To Serve Man: Why Was This Classic Twilight Zone Episode Filmed Twice?
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- Based on a short story by Damon Knight and adapted for television by Rod Serling, "To Serve Man" story is arguably one of the best and most remembered of the entire series.
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"It's a cookbook!" Has to be the greatest one-liner in Sci Fi history!
Or maybe "Soylent Green is People!"
@@americaninstituteofphiloso1588 Okay that one HAS to top the list too!
@@americaninstituteofphiloso1588 .....I am your father.
ABSOLUTELY!!! NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
the tv version has a better ending than the short story (by Damon Knight) - the short story ends with the reveal ("it's a cookbook") coming as two men sit in a lounge - while in the tv show - the effect was amped by the man boarding the spaceship - and being prevented from escaping
When the alien was taking the polygraph test he doesn't actually lie when he was asked about his motives. The clip in the video doesn't include the full context. He didn't say, "We have come to bring peace and prosperity." His response was crafted to be a truth. What he said was, "I hope that the people of Earth will believe that we have come to bring peace and prosperity."
a good point - but it's another weakness in the story to assume that aliens could be subjected to a lie detector - tho it worked dramatically - it only requires an extra dose of suspension of disbelief - if a viewer even notices
(edit) - i just read the Damon Knight short story (found it on the web) - the lie detector is tested to show that it works on the aliens - but one of the characters believes the aliens fooled the lie detectors - the phrasing "i hope that..." doesn't appear in the short story - and doesn't have to - aliens advanced enuf to cross the universe are probably capable of defeating die detectors
@@johneyon5257 Those subtle nuances may have been added in for the viewers to key in to see how clever and meticulous the Twilight Zone authors were.
@K Cheng Correction, the Majority of US politicians and many other tyrants and dictators around the world. Biden, Castro, Maduro, Xi, North Korea leader,
Zelensky, the Pope, etc......etc...too many to name. Not just Putin cupcake.
They are all crooks and lie like hell to their people.
The reset agenda is beginning👎
@@johneyon5257 There are several weaknesses in the story, as there are in many of the episodes. But attention to detail was not necessary to make the TZ so great. For example, why do the aliens need to come to earth at all? If they are so sophisticated and intelligent, can't they manufacture their own delicious food? After all, they make earth a paradise, so why not do the same on their own planet?
@@meltzerboy - it's called "suspension of disbelief" - when readers/viewers deliberately suppress logic analysis at illogical passages - but the theme of this thread was the use of the word "serve" in the title of the book - the pivotal point in the story - anglophones without a second language were probably dumb-founded at the twist - they were probably unaware of the issue it posed in other earth-bound languages - and intersteller ones
as for nutrition - Larry Niven's short story "Bordered in Black" handled that more deftly
This was one of the best episodes. My all-time favorite is "Eye of the Beholder" because it was so thought-provoking. And my Dad played the doctor. That probably has something to do with it, too.
Was your father the distinguished actor (as on Lucille Ball tv shows) Gale Gordon?
Great story 👏🏻
Cool!
I call BS, everyone knows actors eat their young.
Lol 😎👍
“Time enough at last” with Burgess Meredith is my favorite. I was probably eight years old when I saw it. I cried when he broke his glasses. I thought it was so mean for the episode to end that way. I cried because of the way he said the line “It’s not fair”
@@chiefline7084 yes. Cruel is the best description for that show
At least he could read the large print books. (lol)
He was the last man on earth. There weren’t spare glasses or a magnifying glass around somewhere? He has all the time in the world to fix his problem unobstructed.
Agreed. It was also unusual in that in the TZ it's usually an evil character that gets ironic justice rather than a sympathetic character getting a raw deal.
Hey, his eyes weren't THAT bad, he could read large print books. And in case he would loose eyesight, he could read braille...
Let's not forget that ninety-nine percent of the time , the acting in the Twilight Zone episodes was brilliant
Well… as good as it got in those days. Acting “naturally” was almost nonexistent until the late 1970s. The actor was supposed to look and sound like he was acting back then. Different art form entirely.
@@Frankie5Angels150 I don't think this was an improvement. Later acting styles grew out of method acting, which Humphrey Bogart called "the scratch your ass and mumble" school of acting.
And it featured early performances by Robert Redford, Robert Duval, William Shatner as well as veteran actors like Mickey Rooney & Art Carney.
Lloyd Bochner sure sold this story!
@@jenniferrogers2492 the list is amazing because it just goes on and on
My favorite was "Little Girl Lost". The idea of walls that weren't REALLY there and being lost in another dimension (which was still a difficult concept for a pre-teen 60s kid to grasp) scared the crap out of my brother and I, who went to bed testing all the walls.
Bernard Herrmann wrote the score for this episode.
One of my least favorites. Sorry
"This is like that twilighty show about the zone."
While you and your brother were testing all of the walls, did you find the fourth wall by any chance?
'To Serve Man' was definitely one of the most memorable Twilight Zone episodes of all time. Another episode I rank right up there with it was 'The Howling Man' starring John Carradine as Brother Jerome where by a traveler due to a storm stops by an abbey of Monks for the night and comes across a prisoner the monks have jailed. The prisoner talks the traveler into freeing him and once the traveler does, he learns he just released the Devil back into the world then spends the rest of his life trying to undo what he has done.
Good one!
One of my favorites is the one with Agnes Moorhead as the lady living in a rooftop room that was being invaded by little spacemen.
🤣🤣
And she didn't even speak but delivered a grand performance.
@Account NumberEight yes!
@@KimberlyLetsGo that's right
Especially when they show the spacecraft on her roof at the end.......surprise, surprise!
I always thought "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is the scariest because it really highlights some of the worst aspects of human nature and shows what really could happen in, say, a nuclear emergency.
That one was amazing for the reasons you specified.
Yeh reminds me of the last 3 yrs
That's my personal favorite episode
All Twilight Zone episodes are true classics. These shows are an lost art. Most of them gave me goosebumps, and up all night as a young child, teenager. Yup. This guy was before his time. His critical thinking, brainstorming was phenomenal. Love them all.
Yes, I have the whole series on DVD. One of the greatest TV series of all time.
I'd love to see a poll rating all these series (sci-fi/shock anthologies) from best to worst. There are so many of them floating around out there (the various TZ incarnations, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, Karloff's Thriller, Tales From The Crypt, Creepshow, the various such-and-such Playhouses, all the way up to the surprisingly amusing one from Bobcat Goldthwaite and the more parodic ones like Really Weird Tales) that it's hard to know where the quality lies without having the benefit of the trusty "Serl of Approval"
Id say maybe 20% werer very good, the rest just moronic junk.
It was posted earlier... there was space dust
Classics because no matter how dated they may be in presentation, they deal with the same philosophical concepts mankind has struggled with since forever. And will struggle with for forever.
Rod Serling was a ww2 currahee airborne vet. Fighting in the pacific and the Philippines .His experiences in the war helped him gather info for his writing and film career. Astonishing story. Rip.
This is one of my favorites, along with the postapocalyptic man with the thick glasses which break as he is just about to start his dreamy life of uninterrupted reading.
My favorite is when Anne Francis forgot she was a department store dummy. I saw this as a child. It really scared me. The elevator guy took her up to "the 13th floor", which wasn't supposed to be there but was there for her. Yikes
“Climb off it” - Great episode!!
Agreed 👍🏻
Maybe our existence is simply our turn to be real.
@@dyenahh oooohhhh. how could we really perceive that our reality is just a pocket universe that could blink out at any moment.
Ninth floor. ✌
Richard Kiel was a friend of my uncle. He was a very kind man.
He was great in The Longest Yard--"I think I broke his freakin neck" !! lol
@@gdobie1west988 Richard was the longest 2-1/3 yards.
His best role was in happy Gilmore when he told shooter mc Gavin and I'll be seeing YOU in the parking lot. 😂
Go read Kiel’s autobiography - its really great! He was a success on screen, in life as a store owner, principled in the face of Hollywood - a wonderful, kind man led by his faith.
Did he try to bite you with his metal teeth? I heard those got him in trouble as they couldn't be removed after the James Bond flicks and he was always trying to bite people.
I was 10 years old when I first saw this episode and I was afraid of hungry aliens for 2 years after! The scariest story EVER!
Sorry, they’re still eating us.
In the opening scene, Bochner's character asks "What time is it?" and the alien answers that te question is meaningless, as they're in space. Bochner, not caring for scientific explanations, impatiently asks, "What time is it on Earth?" and is told that on Earth, it's Noon.
This satisfied me when it was originally shown (I was maybe 7 or 8 at the time), but when I watched it 20-some-odd years later, I stood up and shouted "WHERE?"
Since then, when someone asks me the time, my first inclination is to say, "On Earth, it's Noon."
That always got me too...could the writers have intentionally put that in there like that, since it's hard to believe no one would have caught that it makes no sense? lol
@@djhutcherson6761 Maybe the alien knew from which area the human was
@@lkrnpk good point, never thought about that
All that mattered, was that it was lunchtime (Michael Chambers' now, the Kanamit's later)
That's how I interpreted the line when I was older 🤷♂️
Not really nonsensical, would just be time at station of departure on Earth which seemed to be in USA, perhaps New York since the city shown where aliens flew in and appeared at UN
Classic episode! I met Richard Kiel about a year and a half before he died. Shook his hand, (I have big hands) his hand engulfed my hand. Richard was a very nice man. R.I.P.
I had a similar experience. I met RK at a convention in NJ some years ago. I’m 6’5 and he made me feel tiny. When we shook hands my hand disappeared in his. It was a day I’ll never forget.
Ruskin’s voice was perfect as the alien. …”thus the voice you hear is totally mechanical…”
Ruskin also played the master thrall Galt in the star trek episode "the gamesters of triskelian", a fun if silly episode.
This is definitely one of my favourite episodes!! 👍🏻
@@nunyabizness6595 And Monique Pettyjohn in the foil bikini.I was 12 and thought I would like to see more of her.
I thought it was Vincent Price when I first saw this episode.
Every episode was great, but two of the scariest, in my opinion, were "And When The Sky Was Opened" with Rod Taylor. The feeling of terror as each crew member disappeared, and the others knowing it was going to happen to them as well was truly scary. The second one was "Mirror Image" with Vera Miles as Millicent Barnes and Martin Milner. The buildup was scary enough, but the ending scene when Martin Milner was running after his own double, and the double looks back at him with the creepiest grin on his face gave me the heebie-jeebies for days. Serling was a master craftsman and storyteller. One of the all-time best TV series.
Regarding "And When the Sky Was Opened," I couldn't agree more.
Hard to believe that when the show was "current", it was nearly cancelled twice, the ratings were marginal at best. And Serling worked so hard on the show and his follow-up Night Gallery, it exhausted him to the point of eventually costing him his life.
@@adotintheshark4848 Cigarettes we’re a contributing factor to his demise, if I recall correctly.
Loved that first episode you describe. Absolutely terrifically done! And there was that feeling of paranoid terror that can make for such an impactful story but isn't easy to do right. I also loved the episode where the lady driving comes to realize she's already dead.
@@derbeh he was a heavy smoker, true. But he died of heart failure, not lung disease.
I had the opportunity to attend the six-week-long Clarion Science Fiction Workshop in 1986 overseen by the writer of 'To Serve Man,' Damon Knight, and his wife Kate Wilhelm, two of the nicest people I've ever known. Only a couple dozen students were chosen to attend and it was a real honor for me, even if I was more into horror and fantasy stories at the time. My story 'Adam Finitum' was voted best story. I also had a story that was voted the worst. Alas, neither story was published. I was never a serious writer, as it was a hobby and I much preferred to play music and write poetry.
Each week there was a different author who taught us about the craft of writing. I've forgotten most of their names except for Harlan Ellison (The Deathbird) and Thomas M. Disch (Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars). During the final week, each attendee got face-time with both Damon and Kate during which time they evaluated the progress of our writing skills. I had worked very hard and I had improved very much so that I was given a letter from Damon Knight to send to Ed Furman the editor of Fantasy and Science Fiction, which I promptly misplaced on to find it years after he was no longer the editor.
Meeting the author of To Serve Man was one of the high points in my life
When it comes to outer limits and twilight zone, there is no favs. They all were outstanding.
I agree
THE OUTER LIMITS was my favorite TV show.
Even Rod Serling said 1/3 were great, 1/3 were fine, and 1/3 were crap. It’s in Stephen King’s Danse Macabre. There were quite a few clunkers, but when they were good…WOW!!!!
@@johndorcic4488 - agreed - i'm one who would rather be honest than adulatory - even towards a tv series that i'm very fond of as a whole - many plots seemed to follow the Twight Zone formula established by the early shows - how many wound up coming full circle - ending at the time and place it started - some stories were drear or ludicrous or boring or etc - but the series as a whole is held aloft by a few memorable episodes
@@johndorcic4488 Yes I remember reading that in Danse Macabre. I agree with his opinion as well.
To Serve Man is definitely one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. I also love The Obsolete Man with Burgess Meredith. This episode has much in common with what’s happening in the country right now. The networks should show this episode on prime time now.
If you only new this crapp really took place !!
1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451...
@@tablescissors67 look up frank strangers and Val valient thor
@@jimmyrodasmolestina979 ... from Venus (the planet)
@@jimmyrodasmolestina979 Are you don't the English good? Your grasp of logic is as good as your grammar.
Yes, "To Serve Man" is my favorite Twilight Zone episode. I think it was the first episode I ever saw when they started airing them again in reruns when I was maybe 7 or 8, and I was absolutely terrified! Other favorites include Eye of the Beholder (what great acting!) and The Midnight Sun.
I wasn't scared or too upset by this episode when it was new, despite being a kid. I remember the narrator guy saying that it didn't matter where you were when the news got out, because whether you'd already gotten to the other planet, or were en route (as he was), or were back on earth - everyone was going to meet the same fate.
I'm sure a lot of people were able to hide away pretty good until they died of old age, etc, but of course life as they knew it was over.
The greatest science fiction show in history. Nothing will ever come close.
How about "Outer Limits", and before those on radio, "Dimension-X", "X Minus One"
While I love The Zone, Black Mirror is also a very good modern take on the SF thriller genre.
Junji Ito comes close
@@RARufus Eh, BM was pretty good before it became mainstream getting with Netflix. TZ was a bit more consistent in quality and overall tone.
I see your gambit and raise you 'The Expanse'
This has such a great twist ending. Much like the Invaders did.
I think the Invaders had the better twist,
Spoiler
You are rooting for the alien all along
@J LA No the invaders was about a old lady on a farm, tending it by herself, while she as accosted by two 'spacemen'
@@restionSerpentine Endora from Bewitched
I hope if aliens ever do show up they understand why we are so skeptical of their generosity as we should be we should pay particular attention to how they react to the Heavier amongst us-Especially ifThey’re poking us the Way cattle ranchers Do cattle
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket yes. The little "monsters" were American astronauts.
i am almost 64 now. the last 10 years occasionaly i have been searching for this episode which i saw when i was a really small boy in the 60ths. Did not now where to look, had only fragments of memory. Still remember the fear this short film imposed on me. Was skipping thrue so many old science fiction films to find what it was. The term " Medusa" sticked on me, still don"t know why. Really thanks for giving this back to me. "To serve man", i will remember now. Best regards, Leo.
I rewatch the series every few years. I'm amazed by how good the production quality is, especially on Netflix - looks pretty sharp: better than some modern shows.
I remember when Lloyd Bochner who played Professor Chambers reprised his role in The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and he ran into a room yelling, "It's a cookbook!".
He's running around the room panicking like everyone else.
For years-I didn't know what the reference was too!
I was 10 when this episode came out and it scared me and my slightly older Sister to death. I can vividly remember it and I’ve never seen a rerun of it.
I was same age and scared to death 💀 just like you!
Slightly?
I was about 10 when I saw it, and it scared the poop out of me too. This was the second episode of the Twilight Zone I saw, the first being '"The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank." My dad and I wee hooked on the series from then until it ended.
I'll always have a special place in my heart for the episode "Twenty Two" with the infamous "Room for one more honey." line as spoken by Arlene Martel who portrayed the mysterious nurse/stewardess (Same actress would later play Spock's Vulcan bride-to-be on the original Star Trek). Another ingenius, surprise ending!.
Listen to your gut feeling...
My favorite TZ episode after “The Monsters are due on Maple Street”.
So dang good! Clever writing and reveal at the end worth rewatching.
I love this episode! My other fav was the one where a poor woman on a different planet never says a word, but fights for her life from an alien that lands on her home. Her acting was superb!
That would be the 'Agnes Morehead', episode. Can't recall the title 🤔, but that's it!! Want to see her at some of her best, view a pic titled "DARK PASSAGE", with Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren Becall!! Or just watch almost any episode, of "BEWITCHED" (She played Samantha's, mother)!!!
It’s called The Invaders, terrific episode.
@@rogerrendzak8055 She was also part of Orson Welles' Mercury Players. She played Charles Foster Kane's mother in "Citizen Kane."
That was Agnes Moorhead from Bewitched.
Yes, where the humans are just tiny little mice!!
First here... this and Eye of the Beholder" and "Time Enough At Last" are my TZ favorites.
It's a cookbook!
My top fav is with Agnes Moorhead and the "aliens". She never says a word. Excellent performance! Elizabeth Montgomery's wordless episode is good too.
One of my favorites as well. Talk about surprise endings!
You didn't metion Charles Bronson. Come on pal!
I met Richard Kiel at a movie convention. I'm not a small person, but even sitting down, he towered over me. One of the nicest people I ever met. Rest in peace.
My favorite that I rarely hear from others 'A Nice Place to Visit' A reflection of what every man desires, all the money, women and everything else he could ever want but once he gets them from his mysterious 'friend' gets bored and goes crazy realizing there's nothing left to live for since the excitement of trying to acquiring them was gone. Then the perfect twisted ending finally realizing he is really dead and must be in heaven but it was really hell and Sebastien Cabot's diabolical laugh when he reveals it to him. An eternity of boredom. I was that type, always craving that lifestyle but always thought if I acquired them, then what? The moral? Be happy with what you have!
Its in my top 10.I will never forget Cabots evil laugh at the end.
One correction: He knew he was dead from the beginning. It was just his eternal destination that he was wrong on.
On a personal note, I'd be quite content in such a setting. Ditto with the ST:TNG episode probably based on this, with Ryker, Data, and Worf in the hotel and the dead American astronaut.
"The Twilight Zone" was of course famous for its shock endings, and "To Serve Man" was certainly had a shock ending. But, in my view, no episode beats "Third From the Sun" in this regard.
That was a great episode. I like how the cinematography showed the fender of the turbo car as it was driven, plus the sound effect.
Yes another great 👍🏻
@@nicholasforrester8587 It is especially so if -- like me -- you first watched it during the darkest days of the Cold War. Regards.
The ending of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" was the biggest shocker imo
Any way to catch these full episodes on CZcams,free?
I met Richard Kiel in Covina, California back in the 90s. Really a nice guy. Shaking his hand 🤚 was like grabbing a baseball glove…… Huge !!!!!!
This episode was one of my favorites as a 6 year old child , But the ones that gave me nightmares .
#1 Nightmare at 20,000 Feet When Shatner pulls the shade up and the gremlins face is smooched against the window . . . . Still gives me the me the Willie's .
#2 The living Doll My sister had a similar doll and I had an older brother . . . That's easy to figure out.
#3 The Masks Pigman Baby . . . . Pigman
One of my favorite episodes is Jack Klugman as a pool hustler who wishes he could have played a famous but deceased pool player (Jonathan Winters).
Me too. The lesson I got from, "A Game of Pool" was, beware what you wish for, becasue being "the best" is not all that it's cracked up to be.
Also a good episode. The one with Art Carney and the Santa bag that he finds is sort of the other bookend to this.
@@josepherhardt164 "The Night of the Meek." Another classic. My two favorites are "Time Enough at Last" and "The Obsolete Man," both starring Burgess Meredith playing two different types of "bibliophiles."
@@seminolefantodd4736
Jack Klugman appeared in at leat 4 Eps. Trumpet player, father of Pip(Billy Mumy), the spaceship crash landing over and over and of course the pool match with Johnathon Winters.
Are there others?
He was also great in In praise of pip,where he was a hustler and took his kid to the famous POP in Venice, amusement park,torn down in the 70s,so he's shot,dying his kids in Viet nam,injured and he asks God to take him instead...next scene the kid is at the park,trying to win a prize at the shooting range,klugman had so much soul.
The Twilight Zone is simply the best TV show that has ever been made, and ever will be. Pure genius and still holds up to this day. My fave is "Still Valley" as it was the first episode I saw when i was about 10 years old in the 80s. I'd decided to see if I could stay up all night and it was on BBC2 at about 3am. It absolutely blew my mind and still sends shivers down my spine.
was the still valley the one where the man is walking along looking for his dog and is invited to hell, but waits instead finds heaven?
@@bonesf200 nice to meet you Alan, my name is Jamie Allen, still valley is top five for me
@@JamieAllen1977 "Still Valley" takes place during the US Civil War around 1864. A Confederate scout comes across a small town where nothing moves, frozen in motion. An old man living in the town shows the scout a book of black magic and how he used it to freeze a whole company of Union soldiers passing through the town.
The old man is dying and passes on the book to the Confederate scout, saying that the South can win the war if they use the book. The scout takes the book back to his camp and tells his superior officer the story of the old man and the book. The scout hands the book to his commander and implores him to use it against the Yankees. After a brief moment of temptation, the commander throws the book into the campfire, saying that winning the war is not worth selling their souls to Satan.
The episode of the Twilight Zone about the hillbilly and his trusty hound dog is titled "The Hunt".
Both of these episodes were excellent.
@@kenkesler3087 oh then i had it backwards. the hunt is top five; i remember everything about the still valley then, except the ending.
@@kenkesler3087 The guard at the entrance to hell took the job because he got tired of not having to repair Maytag appliances.
I saw this for the first time with my grandmother some time in the early 1980's
It had become kind of a thing, watching Twilight Zone with my grandmother. The was she delivered that line, "It's a cook book." was perfect.
Great episode, Richard Kiel was always one of my favorite actors. My all-time favorite Twilight Zone episode is “A Stop at Wiiloughby”. They are all timeless classics, an important part of American television.
This is superb reporting on this episode. As an author, I have researched this period of TV history and it is pure gold. We were spoiled by world-class writing in those days. And you are right: if we knew how utterly crappy TV would be today, we would have appreciated it more. I'm like everyone else; I like a great story, good direction, and competent performances. I wish young people today would get a taste of these old anthologies, if only so they could understand that if you have a good story, you don't have to have explosions every 22 seconds.
Very true. This whole woke thing going on now in Hollywood has caused terrible writing to be elvated. And i think it was an over-reaction by liberals to Trump's Presidency. I refused to watch Discovery and Picard for these agendas but i am hopeful that Strange New Worlds may course correct the horribilness.
Or sex or bad language!
My recollection of the original printed story was that the alien's book title was translated as, "How to serve man".
The original short story was also called "How to Serve Man".
One of my favorites is the Obsolete Man. The episode is damned near prophetic. One of the 2 brilliantly done by Burgess Meredith. The other, of course, was Time Enough At Last.
The episode with the gremlin on the airplane wing still stays with me.
The great William Shatner aka Captain Kirk from Star Trek at his best !!!
To Serve Man is surely in my top three Twilight Zone episodes. There are so many truly great and also diverse episodes that it's impossible for me to pick just one favorite.
One of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes.
It’s my favorite and a twist at the end that a very select few would’ve guessed. There are many great ones. Out of sentimentality I love the original with Art Carney playing Santa Claus. Santa had a slight drinking problem. So many young actors who went on to long careers in films and TV. Thank You for sharing !!
This was a brilliant episode. The unfortunate thing about Twilight Zone is, so many of the brilliant things it did are so well-known at this point and have been redone to death that it is impossible for someone to see them for the first time and truly appreciate them. The old special effects aren't nearly as much of a problem as the slow build to a cliche that wasn't a cliche when it first aired.
One that really got to me was "Little Girl Lost". Why? Because it showed that you weren't safe even in your own bed at home.
Also I loved "The Invaders." I'll never forget when my father saw it for the first time. Upon seeing the ending he asked, "Why did they make such a small spaceship?" I replied .... "who says they're on Earth?" He then put 2 and 2 together and his reaction was priceless.
Little Girl Lost had me staying away from walls at home for several days.
(Spoiler alert:) I guess your father did not, at the end, see the little Invader crew men in mylar astronaut suits with "USA" emblazoned. Turns out, Agnes Moorehead's character (whose dialogue throughout the episode had been just grunts, and her gestures just broomstick pokes at the little alien sounds she heard) was a denizen of a seeming circa 19th century American farmland, but on an unspecified alien planet.
@@JudgeJulieLit I saw that episode when I was five years old, but I was so stuck on the idea that Agnes Moorehead was living in the Appalachians that I thought the ship from Earth must have gone through a space warp and come back reduced to tiny size. Yes, at the age of five, I had quite the SF writerly brain.
Great episode from a terrific show. Nice to see people appreciate the classics.
Two of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes are Dust with Vladimir Sokolov as the loving father of a man condemned to hang, and The Mirror with Peter Faulk as General Clemente and Vladimir Sokolov as Father Tomas. Sokolov was born in Russia but in the early 1960s he was usually cast as a beneficent Latino. Sokolov was a wonderful character actor who could play almost any nationality, including Chinese or Italian roles.
Richard Kiel lived in my neighborhood when I was a child in the early 70s I have no clue mr. Kill with an actor in those days I was in the 10th grade he worked at Highland Park Toyota as a manager car dealership and ate food at my favorite fast food place it's hard to believe he was in so many movies as I look back he was definitely a gentle giant 🙂
I was old enough to watch all of them. It's hard to pick out a favorite, even now. I agree they don't make shows like that anymore. No violence, no sex, no deaths on screen. Just great, thought-provoking stories. sometimes sad, weird, scary, happy, or you just wondered if it would really happen sometime in the future. Wonderful, wonderful show. I do miss it.
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Ridge" showed a hanging, but the video was produced by someone else. It had won an award for "Best Short Subject" at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, and Rod Serling showcased it on "The Twilight Zone".
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Two episodes that always stuck in my mind wree, "A Kind of a Stopwatch", where the man was given a stopwatch that could stop time, add "Once Upon A Time", with Buster Keaton, where the opening and closing scenes are in the past as a silent movie. But, there was really no bad episode of The Twilight Zone, ever.
Joseph Ruskin also played the head thrall in the Star Trek episode "Gamesters of Triskelion." A great episode, along with this one from the Twilight Zone.
Probably one of my favorite episode endings. The all consuming “let’s go to paradise. Utopia sounds great “ without any caution
Reminds me of younger generations falling for certain ideologies.
I once got to meet the late Fred Pohl at a convention in Dayton; when I told him that one of his stories, "The Hated," would have made a great Twilight Zone episode, he told me, "You knew I knew Rod Serling..." He went on to tell me about him. What a great memory. I wish I could have met Rod.
A colleague in my writers group once got to meet Isaac Asimov at a book signing, but told me she was so excited to meet him that she totally flubbed the encounter. I said, "OMG--you didn't go up to him and say something like, 'I've always wanted to meet you, Mr. Clarke!'" And she said it was much worse--she couldn't talk at all and just giggled like a schoolgirl. Asimov smiled at her and did sign her book.
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I like all of the twilight zone episodes, and since i was 5 when the series started I've been watching for a long time. They just don't make them like this anymore.
Mr Chambers was part of a kids happy meal menu - LOL ! To Severe Man is one of the most memorable Twilight Zones episodes ever. I grew up during the 1960's and I'm a big fan of this show. To think after all these years I never knew that Richard {Jaws} Kyle played the Kanamit. 🦁 Amazing !!!!
Watching this episode was one of those rare occasions when my mother & I equally enjoyed something together. The place was L.A., back in the late (1960's.) 🙂
To me, this is one if, if not the scariest episode of the series
Rod Serling had a great way to have awesome twists in his Twilight Zone episodes. "To Serve Man" and "The Invaders" were at the top of my favorite episodes to watch. And still watch them today. Thanks for this video.
Damon Knight was my writing coach for about 10 years. Once a month I attended a writer's workshop in his home that he and his wife Kate Wilhelm hosted for young writers based on the Milford Conference workshop he had started many years ago for professional writers. Damon was an interesting guy with a wit as dry as the Sahara desert. His verbal comments were as compressed as his prose style, and he suffered fools and foolishness not at all. A hell of an editor and critic, and a hell of writer. I miss him.
Lloyd Bochner was such a versatile actor. From being an unwilling passenger in a spacecraft to commanding one.
FANtastic episode…one of the shows best. One of my favorites. The stories from “The Twilight Zone” - original are eternal. Today TV is laughable 💩!! Compared to shows of the past like Star Trek, The Outer Limits & many others that well thought out, interesting, intelligent & challenging.
You hit the nail on the head there Kyle!
@@normanperkel139 Today’s TV programming is unwatchable
@@kylecurry577 Better Call Saul is pretty good though..
@@normanperkel139 that’s true.
No wokeness, just great storytelling
To Serve Man is one of my favorite episodes of Twilight Zone.
My favourite is still A Stop At Willoughby. The final scene where the funeral wagon is next to the train gives me chills.
I love that one too. It shows Serling's radical side.
Absolutely my favorite Twilow Zone story.
I love this episode! This scared the heck out of me as a kid, actually it still freaks me out. 😳
Walking distance is one of my favorite episodes of Twilight zone. Jess Belle is also a favorite. I really loved most of these shows. Rod Serling was an amazing man.
Cutting a deal with a no good witch!
Thanks for the fascinating back story to the making of this masterpiece episode. I first saw it as a child, and, needless to say, it made an indelible impression on me. Watching it in later years, even with advancements in special effects, it's lost none of its power, thanks to the story, the script, and the outstanding performances. I thought Richard Kiel's performance to be great, despite the stress involved during the production. And Lloyd Bockner's performance in the lead role was outstanding and held the story together. Even in this clip of the ending, I can feel the sheer terror that Lloyd Bockner's character is experiencing.
This is without question one of my favorite episodes. Top 3 or 5 atleast.
My favorite twilight zone episode. Period!😵💫
Mines too. Well of My top 3 favs.
Me too. My favorite for sure.
One of my Favorite Episodes, Just behind "The Howling Man". Love your videos and what you do..
The episode: The Howling Man has given me quite a few sleepless nights, to be sure.
As an adult it is my favorite. As a child it gave me nightmares, I wasn't supposed to watch the show and I watched it unbeknownst to my mother. We were at her friend's house and her kids were watching in a back room. So, I watched it with them. It was the very first episode I ever saw of The Twilight Zone and I had nightmares for months.
Some of my favorites besides 'to serve man'- 100yards over the rim'- Time enough at last'- 'One for the angels'- [Christmas time]- 'The night of the meek'- The grave'- Changing of the guard'- -'Two'- 'a kind of stopwatch'- 'Come wander with me'- Mr. Garrity and the graves'- 'Five characters in search of an exit'- 'Two'... love all 5seasons... but these are still with me to this day, a nice after taste in the mind really. Nice research, good story telling and I enjoyed it greatly. Thank you.
~ “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up” is my favorite TZ episode.
It was a decent episode and a huge twist. One of my favorite ones is Back There with Russell Johnson of him going back to save President Lincoln. I like his other time travel episode as a scientist of bringing back the man who was to be hung. There are so many episodes. Here's another the Rip Van Winkle Caper how the men went to sleep thinking gold would be worth a fortune 100 years later. Another time travel episode is when the wagon train is going to California and the man goes to find food and water and winds up in present day to find out his sick son needs to be saved so he must go back in time. And finally the one in which a world is at war and only one pilot lands on a planet that is dark and ship is wrecked and he's injured and finds a woman who also landed on the planet and well she doesn't speak English. Such a great show. I picked out just a few of my favorite ones.
I checked out your page and I see you had some stuff on old cameras? I collect old cameras and transitor radios. Cool
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The last one you mentioned I think starred Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery. I don't remember the name of the episode, though.
@@nicoleknight9412 : No, the one with Elizabeth Montgomery & Charles Bronson is “Two”, about two survivors of a war who must learn to live together.
The Hitchhiker, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, Nick Of Time, and Will The Real Martian Please Stand up are my top favorites of this classic series.
Yes! Will the real martian please stand up,the end where the last two guys never got on the bus that crashed,was like a alien throw down,all those arms were so creepy,but the third eye won.
I feel lucky that I was about 10 yrs old when Twilight Zone started and I got to enjoy 4 or 5 seasons of it. Great stories, direction and acting. Best sci-fi series ever imo. RIP Rod Serling.
Me too, dude. I remember watching it when I was just a kid. I'm 73 years old now, and I still watch as much as I can.
Lots of great Twilight Zone episodes but "The Masks" episode that the video mentions stands out as my favorite. I never tire of seeing that one even though I've probably watched it dozens and dozens of times (perhaps hundreds?). For me it's hard to say how many times I've seen the many Twilight Zone episodes because once they went into syndication they would air them several times a night, often times for 5 days a week. That was before cable TV when the Twilight Zone might be shown on any number of cable channels, eventually becoming marathons during holiday weekends.
This was definitely one of my favorite episodes some of others were Willoughby and the episode that starred Billy Mumy as the boy monster "Wish it into the cornfield!" and of course Nightmare at 20,000 feet! Great video Thanks❤👍
Pure gold. Those are my favorites too. Every time I fly,I feel like Shatner's character!
yes all those episodes messed with my brain as a child... and I kept coming back for more!
I loved them all, but this one was definitely one of my favorites by far!! RIP Mr. Serling
The companion show to this might be,when a man wakes up in a great apt with everything he desires,accept he has no front door, and can't leave! Finally he yanks the curtain open,and he is a display for aliens,an example of a typical earth man!
I saw this when I was 9 years old.. it scared me to death to know we trusted aliens, and next they just wanted us for food. What a lesson to learn at such a young age. This episode has also made me a UFO hunter out at Area 51 for the past 5 years. Its a great hobby... thanks Rod Serling.
"And When the Sky Was Opened" and "Living Doll" are two of my favorites.
Anything with dolls that come to life scares me.
@@windtunnel5267 The TZ spawned off a myriad of horror movies.
Two of my favorites are "The Bars" (very funny, including Burt Reynolds impersonating Marlon Brando and annoying Shakespeare to the point where he punches him). And one that's called, I believe, "The Turning," in which a young woman is chased by a furious older woman. It turns out the older woman is her older self, trying to warn her not to marry her fiance.
My favorite Twilight Zone episode! Two main reasons. First reason: The head alien was played by the 7ft 2-3 inches tall. I have several autographed pics of him as "Kanamit". I met him, and shook his hand back in 1988. Second reason: The episode conveys the deceptive nature of the beings that are involved in the UFO phenomenon.
I wonder if the name Kanamit was suppose to sound like Cannibal? Interesting.....
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"Eye of the Beholder" left an indelible dent in my brain as a 10 or 11-year-old kid. It freaked me out so much that for months, I had to look back at my parents while watching TV to make sure they still looked human. I remember when the revealing scene was displayed, the blood was running out of my head as a 10-11 year old kid.
It was the soundtrack that made it so intense ! If they played some other music , they could have turned it into a comedy ! LoL 😆
“Indelible?”
Joe Ruskin was a great character actor.I had the privilege of meeting and talking to him briefly, while he was grocery shopping a year or so before he died.
Did Mr. Ruskin offer you any interesting recipes?
@@johnjdevlin2610 bwahaha.I should have asked.The store was Ralphs at 14049 Ventura Blvd, Sherman oaks.
@@mckeek8115 I dated a girl in college who was a cannibal. Her name was Daphne. Daphne from Gaffney. She had a human-based recipe that involved Vlasic dill pickles and marshmallow Fluff that still makes my mouth water. I've tried to recreate it with Spam instead of the human bits and I think I've come close. My family seems to like it. Would you like to stop over some holiday? Try to arrive organs intact.
1x01 Where is Everybody, 1x05 Walking Distance, 1x07 The Lonely, 1x16 The Hitch-Hiker, 1x20 Elegy, 1x22 The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, 1x30 A Stop at Willoughby, 2x24 The Rip Van Winkle Caper, 3x04 The Passersby, 3x08 It's A Good Life, 3x10 The Midnight Sun, 3x11 Still Valley, 4x06 Death Ship, 4x11 The Parallel, 4x16 On Thursday We Leave For Home, 5x03 Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, 5x30 Stopover in a Quiet Town. My top three are It's a Good Life, A Stop at Willoughby, and Death Ship. ALL of these episodes to me feel as though they exist and you can enter right through your television set, and live there.
OMG what a must see twilight Zone Episode! It’s been 20 years since I watched this episode and I have never forgotten how the ending made me feel hopeless and frightened.
My favorite episode was Five Characters in Search of an Exit, truly great writing, and The Monsters are due on Maple Street.
That's my favorite episode too. It left me stunned and bewildered
When it comes to ones that aren't very famous, I think the best one is "And When The Sky Was Opened."
" The Masks" is my favorite episode to watch on New Year's eve. This was also a great one. ( actually, almost all of them are great).
Am 71 and LOVE IT! Born in the Hey day beginning of classic 1950s SCIENCE FICTION APR 2 1951
I forgot to say,the one where two kids went into a swimming pool at home,but surfaced in a different world,where the were cared for by a grandma type,loved it.