@@jonnyq680 "but to cut off a man's legs..." Lt Col. Henry Blake in that M*A*S*H episode about the super cold snap, at the end when he's sitting by his desk top that's sitting on the floor--'cause it has no legs. Can't remember the title of the episode.
I saw this when it was originally aired. Two of my favorites from that era, Rod Serling and Jack Benny! Who woulda thought. I love how gentle and silly humor was at the time. Not that everything has to be that way, but I'd appreciate bringing a taste of that back into our entertainment diets.
So do I, and I'm only 64, that's not that old. My cousin's partner flew Mosquito fighter-bombers at the end of World War II (at least 10 years before this episode).
Jack Benny's personality was so well defined that he drew perhaps the longest sustained laugh ever on radio by saying nothing! When a robber demanded, "your money or your life", Benny didn't reply. The audience response increased with each second of silence. Finally, after what seemed an eternity of now hysterical laughter, the robber repeated the line. Jack responded with, "I'm thinking". Then, more laughter. Few born after 1955 will understand at all why that line was so funny.
At only 5' 4", Rod was an amateur boxer, who enlisted in the army the day after finishing high school. He served as an airborne paratrooper and received several accommodations including the Bronze Star. I loved your shows Rod and your clear word annunciation with that great baritone voice. May you forever RIP.
Bart Broadhead, Hey 👋. Thanks for this and the explanation comment, too. This is pretty cool 😎!!! I loved this show so much, as a kid!! Twilight Zone was already in repeats status, by the time I fell in love with it. Thanks, much. Nice of you to upload this. TC!
Yes Serling did the screenplay for Planet Of The Apes but in college I read Pierre Boulle’s book. The ending for the book is completely different than the film and in my opinion far more scary. Anyone interested in the film should read the book and experience a very different ending.
"Rochester,who's the greatest entertainer in America?" "Nat King Cole!" I busted up when I heard that! This was such an unexpected bit of fun! Thank you for sharing!
morskojvolk He did that in an episode of Twilight Zone as well. I can't remember the title of the episode, but it's the one where the author is having an affair on his wife and he can type things and make what he types either come to life or disappear. At the conclusion of the episode he types Rod Serlings name and throws it into the fireplace and Rod disappears. Not a great episode, but I do love that part.
That was "A World Of His Own", with Keenan Wynn as the playwright Gregory West. That was a Richard Matheson script. The original story Matheson submitted was a lot darker, but Serling and Buck Houghton suggested it should be reworked as a comedy. Matheson came up with the final gag with Serling being "erased" from existence as a spur of the moment joke. Serling loved it and decided to go with the scene and the episode as the closer for the season. Serling, as could be expected, had a great sense of humour, especially about himself.
Mr. Serling should have done more on - camera work ... He was good ... and good - enough visually .. made a good impression 😎😃so ahead of his time . 🔮.. - a true pioneer. 🚪 🏆........ 🗿..... ... If only 🚫🚬🚬🚬. 💢 🤔😒. 😞😢😭🙏🕯️🏵️🌺💮🥀🌸🌼🌹🌻🏵️💐🙁☁️ 🦋💨. ⚰️😔☹️🕊️❤️👑🕵️. 🤞🖖✌️☕☕☕
@@jmason2838 Seriously? Try uninstallation of your idiotic emoji app. Most people do not use in 9 months what you have used in 2 lines. It looks as though a 3 year olds Speak-N-Spell blew up on the page.
Actually, this is from an episode of Jack's program [originally telecast on January 15, 1963] that was never syndicated {there are a LOT of his filmed episodes that are waiting to be seen again, including 16 from the final 1964-'65 season}.
R.I.P. Rod Sterling: 1924-1975. He was talented, handsome and he was such a cult. His show was so popular that many sketch shows parodied it, like SNL (twice(one in the 1970s and again in the 1990s)).
Growing up in the 50's and 60's I wasn't aware I was having fun. Kids take those things for granted you know. I miss those days and I miss my old black and white TV.
we only had a few channels back then but had far more quality shows to watch not all the crap we have today, 9999 channels and i have nothing to watch most of the time.
@patrick m I'm not a liar, rent was cheap enough to even live by the beach in Malibu in the fifties and early 60s ( if my dad and mom were still here they would tell you)
Very impressed by how passionately Serling stressed how every aspect of his show was required to have a point. Bless him, I do not believe he was acting at that moment. The point of today's TV is to give the bovine masses the intellectual equivalent of bubble gum to chew on.
Today people watch reality shows on television. As I recall reality used to be where we all lived back in the 20th century and the 21st century was someplace that didn't exist except on television. Welcome to the Twilight Zone. :)
zoppie Everyone says that based on the TV. The 50's were NOT innocent. People were terrified of Nuclear war, The Korean war was happening, we had just come out of the bloodiest war in world history. Believe it or not 2015 is the most innocent time.
I have the complete Definitve Collection of The Twilight Zone on DVD. This "lost" episode would have been included in the DVD box set. The box set includes a documentary about Rod Serling. It shows clips of Rod Serling's appearance on The Jack Benny Show.
My first time seeing Rod doing a bit of acting, and in a comic skit with Jack Benny at that. Kind of radical for the Twilight Zone meister himself. Hm. Well, this is definitely different.
menckencynic It's cool man. Yeah Rod's forte and legacy was mainly in the screenwritng of tight thought-provoking dramas of the human heart and condition, particularly of modern Man's delimas and paradoxes of his own creating through the god of science and technology, replacing the biblical God, supposedly to make Man himself happier, yet that transformed him into a more conflicted, troubled, alienated and tragic creature no longer having a soul he can call his own, an existential condition that's seldomly funny, if ever. Yeah Rod did alright to treat this subject with a sharp seriousness not easy for him to shake off whenever making an attempt at comedy strictly for laughs.
menckencynic Yep. And that created something better of his endowed him a vital presence in the minds of many through the major impact he made with the TZ.
This brilliant. I wish I had the chance to have met Rod, he was so insightful and a tremendous talent in telling stories. Touching upon things the human race still struggled with then, and even till this day. A visionary, in many ways. And hilarious with Jack!
From the days of my early youth, I have LOVED the Twilight Zone. To me, it was the BEST suspense program on TV...and nothing has ever matched it. The stories keep you entertained and there was a lesson to be learned from each and every one of them...if you had the mind to realize it. Thanks for sharing this. I had never seen it before and I THOROUGHLY enjoyed it.
My Dad loved Jack Benny and Jackie Gleason. Television was so much better in those days. All we had was ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS but the programming was diverse and most of it could be enjoyed by the whole family.
Indubitably ! My dad loved Jackie Gleason too & we watched him mot Sat nights, along with Lawrence Welk & then the Hollywood Palace. And on Sunday nights, we usually watched Ed Sullivan. Ed was good about having a variety of acts to appeal to all age groups.
I don't know. In the medical records of his death they don't mention anything about his smoking habit being contributory. Maybe he ate 3 steaks a day, who knows. The only cause of death was heart failure. He was in the middle of an operation, and his genetic component added to the possibility of heart failure. If he was not on the operating table, then.... Any kind of surgery places extraordinary stress on a persons physical processes. A lot of people die during surgery because of it.
while it's very likely that smoking contributed to his death, he died of a second heart attack: "In May of 1975, when he was 50 years old, Serling had a heart attack while running on a treadmill. A couple of weeks later, he had a second heart attack, at his cottage on Cayuga Lake, and was sent to the hospital for open-heart surgery. On June 28, 1975, Rod Serling died at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York." www.biography.com/writer/rod-serling
i never realized that Rod Serling was only 5' 4" tall until i saw him standing next to Jack Benny and Rochester in this viceo clip. i also didn't realize Rochester isn't spelled "Rodchester"!
2008: nope 2009: nuh-uh 2010: nada 2011: no way 2012: absolutely not 2013: nay 2014: yeah right 2015: forget it 2016: never 2017: don't hold your breath 2018: not at all 2019: withdraw 2020: WATCH THIS!
@aDBo'Ch 1 There is no historical evidence Jesus ever existed. Even the bible contradicts the timeline Jesus was said to exist. There was no census in Bethlehem at the time the bible says Jesus, Mary, and Joseph could have gone to for example.
How true ! He knew when to pause & look at the audience for greater comedic effect. He was not one of those selfish comedians. He (like Carol Burnett later on) surrounded himself with talented people & didn't mind letting them shine & get the laughs too !
I knew I wasn't crazy. I knew Rod had played in his own episode!! I saw this episode only one time when I was a kid and hadn't seen it since until today. Thanks man.
I used to think this was super scary when I was growing up, I don't know if it was the music at the beginning of the show or because it was a show in black and white plus I usted to watch it while growing up in Mexico City in the early 80's
We assume you are talking about The Twilight Zone, even tho this is a clip from The Jack Benny Show...where the two shows actually got "entangled". ;-7
Benny was the best and Serling superb! Their respective series were two of my favorites in the early '60s, the apogee of television's true "golden age." Serling's clipped existential delivery and Benny's dry deadpan burn are classic moments from quintessential performers at once both sublime and absurd. As in an episode from the Twilight Zone, I would love to step into a time machine and return to that era. RU-vid is doubtless the next best experience. Thanks for this gem.
One of the was with Keenan Wynn as a writer that could make people with his tape recorder. Loved the end when he pulled out an envelope with Rod's name on it.
Keenan Wynn's dad (Ed Wynn) also appeared on an episode of The Twilight Zone. He plays a salesman who tries to distract the Angel of Death (played by Murray Hamilton) so the angel won't come & claim the life on an injured little girl.
@@jubalcalif9100 I liked that one two. He wanted to make a pitch that would open up heaven. He had the Angel of Death eating out of the palm of his hand.
@@terrypetersen2970 Yes indeed ! It's a very heartwarming episode. At the end the Angel tells Ed that he must come along; but is assured he's going "up there" instead of "down there". Ed's character is a very kind & sweet man (just as Ed Wynn was off screen !).
@@jubalcalif9100 He was on a fifth season episode as well "Ninety Years Without Slumbering," based on a more superior story by George Clayton Johnson titled "Tick of Time."
is there anyone here who knows where to find rod serling's lost classics to watch online for free? can't find any. I've only a few episodes which i haven't watched. would like to watch all. Great tv is scarce and most of them are found in the twilight zone.
In the last 16 seconds, Rod Serling asks viewers to smoke. I wanna say to him, "And wind up like YOU?" Cigarettes may be harmless in the Twilight Zone, but Rod Serling lived in the real world, where they're deadly.
@@jessicagonzalez3003 Yes, people did not realize smoking did so much damage to one's body. Even Einstein smoked a pipe less than a decade before the Twilight Zone aired. . He was told it could be hurting his health, but nobody realized just how badly smoking cigarettes and tobacco from a pipe or cigar hurt the human body. I cannot believe that people start smoking cigarettes now. Anybody who starts smoking tobacco in this century is a certified fool. People who smoke spend so much money on it, too. You gotta be crazy to start smoking. Truthfully, the cost to treat the myriad of illnesses people get from smoking is astronomical. Insurance, taxes, etc. spent on the problems caused by cigarettes. Everybody, whether you smoke or not, pays for people who smoke, in reality. Similar to how everybody who drives has insurance and ultimately pays for bad drivers who drive recklessly. If everybody stopped smoking, imagine how much better life would be? The only people who feel good when they smoke are smokers. If you never started and just start you will not like it at first, yet people still start smoking cigarettes. Imbeciles.
Jason Wilson- Although the dangers of tobacco use are well documented, as of 2018 it's still perfectly legal. You can refer to them as some shadowy mafia, but without a worldwide market to respond to, they would have folded up shop and collapsed, a long ago! People have been smoking for five hundred years. It doesn't look like that habit, despite the very real dangers, is going to end anytime soon!
Very few things have been so continuously fun in parody as the Twilight Zone. It was a wonderful show and equally fun to satirize. There was a great SNL Twilight Zone skit with Rick nelson as guest, Dan Akroyd as Rod Serling and the rest of the cast as 50's TV characters. Someone should post that. It's another winner.
One of the greatest writers of our time Rod Serling, besides creating the most innovative TV Anthology series of all time with many imitators and no equals. He also wrote "Requiem For A Heavyweight" and the script for the original "Planet Of The Apes". Unfortunately he died too young of Lung Cancer.
+Leto Ghanimah TWZ episodes were probably taken down for copyright infringement. If you find something on YT you like, download it, it may not be there the next time.
