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'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.
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).
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.
Mr. Garrity and Graves seems to borrow heavily from Philip Jose Farmer's Uproar in Acheron. According to Farmer Sterling got behind on story creation and borrowed heavily from several short stories. It was a discussion at the time among writers. Mike Korologos is credited for the idea by the TW episode, but he never published any other fiction being a crime reporter.
While it was not a network broadcast, I saw Encounter on KONG-TV (not KING) in the early '90's. They also showed the first (pilot) episode of Hogan's Heroes which was in black and white. The station had just signed on the air and they were trying to do things to stand out.
I've only seen 2 of these lost episodes. It's funny how all these but the 1 was due to copyright. The Encounter was an episode that I hated. The episodes that I've seen of The Twilight Zone I liked all but a few, but this one I hated. I didn't like Living Doll because that one was really creepy.
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 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!
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.....
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?
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).
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.
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?
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
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
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'
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!
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 heard that there is a new Twilight Zone series planned for the coming year. The first episode is a play on the classic To Serve Man from the original 60's series. It is about an obese, entitled man with no principals, no ethics, and no morals who thinks he is the legitimate President (because he says so) of a former democracy that has begun to self destruct due to a lack of courage on the part of its citizens. Oh, wait a minute, that's not even another garbage reality show. It's reality.
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!
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
Saw the last two when they were finally re-aired. The very last one is better than people give it credit for. Two amazing performances. But, it dealt with uncomfortable subject matter. I mean realistically, 20 years after a young WW2 soldier came home from brutal hand-to-hand combat in Japan; he's obviously not going to be friendly towards any Japanese person he encounters. He's a man, not a Saint. When I watched the episode, I was genuinely surprised that the character wasn't *more* insulting.
The reason it was not shown is due to the racism that is displayed. Returning WWll vets seemingly had no such vehemence towards German or Italian Americans after similar experiences during the war, but treated Japanese Americans very differently. Being the son of a WWll Navy veteran, I can attest that these were the prevalent feelings of the men who served in both theaters of war and that they gradually began to change that outlook around the 1970's.
@@charlie-obrien I think that's at least part of what Serling was getting at with this episode, the undercurrent of anti-Japanese sentiment of that generation of Americans.
@@charlie-obrien That's easy to understand, because the Germans did not starve American prisoners to death, cut their heads off and mount the heads on poles (Cabanatuan POW camp), nor burn them alive (Palawan Massacre), nor mutilate their dead bodies (Guadalcanal). Besides, the Germans did not bomb Pearl Harbor in a sneak attack, nor openly declare that WWII was a "race war" like the Japanese did. Most people don't know that there were over 40,000 Japanese aliens (that is, non-citizens) on the U.S. west coast on Dec. 7, 1941. Some of the American combat veterans from the Pacific would never buy a Toyota nor shake hands with a Japanese after the war and I completely understand and do not hold it against them.
@@charlie-obrien The Germans weren't as recognizable. The Japanese killed more that 20 million just Chinese people. 85 % of American POW's died in Japanese custody as opposed to 5 % in German custody. We also "quarantined " Japanese people in this country and did nothing to German citizens. War sadly is war. It's horrible and ugly but the only way to win is to completely destroy the opponent , not the BS stuff we do today . Starting with Viet Nam and ending in the Afghanistan disaster . Our guys die for no gain and politicians get rich. Same BS in Ukraine right now.
I saw the last one recently on Netflix but it could have been RU-vid. Not sure but it wouldn't be on network because I don't watch network tv. GREAT VIDEO BTW.
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 RU-vid 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?
"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!
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!
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.
I believe the episode "the Encounter" was left out of syndication because it suggested that Japanese Americans in Hawaii signaled Japanese war planes during the attack on Pearl Harbor. This has never been confirmed as ever happening. The episode was not left out because of racial tensions between the two characters.
@@MrChopsticktech FROM TWILIGHT ZONE FANDOM......""The Encounter" triggered complaints from Japanese-Americans due to the backstory of the character played by Takei: he portrays a Nisei (the U.S.-born son of Japanese immigrants) whose father spied for the Japanese navy during the Pearl Harbor attack. There is no evidence of any Japanese-American disloyalty to the U.S.A. during that war. The controversial topic, and the complaints it engendered, caused this episode to be omitted from syndicated broadcasts of The Twilight Zone in the United States, although it did air in syndication in other countries, including Canada, without issue.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 seeing that last one during that marathon. While the racist overtones made for a bit of a difficult watch, I really enjoyed it. Mostly due to the performances. As a trek fan, and having always loved Neville Brand's performance as Duke in Stalag 17. They both did a wonderful job with the difficult subject matter and embraced the discomfort it fostered.
Nearly all of the surviving WW 2 veterans were still alive in 1964. I imagine this one was very uncomfortable for most. My father set Ervin the South Pacific as a Medic, and he had problems with his wartime experiences. Saw a lot of bad stuff before being wounded himself, and medically discharged. I believe only a little over 100k US WW 2 veterans are still with us now.
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.
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.
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 George Gay Tecay Neville Brand episode was not hidden for 52 years. I used to view it frequently when I lived in Naples, FL in the early 1990’s. Check your info! Thanks.
I'm old enough to have seen these episodes, and they bring back faint memories, especially the one with Neville Brand and George Takei. Of course, I didn't recognize them then, but I sure do now. Neville Brand went on to star in Laredo, which ran in 1964 through 1967, and of course Star Trek which came on the scene one year after Laredo. I am a big fan of both shows for their amazingly literate scriptwriting. They just don't make them like that anymore.
George Takai!!!! OMG is he a little cutie at that age. I don't know why, but I could have sworn I've seen some of these. LOVE the old Twilight Zone! Thanks for this!! George's family suffered, so if he thinks it is remarkable enough to agree to the script as written; I'm fine with his opinion. Parts of history are ugly, and it is not for us to condemn, but learn. Hope this bothered enough people that it never happens again.
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.
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.
One of TV's all-time best series and my favorite. I'm always on lookout for particular episode I remember seeing as a child that scared bejeezus out of me. It involved a prison inmate in an escape plan where he got buried in a casket with the intention of being dug up later, but somehow that didn't happen and he slowly suffocated from lack of air being buried alive! I never have been able to catch that episode a second time, does this episode actually exist? Or did I dream it in my own Twilight Zone?
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.
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 ".
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.
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.
The episode about the Asian man and past war veteran man, who actually was a real hero in world war 2.. look him up. but 2016? but I saw this episode before from beginning to end. so somebody had it playing. I mean years ago, not the internet. I saw it on tv
"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!
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 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.
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.
