Not to forget that nowadays we have hi resolution TVs and can see every blooper. Back then, Tv's were tiny and the picture quality was sometimes grainy making it harder to notice things.
@@MsBackstager - In addition to today's high-def picture quality, we often also have today the ability to pause/freeze frame and replay television shows.
Still nearly 70 years later (really ? is my math right ?) and the Twilight Zone still exceeds 85% of the content on TV, because there is still a lot of good stuff, and a LOT of crappy crap. This show is timeless because it's about the human element, not the era when it was made. It's modern Shakespeare.
Stopover in a Quiet Town, I remember once watching when they are running toward the train a little before this, you can see part of an extra sitting in a chair on the right side of the screen in the background.
Actually these goofs work to the TZ episode's benefit. Especially in the pilot episode. Seeing ghostly reflections in the windows in the abandoned town, adds much to mystique of the episode.
Seen many of these episodes dozens of times including some from the original broadcast as a kid. Never noticed these things; the stories, crammed into twenty-some minutes on a limited budget were mesmerizing to watch. Old television technology hid any issues. Serling was a master at lighting, camera angles and the use of black-and-white photography; the fear and the humor broke through and kept you captivated to the end. The cherry on top of his genius was 'Night Gallery'.
Concerning the age issue, I read somewhere that people today look younger than people of their same age did when the Twilight Zone was made. This is because of better nutrition and healthcare being available. For example, a fit man in his sixties today would be mistaken for late forties if he were to somehow travel back to that time. Also, men of Serling's generation would have aged faster because of the stresses of living through the Great Depression and WWII. There is also the fact that actors routinely lie about their ages as they grow older, Hollywood being what it is.
Yeah, I've seen them all a million times. I think the only show I've seen more might be Gilligan's Island where I saw it every day practically throughout my childhood.
I was nine when the first episode aired on CBS in 1959. Never missed it from then on. Although Marius Constant's intro became the most recognizable music for the series, I preferred the darkly lugubrious theme composed by Bernard Herrmann. Also, Serling's eloquent prose describing the intent of the show. " There is a fifth dimension beyond what is known to man..." Brilliant!
This was The Golden Age of smoking. EVERY adult with an ounce of angst in any drama had smoking in it. The age of Mad Men. "Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Can I bum one?" Then a commercial break to remind you the show is brought to you by L&M, Winston, Chester Fields, Marlboro, Kool, etc. The great Rod Serling was never seen without one. He (like Walt Disney, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis, Jr., Yul Brenner, Dean Martin, others) was an intelligent man but was fully addicted to the tobacco habit and smoked himself right out of existence. My dad did also.
I have always been the biggest Twilight Zone fan (although the 2001 and 2022 series are such crapola), and it's wonderful to see these little factoids. This is really lotsa fun. Actually, the "goofs" in Where Is Everybody can be explained to a point: the issue is that Ferris ALMOST sees signs of life, but when he concentrates on them, they vanish. That works, right? As for Mr Dingle, there's one "goof" that I noticed years ago: Pretty sure that the size of the bar keeps changing depending on which aliens are in the room. The barroom is a lot wider when the Martians are there than it is after they leave. And I'm pretty sure that back door where the Venusians appear isn't quite in the same location it was when the Martians entered at the beginning. The aliens in To Serve Man have to duck because these are special cabins set aside for the smaller humans. So, naturally, the cabin doorway would be lower. Or maybe it's an issue of space - pun intended - after all, room inside a spaceship (the USS Enterprise notwithstanding) is at a premium, and the Kanamits are ferrying lots of humans to their homeworld....
With regards to the large block of concrete in Time Enough At Last, it's entirely possible that the concrete block could've been on top of some smaller blocks which would explain why it moved when touched. Impossible to lift, but possible to rock back and forth a little.
In "Where is Everybody," one could infer that they might have been the Air Force Officers observing him. Most pf the time the older actors playing younger characters is distracting but I would argue that "Perchance to Dream" is one where it actually works. Earlier in the episode he said that he hadn't slept in over 80 hours making almost four days. Plus, he is being haunted in his dreams by Maya and has a weakened heart condition. He would look weathered, haggard, and older looking from the stress.
Thanks for this. That mystery shadow on the bars in the first one was actually Holliman's cast by a spotlight on the right. But I like these technical errors in TV shows. They kind of comfort me. I guess the one that epitomizes this the most for me is in the Star Trek (original series) episode "All Our Yesterdays" where the "Atavachron" sends Kirk and Spock back in time to Earth in the 30's. When they materialize on Earth, it's right next to Floyd's Barber Shop in Mayberry! (You can see the painted name on the glass of the façade.) Almost all of these shows used the "back 40" lot in Culver City for their exteriors. Another example: You can see some props of Gomer Pyle USMC in shots from The Andy Griffith Show and Hogan's Heroes.
Thanks for commenting. I thought it was so cool to have Captain Kirk walk by Floyd's Barber Shop. Batman drove the Batmobile right past Gomer's barracks. I did a video about the Mayberry set and Gomer's you might like - ua-cam.com/video/Zf5s2wqRe5o/v-deo.htmlsi=OrvJPcxVFoXr43IR
In "Where is Everybody?" my simple guess is that the shadow is EH's own shadow cast by the lights to his left. He does back up from the door, and if the lights are just off camera, his shadow might move quickly at that angle. Again, it's only a guess. I remember listening to "The Hitch Hiker" on an old time radio show, narrated by Orsen Wells. The main character was a male though. I checked now and see it was by Lucille Fletcher, first aired on radio Nov. 17, 1941. When I first saw "Rip Van Winkel Caper," I thought the same thing about the oil and tires on that truck. And I wondered if all the skin and flesh of a body would be decomposed and completely gone as they showed it. Hadn't thought about the clothes. Good point. Tvcrazyman I enjoy your material. Have a good one.
Back in the early 1960s the connection between smoking a heart disease had not been proven enough. When it finally had been smoking on television was phased out.
The important thing to remember is the show was from the 60s. Televisions at the time didn’t have the resolution to clearly show the reflections and other tiny details.
We were just happy if the picture didn't start rolling. People had to do a lot of adjusting on their TVs back in the '50s and early '60s. I know, because I am 79 years old.
The creator of this video will be surprised to learn of a technology called "filmmaking". With that phenomenon The Twilight Zone did some exceptional stunts, like the reflections of ghosts in the windows, and changes in props and cars between takes. 😀 Great reporting on these hidden gems, thanks. And yes, I do believe that Rod Sterling expected you to find these so many years later 😀
@@dougpreis757 - Thanks for pointing me to my mistake. It must have been a supernatural entity that made me put a T in Serling's name. The T of The Twilight Zone ... deedoodeedoo 😀
The Twilight Zone was filmed in the days before a connection was made between smoking and heart disease. Rod Serling ws a chain smoker and frequently had a cigarette when introducing the episodes. He died in his early 50s from a heart attack.
0:50 In this episode the town is entirely imaginary. He is, in reality sitting alone in a small room, completely cut off from human contact. As the town is imaginary logistical rules don't apply.
Also in the episode "The Hitch Hiker", the production crew removed the vent windows from the front doors, presumably for better filming. However this meant that the windows would have to stay down for the duration, since there would be a giant gap at the front where the vent window would be with the windows up.
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a short story by Ambrose Bierce. When I first read it, I thought, 'wow, this could be a TZ episode.' of which I soon found out it was. Though I think it was produced by a French group and submitted to a contest conducted by Rod Serling.@@eddieboggs8306
Also in her car, they removed the rear view mirror so it wouldn't pick up the camera man when filming from the back seat. I have noticed that in a lot of movies since ten.
I'm glad you mentioned the age issue. It always bothered me hearing the age in the opening narration and then seeing the actor playing the character. Why not just give a realistic age for the character that matches the actor's real age or don't even mention the character's age at all? One of my favorite episodes, "Walking Distance", had the 36-year-old Martin Sloan played by 45-year-old Gig Young. It was a really good performance, but he did not look 36.
That episode is deliciously well done!!! And it always gets to me when Martin's mother, wrestling with the veracity of his story, slaps him. He has an extremely rapid and sad moment of contemplation for the assault, and then Martin is quickly off on his vital quest to counsel his younger self to enjoy his youth. That particular scene is just absolutely heartbreaking. The other superb scene is when older Martin receives his injury retroactively in conjunction with young Martin's fall during the pursuit, and they moan in synchronized agony. This TZ installment truly epitomizes the show's greatness.
Rod S. was about 36 at the time of filming so it was the story of his life in business. But I agree, that either they should have gotten a younger actor or made the character a decade older.
I recently watched a kind of spin off movie thing they did for the show Fear Of The Walking Dead, which is on board a submarine, and they acted like the main guy was some young guy in his 20a or something, and so the captain said something about the young guy reminded him of himself when he was his age, but I could tell the so called young guy wasn't young at all, and I even was pretty sure I knew him from an older show, but wasn't sure! Plus the captain didn't even look as old as the "young guy " did! So I looked them up, and found out the so called " Young Guy " was 42 and the captain was 32, when it was made, so they actually didn't seem to think anyone would notice that! They had the captain as the 40 something one instead, even though he didn't look old enough! But then the spin off movie wasn't very good all away around, since they had men with hair that was way too long and one even had dreads, lol! More like a parody, then a spin off, lol!
I think the "30-something" age is used because for most men, including myself, that's when life (family, job, bills, marital issues, etc) really starts to weigh heavy on you, and and you begin entertaining thoughts of escaping to a simpler past, or you begin wondering if you're losing a bit of your sanity. I miss my younger days but I really would not want to repeat my 30s.
If you want to talk about age, what about the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance? Jimmy Stewart was supposed to be a young feller right out of law school, and it would have made sense for the John Wayne character to be the same age. 25 maybe?
“To Serve Man” was the best of all IMHO. As all the Earth people were getting into the spaceship, it’s discovered the book “To Serve Man” the aliens gave to Earth officials, wasn’t a peace offering……….it’s a cookbook!
You do an excellent job in pointing out the "goofs" in the TZ episodes. I understand nowadays movies and TV have people assigned for "continuity integrity" so when a scene is cut, the staging remains the same to avoid the "goofs". I agree with the comments that Serling's genius and stories in the TZ were captivating to me as a kid growing up.
That's one of the negative things about restorations of classic movies or TV shows, it sometimes makes goofs, prosthetics, or backdrops more visible & obvious, things that the creators would've done a better job of concealing had they known advances in technology would aid in clarifying such things, next time you watch episodes of "Bonanza", don't look too far beyond the Ponderosa!
@@mrcydonia, the ONLY Twilight Zone episode filmed in Universal Studios! All the rest were produced in MGM with the notable exception of "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" which was imported from France
Rod Serling is from my hometown. (Binghamton, NY) Met him several times when he came to speech at my high school. We both went to Binghamton Central. Cool guy.
That's awesome! I would have loved to have met Rod Serling. I would love to know what his secret was for coming up with such interesting stories the way he did.
He was a pretty cool guy. About 5 feet nothing and chained smoked. Of course the last time I saw him I didn't know that he soon would be gone. I just found out that he wrote some of the screenplay for the original Planet of the Apes.@@tvcrazyman
I have the DVD box set of the entire series, and I've enjoyed this wonderful television show over and over. I never noticed some of these goofs before, although the boo-boos in Eye of the Beholder didn't escape me. But it also occurred to me that when these episodes were originally aired, TV screens were much smaller than the flat-screen monsters we all have now, and they certainly weren't High Def, either! So a lot of stuff was able to fly under the radar. As an example, just look at the make-up job done on Ivan Dixon in The Big, Tall Wish. Those bumps and scars added to his face to make him appear a battle-weary prizefighter look like they're blobs of Silly Putty.
I love the show too. I've got the whole original series, the 80's version, and the early 2000's version. I love anthology series in general. Of course, nothing beats the original series. Rod Serling was a genius although Night Gallery wasn't as good to me. It is entertaining, but then again I might be prejudice against Night Gallery because it scared me to death when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure Rod had less to do with that series though, behind the scenes.
@@tvcrazyman I think Night Gallery was green-lit with the understanding that it would be more of a "monster" show, rather than the more subtle mind-bending fantasy with social commentary buried in it that TZ was. The concept of the Twilight Zone is not understood by everyone. That's my problem with some of the scripts from the 80s reboot. They miss the idea that it's the unknown working on you which you can't explain to anyone else.
@@davidwalter2002 There were episodes of the 80's reboot that were great and some not so great. It was a little up and down I guess. I love the ones with time travel like the Elvis episode and the JFK episode.
@@tvcrazyman Good point. And, of course, the original Zone series had its share of occasional stinkers, too. One episode from the 80s that I really like is the one with Bruce Willis, where he has a doppelgänger and eventually fades away himself. That was as creepy and thought-provoking as anything from the original.
I enjoyed your video, I did catch on my own the obvious one in the western episode with the towers or oil rigs up on the hill in the opening scene. Now I will have to try to spot the other goofs you brought to our attention.
I like how you did that, especially in the one with guy in the town that thinks he might be the only person alive, it reminded me of how I reacted watching newer show called Fringe, where the main character Olivia Dunham ( played by actress Anna Torv ) was examining a dead woman's hand, and the fingers on the hand moved, I said " oh look she brought the woman back to life with just her touch " lol! Because in the show the character Olivia Dunham has some powers, because of a drug she was given as a kid, so I was like implying she had the power to bring people back from the dead now, lol! I had to say it as a friend and I were watching it, and though I had watched the show before, I hadn't noticed that little goof, until then, so I made a joke of it!
Sharp eyes! Yes, every male in TZ seems to be 35 played by someone 53, down on his luck, renting a room from an old woman, and regardless of such circumstances....always well-dressed in a suit and tie.
. Wow thank you for bringing us Twilight Zone this is the greatest of greats of TV I doubt they cared much about Reflections due to the TV's back in the fifties and sixties love your Channel and love your content.
The original series with Rod Serling are so classic and the ones I watched as a kid... unfortunately Rod smoked cigarettes incessantly like lots of men did then and died from cancer ...but ,maybe...he's in the zone?
I think that the time, and effort it must take to discover all of these gems just has to be a labor of love for you. I can hear in your voice how much you really dig these old shows. I actually do also believe that you caught many of these bloopers in real time when you first saw them as a kid. I know you must be far too young to have seen many of these when they first came out though. I'd like to thank you so much for compiling this selection. Extremely fun. 👍
Wow! So mysterious! On every film set there are numerous "crew" members. They are supposed to stay out of the shot. This doesn't always happen. Especially if one of the crew members was required to move a jail cell door to make it seem like it was moving by itself.
In the "Rip Van Winkle Caper" not only are the clothes missing but the skeleton "Herbie" was a crude model that even seen on a 60s B&W tv would appear fake.
One of my favorite episodes, The Invaders, has a favorite goof. Agnes Moorehead plays a poor woman on a farm who has to do all of her own chores and work, but when she starts to go up the ladder, she puts her hand on it. This poor hard working woman has long, perfectly manicured nails!
Mr. Denton on Doomsday - I thought it was hilarious that they didn't know through rehearsals and camera set up that the oil rigs in the background would be in the scene. I often wondered if the set director was called on the carpet for that big goof! That like not noticing a 747-flying overhead! (Which happened during a scene on The Waltons, but they caught that blooper.
The tobacco companies at this time still had a lot of influence in movies and TV. They were still campaigning heavily to cover up the health effects of smoking, insisting that it was healthy. I think sometimes film makers found was around this. In the Day the Earth Stood Still a doctor and another character are discussing Klaatu's youthful appearance and the long life spans of his people has already established he does not smoke. As he is handing the other a cigarette one of them says, "I wonder how they (live so long)." This must have been done deliberately. It amazes me the tabaco companies who sponsored the movie didn't demand the scene be removed.
I know I've heard some old shows talk about smoking as bad for your health, but I can't remember which ones at the moment. They definitely weren't as aware of the negative effects as today I guess.
I like watching the background on second viewing, in the "Omega Man", deserted world in one scene climbing a hill in the background is, I presume, an Interstate Highway with lots of traffic.
I'd cut "Where is Everybody?" some slack. It was the pilot after all. Also, Earl Holliman is well known for being the alcoholic cook in "Forbidden Planet." In "Perchance to Dream," the connection between smoking and heart disease was not well established, and really not in the public consciousness at all. Also, the mistake of the lady putting her hand through the door where glass should be happens more than you might think, even to the greats. In Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" the main character drives a Triumph TR-3, which is a quite small open roadster. In one scene, an actress was having some trouble getting out of it, and rather than placing her hand the usual way on top of the windshield frame for support, she puts her hand through the windshield (space) and wraps her hand around the frame from underneath! Shooting glassless frames was done to hold down reflections, and help keep You Tubers from making snarky videos about them half a century later 🙂
"Where is Everybody" the actor is suposed to be completely alone in the world, as if he was the last man on Earth....him, as well as, I guess, people from the filming staff who could be easily reflected on the windows? lol No ghosts here :P
In "Little Girl Lost" the physicist pulls the father out of the wall and tells him that he had his hand the whole time. But earlier when the father disappears into the wall, he completely disappeared, hand and all. Rod Serling was way ahead of his time. He really had trouble with man's inhumanity to man. The present-day world would bother him a lot. In the two shows with William Shatner, they could not have picked a better leading man.
Shatner has always been a favorite actor of mine. I loved the TJ Hooker cop show too when I was a kid, and his performances on the Twilight Zone definitely should have gotten him a Emmy.
"Perchance to Dream" an old army doctor, in 1972 or 1973 (I worked for the janitorial company that cleaned his office after I got out of classes in high school was over evenings) would be finishing up his patients charts occasionally, puffing on a cigar! He said that cigar smokers developed mouth cancer, rather than lung cancer! Almost every adult I remember back then smoked, so why should a guy who has heart problems! Also, Richard (Thomas) Conte was a great actor: I have seen many of the films he made!
To Serve Man: No problem with tall alien having to stoop through a doorway on his own ship. Every sailor has to stoop to go through doorways on their own submarines.
#Tvcrazyman: Boy, do I got a good one for you. You pointed out an interesting goof in TIME ENOUGH AT LAST, my all-time favorite episode. Yet, there's an even bigger goof in the final shot. When Burgess starts crying after.... SPOILER ALERT.... his glasses break, we get a great pan-out of him struggling on the Library staircase. Unfortunately, the series cinematographer George T. Clemens might have missed a gaff as the camera stops the pan-out. Look at the upper portion of the frame... yup. You can actually see the MGM Backlot in frame just above the library ruins. Have fun freeze-framing the shot...😂❤
great video, however when you mentioned the man with the heart condition who still smoked, this episode was a few years before the surgeon general's warnings on cigarettes.
Professor Fowler is played by Donald Pleasance. I don’t know a lot about his early career, but I remember watching Halloween on my parents’ VCR, and my dad said, “Oh! That’s Donald Pleasance! This is what he’s doing now?!” I still don’t know what he meant by that, but he probably meant it was a step down. He was raised to look down at horror. I think it’s a neat through-line that Michael Myers’s doctor was in the Twilight Zone.
The last one is not a mistake. He is wearing reading glasses. When he goes to the window he takes them off. Slow down the video and watch his right hand as he waves hello; he's holding them. Also when he turns around and looks back at the women he's wearing them low and looking above the frame indicating that they are reading glasses.
5:53, I remember this moment when the girl switched to a guy and laughed but thought - oh well, what am I really going to do about it? Nothing because it's already been produced and completed! 😊
Keep in mind the quality of broadcast television during that period of time. Because these episodes were produced on film, it was expected that the higher details would not be visible on television, but would eventually be seen in higher resolution media. SO what we have here are not mistakes, but easter eggs that lend to an even stranger storyline.
With limited budgets and cost constraints these minor flaws do not diminish the great stories from one of the best tv series ever.
Not to forget that nowadays we have hi resolution TVs and can see every blooper. Back then, Tv's were tiny and the picture quality was sometimes grainy making it harder to notice things.
Today they spent many times more money producing tv shows, yet most still suck!
Even more so with the music.
@@MsBackstager - In addition to today's high-def picture quality, we often also have today the ability to pause/freeze frame and replay television shows.
That's why I watch these clips, black and white rocks!
Well said
Still nearly 70 years later (really ? is my math right ?) and the Twilight Zone still exceeds 85% of the content on TV, because there is still a lot of good stuff, and a LOT of crappy crap. This show is timeless because it's about the human element, not the era when it was made. It's modern Shakespeare.
I hope you all have fun watching my new video on the Twilight Zone. It did take a bit of research and work on this one, but it was a lot of fun.
Good times thanks, I also enjoyed the Outer Limits, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and Hong Kong Phooey. Great memories
I can watch Twilight Zone over and over non Stop.Great Job on this and Thank You.
This is excellent! Lol!
The worst episode to me, was To Serve Man, I know I am probably alone in this, but I don't care for it. One of my favorite is Where is everybody.
Stopover in a Quiet Town, I remember once watching when they are running toward the train a little before this, you can see part of an extra sitting in a chair on the right side of the screen in the background.
Actually these goofs work to the TZ episode's benefit. Especially in the pilot episode. Seeing ghostly reflections in the windows in the abandoned town, adds much to mystique of the episode.
Absolutely!! I loved it!!
Ghostly reflections in the windows wouldn't be the camera crew's reflections....no of course not!
Seen many of these episodes dozens of times including some from the original broadcast as a kid. Never noticed these things; the stories, crammed into twenty-some minutes on a limited budget were mesmerizing to watch. Old television technology hid any issues. Serling was a master at lighting, camera angles and the use of black-and-white photography; the fear and the humor broke through and kept you captivated to the end. The cherry on top of his genius was 'Night Gallery'.
I love Night Gallery! Even more than The Twilight Zone
1:47 That's Holliman's shadow. You just have to allow for where the key light is.
"Or were wearing masks to try to drive Elly Mae Clampett insane..."
The Twilight Zone is still one of the best series to date.
What's really spooky is that I've seen and recalled every one of those shows you clipped. And you're right regarding Lee Marvin.
Concerning the age issue, I read somewhere that people today look younger than people of their same age did when the Twilight Zone was made. This is because of better nutrition and healthcare being available. For example, a fit man in his sixties today would be mistaken for late forties if he were to somehow travel back to that time. Also, men of Serling's generation would have aged faster because of the stresses of living through the Great Depression and WWII.
There is also the fact that actors routinely lie about their ages as they grow older, Hollywood being what it is.
They don't make shows like this... at all. So imaginative.
Donna Douglas was the hottest looking 30yo teenager. imagine being 30 and portraying a 17yo?!
All but one of the 90210 cast was 19 to 31 playing teenagers around 14! 😂
We don't mind though because she was hot!
You should have seen her in an epsde of ''Adam 12'', va va voom!!
@@thomasmancuso5873Correct.... Stunning...
@@thomassutherland2647 but Donna looked the part.
I read somewhere that Rod Serling's favorite episode was "Time Enough at Last"; also my favorite as well!
This was one of the best shows ever 😀
Yeah, I've seen them all a million times. I think the only show I've seen more might be Gilligan's Island where I saw it every day practically throughout my childhood.
Thee best show ever for television.
The Mr. Dingle stand-in was also on Gilligan's Island as a painted savage, and Petticoat Junction as a yard worker. He did stunts, and trained others.
I was nine when the first episode aired on CBS in 1959. Never missed it from then on. Although Marius Constant's intro became the most recognizable music for the series, I preferred the darkly lugubrious theme composed by Bernard Herrmann. Also, Serling's eloquent prose describing the intent of the show. " There is a fifth dimension beyond what is known to man..." Brilliant!
This was The Golden Age of smoking. EVERY adult with an ounce of angst in any drama had smoking in it. The age of Mad Men. "Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Can I bum one?" Then a commercial break to remind you the show is brought to you by L&M, Winston, Chester Fields, Marlboro, Kool, etc. The great Rod Serling was never seen without one. He (like Walt Disney, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis, Jr., Yul Brenner, Dean Martin, others) was an intelligent man but was fully addicted to the tobacco habit and smoked himself right out of existence. My dad did also.
I have always been the biggest Twilight Zone fan (although the 2001 and 2022 series are such crapola), and it's wonderful to see these little factoids. This is really lotsa fun. Actually, the "goofs" in Where Is Everybody can be explained to a point: the issue is that Ferris ALMOST sees signs of life, but when he concentrates on them, they vanish. That works, right?
As for Mr Dingle, there's one "goof" that I noticed years ago: Pretty sure that the size of the bar keeps changing depending on which aliens are in the room. The barroom is a lot wider when the Martians are there than it is after they leave. And I'm pretty sure that back door where the Venusians appear isn't quite in the same location it was when the Martians entered at the beginning.
The aliens in To Serve Man have to duck because these are special cabins set aside for the smaller humans. So, naturally, the cabin doorway would be lower. Or maybe it's an issue of space - pun intended - after all, room inside a spaceship (the USS Enterprise notwithstanding) is at a premium, and the Kanamits are ferrying lots of humans to their homeworld....
I agree give me the originals anytime
With regards to the large block of concrete in Time Enough At Last, it's entirely possible that the concrete block could've been on top of some smaller blocks which would explain why it moved when touched. Impossible to lift, but possible to rock back and forth a little.
Maybe, I also kind of wondered if Burgess Meredith meant to fall over it like that, or did they just add it in after the fact.
@@tvcrazyman great video
@@tvcrazyman On purpose, otherwise they wouldn't have prepared it with all that chalk dust on top.
It's usually Eats... Gas
@@SL-vi4tk ' Not in MY twilight zone ' : Rod Serling, lol
In "Where is Everybody," one could infer that they might have been the Air Force Officers observing him.
Most pf the time the older actors playing younger characters is distracting but I would argue that "Perchance to Dream" is one where it actually works. Earlier in the episode he said that he hadn't slept in over 80 hours making almost four days. Plus, he is being haunted in his dreams by Maya and has a weakened heart condition. He would look weathered, haggard, and older looking from the stress.
Thanks for this. That mystery shadow on the bars in the first one was actually Holliman's cast by a spotlight on the right. But I like these technical errors in TV shows. They kind of comfort me. I guess the one that epitomizes this the most for me is in the Star Trek (original series) episode "All Our Yesterdays" where the "Atavachron" sends Kirk and Spock back in time to Earth in the 30's. When they materialize on Earth, it's right next to Floyd's Barber Shop in Mayberry! (You can see the painted name on the glass of the façade.) Almost all of these shows used the "back 40" lot in Culver City for their exteriors. Another example: You can see some props of Gomer Pyle USMC in shots from The Andy Griffith Show and Hogan's Heroes.
Thanks for commenting. I thought it was so cool to have Captain Kirk walk by Floyd's Barber Shop. Batman drove the Batmobile right past Gomer's barracks. I did a video about the Mayberry set and Gomer's you might like - ua-cam.com/video/Zf5s2wqRe5o/v-deo.htmlsi=OrvJPcxVFoXr43IR
In the episode Stopover in a Quiet Town, while they’re looking at the car with no engine there’s a lady in the background sitting on a bench eating.
In "Where is Everybody?" my simple guess is that the shadow is EH's own shadow cast by the lights to his left. He does back up from the door, and if the lights are just off camera, his shadow might move quickly at that angle. Again, it's only a guess.
I remember listening to "The Hitch Hiker" on an old time radio show, narrated by Orsen Wells. The main character was a male though. I checked now and see it was by Lucille Fletcher, first aired on radio Nov. 17, 1941.
When I first saw "Rip Van Winkel Caper," I thought the same thing about the oil and tires on that truck. And I wondered if all the skin and flesh of a body would be decomposed and completely gone as they showed it. Hadn't thought about the clothes. Good point.
Tvcrazyman I enjoy your material. Have a good one.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Absolutely spot on about that spooky Lee Marvin still in the graveyard. The Grave is my favorite episode.
Back in the early 1960s the connection between smoking a heart disease had not been proven enough. When it finally had been smoking on television was phased out.
The important thing to remember is the show was from the 60s. Televisions at the time didn’t have the resolution to clearly show the reflections and other tiny details.
We were just happy if the picture didn't start rolling. People had to do a lot of adjusting on their TVs back in the '50s and early '60s. I know, because I am 79 years old.
The creator of this video will be surprised to learn of a technology called "filmmaking". With that phenomenon The Twilight Zone did some exceptional stunts, like the reflections of ghosts in the windows, and changes in props and cars between takes. 😀
Great reporting on these hidden gems, thanks. And yes, I do believe that Rod Sterling expected you to find these so many years later 😀
Rod SERLING
@@dougpreis757 - Thanks for pointing me to my mistake.
It must have been a supernatural entity that made me put a T in Serling's name. The T of The Twilight Zone ... deedoodeedoo 😀
@@tubularap Which T though?
The Twilight Zone was filmed in the days before a connection was made between smoking and heart disease. Rod Serling ws a chain smoker and frequently had a cigarette when introducing the episodes. He died in his early 50s from a heart attack.
Why Alien had to duck to go thru doorway in their own spaceship...LOL
RICHARD KIEL IS A SWEETHEART!!
Rest In Peace
Night Call is my favorite TWilight Zone episode. I never noticed that reflection before. Interesting!!
Yep night call was really terrifying
The shadow in the jail cell was Earl Holloman’s own shadow.
0:50 In this episode the town is entirely imaginary. He is, in reality sitting alone in a small room, completely cut off from human contact.
As the town is imaginary logistical rules don't apply.
The town is the same set used in back to the future.
Also in the episode "The Hitch Hiker", the production crew removed the vent windows from the front doors, presumably for better filming. However this meant that the windows would have to stay down for the duration, since there would be a giant gap at the front where the vent window would be with the windows up.
Has anyone ever seen the movie CARNIVAL OF SOULS '62? It's almost the same story with another beautiful blonde.
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It reminds me of Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge. Another TZ episode.
It also is similar to The 6th Senece plot wise.
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a short story by Ambrose Bierce. When I first read it, I thought, 'wow, this could be a TZ episode.' of which I soon found out it was. Though I think it was produced by a French group and submitted to a contest conducted by Rod Serling.@@eddieboggs8306
@@eddieboggs8306 Afred Hitchcock what a similar puffed-up ep only with ghosts from his past coming back.
Also in her car, they removed the rear view mirror so it wouldn't pick up the camera man when filming from the back seat. I have noticed that in a lot of movies since ten.
Great job. I've seen these episodes 3 or 4 times so how did I miss these goofs?!
I'm glad you mentioned the age issue. It always bothered me hearing the age in the opening narration and then seeing the actor playing the character. Why not just give a realistic age for the character that matches the actor's real age or don't even mention the character's age at all? One of my favorite episodes, "Walking Distance", had the 36-year-old Martin Sloan played by 45-year-old Gig Young. It was a really good performance, but he did not look 36.
That episode is deliciously well done!!! And it always gets to me when Martin's mother, wrestling with the veracity of his story, slaps him. He has an extremely rapid and sad moment of contemplation for the assault, and then Martin is quickly off on his vital quest to counsel his younger self to enjoy his youth. That particular scene is just absolutely heartbreaking. The other superb scene is when older Martin receives his injury retroactively in conjunction with young Martin's fall during the pursuit, and they moan in synchronized agony. This TZ installment truly epitomizes the show's greatness.
Rod S. was about 36 at the time of filming so it was the story of his life in business. But I agree, that either they should have gotten a younger actor or made the character a decade older.
I recently watched a kind of spin off movie thing they did for the show Fear Of The Walking Dead, which is on board a submarine, and they acted like the main guy was some young guy in his 20a or something, and so the captain said something about the young guy reminded him of himself when he was his age, but I could tell the so called young guy wasn't young at all, and I even was pretty sure I knew him from an older show, but wasn't sure! Plus the captain didn't even look as old as the "young guy " did! So I looked them up, and found out the so called " Young Guy " was 42 and the captain was 32, when it was made, so they actually didn't seem to think anyone would notice that! They had the captain as the 40 something one instead, even though he didn't look old enough! But then the spin off movie wasn't very good all away around, since they had men with hair that was way too long and one even had dreads, lol! More like a parody, then a spin off, lol!
I think the "30-something" age is used because for most men, including myself, that's when life (family, job, bills, marital issues, etc) really starts to weigh heavy on you, and and you begin entertaining thoughts of escaping to a simpler past, or you begin wondering if you're losing a bit of your sanity. I miss my younger days but I really would not want to repeat my 30s.
If you want to talk about age, what about the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance? Jimmy Stewart was supposed to be a young feller right out of law school, and it would have made sense for the John Wayne character to be the same age. 25 maybe?
“To Serve Man” was the best of all IMHO. As all the Earth people were getting into the spaceship, it’s discovered the book “To Serve Man” the aliens gave to Earth officials, wasn’t a peace offering……….it’s a cookbook!
You do an excellent job in pointing out the "goofs" in the TZ episodes. I understand nowadays movies and TV have people assigned for "continuity integrity" so when a scene is cut, the staging remains the same to avoid the "goofs". I agree with the comments that Serling's genius and stories in the TZ were captivating to me as a kid growing up.
The 'small town' is the same town 'set' that was used for ' Back to the Future'.
That's one of the negative things about restorations of classic movies or TV shows, it sometimes makes goofs, prosthetics, or backdrops more visible & obvious, things that the creators would've done a better job of concealing had they known advances in technology would aid in clarifying such things, next time you watch episodes of "Bonanza", don't look too far beyond the Ponderosa!
LOL, Earl Holliman is in Mayberry!
And Hill Valley from "Back to the Future."
@@mrcydonia, the ONLY Twilight Zone episode filmed in Universal Studios! All the rest were produced in MGM with the notable exception of "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" which was imported from France
Rod Serling is from my hometown. (Binghamton, NY) Met him several times when he came to speech at my high school. We both went to Binghamton Central. Cool guy.
That's awesome! I would have loved to have met Rod Serling. I would love to know what his secret was for coming up with such interesting stories the way he did.
He was a pretty cool guy. About 5 feet nothing and chained smoked. Of course the last time I saw him I didn't know that he soon would be gone. I just found out that he wrote some of the screenplay for the original Planet of the Apes.@@tvcrazyman
Planet of the Apes is another favorite of mine. I've seen that movie a million times.@@cordiscoscorner
I have the DVD box set of the entire series, and I've enjoyed this wonderful television show over and over. I never noticed some of these goofs before, although the boo-boos in Eye of the Beholder didn't escape me. But it also occurred to me that when these episodes were originally aired, TV screens were much smaller than the flat-screen monsters we all have now, and they certainly weren't High Def, either! So a lot of stuff was able to fly under the radar. As an example, just look at the make-up job done on Ivan Dixon in The Big, Tall Wish. Those bumps and scars added to his face to make him appear a battle-weary prizefighter look like they're blobs of Silly Putty.
I love the show too. I've got the whole original series, the 80's version, and the early 2000's version. I love anthology series in general. Of course, nothing beats the original series. Rod Serling was a genius although Night Gallery wasn't as good to me. It is entertaining, but then again I might be prejudice against Night Gallery because it scared me to death when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure Rod had less to do with that series though, behind the scenes.
@@tvcrazyman I think Night Gallery was green-lit with the understanding that it would be more of a "monster" show, rather than the more subtle mind-bending fantasy with social commentary buried in it that TZ was. The concept of the Twilight Zone is not understood by everyone. That's my problem with some of the scripts from the 80s reboot. They miss the idea that it's the unknown working on you which you can't explain to anyone else.
@@davidwalter2002 There were episodes of the 80's reboot that were great and some not so great. It was a little up and down I guess. I love the ones with time travel like the Elvis episode and the JFK episode.
@@tvcrazyman Good point. And, of course, the original Zone series had its share of occasional stinkers, too. One episode from the 80s that I really like is the one with Bruce Willis, where he has a doppelgänger and eventually fades away himself. That was as creepy and thought-provoking as anything from the original.
@@davidwalter2002 I forgot about that one. That was before Willis really got his career going with Moonlighting. Great episode.
I remember how the actors in “The Grave” had way too much fun pronouncing that name, “eye-own”.
I enjoyed your video, I did catch on my own the obvious one in the western episode with the towers or oil rigs up on the hill in the opening scene. Now I will have to try to spot the other goofs you brought to our attention.
I like how you did that, especially in the one with guy in the town that thinks he might be the only person alive, it reminded me of how I reacted watching newer show called Fringe, where the main character Olivia Dunham ( played by actress Anna Torv ) was examining a dead woman's hand, and the fingers on the hand moved, I said " oh look she brought the woman back to life with just her touch " lol! Because in the show the character Olivia Dunham has some powers, because of a drug she was given as a kid, so I was like implying she had the power to bring people back from the dead now, lol! I had to say it as a friend and I were watching it, and though I had watched the show before, I hadn't noticed that little goof, until then, so I made a joke of it!
Thanks for the Blast 💥 from the Past 😂
Sharp eyes! Yes, every male in TZ seems to be 35 played by someone 53, down on his luck, renting a room from an old woman, and regardless of such circumstances....always well-dressed in a suit and tie.
I love your attempts to explain away prop and blocking mistakes within the concept of the show.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
another great show this show is awesome love learning these goofs and facts
THANK YOU....sooooo much!!!!!! That was sooooooo entertaining!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve been binge watching your videos keep up the great work I really enjoyed them
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Submitted for your approval: Awesome! More TZ! Thanks for these great vids.
Glad you like them!
. Wow thank you for bringing us Twilight Zone this is the greatest of greats of TV I doubt they cared much about Reflections due to the TV's back in the fifties and sixties love your Channel and love your content.
Thank you very much
The original series with Rod Serling are so classic and the ones I watched as a kid... unfortunately Rod smoked cigarettes incessantly like lots of men did then and
died from cancer ...but ,maybe...he's in the zone?
Rod Serling died from a heart attack, not cancer.
This was fun to watch!
The only correction I would make is with the Earl Holliman scene. It’s his shadow on the jail bars moving.
Twilight Zone goofs?! Noooooooo not Twilight Zone lol
The best series ever, flaws just add an Easter egg hunt.
As usual a brilliant job ...very estate my friend...l enjoyed this immensely
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This is very interesting, thank you! I love the Twilight Zone, warts and all!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I think that the time, and effort it must take to discover all of these gems just has to be a labor of love for you. I can hear in your voice how much you really dig these old shows. I actually do also believe that you caught many of these bloopers in real time when you first saw them as a kid. I know you must be far too young to have seen many of these when they first came out though. I'd like to thank you so much for compiling this selection. Extremely fun. 👍
Thanks, I think I first saw the Twilight Zone in the early 80's maybe, once my parents got cable, I think.
Nice collage. Thank you.
Richard Conte,
pronounced CON-tee👍
My grandfather used to watch that all the time I can't remember but it's been a long time
This was really really good. I'm a new Fan
between 6:20 and 6:40 car gets bumper removed , and protective device installed on front .
Excellent
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My favorite blooper is in Attack of the 50-foot Woman: the alien picks up a 1957 Plymouth station wagon and drops a 1950 or so Chevrolet woody.
Lmao
i never noticed any lf these but its ok cuz twilight zone will always be awsome no matter any "goofs" thank you for posting this
I always love Night Call as a kid in the early 70s but yet it gave me the creeps
Some of those Night Gallery episodes still creep me out.
Wow! So mysterious!
On every film set there are numerous "crew" members. They are supposed to stay out of the shot. This doesn't always happen. Especially if one of the crew members was required to move a jail cell door to make it seem like it was moving by itself.
In the "Rip Van Winkle Caper" not only are the clothes missing but the skeleton "Herbie" was a crude model that even seen on a 60s B&W tv would appear fake.
One of my favorite episodes, The Invaders, has a favorite goof. Agnes Moorehead plays a poor woman on a farm who has to do all of her own chores and work, but when she starts to go up the ladder, she puts her hand on it. This poor hard working woman has long, perfectly manicured nails!
For shame, the little astronaut used his ray to trim and make them look nice; she didn't realize that he wanted money for doing her nails!
In the episode The Hitch-hiker, the license plate (2D7876) is the same plate number as the Corvette in seasons 1 and 2 of Route 66.
Mr. Denton on Doomsday - I thought it was hilarious that they didn't know through rehearsals and camera set up that the oil rigs in the background would be in the scene. I often wondered if the set director was called on the carpet for that big goof! That like not noticing a 747-flying overhead! (Which happened during a scene on The Waltons, but they caught that blooper.
Earl ought to watch out for flying Delorians.
Great videos from a choice series. Thank you.
Glad you like them!
The tobacco companies at this time still had a lot of influence in movies and TV. They were still campaigning heavily to cover up the health effects of smoking, insisting that it was healthy.
I think sometimes film makers found was around this. In the Day the Earth Stood Still a doctor and another character are discussing Klaatu's youthful appearance and the long life spans of his people has already established he does not smoke.
As he is handing the other a cigarette one of them says, "I wonder how they (live so long)."
This must have been done deliberately. It amazes me the tabaco companies who sponsored the movie didn't demand the scene be removed.
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I don't think the medical consensus that smoking was unhealthy had been reached at that time.
I know I've heard some old shows talk about smoking as bad for your health, but I can't remember which ones at the moment. They definitely weren't as aware of the negative effects as today I guess.
This is an excellent video.
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I like watching the background on second viewing, in the "Omega Man", deserted world in one scene climbing a hill in the background is, I presume, an Interstate Highway with lots of traffic.
I like these videos. And love your commentary..✌️
Thank you so much 😀
Many of those goofs are what my dad would call "contanudity" problems.
I'd cut "Where is Everybody?" some slack. It was the pilot after all. Also, Earl Holliman is well known for being the alcoholic cook in "Forbidden Planet."
In "Perchance to Dream," the connection between smoking and heart disease was not well established, and really not in the public consciousness at all. Also, the mistake of the lady putting her hand through the door where glass should be happens more than you might think, even to the greats. In Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" the main character drives a Triumph TR-3, which is a quite small open roadster. In one scene, an actress was having some trouble getting out of it, and rather than placing her hand the usual way on top of the windshield frame for support, she puts her hand through the windshield (space) and wraps her hand around the frame from underneath!
Shooting glassless frames was done to hold down reflections, and help keep You Tubers from making snarky videos about them half a century later 🙂
Is that where THE GALLOPING Gourmet got his drinking addiction? LOL!
It's a great show, I still watch it 😊
"Where is Everybody" the actor is suposed to be completely alone in the world, as if he was the last man on Earth....him, as well as, I guess, people from the filming staff who could be easily reflected on the windows? lol
No ghosts here :P
Back in those days with B&W TV's that looked terrible I'm sure no one noticed.
I had glasses I used that came apart.And say, it not fair I had time.
In "Little Girl Lost" the physicist pulls the father out of the wall and tells him that he had his hand the whole time. But earlier when the father disappears into the wall, he completely disappeared, hand and all. Rod Serling was way ahead of his time. He really had trouble with man's inhumanity to man. The present-day world would bother him a lot.
In the two shows with William Shatner, they could not have picked a better leading man.
Shatner has always been a favorite actor of mine. I loved the TJ Hooker cop show too when I was a kid, and his performances on the Twilight Zone definitely should have gotten him a Emmy.
I love your Ellie Mae theory. But do not worry...Granny whopped them all at the end...or in the end. 😂
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"Perchance to Dream" an old army doctor, in 1972 or 1973 (I worked for the janitorial company that cleaned his office after I got out of classes in high school was over evenings) would be finishing up his patients charts occasionally, puffing on a cigar!
He said that cigar smokers developed mouth cancer, rather than lung cancer!
Almost every adult I remember back then smoked, so why should a guy who has heart problems!
Also, Richard (Thomas) Conte was a great actor: I have seen many of the films he made!
To Serve Man: No problem with tall alien having to stoop through a doorway on his own ship. Every sailor has to stoop to go through doorways on their own submarines.
My father had like 5 heart attacks. Still Smoked. Hell he was smoking on the steps, waiting for the ambulance to come take him to hospital haha
#Tvcrazyman: Boy, do I got a good one for you.
You pointed out an interesting goof in TIME ENOUGH AT LAST, my all-time favorite episode. Yet, there's an even bigger goof in the final shot. When Burgess starts crying after.... SPOILER ALERT.... his glasses break, we get a great pan-out of him struggling on the Library staircase. Unfortunately, the series cinematographer George T. Clemens might have missed a gaff as the camera stops the pan-out.
Look at the upper portion of the frame... yup. You can actually see the MGM Backlot in frame just above the library ruins. Have fun freeze-framing the shot...😂❤
great video, however when you mentioned the man with the heart condition who still smoked, this episode was a few years before the surgeon general's warnings on cigarettes.
Professor Fowler is played by Donald Pleasance. I don’t know a lot about his early career, but I remember watching Halloween on my parents’ VCR, and my dad said, “Oh! That’s Donald Pleasance! This is what he’s doing now?!” I still don’t know what he meant by that, but he probably meant it was a step down. He was raised to look down at horror. I think it’s a neat through-line that Michael Myers’s doctor was in the Twilight Zone.
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The man eating aliens looked like the martians helping Dingle
The last one is not a mistake. He is wearing reading glasses. When he goes to the window he takes them off. Slow down the video and watch his right hand as he waves hello; he's holding them. Also when he turns around and looks back at the women he's wearing them low and looking above the frame indicating that they are reading glasses.
5:53, I remember this moment when the girl switched to a guy and laughed but thought - oh well, what am I really going to do about it? Nothing because it's already been produced and completed! 😊
Interesting and well done video. However, if we had a dime for every time there was a car switch in a movie or TV show......
Keep in mind the quality of broadcast television during that period of time. Because these episodes were produced on film, it was expected that the higher details would not be visible on television, but would eventually be seen in higher resolution media. SO what we have here are not mistakes, but easter eggs that lend to an even stranger storyline.
I do think a lot of these mistakes could be seen as a part of the story itself which I guess would make them not mistakes, but still fun to look at.😀