Great Speech From The Twilight Zone 

Died to young

Indeed he was. I will add that he was a bit of a visionary as well. He was thinking outside the box before, check that, WAY before the term was even thought of.

Yes for this series, not The Night gallery

Defo.

He wuz coming from another dimension...this iz deep psychological horror SHIT, designed 2 make u think...he never had any children...hmmm

It's not true though. The germs have always done fine for themselves, and are doing fine even now.

@@justin_5631 you missed the entire point 🙄

Aye

@Charles Yuditsky seen their parades all over my bathroom and shower. not impressed.

@Charles Yuditsky not _on_ me yet but they try.

people just live with it. its pretty sad.

True that my friend...true that!

The 20th century was at least sane....that cannot be said of the 21st century...

@@stevebishop9468 And the 21st century was off to such a good start too. Such a disappointment..

whether or not you'll like any of the future centuries, depends on whether or not willing to do something to change it into something better.

Me too. I couldn't wait for the next one.

He had great background for it as a WW2 vet.

Same here. Only now, the last few years, go I realize how influential, insightful, and talented he was.

Same here and his name and show will live a very long time .

The Twilight Zone has been a great influence in much fiction and reality that followed it. I had a conversation with my aunt where I said I missed watching The Twilight Zone. She claimed the show was evil and when pressed to give a reason for that could not give me a single reason for her claim. I suppose in her mind anything that makes you question anything is evil.

Also 'Judgement Night'

Favorite episode.

Yes, just watched that yesterday n was thinking the same when watching this

I am the night- color me black. Another hard hitter. He's Alive is still valid to this day

@@carterjeremy89 very true, He's alive IS still valid

Do not go quietly into that dark night ~Jan 11th 2020

Welcome to the twilight zone, coming soon to a city or suburb near you, hope you enjoyed your stay,or at least the beginning,the end is near,have a nice day!

The Twilight Zone’s was so over the top in the 60’s as I recall...so why does it feel so real today?

@@davidweigel2238 Prescience is like that. 1960 was 60 years ago. We've all been hearing The Sound of Silence on the radio for over five decades now.

Black mirror

He was Absolutely brilliant. I remember the original shows and I've listened to the radio dramas, since.

I am also 68yo & greatly appreciate Rod Serling’s brilliant body of work today & since the first episodes of The Twilight Zone. 👍

Where could I watch those old shows? I was just a little kid when they came out and was not able to appreciate them.

I'm 45 I remember watching This with my father I make a lot of Twilight Zone references to my coworkers they have no idea what the hell I'm talking about I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone

Kazil, we are the same age. I keep thinking I see Rod in the corner of my eye. Life is surreal.

Week after week after week.

And you can't overlook the casts of actors he employed. So many of them were unknown at the time they helmed there Twilight Zone episodes. So many went on to Fame and Fortune because of their talent.

The Outer Limits was a great TV series as well. Different, but I feel just as good.

Bullshit! Not enough boobs, explosions and fart jokes... Seriously, this is the pinnacle of cerebral TV.

Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits I watched as an adolescent. 65 yo now and I still remember having the bejesus scared outta me. I wish I could roll into a baseboard now and enter another realm.

The stories were not always that smart, but they were a vehicle for ideas and performances. The "gimmick" worked in TV, since when done well it plays to both a casual and more serious viewer, which is why TV has tried to copy it ever since.

@@janetphelps6879 Yup, me too. Same age. Same frightful watching. And my older sister sitting right next to me, laughing at me. That is, until one night. She was as scared as me. She never laughed at me again.

I am afraid that in 50 years there will be very few of us left. The first dominoes have fallen and it is just amatter of time.

Beyond heeding date...

Life imitating art, for sure.

Is man to be dumber than the animals? To give up its teeth and claws before the lion or bear does? Shall we naively lay down our arms and trust in the tender mercies of our overlords? Of our self appointed enemies? Make no mistake this is part of the relentless propaganda bent on getting you to go silently into that good night (after slaving away for your enemy for a hard lifetime)... Don't you buy it!

I've had this same thought and conversation many times. HOW MANY movies or shows or prophetic warnings do people need to stop and think or to NOT do something or change and alter your approach. Dumbfounded by all the foolishness...

That would be you.

@@mirrortoyourweakness9769 Just by looking at your user name and samples of your comments, tells me all I need to know about you. Luckily for you, there is still time to repent and ask God into your life. It’s not too late. 🙏🏻🕊🙏🏻🕊🙏🏻

And we never really learn......

More intelligent? No Better? Maybe

The remake 1990s Outer Limits came close. Well worth watching.

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Yes we are. The truly sick part is that we could stop it if enough of us wanted it.

@@minermike61 I am not sure we can, any longer. I feel that these trends have been picking up speed since my teens and perhaps the real roots of this age are as far back as World war I or the American civil war. I don't know when we could have totally stopped this train from running over us. (or, to change the analogy, stop our train from running off the cliff?) You are right about the numbers but if 72 million wasn't enough to stop it, well then, there is no stopping it. What things could have stopped these trends and final results? How do we get from Hippies (different strokes for different folks) to Internet inquisitors and censors? The birth of computers to computers becoming the eyes and ears of rich, powerful men? I feel We are all on the same train rushing towards the cliff and none of us knows how to stop it, but that is nearly the definition of history. Maybe if a Napoleon or Caesar arose but usually such men make things worse, not better. Welcome to the twilight zone... This is Kathleen Hensley, she thought she was going to have a quiet retirement in the country, little did she know...

@@kathleenhensley5951 WWW is not just world wide web, it is the spiritual battle talked about in the Bible.

@@msrhuby I know, but don't say it often. This is a war at all levels.

@us71 What does that mean please?

Here's a good comment. They can't write dialogue like this anymore. Not possible. First, the so called " writers " of today are mental midgets whose only ambition is to kiss the backside of their god ....the state. And secondly the audience for thoughtful dialogue no longer exists. The same can certainly be said of good music. The audience is just too dumb. This clip is SO PROPHETIC. We are indeed technically advanced monkeys, but be advised......the monkeys have grown far more obtuse since this piece of art was filmed. FACT! Like it or not...FACT. We are in one melluva hess!!

It still exists.

@@calebjanus2000 Barely. It has a tenuous hold. Perhaps the future will present excellent writing, it's certainly not here right now.

... and acting this brilliant.

I think my wife has a bit of a crush on Dana Andrews. Has had ever since she saw "Laura".

I agree

As was Robert F. Simon.

The speech in the video questions patriotism, yet you choose to use it as a good quality. It is interesting because it relates to the insanity statement. An old thought, but never appreciated nonetheless.

@@Destruction320 You do not understand the point of the speech. There is nothing to do with "Patriotism" in the dialogue . It is a statement about world wide concern, made during the height of the cold war. Just amazes me how literal people take RU-vid comments without understanding the historic and commercial applications of the programs produced. Lighten up! Dana Andrews was a great actor, thats all I wanted to say. Take ur soap box to the fire pit. Its doing you no good.

Nuclear annihilation was the meme of the period. As a kid, I loved the shows where we had a fleet of flying saucers traveling the galaxy being beat to a pulp by another planet's pioneer giant woman or used to pick up prisoners from an asteroid. Then there were the aliens who got people to kill their neighbors based on paranoia and suspicion. Being a kid who loved to read, I remember most the episode of the nuclear war survivor who loved to read but broke his glasses.

@@ArizonaWillful time enough at last. An excellent episode. And yes i love sci fi. My favorite genre.

Also even now this is still very creative, showing that twilight zone is really one of the best tv shows ever.

@@redfox574 The Twilight Zone is mentioned by nearly every director as having a profound influence on their decision to get into film

You mean Dana Andrews.

@@luisreyes1963 TY

Amazing!

@@luisreyes1963 You can give Rod Serling credit too. He wrote the speech.

Rod Serling isn't talking

Why do you fools always incapable of speaking clearly? I know you must be discrete but boy does it make you look... When is the gorilla tired word salad kings?

That's sad, right? Now That's some honesty right there. It's refreshing. I can imagine a world without it. Imagination was never the problem.

Yup

That n, Death's Head Revisited...

Honestly at this point I think it's more clear that we're simply behind the times in today's day and age. Our fathers were so much more intelligent than we are.

The question remains: Are we yet prepared to pay attention and listen?

Unfortunately in 21st century most people will only learn the hardest way of all how precious a thing freedom is.

A warning or predictive programming ?

JakDRpr, so timely. Most telling is the original MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET. Air date: March 4, 1960 episode 22, so timely indeed.

@@stephennicholas1590 was.

Yes, Terry, I was absolutely amazed at just how articulate he was.

Another show that was very much involved in teaching what happens when man decides to screw with Nature is "The Outer Limits."

In 2021 America Serling would be cancelled by Big Brother.

O-K.

Especially the past 5 years - absolute surreal horror, absurd mockery of reality.

This reality is killing me!

I had Twilight Zone theme as my ringtone for several years.

@@AndrewVelonis your out of this world andrew☄️

But the end of our nightmare is almost here. No more trump after 1/20/2021

I knew a Kayla Andrews.

In 1967 he starred in `Hot Rods to Hell`.

@ Skippy Zeiger : "Wow! Dana Andrews, delivering the speech." Yes, he could do that when he was able to stay sober long enough.

Love Dana Andrews!

Night of the Demon / Curse of the Demon is an absolute classic adaptation of the M.R. James ghost story Casting of the Runes. I made sure it was in my DVD collection right from the start.

And God forbid they learn anything.

Not to mention creativity (in regard to the writers) is fostered by freedom of thought and we all see that being discouraged by the technocracy.

Remember stupid to us, is superiority to them.

I simply feel ignorant and I love this kind of stuff. I want to learn not to be ignorant.

I MISS how people used to debate, share ideas, discuss philosophy, humanity, the concept of a thinking animal. The attack on ancient philosophy by media and academia has destroyed the human soul and all nobility in so many souls.... When I speak of philosophy I am typically shunned but.... I refuse to stop drinking wisdom!!! Its beauty in written form. Thoughts put to reality to examine this condition of being a human.... ah, tonight I think I will sit by my phone and listen to the wisdom of Socrates!!!

Byron Gordon - "...entirely forgotten."? I don't see how you can say that. We're talking about him now, there are tons of videos just on RU-vid of his show, you can watch TZ still on Netflix and Amazon Prime, not to mention seeing his influence on television and in movies even today. No, not entirely forgotten my friend. Perhaps unheeded by some, but certainly not forgotten.

OK, not forgotten but not sufficiently appreciated by the masses at large. Serling was a provocative intellectual and for whatever reason there is a terrible strain of anti-intellectualism in the United States. Evidence of that is the trump administration.

When I watch these episodes makes me wonder now how did Serling wrote so much as if he knew the future?

Even Star Trek , with its exploration of themes and concepts, has to bend a knee to The Twilight Zone.

My personal favorite was the one with Dennis Hopper entitled "He Lives!". It was written when Gov. George Wallace was running for president. He was the most notorious bigot at the time. The episode is a dramatic example of a bigot gaining public acceptance of his bigoted beliefs. He has Hitler has his example, and insight will tell you all about Trump and his disciples. Yesterday's Trump riots at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. will tell anyone Hitler still lives in the mind of Trump and others who share his bigoted beliefs.

Culture degenerates as the innovations of the creative, becomes the tools of greedy primates that, for now, pass as H. sapiens.

Serling writes like a poet. Even with the original Planet Of The Apes, you could hear his writing throughout the movie

The rise of the housewives led to the demise of the twilight zone and good writing.

@Mr Andrew May : "How did this quality of thought provoking television from the early 1960s degenerate into the state of television that is shown . . ." Newton N. Minow (former Chair of the Federal Communications Commission) was correct when he referred to television as "a vast wasteland".

today's programming is groomed for the lazy, uneducated viewers of today

i appreciate it and belief n live by it.

kweju3 - When I read this I heard it in Rod Serling's voice in my mind.

No it isn't. It's a deepity. It's something that seems deep and profound to a naive simpleton but in actuality is less profound than a fart joke. There's nothing profound about it. Because what's the alternative to modern science, you want to go live in a cave and die in nature with no sanitation, healthcare, easy access to food or relief from parasites? Do you think a tiger living in the jungle has a better life than even one living in a zoo, let alone a better life than you have? I dare you to try to live for a week without using tap water or toilet paper, let alone electricity, and then see if you want to go RIGHT back at the end of that week. You're just romanticizing the life of the tiger in the jungle, that's all. In reality it has a horrible life, always on the threshold of starvation, and it will live a short, miserable while, and die young of a violent death, or a terrible disease, or starvation, or it will be eaten alive by an infected wound. Have you ever seen gangrene? I have.

medexamtoolsdotcom - I think that you completely missed the point of that little speech. It wasn't technology in and of itself that our would be time traveler objected to, but rather how we've used it. That dispite all of our advancements we're still just a vicious and cruel as we ever were. That's why he chooses the word "monkeys" to describe the human race. Was he right? IDK, but by calling people you don't even know "naive simpleton"s for their appreciation of a piece of art that you clearly didn't understand you've effectively displayed the kind of casual cruelty, and everyday nastiness that has become such an unfortunate part of our culture today. No, the Internet didn't create this culture of bitchy know-it-alls, but it sure makes it a lot easier doesn't it. For the things that are typed would rarely, if ever be spoken straight to another person's face.

Medexamtoolsdotcom is correct. But the blinders that the speech writer, speech giver and commenter give are the same ones that you're wearing. They mistake pessimism for realism. There is a lot wrong with the world, but there is a lot right with it too and both need to be acknowledged.

Have you watched any National Geographic videos on animals tearing each other apart? There are no innocent species.

Part of it is that since human beings are at the top of the food chain, the only competition we have to face is ourselves. It makes for greed, violence, and chaos, all for survival.

Naturally, the lukewarm are the problem to movement!!

I can't believe we're still fighting because of skin color. Skin color!

@@debbieseverson5130 we are not, zionist Israeli media is!!

I remember Ronald Colemans voice from "The Prisoner of Zenda" and the great coocoo clock speech that Orson Welles gave in "The Third Man". Wow.

It sort of reminds me of Cliff Robertson's speech to the assembled scientists in 'Charlie'. Agree with you about Andrews' voice and he's a very dependable actor.

May I add John Carradine and Cary Grant to that list?

This actor could produce gravitas and give mature thoughtful authority to his words. I remember him from childhood TV in the late 50's and 60's. Now we have a President who talks about pussy.

"you are the junk man, you get everything in the end"...

😂😂😂

I love Dana Andrews....and that distinctive voice!☺️

I agree. Today's ' entertainment' is anything but entertaining to people who grew up having to use their minds and knowledge instead of relying on being spoonfed, talked down to and having laugh tracks added so we would know when to laugh. I stopped watching TV over 10 years ago. I don't miss it.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS.

I too love that statement!

And had so many excellent actors, too!

It is not a matter of seeing the futur... his fear was the past repea ting itself with new tech to make it feel new. Humanity is a shit sandwich with space-race and cold war packaging. Makes me wonder what Rod would say if he saw the world today with the "the twilight zone" as a platform.

I believe he was a genius in knowing a lot more than we think he did.

He'd be saying the same thing. There's nothing he said that didn't/doesn't apply to humanity in the 70s, 80s, 90s, or the new millennium.

Screenplays written at collegiate honors level, for consumption by a viewership that now trends below a fifth grade reading comprehension level....

I thought that Palace was saying that those who are in power are ignoring the threat of global climate change, thus endangering the future. Perhaps I misread the intent.

You cannot fix it unless you see it’s broken

“The machines are EVERYWHERE...!” -Byron Lomax