These episode previews by Rod Serling are pure gold! I never knew he recorded these. You mean to tell us that television was mature and visionary at one point in its history? Thank you for posting this wonderful material.
I remember crying to poor Henry Bemis' fate in "Time enough at last". I thought it so unfair. And the theme music (specially the ending) still gives me the willies. 😨 Great series. Thanks, Fred. 💜🤟
Oh FredFlix, you've done it again! Because of MeTV I've seen every episode mentioned in this compilation. I truly wish we still had it here in Rhode Island, but they decided we should have Charge! instead. At least we still have access to your RU-vid time machine. Thanks man!
@@FredFlix,thank goodness I still get METV. Our cable system just recently gave us a new channel called GRIT. All western themed shows and movies. I love it.
@@gregggoss2210 I've noticed that during random channel surfing of Grit, MeTV, Antenna, H&I and Catchy Comedy (formerly the superior Decades), Grit will more likely NOT be in a commercial break.
Next week's episode you'll see for the first time the future in which phones are mobile and act also as miniature televisions. One of their channels will be called RU-vid and there will be many programs including one called Fred Flix! You saw it first next week here on the Twilight Zone. If you're still alive in about 60 years you will have seen the future with us!
Fred just watching these classic intros made me have chills up my spine. I think Rod S. Was creepier at announcing his show intros than Alfred Hitchcock with his TV show. Either way this was terrific stuff you found
Excellent video of an excellent series! These morality tales, as they’ve been called, are timeless and as relevant today as they were back then. This is one of the few original TV series where I’ve seen all episodes. Nothing else like it can compare.
One of my favorite classic far out shows! I seen most of these recently on the Me Tv channel, starring great actors and actresses who came out of the Twilight Zone and into some great series! Awesome as always Fred! ✨
Yes! Marvin Miller was the original "billboard" announcer during the first two seasons (1959-'61), as well as the one in the "alternate sponsor" bumper. "'THE TWILIGHT ZONE'....brought to you tonight--- by the coffee with the best of the coffee bean.....Aroma! Flavor! But *not* caffein! NEW 'AROMA-ROAST' *SANKA COFFEE!"* (1959)
They were usually eliminated from syndicated prints of "THE TWILIGHT ZONE", because most stations scheduled the episodes five nights (or days) a week; hence, no need for "next week" (in 1963, Rod started using the terms "next time" or "on our next episode"). I know WOR-TV and WPIX-TV in New York never showed them.
0:17 I guess that was Maxine Stuart under the bandages, though Donna Douglas was the unmasked woman. 2:47 "It's a Good Life" is about my least favorite episodes (I hate stories involving evil children.), but it's very popular among fans. 4:30 The makeup on the monster makes him look more like a deranged teddy bear than a monster, but the story from the 1983 movie made him look ugly & frightening.
Richard Matheson was also disappointed with the way the gremlin looked in "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet". He wrote the original story and teleplay, and insisted it looked more sinister in his original concept. "THAT thing looked like a panda bear!", he snorted.
@@brezzendorf Because the local stations at the time used more commercial minutes and cut out the extras. And also, they would not want Serling saying "next week on T Zone" when the station was probably showing it daily. Luckily, enough people (collectors, usually) were able to save the uncut 16mm prints sent to stations and retained the full broadcasts, sometimes including all the original network ads.
@@FredFlix i wonder if I can find those OGs. The subtitle files I downloaded has them extras so the og collector's edition should be there somewhere, on the internet I mean
@@brezzendorf I'm not sure what OG means, except Original...something? ... but there are people who sell 16mm prints online (they are fairly expensive and you need a projector). And course there are uploads of 16mm films on YT.
