day.
A visionary, in many ways. And hilarious with Jack!
its not really a lost episode. thats just a joke. this was actually a segment on jack bennys old tv show.
No shit
Bart Broadhead, Hey 👋. Thanks for this and the explanation comment, too. This is pretty cool 😎!!! I loved this show so much, as a kid!! Twilight Zone was already in repeats status, by the time I fell in love with it. Thanks, much. Nice of you to upload this. TC!
It was pretty funny.
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This was hilarious!! Thank you!🤣
From the days of my early youth, I have LOVED the Twilight Zone. To me, it was the BEST suspense program on TV...and nothing has ever matched it. The stories keep you entertained and there was a lesson to be learned from each and every one of them...if you had the mind to realize it.
Thanks for sharing this. I had never seen it before and I THOROUGHLY enjoyed it.
true, they had kind of a moral message to ponder
We lived almost directly across the street from Rod in this place called Pacific Palisades right above Sunset boulevard in the 60s
You must have been very rich!
@@ArizonaWillful it was the 60s ! The house is over 3mill in today's market
Awesome! Did you ever run into him; while riding your bike by his home?
@@Chutney1luv no I was just two
@patrick m I'm not a liar, rent was cheap enough to even live by the beach in Malibu in the fifties and early 60s ( if my dad and mom were still here they would tell you)
In every episode was a moral message. He truly captured the nature of mankind with a twist!
"No escape, no place to hide; here where time and space collide."
Actually, this is from an episode of Jack's program [originally telecast on January 15, 1963] that was never syndicated {there are a LOT of his filmed episodes that are waiting to be seen again, including 16 from the final 1964-'65 season}.
Two greats working together, if even for a few minutes. Jack Benny was so funny when he was riled up.
+Rob Sokolyk Jack is the best!
Even just his one word one liner in Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Nothing like a running joke.
Never knew this existed!
I didn't either, and I just LOVE it so much! So funny!
I remember when Serling (born Christmas 1924) was featured speaker at my College. His brilliance exceeded the comprehension of even the professors.
I read that he loved working with students. Very affable fellow !
Jack Benny could do drama as well as comedy. Comedians that are successful are rare. He was genius !
Rochester....& he had a great line fed to him by Benny about who's the greatest entertainer of all...Nat King Cole is one of the greats...
My Dad loved Jack Benny and Jackie Gleason. Television was so much better in those days. All we had was ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS but the programming was diverse and most of it could be enjoyed by the whole family.
Indubitably ! My dad loved Jackie Gleason too & we watched him mot Sat nights, along with Lawrence Welk & then the Hollywood Palace. And on Sunday nights, we usually watched Ed Sullivan. Ed was good about having a variety of acts to appeal to all age groups.
Rod Serling wearing a skinny tie and smoking a cigarette
That was cool
He reminds me of Dan Aykroyd.
He smoked 4 to 5 packs a day and this killed him.
@@ArizonaWillful Yes, you'll notice he was in his late 30s when TZ started. He easily looks 15 years older...
Nothing “ cool” about killing yourself at a young age by smoking 4-5 packs of cigarettes a day!
Thank you! I miss the original Twight Zone with Rod Serling. Damndable cigarettes!!!
a nice little gem.
Poor Rod, always had that cigarette burning between his fingers.
He smoked 3 to 4 packs every single day.
He had a heart attack in May 75. He was dead by the end of June. 50 years old.
Michael Powell he’s much missed.
He endorsed them, and he paid the price.
@@5roundsrapid263 No price is too high when it comes to Oasis brand cigarettes. The softest taste of all.
Now I've seen every episode ever made! 👍👏🙆♀️
"I've forgotten my name."
"It's pathetic."
"No, that isn't it..."
"'Your honor'?"
"Yes, I'm the mayor of this town. As a matter of fact they named it after me. I'm Mr. Zone."
XD Hilarious!! XD
"Twilight Zone???"
"Just call me Twi ;)"
Funnier than the crap you see on late night these days!
Nothing is funny on late night at all.
My first time seeing Rod doing a bit of acting, and in a comic skit with Jack Benny at that. Kind of radical for the Twilight Zone meister himself. Hm. Well, this is definitely different.
+SwarthySkinnedOne I believe that Rod Serling was more well-rounded than the public-at-large gave him credit for. He's still missed by many today.
TralfazConstruction
Ditto.
menckencynic
I didn't mean to imply Rod being comic enough to step in for Milton Berle or Robert Hope.
menckencynic
It's cool man.
Yeah Rod's forte and legacy was mainly in the screenwritng of tight thought-provoking dramas of the human heart and condition, particularly of modern Man's delimas and paradoxes of his own creating through the god of science and technology, replacing the biblical God, supposedly to make Man himself happier, yet that transformed him into a more conflicted, troubled, alienated and tragic creature no longer having a soul he can call his own, an existential condition that's seldomly funny, if ever. Yeah Rod did alright to treat this subject with a sharp seriousness not easy for him to shake off whenever making an attempt at comedy strictly for laughs.
menckencynic
Yep. And that created something better of his endowed him a vital presence in the minds of many through the major impact he made with the TZ.
What a classic!!....brought back childhood memories of those times and TV classics.... kids nowadays will never get it.....us elders will never loose it.
"Anybody who claims to be 39 years old as long as he has is a permenant resident of the Twilight Zone." Epic.
There was another show in the same period called "Thriller", hosted by Boris Karloff, does anyone remeber, that one had some hard core scary épisodes!
There was also OUTER LIMITS.
ROD SERLING was a pure creative Genius and his talents have yet to be matched in the 21st Century 😎
Jack Benny was the king of the look-away-for-the-laugh move.
How true ! He knew when to pause & look at the audience for greater comedic effect. He was not one of those selfish comedians. He (like Carol Burnett later on) surrounded himself with talented people & didn't mind letting them shine & get the laughs too !
2 GIANTS in their FIELD; I LOVED them BOTH!!
the thing that he advertized killed him :(
And millions of other people! Those cigs had no filters! 😲
Malfunctioning whoopee cushion ?
@@jubalcalif9100 Yep!! 🚬
Rodman was not only a great producer but also a great actor. I didn’t realize how short he was, I guess cause a lot of his interviews he was sitting down. I read he would smoke 3-4 packs of cigarettes a day. No wonder he died young and looked a lot older than his age. There will never be another Rodman Edward Serling. RIP.
He also created night gallery.
Also, all the paintings shown at the beginning of each episode were from his private collection. It was called The Gallery of the Absurd.
Yes ! Sadly, he didn't have as much creative control on "Night Gallery" as he did on the earlier "Twilight Zone".
This was great but would have been funnier if Rochester was the owner of the house. That would have been some real 60's Twilight Zone shit. Lol
Jack: "Who's the greatest entertainer in america?" Rochester: "NAT KING COLE!!!!!"
Benny was the best and Serling superb! Their respective series were two of my favorites in the early '60s, the apogee of television's true "golden age." Serling's clipped existential delivery and Benny's dry deadpan burn are classic moments from quintessential performers at once both sublime and absurd. As in an episode from the Twilight Zone, I would love to step into a time machine and return to that era. RUclips is doubtless the next best experience. Thanks for this gem.
I love how Rod's playing it straight for most of it, but when he starts describing Twilight Zone, he kind of unconsciously slips into his TV persona.
That was absolutely brilliant! Tv was so good then.I never knew that Jack and Rod did a sketch together.
i never realized that Rod Serling was only 5' 4" tall until i saw him standing next to Jack Benny and Rochester in this viceo clip. i also didn't realize Rochester isn't spelled "Rodchester"!
Love the great Rod Serling -- the voice of a master story-teller and a genius imagination and persona. I miss him so much. And, of course, there's the wonderfully humorous Jack Benny. Love Jack, too, and miss him as well. RIP boys!
I knew I wasn't crazy. I knew Rod had played in his own episode!! I saw this episode only one time when I was a kid and hadn't seen it since until today. Thanks man.
You are the Best Mr. Serling
One of the was with Keenan Wynn as a writer that could make people with his tape recorder. Loved the end when he pulled out an envelope with Rod's name on it.
Keenan Wynn's dad (Ed Wynn) also appeared on an episode of The Twilight Zone. He plays a salesman who tries to distract the Angel of Death (played by Murray Hamilton) so the angel won't come & claim the life on an injured little girl.
@@jubalcalif9100 I liked that one two. He wanted to make a pitch that would open up heaven. He had the Angel of Death eating out of the palm of his hand.
@@terrypetersen2970 Yes indeed ! It's a very heartwarming episode. At the end the Angel tells Ed that he must come along; but is assured he's going "up there" instead of "down there". Ed's character is a very kind & sweet man (just as Ed Wynn was off screen !).
@@jubalcalif9100 He was on a fifth season episode as well "Ninety Years Without Slumbering," based on a more superior story by George Clayton Johnson titled "Tick of Time."
This was hilarious..I love The Twilight Zone..RIP Rod & Jack
I love Rod Serling with the fury of a billion suns. God, he was just it.
Lol, it's so funny 😂, "you can call me twi" Haha, so funny
This was fantastic! Classic TZ and classic Jack Benny!
Thanks for sharing, I got a lot of laughs from this one. Amazing how talented and funny those old performers were, Gleason, Benny, Skelton et al. Humor that wasn't forced, and good clean fun. A bygone era, and another trip into the Twilight Zone....
I had never seen this. Brilliant on so many levels. Serling was a fabulous collaborator, playing it masterfully straight. Jack and Rochester hurled their lines at each other par excellence. Jack’s writers wrote a fabulous. And CBS brass had the willingness to go along with it all and allow one wonderful to have fun with one of their prized shows. The Golden Era of TV comedy for sure! Enjoy! ❤
This isn't a lost episode of The Twilight Zone.
It's from The Jack Benny Show.
Misleading title!
Don Velasquez
They should have known better than to try to fool you.
I have the complete Definitve Collection of The Twilight Zone on DVD. This "lost" episode would have been included in the DVD box set.
The box set includes a documentary about Rod Serling.
It shows clips of Rod Serling's appearance on The Jack Benny Show.
The big giveaway was The Twilight Zone doesn't use canned laughter.
BUSTED!
As a kid I loved The Twilight Zone Friday nights on CBS.
I think the Twilight Zone deepened me as a kid, since there were some very heavy themes that little kids don't often encounter.
Rod Serling was a genius writer. Jack Benny was a genius comic. Great combo!
Amen to that !!
Love Jack Benny and love Rod Serling! Both American T.V. Legends!
Rod: "This is his house, he belongs here. Anybody who claims to be 39 years old as long as he has is a permenant resident of the twilight zone."
Most shows break the fourth wall. This one crashes through it and builds a new wall.
Blake's Gaming PC there is a fifth wall....
I'm a die-hard fan of the show and I've never seen this episode before. This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'm 44 and I've heard of Jack Benny but I've never seen him act and he's amazing. Rod Serling is a genius.
This was a really cool skit! I knew who Jack Benny and Rod Serling were, but, until my dad took me to our state fair, in the late 70s or early 80s, I did not know who Dennis Day was. Dennis was one of the headline singing acts at the fair and my father really liked the man's singing, so he took me with him and besides enjoying the animals and the other stands, we got to listen to this legend sing. I could tell his voice was not as it used to be, but, he could still sing quite well. I really enjoyed hearing him and at one point, I looked over at my dad and saw a tear go down his cheek. I asked him why he was crying and he told me that Dennis used to sing so well and he could tell his days of singing well were way over. It made him sad and my dad was not a crying man, by any means. I told him, I thought Mr. Day sang fine and sang some great songs, too. Well, when we got home, he played me an old album with him singing and I could see why my dad cried. What a difference. I still say he sang great and I also got to meet him and shake his hand. This is one of my favorite late teenager memories.......My dad and I having a day together, just us.......and Dennis Day, too, of course! =)
thanks for watching. i know it was a jack benny show. i was calling it a twilight zone lost show just to be silly.
You really know you’re in the Twilight Zone when they refer to cigarettes as “refreshment”.
It's not the TZ; it's 'Marlboro Country'. ;-)
Rod is frequently shown smoking, as it was considered quite normal then. Cigarettes led him to an early death at only 51.
I don't know. In the medical records of his death they don't mention anything about his smoking habit being contributory. Maybe he ate 3 steaks a day, who knows. The only cause of death was heart failure. He was in the middle of an operation, and his genetic component added to the possibility of heart failure. If he was not on the operating table, then.... Any kind of surgery places extraordinary stress on a persons physical processes. A lot of people die during surgery because of it.
This is the first time I have ever laughed out loud at Jack Benny! And I'm old enough to remember him but Jesus this was funny!! Rod Serling with something else.
At the end I wanted so bad to step into the screen and smash the cigarettes and tell him, "THAT'S WHAT KILLS YOU!"
while it's very likely that smoking contributed to his death, he died of a second heart attack: "In May of 1975, when he was 50 years old, Serling had a heart attack while running on a treadmill. A couple of weeks later, he had a second heart attack, at his cottage on Cayuga Lake, and was sent to the hospital for open-heart surgery. On June 28, 1975, Rod Serling died at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York."
www.biography.com/writer/rod-serling
My reaction wasn't that strong, but I had a similar thought about the cigarettes.
@@nowvoyagerNE Watch Jack Soo smoke on Barney Miller.
The most amazing part of this was the end when he pushed cigarettes, so weird to see a cigarette add like that.
ikr....that was a twilight zone moment in its own way lol
They've been edited out, but these adds were at the end of most network shows from the era sponsored by cigarette companies: Lucy, The Beverly Hillbillys, etc. I even saw one on RUclips with Fred and Barney smoking at the end of the Flintstones. Seriously.
They were banned in 1971. Before then, they were a major sponsor of TV series.
Rod Serling was a writer who was one of a kind and Jack Benny had a clean show that was funny unlike the trash on tv today. There is a bit somewhere with Raymond Burr as Perry Mason saying that Rod Serling is a friend of mine.
I listen to Jack Benny in my car on Sirius radio all the time on the radio classics channel. It's great to see them.
Rod was a time traveler. I'v seen him.
Yeah, he's right next to that hipster time traveler from the '1940's' bridge photo...lol.
Rod was a good buddy of Mr Peabody & probably had use of his Wayback Machine.
WOW 😮 WAS I SHOCKED 😳 I HAD NO IDEA THIS EXISTED AND I AM SIXTY TWO ! !
1957. .Born. Me too. .
Thurl Ravenscroft was an absolutely astounding bass...some of the notes he could hit didn't seem humanly possible.
Thanks for uploading it. I LOVE TWILIGHT ZONE and JACK BENNY! I'm a huge fan of both of them.
Great little comedy skit. Funny thing is that Twilight Zone produced a script with the same general idea: season three's "Person Or Persons Unknown".
I loved Rochester's answer :D
What a great crossover that would have made if this actually had been a full length Twilight Zone episode done as a stage performance on Jack Benny's show (or with a laugh track).
I loved The Twilight Zone when I was a kid, and still do. Rod Serling also had another TV series in the early 70s called Night Gallery, which I also liked. It was good, too!
"The professor of psychiatry at the University"... lol
Robert W Trying time give it legitimacy. It used to be inadmissible in court back then. Now look. It’s out of control.
2008: nope
2009: nuh-uh
2010: nada
2011: no way
2012: absolutely not
2013: nay
2014: yeah right
2015: forget it
2016: never
2017: don't hold your breath
2018: not at all
2019: withdraw
2020: WATCH THIS!
Thank you so much for sharing this! TZ is my favorite show of all time! I've never seen this clip from the Jack Benny show. It was AWESOME 😆😆😆😎👍👍
Dude this is so awesome thank you for uploading this