Penny Singleton was also the Original BLONDIE in the 1938- 1945 movies. She was also one of the First actors to require residual payments in her contracts. Smart lady!
She was also the first woman elected president of an AFL-CIO affiliated union, and her behind-the-scenes work displayed a truly remarkable amount of courage for her time.
I was impressed by the acting of a young George Takei. I was not aware of him being on tv before he was Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu. It was a VERY moving episode.
It was a really good episode and the racist comments were the point. I suspect it was pulled more because it made people uncomfortable than that, or else a lot of people just missed the point spectacularly.
Robert Duvall's performance in "Miniature" was really remarkable, especially given the fact that it was one of his earliest TV or movie acting jobs. He was 31 years old and his ability to underplay a part to perfection in "Miniature" is tantamount to the performance he gave as "Boo Radley" in "To Kill a Mockingbird" the previous year. He's never been out of work and is still performing to this day (2022) at 91 years of age!
I saw it quite by accident. Really a great piece of work and needed the hour-long format to make it work And though the ending may "seem" obvious it isn't really at all
Every role is played he was good. Even the minor ones. The confused and scarred soldier in Captain Newman, the cab driver in Bullet, the gun range owner in Jack Reacher. However he will always be remembered as Lt. Col. Kilgore. A part that he played so well that he owns it.
@@garfieldsmith332 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like... victory!" Few remember his utopian role in THX 1138, which I saw on a 180° CINERAMA screen. A stellar performance!
Can’t believe it was almost cancelled before season 5. People back then probably were ignorant about how good the show was lol it’s had a major impact in terms of the media we consume. It’s referenced a lot in other movies/shows and still influences works today
I remember seeing The Encounter when it was finally aired. I thought it was really intense and couldn't imagine how it would have gone down in 1960s America. I later learned a few years later that Rod Serling served in the Philippines during the war and saw a lot of bad s**t go down. It had a profound impact on his life. I would invite anyone reading my comments to look up old interviews that Rod conducted in the 60s and 70s, he had a lot of amazing insight on race relations and American society at the time. He was truly an American treasure.
He certainly could pontificate - another series just about this time was "One Step Beyond" with the chilling narration of John Newland. Back when t.v. was worth watching.....
As a WWII history buff, while the Encounter is a great episode (George Takei grew up in one of the internment camps) my favorite episode is Death's Head Revisited. I quote the final narration all the time when people talk about why should we study history in general and the Holocaust specifically, since history has a cyclical pattern. Rod knew what he was doing with that episode since he saw the camps firsthand in the war.
Yes, it’s a shame it wasn’t as good as Deaths Head. Even with Neville Brand in the lead role, who was one of the most decorated soldiers of world war 2, it still was clearly inferior to many other episodes.
I love Death's Head Revisited also. One of the greatest qualities of the Twilight Zone was its ability to take a controversial subject that most likely couldn't have been shown as straight drama on Sixties T.V. and dealing with it through the use of fantasy. Rod Serling was a genius at doing that.
‘Death’s Head’ is brilliant but it has a fatal flaw - that was entirely intentional: not once was it mentioned that the Jews were by far and away the primary victims of the Holocaust. This was standard in Hollywood, where a huge share of the writers - including Rod Serling himself - were Jewish, not to mention the heads of studios, producers, directors. And that was precisely the reason you rarely heard even an obviously Jewish character described as Jewish. Rod rectified things in the first episode of “Night Gallery,” about a Nazi war criminal running scared in South America. There Jews were referred to as Jews. I suspect that in “Death’s Head,” the decision to avoid mentioning the primary victims, to avoid the Nazi ever expressing his anti-Semitism was the network’s, not Rod’s. Maybe the best example of Hollywood people being afraid of their own Jewish shadow was the film ‘Marty.׳ Originally, Paddy Chayefsky had Marty as Jewish butcher from the Bronx, not an Italian. Self-loathing, insecurity, box office considerations? A little of all three, I’d guess, and I’m referring to the studios, not Rod or Chayefsky.
@@haroldsteinblatt2567 Yes. I know what you're talking about. There was an hour long Twilight Zone episode called "He's Alive" , that starred Dennis Hopper as a White Supremacist being guided by a shadowy figure that turns out to be Adolf Hitler. Hopper's character rants about "foreigners" and people who are "not real Americans". An elderly man who had known Hopper's character since he was a boy , challenges him about his beliefs and the man is obviously Jewish , but no particular ethnicity is ever mentioned in the episode. Again , probably a network decision rather than Rod Serling's. All that being said , it was still a very effective episode and the parallels to a lot of what's going on today are chilling.
The episode with Duvall and the museum also sounds like... The Night Gallery episode where the Nazi hiding out in south America keeps returning to a museum trying to "get me into the picture"! (wish himself into the painting.) When the guards rush in trying to find him though, he has wished himself into..the wrong picture. Rod really had a thing for museums....and art galleries.
That wasn't Duval was it? I remember that one - they changed the painting while he was not there and he ran in while the lights were out. Mistake! Did you see the one where Duval wished himself into the perfect little dollhouse with a sweet little lady in the museum? That one was good. Oh, they show part of it in this! Such a good one!
@@cronejawford978 I looked him up and that looks like the face I remember. I think they added some fake scar tissue over one eye to differentiate him from his character. Good idea probably. And what a singer he was too. Man of LaMancha. Thanks for sharing. I didn't find the "episode" but couldn't give it more time. Hmmm - maybe it was that series that used paintings as props in the lead-in. ! Night Gallery?
I have seen these episodes and they are among my favorites. My absolute favorite is still Long Distance Call. I think this could be remade with the child receiving a toy cellphone from his grandma.
A similar TZ episode, and a favorite of mine is Night Call where an elderly woman receives calls in the middle of a stormy night from her dead fiancée. Very creepy episode.
When my Granddaughter was 1 she received three phones from different people. Original 1960s rotary "Phoney", the 70s touch tone FP phone and a toy tpuchscreen smartphone. We called it baby call center. Always thought of the Billy Mumy TZ episode when I saw her playing with them
I too, have seen all of these episodes, and granted, none of them are in my personal 'Top 10' episodes of TZ. My all-time best? 'Will the Real Martian Please, Stand Up'
Thank God the TZ wasn't cancelled after 3 seasons! There are great episodes in seasons 4 & 5. I bought the box set here in Australia with all 156 episodes about 5 years ago. I didn't care much for "The sounds and silences' or 'The encounter' 'A short drink from a certain fountain ' was very entertaining. 'Miniature ' is one of my top 10 episodes, love Robert Duvall the lead
Another episode that should’ve been in this video is “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, which was only broadcast on American television twice (once during the original show’s run and once slightly after it ended) until finally airing again in the aforementioned January 1st, 2016 marathon on Syfy.
I'm old enough to remember "Occurence" when it originally aired. I was so really taken by it, especially the haunting music, that I would watch hours of marathons over the years just to see it again, but to no avail. About 8 years ago my husband bought me the "definitive" set on DVD and THERE IT WAS! There's an incredible back story to this episode, too.
Well, there's a much better reason why "Occurrence" wasn't included: Serling and the production company didn't own the "episode" since it was a French-produced and -directed short film. TZ's producer, William Froug, bought the rights to air the short film only twice (and even then, the French production was slightly edited for broadcast). The episode was made available on home video releases but that would've involved an additional payment for the rights to do so (similar to how some shows and movies use a song in the original TV or theatrical production but the rights don't include home video or even rebroadcast purposes).
Robert Duval is such a good actor. I know his career was by no means bad, but I wish we had more of him in lead rolls, he had so much range and was able to so realistically convey his internal emotional space without seeming emotional in character. Just amazing, it's hard to say he's underrated with how well respected he is, but I wish we had more of his work.
I think my favorite hour long episode was the "new exhibit" with Martin Balsam. those wax Figures were very creepy and then of course who really killed those people? was it Martin Balsam's character or was it the wax figures?
One of my all-time favorites is the episode called..."And when the sky was opened."...With actor, Rod Taylor as one of three astronauts who's experimental spaceship crash lands in the desert.They all survive the crash...but one by one...they totally disappear from existence. Taylor's character is the only one that remembers the third astronaut named Harrington. Seen it a hundred times. I STILL get chills down my back when I watch that episode.
I loved this episode too. When Rod Taylor became a fairly big star in the next couple of decades, I remembered my first exposure to Taylor in this Twilight Zone episode.
@@jamesdrynan Yep, that happens near the end...after Rod Taylor runs out of Hutton's hospital room and disappears in the hallway! What blew ME away was... when Taylor first walked into Hutton's hospital room. He's clearly freaked out...but he's doing his best to hold back his anguish and confusion. Then he begins to...very carefully open the discussion...by first asking Hutton what does he remember about the flight. Which then brings Taylor to the subject of the third astronaut named... Harrington. Taylor then begins to tell what HE remembers and the camera fades into a flashback scene where all three of them including Harrington, are there in the hospital room...just the day before, laughing and joking. Like I said...one of my favorite TZ episodes!
I am a bit surprised that Rod Serling wasn't even more of a target for plagerism suits. Not because I think he copied others submitted works, but because he put out a pretty wide net looking for scripts and of course writers who may have been turned down might have been looking to get a payday on even the slightest similarity in stories. The premise was after all, self limiting in the type of story that you would imagine might be proposed.
The sixteen-millimeter shrine was an obvious remake of Sunset Boulevard and the changing of the guard was a copy of Goodbye Mr. Chips. I think there were many others that got their inspiration from previous works.
Perchance tTo Dream was a terrific episode with Richard Conte, a man caught between reality, being awake , and the horror of falling asleep , slipping into a psychotic world of madness, mayhem, and the fear of being murdered Great theme and acting!
What gets me, is that for years when stations had special "uncut marathons", this was based on the syndicated package, where the episodes as presented had actually been edited when the package was created. So the PR was misleading and a shame, because those "little edits" could take away the fleshing out of characters, or a lead characters' motivation: A key removed scene from "The Lonely", where Corry & Alicia talk about the stars in the sky, which adds more depth to their relationship, & "The Four of Us Are Dying", where the man who manipulated his face, explains the reason why he is impersonating certain people, are the biggest examples, here. I was shocked when I first saw the restored episodes for the first time on Blu-ray!
An Occurrence at Owl Creek's Bridge also wasn't part of the syndication package. The arrangement in adapting it for Twilight Zone included showing it only once.
Indeed, the short film was originally produced independently and won awards at Cannes and the Oscars. Including it in the original TZ run was a brilliant example of Rod Serling making the most of his budgetary restrictions, as licensing the film cost far less than producing an original episode, which brought the fifth season back in under budget. It was not seen in reruns for many years for the contractual reason cited above.
I was under the impression that "Walking Distance," with Gig Young and Frank Overton, was excluded from syndication as well. It is one of Serling's most memorable and heartfelt scripts and had standout performances by both its stars.
What many people don’t know about Neville Brand at the end, was that he was one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War 2. I find this to be quite an amazing coincidence to see one of the most decorated soldiers, having the a major role of an ex soldier in a tv episode.
My brother saw Miniature and loved it. He kept asking me if I had ever seen it but I had not. Now I understand why. The John MacGyver one I did see during a Twilight Zone marathon a while back. I don’t member the George Takei one but I do remember the Ruta Lee one, which I also saw during a marathon. I met Ruta Lee a few years ago at a party where I was singing. She was the hostess and was very nice.
I remember several TZ episodes in color years ago, including Miniature, that when I was watching them online (Netflix) recently, they only had them in grayscale. Good to know I wasn't imagining it. Something similar happened with the TOS Pilot "The Cage." I had a colorized version recorded from an 90s marathon hosted by Nimoy on vhs, but no streaming services that I've found had that particular version to date.
Who remembers "Carol For Another Christmas"? Rod Serling's version of "A Christmas Carol". It was intense, insightful, and a bit creepy, had an amazing cast, and was done very well. Not sure if that was in syndication.
I was born in 1955, and I watched The Twilight Zone as a kid. I'm not sure if I saw reruns or the original series. The shows were spooky, and they frightened me some. l loved Rod Serling's serious sounding voice in the intros.
The Encounter definitely touches on controversial issues. So much so , that I'm surprised they allow to be shown today in this PC world. Personally , I love the episode. My father was a Korean War veteran and Neville Brand's portrayal of a clearly damaged vet reminds me somewhat of my Dad's struggles dealing with his wartime experiences. And George Takei who was actually in an Internment Camp during WW2 , draws perfectly on the hurt , humiliation and resentment that experience caused him to brilliantly portray a man who seems perfectly fine on the outside , but inside is being consumed by the trauma of his youth. Altogether a magnificent story of two men so overtaken by their inner demons , that they eventually destroy both the other and themselves. Great writing , wonderful acting and a topic that concerns us all. I can't think of anything that T.V. could use more than this kind of intelligent , artistic entertainment.
"in this PC world" the one where people are fighting to remind people that wars weren't just "heroic white guys fight evil Germans" but that a lot of horrible shit also happened? The one where people are working hard to spread the stories about the good and bad that happened to all people in all regions and times? Is it a pc world we live in now just because we can't say "you're very eloquent for negro" or is it a PC world because people are outspoken about the atrocities that have occurred that the history books keep sweeping under the rug? Too bad we can't go back to the totally not politically correct era where you weren't allowed to say the word "pregnant" on tv, or show a toilet, and married couples couldn't even be IMPLIED to share a bed.
@@FrenkTheJoy I believe that showing prejudice in all its ugliness , is not endorsing those opinions , but rather showing how divisive and destructive bigotry can be for the prejudiced people , those who their hatred is aimed at and to society as a whole. Of course that type of speech and thinking are offensive. That's the whole point. How do you expect to try to understand and try change these negative aspects of our society if we just close our eyes and ears and pretend that they don't exist?
Being born in 1970 the Twilight Zone was already in reruns by the time I started watching as a kid. Never heard of any of these episodes until watching this video. However, I did have to do an extensive search a few years back to find the original Claude Akins / Monsters Are On Maple Street episode. Figured it had been "cancelled" by the media for hitting to close to home in 2010-2020.
TTZ had a big impact on me as a kid growing up in the UK. It was a quality of TV in my 80's world where TV was really on a slow decline. Compared to today's degenerate TV & culture it really does stand out and has stood the test of time well, teaching thought provoking lessons.
Miniature was a GREAT episode! It's one of my favorite episodes from the whole 5 year run. Duvall was great in his role as well as Pert Kelton who played his mom. The ending of someone escaping to a positive place in the Twilight Zone reminds me of A World of Difference where a man escapes his alcoholism, his failing acting career, and his harpy wife into a role he was acting. An episode that was probably done on the cheap was Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room. It had two actors and took place in a cheap hotel room. It was VERY well done.
"Miniature" was fantastic. I see that @Sally(x4) already beat me to saying the Robert Duvall's acting in that episode was what made it so good. The music in that episode was so haunting in the story as well. "The Encounter" reminds me of my father who fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII. He was a well-meaning man, but he could never find peace when it came to Japanese descended people after the war. The term PTSD wasn't invented yet, but he had a lot of stuff that he couldn't reconcile with. I think that episode was a good, if uncomfortable, look at where America was after WWII... Great video!
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was also adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Season 5, Episode 13 and was directed by Robert Stevenson. It was aired on December 20, 1959.
There is a “Fifth episode,” that almost found its way onto this list. “Nothing in the Dark,” featuring a very young Robert Redford very nearly fell victim to being removed from the package, as Redford went through his brief “Raging Egomaniac” phase of the late-1970s. Redford initially tried to purchase the episode, and inevitably bid for the entire syndication package, on behalf of his production company “Sundance.” The episode sat in copyright limbo until 1984, when Redford apparently just gave up on it.
Gladys Cooper was a classic British actress for many years. When several young men auditioned for the police officer, Cooper took one look at Redford and said, "That young man, I want him to play that part." , something like that. Serling agreed. To this day, Redford is still grateful to Gladys Cooper and Serling for his big break, even though both of them are long passed on.
I was between 7 and 13 when the twighlight zone first aired, and after all these years I remembered all of these lost episondes all these years later. My mom and I watched it every week together.
I'm 76 & have watched t.v. since 1950 & truly feel that there has been very few t.v. series that can be called "One of a Kind"! "The Twilight Zone" was one of them! I was in the military when some of these 'lost' episodes were originally broadcast & never saw them! However, I felt that the hour-long shows contained superfluous scenes that weakened the tense atmosphere, contained in the 30 min. episodes! Bravo to Rod Serling's creativity!
I am 71 and I totally agree. This show was one of a kind. I feel honored to have seen it, experienced it then and as I got older enjoyed each episode more deeply. Many of these could be remade as long as they don't screw with the stories and " correct" them. What say you Ron ? I also agree that except for a few the hour long episodes were just stuffing. Miniature was an exception.
I’ve got these 4 episodes on my Twilight Zone complete Blu-Ray set, They aren’t quite up there with the very best episodes of the Twilight Zone IMHO, but I wouldn’t call any of them bad. Probably ‘Miniature’ is my favorite of these four because of Duvall’s touching performance in this episode and it’s sweet ending.
The episode with Patrick O’Neill was excellent, as was the episode with Robert Duvall and the miniature doll house. Two of their best episodes. The scariest one though remains to be the “Doll” episode with talking Tina. I watched that one at night by myself and it scared the crap out of me.
Oh god yeah! Talking Tina. Sooo creepy and unforgettable! I’m upset that the narrator here didn’t “spoil” the episodes described here, because it isn’t like we can just look ‘em up here on RUclips and watch them! I want to know what happened in them all. Grr. Like, what was the “side effect” of the treatment to make the guy younger for his wife?
I saw "The Encounter" a number of years ago, and though it's not necessarily one of my favorites (a list which was probably cemented 40 years ago), it was an episode which truly viscerally gripped me, like few before it. It was a remarkably audacious & incredibly courageous script, which confronted things in a way that was almost unparalleled for it's time.
Serling , who was very far ahead of his time, wrote or produced an incredible amount of prescient stories that are very modern and pertinent to todays world. Scary .
I hadn’t seen Miniature and The Encounter until about a year ago. Probably last New Year’s Eve. The other two I still haven’t seen. I was quite struck by The Encounter. It’s a powerful, strongly acted teleplay and shows that Star Trek didn’t make full use of George Takai’s skills. And, of course, Miniature gives an early glimpse into Robert Duvall’s prodigious talents. Twilight Zone attracted top notch acting talent during its too short run. Perhaps the network should have been as duly impressed as the actors were.
Miniature was released in the late 80's early 90's with color effects. When Duvall looks into the miniature it goes to color for those scenes, while back in the real world it's back to black and white. Very surreal.
Twilight Zone is one of the best shows to ever grace television. It makes you think, and the possibilities that play into your head are what scares you. Yes, I have seen all episodes of Twilight Zone. My most favorite episode is probably The Invaders. Just one actor (Agnes Moorehead), save for the last frames/scene with almost mo dialogue. But it just keeps you glued to the screen.
I saw the Samurai sword one. Very poignant, moving. It required a mature eye, and a humble heart, to drink in this sad tale of lingering racism and hate. May this paradigm pass us by and never return. AMEN.
I saw the one with George Takei and Neville Brand. I think it was the very first time in 2016. No one wants to be reminded to how twisted people can be even if it is in "The Twilight ".
My all time favorite TV show. Best episodes for me were (3) A World of Difference with Howard Duff, (2) Walking Distance with Gig Young, and (1) A Stop At Willoughby with James Daley. "Push, push, push, Williams". "Next time, I get off."
I agree with you wholeheartedly with “walking distance” and “Willoughby.” But my third would be “Printer’s Devil,” with Burgess Meredith; it’s an hour long. But a third choice for a 30 minute would be the Anne Francis mannequin episode.
I remember the Robert Duvall episode being broadcast during the period when TV execs were infatuated with colorization... so yes, it was shown with the dollhouse sequences colorized. This was some decades ago already.
It's been tried repeatedly. Those of us who are somewhat older no doubt recall the 1980s TV revival. While some were decent quality, w/o Serling it just doesn't work.
I saw “An occurrence...” when it was first aired on commercial TV. 4 years later, I was a high school student sitting in a Quonset hut in An American history class on Guam when our teacher asked if anyone had seen it. He nearly fell out of his chair when we could discuss it.
I've seen all 4 and love them. Those stories are wonderful and nothing these days comes close. So sad. Thank you for sharing and all that you do! God Bless 😃 BTW, there's a movie called "Beyond Tomorrow" that's really good. Have you watched the series "Tales of Tomorrow"? Those came first before The Twilight Zone. Have you ever listened to OTR(Old Time Radio) shows Suspense and others? Also, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater is an excellent show for SciFi stories! The older stuff didn't need blasphemy, sex, etc to make a good story. These days it's just awful. I miss the awesome stories of old. Funnily enough, everything that is being debated and "hot topics" of today was being debated and "hot topics" back then. It seems everything repeats in every generation, lol!
as often as the show was rerun and all the marathons i think i can say i have not seen nearly all of the episodes, im 58 now and pre cable shows like this were very popular on late night tv before the station signed off for the night.
I grew up with this show and saw them premiere along with Outer Limits and the like. Little Girl Lost episode (season 3) gave me shivers for decades...love it.
I don't recall seeing any of these four episodes, although I probably did see them. Your recalling of "Miniature" was excellent and entertaining. Also a little spooky!
"Miniature" is my favorite episode. I saw it once when I was a teenager during a Halloween TZ marathon. I didn't see it again until last year (I'm 48). For a while there, I wasn't sure if it really existed, I thought maybe it wasn't a TZ episode, but maybe Outer Limits or Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
@@OconByrd519 You should check with any local/affiliate stations. They still do it here over Halloween, and sometimes on the 4th of July, and it's really fun!
I saw "The Encounter" in early 2000s at a cousin"s house. He had just bought the DVD collection and arranged a screening at his house, invited some friends and run the 4 best eposodes (in his opinion) and one of them was this. We had a great time commenting on this one. My cousin passed away in 2020 of a stroke, I really miss him. This brings fond memories of him, bless his soul...
Love the Twilight Zone. Had the honor of hosting several TZ marathons on NTV: Canada's SuperStation. For a while, we were the only network in Canada which aired the original Zone. Pretty cool, for such a small station!
Season 4 had hour long episodes because the show it was replacing was an hour and they needed to fill the time slot. That format didn’t work out which is why they went back to 30 minute episodes in season 5
I remember seeing the mini house one when I was very young. my dad knew Rod Serling they were friends, we are from Westport Connecticut. And I saw that and it was riveting I must’ve been very young, 12 years old or younger.
Being born in July 1996, I have no memory of them, nor have I ever seen these episodes. Rick, you do a great job with these fantastic videos. God bless you and be safe.
stop at willoughby is my all time favorite episode. i don't necessarily think it's the best episode but it hit that spot for me like no other. the train conductor going 'WILLoughbY... WiLloughby.. NEXT STOP WILLOUGHBY!' is too good.
Two underrated episodes! Another underrated one, which is one of my favorites: "A nice place to visit" where a jewel thief/life time criminal who was killed, thinks he's in heaven, and in the end is told by what he thinks is a guardian angel (Played by the late Sabastian Cabot) "HEAVEN??? WHAT EVER GAVE YOU THE IDEA YOU WERE IN HEAVEN??? THIS IS THE OTHER PLACE!!! (And the way Cabot laughs at him gives me chills)!
I've see "Miniature", "A drink from a certain fountain" and caught part of "Sounds and silences" I did enjoy " Miniature," as I thought is was one of the few happy endings to a TZ episode.
I saw all 4. Sounds and silences and the encounter I didnt really care for. But a drink from a certain fountain and miniature were both very good. Especially how it ended for his wife in a drink from a certain fountain. She wanted a younger hubby, and thats what she got. A very very young hubby. She didnt want to have to change her husband's diapers when he got old. So she can change them when hes a baby again.
@@henrybrowne7248 yep. The drug worked. But it didnt stop working. It brought his youth down to a baby. And his brother told her she was going to have to care for him or get nothing from the estate. 💪
@@siggyretburns7523 TZ just loved those twisted endings. One of my faves was Time Enough At Last[I think it was called], with Burgess Meredith. So cruel . .
The best people they got for every episode! Young people watch this too and Twilight Zone will always be fan favorites along with Alfred Hitchcock and The 3 Stooges!
You can see the influence of the Twilight Zone in a lot of great sci fi shows that came after it including "Dark Shadows" the gothic soap from the mid to late 60s whose plots incorporated or riffed of TW in at least two storylines that I can remember, including this doll house episode.
Thanks for this. Wonder if those lawsuits would fly today. Serling was full of original ideas and, apparently, a person of integrity. Would be interesting to read the evidence today.
Penny Singleton also played "Blondie" in the late 30's to 1950 movie series most of them called "Blondie ... (does x y z)". (Dagwood & Blondie, like the funny papers.) Good series. Funny and pleasant to watch on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Well, here’s the weird thing I noticed that on the Paramount app where are the original twilight zone is a tear at 20,000 feet is missing so is to serve Man and the other William Shatner episode. I can’t remember the name of it all three of those episodes are missing or not there.
Absolutely adore TZ, even though the vast majority of the themes are simply different takes on the The Monkey's Paw from 1902 (which itself is probably from a much older collection of folklore).
The Encounter was a great episode. It had a creepy feeling throughout I can’t explain. The ending was tragic and unexpected with Japanese young man ( played by George Sakei) jumping through second story window to his death. Creepy.
"Miniature" is my very favorite episode of the entire series. I first saw it back in the ‘80s when they aired a 25th anniversary special hosted by Patrick O’Neal. The special had several of the episodes that were considered "lost" due to their having been excluded from syndication. "Miniature" had the dollhouse sequences colorized, for whatever reason. "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain" is another favorite of mine. It’s as "Twilight Zone" as an episode of Twilight Zone can be.
Yes I've seen them all & I really liked them all TBCH. My enduring memory of the Encounter is how Neville Brand's character initially lies to George Takai & that lie slowly unravels along with Takamori's sanity & of course "BANSAI.!" & jumping out the window at the end. I remember the jibes at her husband in A Drink from a Certain Fountain & her dancing & her getting her just deserts in the end as a baby sitter. I remember the shouting & his staff hating Flemmington as well as the wonderful performance of McGuyver in the role of Flemmington. As for Miniature as many have said below in the comments & as you yourself said I remember the wonderful acting of Duvall in this episode. Have you not seen The Theatre or Where the Dead Are from Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics.? Both are in colour & were never produced while Rod was alive but they were both penned by him & are both worth a watch especially the latter.
awesome video! I have not seen last twilight zone episode until 3 years ago. Other 3 episodes I seen when they were released again. I was born 1966 and watched reruns on late night Saturday or Saturday evening as I got older before it was no big deal showing the episodes on Saturday afternoon. Thanks.
The William Shatner episode was great. Two others I liked -- Where the Nazi went back to his old haunts and Becker drove him insane and the one with the Guy who had just what you needed like some scissors in the elevator when a guy was trapped.
@@JA_WILL Shatner was in a few episodes, another one I think titled in the nick of time, where he becomes obsessed with a -tell your fortune for a penny- machine at a restaurant.
I thought The Big Wish would’ve been on this list. I never saw it as a child. I finally saw it as a grownup either in a marathon or VHS or DVD collection.
I saw the episode 'The Encounter' on television in December of 2011, though I'm not sure what channel I was watching. It was strange to see a Twilight Zone episode for the first time at the age of 42, when I had been watching Twilight Zone reruns since I was a child.
Penny Singleton was also the Original BLONDIE in the 1938- 1945 movies. She was also one of the First actors to require residual payments in her contracts. Smart lady!
She was also the first woman elected president of an AFL-CIO affiliated union, and her behind-the-scenes work displayed a truly remarkable amount of courage for her time.
Penny Singleton was the voice of Jane Jetson too.
@@janel.8921 he said that, just not the Blondie part. I prefer her on the Blondie movies because they are classics
Yes, she was great as Blondie. Arthur Lake was great as Dagwood too.
That would be 1938 to '50, a total of 28 Blondie comedies.
As a kid I loved Twilight Zone. Even as an adult I looked forward to the holiday marathons.
The July 4th Marathon
Yep both this and the outer limits 👍🏽
Note: Fenten was played by actor Neville Brand who really was a highly decorated war veteran.
I remember him waiving at the exploding pearl harbor and saying "There's your verification!".
@@williamcrane8236 Really glad when NB was killed in ‘DOA’. SCARY mofo! I cant imagine whatever enemy he faced in war not 💩👖!
I was impressed by the acting of a young George Takei. I was not aware of him being on tv before he was Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu. It was a VERY moving episode.
Never knew about Brand's war record, but it does make sense.
It was a really good episode and the racist comments were the point. I suspect it was pulled more because it made people uncomfortable than that, or else a lot of people just missed the point spectacularly.
Robert Duvall's performance in "Miniature" was really remarkable, especially given the fact that it was one of his earliest TV or movie acting jobs. He was 31 years old and his ability to underplay a part to perfection in "Miniature" is tantamount to the performance he gave as "Boo Radley" in "To Kill a Mockingbird" the previous year. He's never been out of work and is still performing to this day (2022) at 91 years of age!
I saw it quite by accident. Really a great piece of work and needed the hour-long format to make it work And though the ending may "seem" obvious it isn't really at all
Every role is played he was good. Even the minor ones. The confused and scarred soldier in Captain Newman, the cab driver in Bullet, the gun range owner in Jack Reacher. However he will always be remembered as Lt. Col. Kilgore. A part that he played so well that he owns it.
@@garfieldsmith332 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like... victory!"
Few remember his utopian role in THX 1138, which I saw on a 180° CINERAMA screen. A stellar performance!
Totally agree especially the character he created in Sling Blade, with just one scene he totally horrified the audience.
"Hey Boo."
Can’t believe it was almost cancelled before season 5. People back then probably were ignorant about how good the show was lol it’s had a major impact in terms of the media we consume. It’s referenced a lot in other movies/shows and still influences works today
I remember seeing The Encounter when it was finally aired. I thought it was really intense and couldn't imagine how it would have gone down in 1960s America. I later learned a few years later that Rod Serling served in the Philippines during the war and saw a lot of bad s**t go down. It had a profound impact on his life. I would invite anyone reading my comments to look up old interviews that Rod conducted in the 60s and 70s, he had a lot of amazing insight on race relations and American society at the time. He was truly an American treasure.
I know.
A brilliant series and one of my all-time favorites. Rod Serling was a TRUE GENIUS!
should read about his life history
He certainly could pontificate - another series just about this time was "One Step Beyond" with the chilling narration of John Newland. Back when t.v. was worth watching.....
Except when it came to smoking too many cigarettes which led to his death at 50
@@MisfitsFiendClub138 Yes he always seemed to have a coffin nail in his hands.....
Well according to this, he was also not above stealing other people's work
As a WWII history buff, while the Encounter is a great episode (George Takei grew up in one of the internment camps) my favorite episode is Death's Head Revisited. I quote the final narration all the time when people talk about why should we study history in general and the Holocaust specifically, since history has a cyclical pattern. Rod knew what he was doing with that episode since he saw the camps firsthand in the war.
Yes, it’s a shame it wasn’t as good as Deaths Head. Even with Neville Brand in the lead role, who was one of the most decorated soldiers of world war 2, it still was clearly inferior to many other episodes.
I love Death's Head Revisited also. One of the greatest qualities of the Twilight Zone was its ability to take a controversial subject that most likely couldn't have been shown as straight drama on Sixties T.V. and dealing with it through the use of fantasy. Rod Serling was a genius at doing that.
‘Death’s Head’ is brilliant but it has a fatal flaw - that was entirely intentional: not once was it mentioned that the Jews were by far and away the primary victims of the Holocaust. This was standard in Hollywood, where a huge share of the writers - including Rod Serling himself - were Jewish, not to mention the heads of studios, producers, directors. And that was precisely the reason you rarely heard even an obviously Jewish character described as Jewish. Rod rectified things in the first episode of “Night Gallery,” about a Nazi war criminal running scared in South America. There Jews were referred to as Jews. I suspect that in “Death’s Head,” the decision to avoid mentioning the primary victims, to avoid the Nazi ever expressing his anti-Semitism was the network’s, not Rod’s. Maybe the best example of Hollywood people being afraid of their own Jewish shadow was the film ‘Marty.׳ Originally, Paddy Chayefsky had Marty as Jewish butcher from the Bronx, not an Italian. Self-loathing, insecurity, box office considerations? A little of all three, I’d guess, and I’m referring to the studios, not Rod or Chayefsky.
@@haroldsteinblatt2567 Yes. I know what you're talking about. There was an hour long Twilight Zone episode called "He's Alive" , that starred Dennis Hopper as a White Supremacist being guided by a shadowy figure that turns out to be Adolf Hitler. Hopper's character rants about "foreigners" and people who are "not real Americans". An elderly man who had known Hopper's character since he was a boy , challenges him about his beliefs and the man is obviously Jewish , but no particular ethnicity is ever mentioned in the episode. Again , probably a network decision rather than Rod Serling's. All that being said , it was still a very effective episode and the parallels to a lot of what's going on today are chilling.
The episode with Duvall and the museum also sounds like...
The Night Gallery episode where the Nazi hiding out in south America keeps returning to a museum trying to "get me into the picture"! (wish himself into the painting.)
When the guards rush in trying to find him though, he has wished himself into..the wrong picture.
Rod really had a thing for museums....and art galleries.
That was the 'pilot', movie, not an episode.
That wasn't Duval was it? I remember that one - they changed the painting while he was not there and he ran in while the lights were out. Mistake!
Did you see the one where Duval wished himself into the perfect little dollhouse with a sweet little lady in the museum? That one was good. Oh, they show part of it in this! Such a good one!
@@kayekaye251 No, it wasn't Duvall. It was Richard Kiley who played the role in the movie.
@@cronejawford978 Thank you. I will have to look him up. I thought it was Maybe(?) Efrain Zimbalist Jr but was sure it wasn't Duval.
@@cronejawford978 I looked him up and that looks like the face I remember. I think they added some fake scar tissue over one eye to differentiate him from his character. Good idea probably. And what a singer he was too. Man of LaMancha. Thanks for sharing. I didn't find the "episode" but couldn't give it more time. Hmmm - maybe it was that series that used paintings as props in the lead-in. ! Night Gallery?
Lets not forget "He's Alive" with Dennis Hopper. That was banned for decades.
HE'S ALIVE is one of the greatest series episodes!
I have seen these episodes and they are among my favorites. My absolute favorite is still Long Distance Call. I think this could be remade with the child receiving a toy cellphone from his grandma.
A similar TZ episode, and a favorite of mine is Night Call where an elderly woman receives calls in the middle of a stormy night from her dead fiancée. Very creepy episode.
When my Granddaughter was 1 she received three phones from different people. Original 1960s rotary "Phoney", the 70s touch tone FP phone and a toy tpuchscreen smartphone. We called it baby call center.
Always thought of the Billy Mumy TZ episode when I saw her playing with them
I too, have seen all of these episodes, and granted, none of them are in my personal 'Top 10' episodes of TZ. My all-time best? 'Will the Real Martian Please, Stand Up'
Long Distance Call stuck with me too! It might be one of my favorites.
Thank God the TZ wasn't cancelled after 3 seasons! There are great episodes in seasons 4 & 5. I bought the box set here in Australia with all 156 episodes about 5 years ago. I didn't care much for "The sounds and silences' or 'The encounter'
'A short drink from a certain fountain ' was very entertaining. 'Miniature ' is one of my top 10 episodes, love Robert Duvall the lead
Another episode that should’ve been in this video is “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, which was only broadcast on American television twice (once during the original show’s run and once slightly after it ended) until finally airing again in the aforementioned January 1st, 2016 marathon on Syfy.
Yep. It's excellent, but you rarely see it.
That was the first of these unsyndicated episodes that I managed to see, finding a shady VHS copy of it in the bargain bin at a local store.
I'm old enough to remember "Occurence" when it originally aired. I was so really taken by it, especially the haunting music, that I would watch hours of marathons over the years just to see it again, but to no avail. About 8 years ago my husband bought me the "definitive" set on DVD and THERE IT WAS! There's an incredible back story to this episode, too.
Also the basis of the Vietnam-based story, " "Jacob's Ladder," with Tim Robbins and Elizabeth Pena.
Well, there's a much better reason why "Occurrence" wasn't included: Serling and the production company didn't own the "episode" since it was a French-produced and -directed short film. TZ's producer, William Froug, bought the rights to air the short film only twice (and even then, the French production was slightly edited for broadcast).
The episode was made available on home video releases but that would've involved an additional payment for the rights to do so (similar to how some shows and movies use a song in the original TV or theatrical production but the rights don't include home video or even rebroadcast purposes).
Robert Duval is such a good actor. I know his career was by no means bad, but I wish we had more of him in lead rolls, he had so much range and was able to so realistically convey his internal emotional space without seeming emotional in character.
Just amazing, it's hard to say he's underrated with how well respected he is, but I wish we had more of his work.
He, Dustin Hoffman, and Gene Hackman were buddies and roomies in there early days. The trio all did pretty well.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 you could print money with the three of them anywhere on the drama/suspense spectrum.
I love the old Twilight Zone episodes!! It's so cool to watch some of the world's greatest actors play characters on this show!!
I think my favorite hour long episode was the "new exhibit" with Martin Balsam. those wax Figures were very creepy and then of course who really killed those people? was it Martin Balsam's character or was it the wax figures?
"Miniature" was such a magical episode.💖
One of my all-time favorites is the episode called..."And when the sky was opened."...With actor, Rod Taylor as one of three astronauts who's experimental spaceship crash lands in the desert.They all survive the crash...but one by one...they totally disappear from existence. Taylor's character is the only one that remembers the third astronaut named Harrington.
Seen it a hundred times. I STILL get chills down my back when I watch that episode.
I loved this episode too. When Rod Taylor became a fairly big star in the next couple of decades, I remembered my first exposure to Taylor in this Twilight Zone episode.
@@thomaswolf723 As a kid,...I think my first memorable exposure to Rod Taylor came from the movie..."The Time Machine".
@@Dano62680 L liked him in that movie too.
Agreed! I still get chills when Hutton says, " Oh, my dear God! "
@@jamesdrynan Yep, that happens near the end...after Rod Taylor runs out of Hutton's hospital room and disappears in the hallway!
What blew ME away was... when Taylor first walked into Hutton's hospital room. He's clearly freaked out...but he's doing his best to hold back his anguish and confusion. Then he begins to...very carefully open the discussion...by first asking Hutton what does he remember about the flight. Which then brings Taylor to the subject of the third astronaut named... Harrington. Taylor then begins to tell what HE remembers and the camera fades into a flashback scene where all three of them including Harrington, are there in the hospital room...just the day before, laughing and joking.
Like I said...one of my favorite TZ episodes!
I am a bit surprised that Rod Serling wasn't even more of a target for plagerism suits. Not because I think he copied others submitted works, but because he put out a pretty wide net looking for scripts and of course writers who may have been turned down might have been looking to get a payday on even the slightest similarity in stories.
The premise was after all, self limiting in the type of story that you would imagine might be proposed.
The sixteen-millimeter shrine was an obvious remake of Sunset Boulevard and the changing of the guard was a copy of Goodbye Mr. Chips. I think there were many others that got their inspiration from previous works.
I think that he changed stories enough while still giving original credit to the original authors to keep him from being sued.
T.S.Eliot said good writers borrow, great ones steal.
Perchance tTo Dream was a terrific episode with Richard Conte, a man caught between reality, being awake , and the horror of falling asleep , slipping into a psychotic world of madness, mayhem, and the fear of being murdered Great theme and acting!
What gets me, is that for years when stations had special "uncut marathons", this was based on the syndicated package, where the episodes as presented had actually been edited when the package was created.
So the PR was misleading and a shame, because those "little edits" could take away the fleshing out of characters, or a lead characters' motivation: A key removed scene from "The Lonely", where Corry & Alicia talk about the stars in the sky, which adds more depth to their relationship, & "The Four of Us Are Dying", where the man who manipulated his face, explains the reason why he is impersonating certain people, are the biggest examples, here. I was shocked when I first saw the restored episodes for the first time on Blu-ray!
An Occurrence at Owl Creek's Bridge also wasn't part of the syndication package. The arrangement in adapting it for Twilight Zone included showing it only once.
I saw this on Sy- Fi channel today.
Indeed, the short film was originally produced independently and won awards at Cannes and the Oscars. Including it in the original TZ run was a brilliant example of Rod Serling making the most of his budgetary restrictions, as licensing the film cost far less than producing an original episode, which brought the fifth season back in under budget. It was not seen in reruns for many years for the contractual reason cited above.
This was shown to my 8th grade English class iirc. Circa 1977. One of my favorite short stories ever. It may have just been a different adaptation.
I remember it from years ago. Believe it or not the song sticks in my head..."He walks around...."
I was under the impression that "Walking Distance," with Gig Young and Frank Overton, was excluded from syndication as well. It is one of Serling's most memorable and heartfelt scripts and had standout performances by both its stars.
Just FANTASTIC!
My favorite episode 🥰🫶🏽🙌🏽
That is my favorite. I love the music
What many people don’t know about Neville Brand at the end, was that he was one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War 2. I find this to be quite an amazing coincidence to see one of the most decorated soldiers, having the a major role of an ex soldier in a tv episode.
My brother saw Miniature and loved it. He kept asking me if I had ever seen it but I had not. Now I understand why. The John MacGyver one I did see during a Twilight Zone marathon a while back. I don’t member the George Takei one but I do remember the Ruta Lee one, which I also saw during a marathon. I met Ruta Lee a few years ago at a party where I was singing. She was the hostess and was very nice.
Ruta Lee was a BABE back in the day !!!!!!!
@@garynixon9035 She was very pretty.
Short Drink is one of my favorite episodes. The three actors worked great together with an original story.
Ruta Lee was unbelievably beautiful...
Years ago they aired a partially colorized version of "Miniature"
The scenes inside the doll house were colorized.
Anyone else remember seeing this ?
Yes!
Yes, for sure. I recorded it on Betamax. Sadly that tape was lost years ago, and they quit manufacturing Betamax anyway. Sad.
I remember several TZ episodes in color years ago, including Miniature, that when I was watching them online (Netflix) recently, they only had them in grayscale. Good to know I wasn't imagining it. Something similar happened with the TOS Pilot "The Cage." I had a colorized version recorded from an 90s marathon hosted by Nimoy on vhs, but no streaming services that I've found had that particular version to date.
Yes
Only saw the black and white episode.,
Who remembers "Carol For Another Christmas"? Rod Serling's version of "A Christmas Carol". It was intense, insightful, and a bit creepy, had an amazing cast, and was done very well. Not sure if that was in syndication.
I was born in 1955, and I watched The Twilight Zone as a kid. I'm not sure if I saw reruns or the original series. The shows were spooky, and they frightened me some. l loved Rod Serling's serious sounding voice in the intros.
The Encounter definitely touches on controversial issues. So much so , that I'm surprised they allow to be shown today in this PC world. Personally , I love the episode. My father was a Korean War veteran and Neville Brand's portrayal of a clearly damaged vet reminds me somewhat of my Dad's struggles dealing with his wartime experiences. And George Takei who was actually in an Internment Camp during WW2 , draws perfectly on the hurt , humiliation and resentment that experience caused him to brilliantly portray a man who seems perfectly fine on the outside , but inside is being consumed by the trauma of his youth. Altogether a magnificent story of two men so overtaken by their inner demons , that they eventually destroy both the other and themselves. Great writing , wonderful acting and a topic that concerns us all. I can't think of anything that T.V. could use more than this kind of intelligent , artistic entertainment.
"in this PC world" the one where people are fighting to remind people that wars weren't just "heroic white guys fight evil Germans" but that a lot of horrible shit also happened? The one where people are working hard to spread the stories about the good and bad that happened to all people in all regions and times? Is it a pc world we live in now just because we can't say "you're very eloquent for negro" or is it a PC world because people are outspoken about the atrocities that have occurred that the history books keep sweeping under the rug?
Too bad we can't go back to the totally not politically correct era where you weren't allowed to say the word "pregnant" on tv, or show a toilet, and married couples couldn't even be IMPLIED to share a bed.
@@FrenkTheJoy I believe that showing prejudice in all its ugliness , is not endorsing those opinions , but rather showing how divisive and destructive bigotry can be for the prejudiced people , those who their hatred is aimed at and to society as a whole. Of course that type of speech and thinking are offensive. That's the whole point. How do you expect to try to understand and try change these negative aspects of our society if we just close our eyes and ears and pretend that they don't exist?
Being born in 1970 the Twilight Zone was already in reruns by the time I started watching as a kid. Never heard of any of these episodes until watching this video. However, I did have to do an extensive search a few years back to find the original Claude Akins / Monsters Are On Maple Street episode. Figured it had been "cancelled" by the media for hitting to close to home in 2010-2020.
TTZ had a big impact on me as a kid growing up in the UK. It was a quality of TV in my 80's world where TV was really on a slow decline. Compared to today's degenerate TV & culture it really does stand out and has stood the test of time well, teaching thought provoking lessons.
You hit the proverbial nail on the head here. Today TV is total junk to put it mildly.
Miniature was a GREAT episode! It's one of my favorite episodes from the whole 5 year run. Duvall was great in his role as well as Pert Kelton who played his mom. The ending of someone escaping to a positive place in the Twilight Zone reminds me of A World of Difference where a man escapes his alcoholism, his failing acting career, and his harpy wife into a role he was acting.
An episode that was probably done on the cheap was Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room. It had two actors and took place in a cheap hotel room. It was VERY well done.
"Miniature" was fantastic. I see that @Sally(x4) already beat me to saying the Robert Duvall's acting in that episode was what made it so good.
The music in that episode was so haunting in the story as well.
"The Encounter" reminds me of my father who fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII. He was a well-meaning man, but he could never find peace when it came to Japanese descended people after the war. The term PTSD wasn't invented yet, but he had a lot of stuff that he couldn't reconcile with. I think that episode was a good, if uncomfortable, look at where America was after WWII...
Great video!
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was also adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Season 5, Episode 13 and was directed by Robert Stevenson. It was aired on December 20, 1959.
I'm really happy for the way things turned out for Robert Duvall's character in "Miniature."
There is a “Fifth episode,” that almost found its way onto this list. “Nothing in the Dark,” featuring a very young Robert Redford very nearly fell victim to being removed from the package, as Redford went through his brief “Raging Egomaniac” phase of the late-1970s. Redford initially tried to purchase the episode, and inevitably bid for the entire syndication package, on behalf of his production company “Sundance.” The episode sat in copyright limbo until 1984, when Redford apparently just gave up on it.
Gladys Cooper starred in that one too. I just saw a photo of her in her pre vaudeville days. You'd never know it was her except for the eyes.
@@siggyretburns7523 Disagree. She was beautiful as a young woman and in this episode.
@@henrywillis5857 when did I say she was never beautiful?
Don't know why he didn't want it to be seen he was very good in that episode.
Gladys Cooper was a classic British actress for many years. When several young men auditioned for the police officer, Cooper took one look at Redford and said, "That young man, I want him to play that part." , something like that. Serling agreed. To this day, Redford is still grateful to Gladys Cooper and Serling for his big break, even though both of them are long passed on.
I was between 7 and 13 when the twighlight zone first aired, and after all these years I remembered all of these lost episondes all these years later. My mom and I watched it every week together.
I'm 76 & have watched t.v. since 1950 & truly feel that there has been very few t.v. series that can be called
"One of a Kind"! "The Twilight Zone" was one of them! I was in the military when some of these 'lost' episodes
were originally broadcast & never saw them! However, I felt that the hour-long shows contained superfluous
scenes that weakened the tense atmosphere, contained in the 30 min. episodes! Bravo to Rod Serling's creativity!
I am 71 and I totally agree. This show was one of a kind. I feel honored to have seen it, experienced it then and as I got older enjoyed each episode more deeply. Many of these could be remade as long as they don't screw with the stories and " correct" them. What say you Ron ? I also agree that except for a few the hour long episodes were just stuffing. Miniature was an exception.
I never saw the Geirge Takei episode until the syfy airing. It was a hard edged episode.
I’ve got these 4 episodes on my Twilight Zone complete Blu-Ray set,
They aren’t quite up there with the very best episodes of the Twilight Zone IMHO, but I wouldn’t call any of them bad.
Probably ‘Miniature’ is my favorite of these four because of Duvall’s touching performance in this episode and it’s sweet ending.
I own the DvD's😀😀
One the benefits of working at a records store 😀
The episode with Patrick O’Neill was excellent, as was the episode with Robert Duvall and the miniature doll house. Two of their best episodes. The scariest one though remains to be the “Doll” episode with talking Tina. I watched that one at night by myself and it scared the crap out of me.
Oh god yeah! Talking Tina. Sooo creepy and unforgettable!
I’m upset that the narrator here didn’t “spoil” the episodes described here, because it isn’t like we can just look ‘em up here on RUclips and watch them! I want to know what happened in them all. Grr.
Like, what was the “side effect” of the treatment to make the guy younger for his wife?
I saw "The Encounter" a number of years ago, and though it's not necessarily one of my favorites (a list which was probably cemented 40 years ago), it was an episode which truly viscerally gripped me, like few before it.
It was a remarkably audacious & incredibly courageous script, which confronted things in a way that was almost unparalleled for it's time.
For the time period, it was certainly remarkable
Serling , who was very far ahead of his time, wrote or produced an incredible amount of prescient stories that are very modern and pertinent to todays world. Scary .
@@theimp5901 Absolutely
Well said. I agree completely.
I saw it one time. I thought it was drawn out too long just to point out a story of bigotry.
I hadn’t seen Miniature and The Encounter until about a year ago. Probably last New Year’s Eve. The other two I still haven’t seen. I was quite struck by The Encounter. It’s a powerful, strongly acted teleplay and shows that Star Trek didn’t make full use of George Takai’s skills. And, of course, Miniature gives an early glimpse into Robert Duvall’s prodigious talents. Twilight Zone attracted top notch acting talent during its too short run. Perhaps the network should have been as duly impressed as the actors were.
Yes, I've seen all 4 episodes. Loved Twilight Zone. We still "sing" the intro in our own "twilight zone" life.
Miniature was released in the late 80's early 90's with color effects. When Duvall looks into the miniature it goes to color for those scenes, while back in the real world it's back to black and white. Very surreal.
My favorite episode is I Sing The Body Electric. It starred David White and Veronica Cartwright (her sister played Penny on Lost In Space )
I had a pre-teen crush on Veronica, from seeing her in Hitchcock's The Birds.
Twilight Zone is one of the best shows to ever grace television. It makes you think, and the possibilities that play into your head are what scares you.
Yes, I have seen all episodes of Twilight Zone. My most favorite episode is probably The Invaders. Just one actor (Agnes Moorehead), save for the last frames/scene with almost mo dialogue. But it just keeps you glued to the screen.
I saw the Samurai sword one. Very poignant, moving. It required a mature eye, and a humble heart, to drink in this sad tale of lingering racism and hate. May this paradigm pass us by and never return. AMEN.
So far I have seen every episode of the Twilight Zone. Rod will always be my favorite.
The Encounter "wasn't memorable?" Wtaf? That was one of the rawest watches of the series.
I've watched every episode of the Twilight Zone since I was 5 years old never missed any episodes I loved all of the episodes
My all-time most memorable episode will always be Talking Tina with Telly Savallas.
Never fails to creep me out.
I saw the one with George Takei and Neville Brand. I think it was the very first time in 2016. No one wants to be reminded to how twisted people can be even if it is in "The Twilight ".
I have seen all but the last one, I can watch the old Twilight Zone over and over. They are like great music, timeless.
My all time favorite TV show. Best episodes for me were (3) A World of Difference with Howard Duff, (2) Walking Distance with Gig Young, and (1) A Stop At Willoughby with James Daley. "Push, push, push, Williams". "Next time, I get off."
I agree with you wholeheartedly with “walking distance” and “Willoughby.” But my third would be “Printer’s Devil,” with Burgess Meredith; it’s an hour long. But a third choice for a 30 minute would be the Anne Francis mannequin episode.
@@Jasper7182009 Excellent choice. So many - it's hard to chose. Did you also like the ORIGINAL VERSION of The Outer Limits?
I remember the Robert Duvall episode being broadcast during the period when TV execs were infatuated with colorization... so yes, it was shown with the dollhouse sequences colorized. This was some decades ago already.
I remember that, too. "The Twilight Zone Silver Anniversary Special".
I remember 'The Encounter', from Canadian TV in the seventies. In the re-runs I only saw Sulu aboard the Enterprise.
The miniature was also updated to where every scene in the dollhouse was colorized.
I wish they would start making new episodes. The Twilight Zone is like Jello. There is always room for more.
They tried that in 2019. It didn't last. It's difficult to recreate that kind of magic.
It's been tried repeatedly. Those of us who are somewhat older no doubt recall the 1980s TV revival. While some were decent quality, w/o Serling it just doesn't work.
I watched talking Tina, and to this day I won't let my kids get a talking toy or doll. Scary!
I saw “An occurrence...” when it was first aired on commercial TV. 4 years later, I was a high school student sitting in a Quonset hut in An American history class on Guam when our teacher asked if anyone had seen it. He nearly fell out of his chair when we could discuss it.
I've seen all 4 and love them. Those stories are wonderful and nothing these days comes close. So sad.
Thank you for sharing and all that you do!
God Bless 😃
BTW, there's a movie called "Beyond Tomorrow" that's really good. Have you watched the series "Tales of Tomorrow"? Those came first before The Twilight Zone. Have you ever listened to OTR(Old Time Radio) shows Suspense and others? Also, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater is an excellent show for SciFi stories! The older stuff didn't need blasphemy, sex, etc to make a good story. These days it's just awful. I miss the awesome stories of old. Funnily enough, everything that is being debated and "hot topics" of today was being debated and "hot topics" back then. It seems everything repeats in every generation, lol!
as often as the show was rerun and all the marathons i think i can say i have not seen nearly all of the episodes, im 58 now and pre cable shows like this were very popular on late night tv before the station signed off for the night.
I liked the episode printers devil played by Burgess Meriddeth
I saw this one in 2016, "The Encounter" , loved the episode! Also " Miniature "
I grew up with this show and saw them premiere along with Outer Limits and the like. Little Girl Lost episode (season 3) gave me shivers for decades...love it.
Short Drink is one of my absolute favorites!
I couldn't resist buying all the seasons of TZ on DVD; especially enjoyed the edition of season 1 that came with the book The TZ Companion.
I don't recall seeing any of these four episodes, although I probably did see them. Your recalling of "Miniature" was excellent and entertaining. Also a little spooky!
"Miniature" is my favorite episode. I saw it once when I was a teenager during a Halloween TZ marathon. I didn't see it again until last year (I'm 48). For a while there, I wasn't sure if it really existed, I thought maybe it wasn't a TZ episode, but maybe Outer Limits or Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
A Halloween TZ marathon sounds absolutely awesome! I wish some network or station would be willing to do that for us fans.
@@OconByrd519 You should check with any local/affiliate stations. They still do it here over Halloween, and sometimes on the 4th of July, and it's really fun!
I saw the last three episodes and I taped them on VHS. The season 4 60 minute episodes are rarely syndicated. There are only 18 one hour episodes.
"Time Enough at Last" with Burgess Merideth.... Eye Of The Beholder. two of my very favorites. Anyone remember those?
I lived in Twilight Zone ever since after 2019... Surrealism experience
I saw "The Encounter" in early 2000s at a cousin"s house. He had just bought the DVD collection and arranged a screening at his house, invited some friends and run the 4 best eposodes (in his opinion) and one of them was this. We had a great time commenting on this one. My cousin passed away in 2020 of a stroke, I really miss him. This brings fond memories of him, bless his soul...
Love the Twilight Zone. Had the honor of hosting several TZ marathons on NTV: Canada's SuperStation. For a while, we were the only network in Canada which aired the original Zone. Pretty cool, for such a small station!
Why don't you put it back on?
Season 4 had hour long episodes because the show it was replacing was an hour and they needed to fill the time slot. That format didn’t work out which is why they went back to 30 minute episodes in season 5
I remember seeing them all. Amazing finding out what happened & why. Thank you.
I remember seeing the mini house one when I was very young. my dad knew Rod Serling they were friends, we are from Westport Connecticut. And I saw that and it was riveting I must’ve been very young, 12 years old or younger.
Being born in July 1996, I have no memory of them, nor have I ever seen these episodes. Rick, you do a great job with these fantastic videos. God bless you and be safe.
Two of my favorites that usually over looked are “ A World Of His Own” and “ A Stop At Willoughby”
stop at willoughby is my all time favorite episode. i don't necessarily think it's the best episode but it hit that spot for me like no other. the train conductor going 'WILLoughbY... WiLloughby.. NEXT STOP WILLOUGHBY!' is too good.
@@doublefeature the twist ending was perfect.
Two underrated episodes! Another underrated one, which is one of my favorites: "A nice place to visit" where a jewel thief/life time criminal who was killed, thinks he's in heaven, and in the end is told by what he thinks is a guardian angel (Played by the late Sabastian Cabot) "HEAVEN??? WHAT EVER GAVE YOU THE IDEA YOU WERE IN HEAVEN??? THIS IS THE OTHER PLACE!!! (And the way Cabot laughs at him gives me chills)!
I've see "Miniature", "A drink from a certain fountain" and caught part of "Sounds and silences" I did enjoy " Miniature," as I thought is was one of the few happy endings to a TZ episode.
I saw all 4. Sounds and silences and the encounter I didnt really care for. But a drink from a certain fountain and miniature were both very good. Especially how it ended for his wife in a drink from a certain fountain. She wanted a younger hubby, and thats what she got. A very very young hubby. She didnt want to have to change her husband's diapers when he got old. So she can change them when hes a baby again.
@@siggyretburns7523 LOL
@@siggyretburns7523 Ahah, I thought that's how it ended. I believe I saw at least part of it somewhere, sometime long ago.
@@henrybrowne7248 yep. The drug worked. But it didnt stop working. It brought his youth down to a baby. And his brother told her she was going to have to care for him or get nothing from the estate. 💪
@@siggyretburns7523 TZ just loved those twisted endings. One of my faves was Time Enough At Last[I think it was called], with Burgess Meredith. So cruel . .
I have seen them all with the exception of Encounter. Loved that show & Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
The best people they got for every episode! Young people watch this too and Twilight Zone will always be fan favorites along with Alfred Hitchcock and The 3 Stooges!
You can see the influence of the Twilight Zone in a lot of great sci fi shows that came after it including "Dark Shadows" the gothic soap from the mid to late 60s whose plots incorporated or riffed of TW in at least two storylines that I can remember, including this doll house episode.
The episode "Sound and Silence" reminds me a little of a Story from the Radio Show "X minus 1" of the 1950s. At least i think it was from "X Minus 1".
Thanks for this. Wonder if those lawsuits would fly today. Serling was full of original ideas and, apparently, a person of integrity. Would be interesting to read the evidence today.
Penny Singleton also played "Blondie" in the late 30's to 1950 movie series most of them called "Blondie ... (does x y z)". (Dagwood & Blondie, like the funny papers.) Good series. Funny and pleasant to watch on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Well, here’s the weird thing I noticed that on the Paramount app where are the original twilight zone is a tear at 20,000 feet is missing so is to serve Man and the other William Shatner episode. I can’t remember the name of it all three of those episodes are missing or not there.
A fifth episode would be “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge “
Absolutely adore TZ, even though the vast majority of the themes are simply different takes on the The Monkey's Paw from 1902 (which itself is probably from a much older collection of folklore).
The Encounter was a great episode. It had a creepy feeling throughout I can’t explain. The ending was tragic and unexpected with Japanese young man ( played by George Sakei) jumping through second story window to his death. Creepy.
I remember in the 80's one tv station did the "Twilight Zone A Thon" every New Year's Eve.
"Miniature" is my very favorite episode of the entire series. I first saw it back in the ‘80s when they aired a 25th anniversary special hosted by Patrick O’Neal. The special had several of the episodes that were considered "lost" due to their having been excluded from syndication. "Miniature" had the dollhouse sequences colorized, for whatever reason.
"A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain" is another favorite of mine. It’s as "Twilight Zone" as an episode of Twilight Zone can be.
Yes I've seen them all & I really liked them all TBCH. My enduring memory of the Encounter is how Neville Brand's character initially lies to George Takai & that lie slowly unravels along with Takamori's sanity & of course "BANSAI.!" & jumping out the window at the end.
I remember the jibes at her husband in A Drink from a Certain Fountain & her dancing & her getting her just deserts in the end as a baby sitter.
I remember the shouting & his staff hating Flemmington as well as the wonderful performance of McGuyver in the role of Flemmington.
As for Miniature as many have said below in the comments & as you yourself said I remember the wonderful acting of Duvall in this episode.
Have you not seen The Theatre or Where the Dead Are from Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics.? Both are in colour & were never produced while Rod was alive but they were both penned by him & are both worth a watch especially the latter.
awesome video! I have not seen last twilight zone episode until 3 years ago. Other 3 episodes I seen when they were released again. I was born 1966 and watched reruns on late night Saturday or Saturday evening as I got older before it was no big deal showing the episodes on Saturday afternoon. Thanks.
Bring back the original gremlin
The William Shatner episode was great. Two others I liked -- Where the Nazi went back to his old haunts and Becker drove him insane and the one with the Guy who had just what you needed like some scissors in the elevator when a guy was trapped.
@@JA_WILL Shatner was in a few episodes, another one I think titled in the nick of time, where he becomes obsessed with a -tell your fortune for a penny- machine at a restaurant.
Put Shatner on the wing, with a terrified gremlin in the plane.
Now that's a twist ending rod serling would enjoy.
@@MathewRenfro
🙄 As though the rest of the passengers would be nonplussed to have a gremlin seated among them -- yuk-yuk.
I thought The Big Wish would’ve been on this list. I never saw it as a child. I finally saw it as a grownup either in a marathon or VHS or DVD collection.
I saw the episode 'The Encounter' on television in December of 2011, though I'm not sure what channel I was watching. It was strange to see a Twilight Zone episode for the first time at the age of 42, when I had been watching Twilight Zone reruns since I was a child.
Thank you for this!!! Great video.