Terrific story and teleplay. But the acting is what makes this episode so magical, particularly the interplay between the fulfiller of needs, Ernest Truex, and evil, greedy Steve Cochran. Both were exceptional Shakespearian actors on stage. Truex later specialized in gentle, avuncular characters, while Cochran excelled at playing gangster characters. Their backgrounds dovetail well here.
Always wanted an episode of Cheers to reenact this Zone. Sam gets a ticket to a manager job. Diane finds true love and maybe Cliff gets slightly bumped by a Segway.
I saw less than a dozen of these when I was a kid in the 1980s and my parents turned me on to them, and this was one of the ones I remembered, mainly the climactic scene. Thanks.
@Steve Kelsey Morals taught doesn't mean morals taken. Your argument is essentially that morals aren't being taught unless they are in an era where they're already understood. You look at an episode like "I Am the Night-Color Me Black" and tell me they weren't 'trying' to teach about racism. yes, bad, racist things happened in the time when Twilight Zone happened. Twilight Zone went against that grain. You're blaming the teacher when in this case the student was at fault.
@Steve Kelsey Of course not. I think what the writer of the comment meant is that it's an example of the media being used to teach, not people in general. Morals will be taught for as long as we exist, so if we try to apply that to 'everything' of course it's going to be skewered.
You skipped my favorite line which was "Patience. That's another thing you need. Patience." It's what I tell myself when I need to be more patient-to be honest I think we all need that!
@@paulroberts9483 I thought your last line was going to be: So I hooked up with Prudence! I knew you were talking about the name Patience, and yes I am old, so that's how I knew! And then there's the song "Tonight You Belong To Me" by sisters named Patience and Prudence! Good song, by the way!
His impatient bad nature proved the old man was right. _Dead right!_ As the car kept speeding along . Patiently pay attention spending time on Earth. I just might be one's only chance, and unfortunately, not only in- The Twilight Z∅ne
You're about to meet an angry man. Mr. William Connor, who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of the national debt! I was like dayyuummm when I heard that statement. Lol!
These Twilight zones do one thing and do it well.... THEY DELIVER AWESOME EPISODES THAT PEOPLE TODAY ,WHO ARE WRITERS, CAN LEARN FROM. ROD STERLING WAS A FRIGGIN GENIUS!!!
I particularly liked the soundtrack for this one, whimsical and yet mysterious like the salesman. This was also one of the few times that I didn't have sympathy for one of the "normal" protagonists in the show, definitely loads of guys like him knocking about these days. You quite often encounter them when you're out on the town, needlessly aggressive people always looking for a fight. Also I really like how pleased he looks when he helps everything fall into place for Lefty and the woman in the booth, and Lefty going from thinking he's an old crackpot to being in awe and respectful of him in the space of a few minutes.
He has the uncanny ability to know EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED, BEFORE you need it!!! Scary!!Even at the end, in the middle of the night he gives this man a COMB!The part that always scared me the most was when he gave that man those scissors s and told him "they are what you need, they really are. Take them." And they saved his worthless life! My hair stood up on end when he was catching his breath and the camera focused on those scissors lying on the elevator floor and he picks them up and looks at them. Look like this near death experience would have made a better man of him. No he just kept being evil. But it all ended when that car hit him.
I think it would have been understand to expect to him be uniquely grateful to the salesman.... I think I would be! But yeah, the man because somewhat abusive and possessive
Twilight Zone brings back Friday nites of my youth. Oh, man. Im crying remembering watching it with my dad, a late hour. I used to have nightmares and these shows didn't help. But they really made me think, as they say, outside the box.
T'Pring. Arlene Sax. Arlene Martel. She's featured in many TV shows, including one of the best Outer Limits, Demon With a Glass Hand starring Robert Culp. I think my favorite bit she did was an episode of Battlestar Galactica in which she asks Starbuck, 'what is star buckin?'
I concur. I'm a huge fan of hers. She was a true beauty. You said it, she was so beautiful she could make you stare. She was highly underrated as an actress as well.
Neat little episode about fate and justice. I wracked my mind as to where I'd seen the actors before. The little trinket seller was a scoundrel on Bonanza; the gruff dour ex-con also was on Bonanza as an avenging brother.
Steve Cochran's career had gone downhill since the end of his W-B contract in the early '50s and by the Sixties he was doing television to pay the bills. In 1965, aged 47, he was found dead on his yacht.
Repeatedly i watch all the episodes in full ,again and again, i 🧡 them all . Unfortunately this time all these episodes are just the " cut short " one.
You know? this is a true story. The other day I was thinking "there are sooo many episodes of twilight zone that i haven't seen. but i haven't the time to watch them." And then I met someone who made abridged videos IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Pedott: "Mr. Renard, what I saw in your eyes at that bar was death, my death. You were going to kill me. So, what was needed for Mr. Renard was slippery shoes. That's what was needed, slippery shoes."
Steve Cochran recruited three young women to accompany him on a sailing trip from Acapulco to Costa Rica, ostensibly to take part in an upcoming film. A few days into the trip, the yacht lost one of its two masts in a storm. Shortly thereafter, Cochran fell ill, and died two days later on June 15, 1965 at the age of 48, of what was later determined to be an acute lung infection. The women who were accompanying him did not know how to sail the boat, and were trapped with the decomposing body for ten days, before being rescued out at sea. The boat, still carrying his corpse, was later found drifting off the coast of Guatemala.[24][25][26][27] Cochran's widow was given half of his estate of $25,000. She shared it with his daughter by another marriage.[28]
Died in real life about 5 years later on a yacht with 3 Mexican Girls onboard, one only 14 years old........Maybe the Mexican Girls gave him just what he needed too.
Where can I find this man? Is he still alive? No, this was made 60 years ago, and the man was already 60+. Was he one-of-a-kind, or does he have disciples? I know what I need, and I want it!
Twilight zone was so far ahead of it's time.
Ever hear of Edward Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, or Jules Verne?
I'll always liked that he helped a man get his dream job and helped that woman find a decent man.
Me to.
Same here. I thought it was sweet he did that.
Would’ve much rather preferred an episode revolving around them and their trip to Pennsylvania
@BLAIR M Schirmer Always enjoyed any role she played, beautiful!
@@zach415 Would be a good spinoff episode
Terrific story and teleplay. But the acting is what makes this episode so magical, particularly the interplay between the fulfiller of needs, Ernest Truex, and evil, greedy Steve Cochran. Both were exceptional Shakespearian actors on stage. Truex later specialized in gentle, avuncular characters, while Cochran excelled at playing gangster characters. Their backgrounds dovetail well here.
Cochran was an interesting character off-screen. He spent a lot of time in the tabloids. Even his death was a scandal.
Interesting.
And are not looks deceiving, too?
Old is renew, again.
Always wanted an episode of Cheers to reenact this Zone. Sam gets a ticket to a manager job. Diane finds true love and maybe Cliff gets slightly bumped by a Segway.
Steve Cocran was a great actor .........one of the best .underrated
His death is a mystery.
Unsolved, on his boat with multiple women.
Don't believe everything you read about it.
THIS episode is Rod Serling's MASTERPIECE. .... BRILLIANT writing and perfect acting.
quite low standards
No...he made a lot of masterpieces...this os only one of them !
@@sexobscura
How so ?
Elaborate on how you can make the series better.
@@Madasin_Paine
by making it with higher standards than the one's they used back then
@@sexobscura
A subjective answer meaning nothing at all.
Cant do anything with that consultation.
Try again, with heart.
One of the best episodes and great acting. I love how, particularly in B & W the face can show so many expressions with the many muscles in the face.
This was one of my favorite TV episodes, thanks.
Great episode - it manages to be both heartwarming and chilling at the same time.
These condensed TZs are Great ! i already KNOW the story and 3-5 min. is All I Need to bring 'em back
Phenomenal episode and I love Steve. Covers everything
I saw less than a dozen of these when I was a kid in the 1980s and my parents turned me on to them, and this was one of the ones I remembered, mainly the climactic scene. Thanks.
Growing UP years ago...Twilight Zone was one of MY FAVORITE TV SHOWS...! Thanks for The Treat...
A twist on the old parable, "Be Careful Of What You Wish For".
Indeed, The Monkey's Paw springs to mind, and though I've got everything I wished for, the reality doesn't quite match the fantasy.
Goosebumps, had an episode called that.
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." "Beware geeks bearing gifts" The truth is somewhere in the middle. ^_^
One of my all-time fav TZ episodes.
When morals were taught.
By example, rather than by principle.
Amen to that!
@Steve Kelsey Doesn't mean morals weren't taught.
You could say they were taught when they were needed most.
@Steve Kelsey Morals taught doesn't mean morals taken. Your argument is essentially that morals aren't being taught unless they are in an era where they're already understood. You look at an episode like "I Am the Night-Color Me Black" and tell me they weren't 'trying' to teach about racism.
yes, bad, racist things happened in the time when Twilight Zone happened. Twilight Zone went against that grain. You're blaming the teacher when in this case the student was at fault.
@Steve Kelsey Of course not.
I think what the writer of the comment meant is that it's an example of the media being used to teach, not people in general. Morals will be taught for as long as we exist, so if we try to apply that to 'everything' of course it's going to be skewered.
I like that Lefty got to continue his baseball career. He may not be able to play anymore, but at least he can coach other players.
You skipped my favorite line which was "Patience. That's another thing you need. Patience." It's what I tell myself when I need to be more patient-to be honest I think we all need that!
I lost my Patience, she ran off with another fella!
(Those that don't get it, the girls name was Patience)
@@paulroberts9483 I thought your last line was going to be: So I hooked up with Prudence! I knew you were talking about the name Patience, and yes I am old, so that's how I knew! And then there's the song "Tonight You Belong To Me" by sisters named Patience and Prudence! Good song, by the way!
His impatient bad nature proved the old man was right.
_Dead right!_
As the car kept speeding along .
Patiently pay attention spending time on Earth.
I just might be one's only chance, and unfortunately, not only in-
The Twilight Z∅ne
You're about to meet an angry man. Mr. William Connor, who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of the national debt! I was like dayyuummm when I heard that statement. Lol!
Actually his name was Fred Renard.
An amazing line
These Twilight zones do one thing and do it well.... THEY DELIVER AWESOME EPISODES THAT PEOPLE TODAY ,WHO ARE WRITERS, CAN LEARN FROM. ROD STERLING WAS A FRIGGIN GENIUS!!!
It is as you say.
But not only so.
A team of writers and editors. Relentless pursuit of their ideals.
Too many call it hard work. Too hard. Almost didn't come together and albeit too brief, perhaps.
Many others, though not enough apparently, passion they can't live without; they'd die before submission to advertisers and the C - Suite.
Do or
not do,
not try or even
try to try.
If you're going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise, don't even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind.
It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision...
...a letter from Bukowski to a friend, the writer and publisher William Packard:
“Too many writers write for the wrong reasons,” declared Bukowski.
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively.
… For words are merely tools and if you use the RIGHT ones you can actually put even YOUR LIFE in ORDER, IF you don't lie to yourself AND use the WRONG words.
- Hunter Stockton Thompson's Letter to Larry Callen (14 July 1958), p. 133
In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone...
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
- Hunter Stockton Thompson, still reminding US-Morality is temporary,
*_wisdom is permanent_*.
Truth hates delay and doesn't require spin or motivation.
It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and
one to understand it.
Free will IS the option to do the RIGHT thing.
*_¡GOOD PEOPLE DO NOT CENSOR!_*
Right?
When the student is ready
The teachers shall appear ...
What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man's job?
If YOU don't understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is THE great secret!"
-Lao's Dao. VIEW WITH CARE, Stephen Mitchell's edition of this concise powering poetic tome, found not only in, this ∆ l phabet Ï N © zone.
- Lao's Dao, and its virtues.
What Marcus Aurelius meditated upon.. And thank goodness, one thought to disobey him, a final time, by not destroying his timeless writing as he ordered after death.
Food
for
the thoughtful
_AND_
highest good.
A team of writers and editor. Relentless pursuit of their ideals.
Too many call it hard work. Too hard.
Many others, though not enough apparently, passion they can't live without; they'd die before submission to advertisers and the C - Suite.
Do or
not do,
not try or even
try to try.
If you're going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise, don't even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind.
It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision...
...a letter from Bukowski to a friend, the writer and publisher William Packard:
“Too many writers write for the wrong reasons,” declared Bukowski.
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively.
… For words are merely tools and if you use the RIGHT ones you can actually put even YOUR LIFE in ORDER, IF you don't lie to yourself AND use the WRONG words.
- Hunter Stockton Thompson's Letter to Larry Callen (14 July 1958), p. 133
In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone...
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
- Hunter Stockton Thompson, still reminding US-Morality is temporary,
*_wisdom is permanent_*.
Truth hates delay and doesn't require spin or motivation.
It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and
one to understand it.
Free will IS the option to do the RIGHT thing.
*_¡GOOD PEOPLE DO NOT CENSOR!_*
Right?
When the student is ready
The teachers shall appear .
- Lao's Dao, and its virtues.
What Marcus Aurelius meditated upon.. And thank goodness, one thought to disobey him, a final time, by not destroying his timeless writing as he ordered after death.
Food
for
the thoughtful
_AND_
highest good.
Love love love the original tz, esp this episode❤❤❤
I particularly liked the soundtrack for this one, whimsical and yet mysterious like the salesman. This was also one of the few times that I didn't have sympathy for one of the "normal" protagonists in the show, definitely loads of guys like him knocking about these days. You quite often encounter them when you're out on the town, needlessly aggressive people always looking for a fight. Also I really like how pleased he looks when he helps everything fall into place for Lefty and the woman in the booth, and Lefty going from thinking he's an old crackpot to being in awe and respectful of him in the space of a few minutes.
Pyschic tried to tell him the only thing he needed was love but he was to devious to see it and wanted greed
Somewhere out there somebody is watching us that's prophetic, and saying that's not always how it happens. I love that!
Cue to song " Just what I needed " by The Cars lol.
That was cute at the end where that slob really did need a comb to get his picture taken. Twilight Zone was the best!
He has the uncanny ability to know EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED, BEFORE you need it!!! Scary!!Even at the end, in the middle of the night he gives this man a COMB!The part that always scared me the most was when he gave that man those scissors s and told him "they are what you need, they really are. Take them." And they saved his worthless life! My hair stood up on end when he was catching his breath and the camera focused on those scissors lying on the elevator floor and he picks them up and looks at them. Look like this near death experience would have made a better man of him. No he just kept being evil. But it all ended when that car hit him.
I think it would have been understand to expect to him be uniquely grateful to the salesman.... I think I would be! But yeah, the man because somewhat abusive and possessive
To be honest, bullying a man who could see the future was foolish.
@@thiagodeandrade7081 Narcicists don’t understand that.
@@RLucas3000 I guess so.
Shun such a man!
Twilight Zone brings back Friday nites of my youth.
Oh, man. Im crying remembering watching it with my dad, a late hour. I used to have nightmares and these shows didn't help. But they really made me think, as they say, outside the box.
T'Pring. Arlene Sax. Arlene Martel. She's featured in many TV shows, including one of the best Outer Limits, Demon With a Glass Hand starring Robert Culp. I think my favorite bit she did was an episode of Battlestar Galactica in which she asks Starbuck, 'what is star buckin?'
Arlene Martel was stop and stare beautiful.
indeed. A real good looking woman you don't see much anymore
She was on a Perry Mason episode as a beatnik girl and was a bee on The Outer Limits
I concur. I'm a huge fan of hers. She was a true beauty. You said it, she was so beautiful she could make you stare. She was highly underrated as an actress as well.
@@Mynamesalexa When Arlene played the 'bee girl' on Outer Limits, that was one of my favorite episodes.
Oh... My Pon Farr is acting up... and "Demon With the Glass Hand." At least one Columbo episode.
Brilliant show
Now this is *what I needed*
That ticket is taking him to the town where The Office happened
I didn't realize that until I rewatched this episode after watching the Office
I was born there.
Lefty is Ed Truck confirmed
@@leonardvaivada9046 so was I unfortunately lol
@@jsheissekopf4407 You have my sympathy.
The way the guy at the end poses so happily for the photo at the scene of a fatal car accident hahaha
Neat little episode about fate and justice. I wracked my mind as to where I'd seen the actors before. The little trinket seller was a scoundrel on Bonanza; the gruff dour ex-con also was on Bonanza as an avenging brother.
Beautiful!! A master in psychology, wow!!
Thks for downloading, this must be the 1st version of the twilight stories. Another version with a Psychic saleslady. Great!! 27th June 2019.
One of my favorites, from the first time it aired until now! Liked the full version much better, but this okay, just not as deeply felt.
In the night street scenes with the old man, Steve Cochrane look like a silent movie star.
This is one of my favorite episodes. Thank you for sharing.
Well anticipating and fulfilling the customers needs is what sales is.
Great episode.
Something about the way that woman was looking at the man as he was telling her she needed cleaning fluid. It seemed so haunting.
Great show
Lmao you did it sir, how much they dragged it out and then with commercials also wow lol thankyou
the guy that played the gangster died at a very early age , i felt so sad he was a good actor it must have been cancer in those days..
And here I was thinking he got a job at a paper company...
At the Office 🤣🤣
I love these! Nicely done!
Steve Cochran's career had gone downhill since the end of his W-B contract in the early '50s and by the Sixties he was doing television to pay the bills. In 1965, aged 47, he was found dead on his yacht.
Damn, that's sad. 😔
Repeatedly i watch all the episodes in full ,again and again, i 🧡 them all . Unfortunately this time all these episodes are just the " cut short " one.
Saw this and its amazing, that bad guy deserved the slippery shoes
We get what we need more often than we think.
You know? this is a true story. The other day I was thinking "there are sooo many episodes of twilight zone that i haven't seen.
but i haven't the time to watch them." And then I met someone who made abridged videos
IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE
😇 that was good.. used it for a class ..very creative of you...
A whole TZ episode in 4 minutes? Is it my imagination, or is life speeding up?
Went and signed on with the Scranton Wilkes Barre Yankees AAA team...
Needful things....
Exactly.✌️😂🍺
This channel is what I needed.
Pedott: "Mr. Renard, what I saw in your eyes at that bar was death, my death. You were going to kill me. So, what was needed for Mr. Renard was slippery shoes. That's what was needed, slippery shoes."
perhaps, just perhaps ,this is what we needed .
He gave him all he needed to turn his life around but he didn't and wanted more. He tried to do good but the man was not redeemable.
Wow I remember this episode from when it first aired!... Damn I kinda messed up my whole "Age? oh I'm in my fifties" line. ;
Great episode
Bartenders are always wise-asses in old shows and movies.
Great Episode!!
Tales of Tomorrow dramatized this, too. It was a shop in that one. Based on a short story. Inspired Stephen King's Needful Things, too.
The Tales Of Tomorrow version had a machine that gave people what they need, the movie Needful Things had an evil demon masquerading as a shopkeeper.
Eerillly relevant even today.
Superb
Another great one
Nj clockwork - u should make a whole season strung together... I’d watch while I fall asleep. 👍🏼 (:
Oh my goodness, was Arlene Martel ever something special!
Underrated classic, at least top 20 in my opinion. :)
Ernest Truex and Sylvia field were husband and wife.Sylvia Field played the part of Martha Wilson George Wilson wife on Dennis the menace.
Classic episode, good, poignant editing job :)
That was GREAT!!
I loved this ending! Sweet justice!
Excellent 👍
What he needed was to be “get rid of”; and he did
30 seconds in the actor woman did Hogan's Heroes. Same face same voice. July 26, 2021
I remember reading this short story back in the 60's, I think it was. Anyone remember who wrote it?
@Samuel Lim - Thanks, man. Now I know where to look for it. It's in a green hard-bound book of Kuttner Short stories. It's in one of these stacks...
what a nice old man
Steve Cochran recruited three young women to accompany him on a sailing trip from Acapulco to Costa Rica, ostensibly to take part in an upcoming film. A few days into the trip, the yacht lost one of its two masts in a storm. Shortly thereafter, Cochran fell ill, and died two days later on June 15, 1965 at the age of 48, of what was later determined to be an acute lung infection. The women who were accompanying him did not know how to sail the boat, and were trapped with the decomposing body for ten days, before being rescued out at sea. The boat, still carrying his corpse, was later found drifting off the coast of Guatemala.[24][25][26][27]
Cochran's widow was given half of his estate of $25,000. She shared it with his daughter by another marriage.[28]
Some people are just beyond help... as their only response is viciousness...
"Now what's in Scranton Pennsylvania?"
Dunder Mifflin Paper Company
Watch this episode on CZcams: tales of tomorrow- what you need
Both episodes are alike
thanks
Mr. Pedot enters his apartment and Fred Reynard is sitting there waiting for him, How did Reynard know where Pedot lived?
I never saw that one and Arlene Martel was gorgeous!!!
This is the reverse of the salesman anime
Bravo bravo bravo!
1:20 That's what she said. Scranton!
1:15 Scranton - The Electric City.
@@butcherboy2008 Scranton. . .the city where Capitol Records had a pressing/printing plant!
I don't remember the part with him giving the guy a comb maybe scifi cut it
That woman in the bar was just adorable. What the heck was she doing there alone drinking?
Died in real life about 5 years later on a yacht with 3 Mexican Girls onboard, one only 14 years old........Maybe the Mexican Girls gave him just what he needed too.
He needed those shoes like he needed a hole in the head.
That particular episode ended the same way in the original version of the story in an episode of "Tales Of Tomorrow".
people be hookin up in the TZ
clockwork does a service to humanity
(The music that plays once he asks)
They’ve edited the ending on tv where the old guy gives the couple the Comb at the end 😳
Where can I find this man? Is he still alive? No, this was made 60 years ago, and the man was already 60+. Was he one-of-a-kind, or does he have disciples? I know what I need, and I want it!