I hope you all enjoy this look at interesting facts from the Twilight Zone. I didn't know until I came across it last week that the first episode of the Twilight Zone and Back to the Future were filmed in the same location.
Both Zone and Back to the Future were mostly filmed on the MGM lot, and MGM kept EVERYTHING ... at least until they sold off the backlot in the 70s. But that town square was around for a very long time. Nearly all the spacesuits used on Twilight Zone came from Forbidden Planet, along with the flying saucer. And, of course, Robby the Robot made appearances in two Zone episodes. We also saw Robby's fancy car, which appeared in The Rip Van Winkle Caper (with the front section moved to the rear). It didn't actually drive particularly well, so that's why we never saw it actually move in the episode.
I was a preteen when "Twilight Zone" was on the air, and I believe it was on Friday nights between 9:00 and 9:30 p.m. (or it could have been on a little bit earlier); anyway, it was an exciting show to look forward to seeing each week. Thank you for highlighting some of the interesting aspects of this television show. One correction I would like to point out to you is that Olan Soule's last name is phonetically pronounced "sue lay," as two (2) syllables. An aside: Mr. Soule stayed busy as a character actor, and one place you can see him is in some of Jack Webb's "Dragnet" TV shows from the 1950s.
She was in more than two episodes of Sanford and Son, where she played Fred's girlfriend Donna, and she was also in an episode of Good Times, where she played the mother of a gang leader named Mad Dog, who shot J.J.. I'll never forget the scene where she told Mad Dog that she hated him and she sometimes wished he had never been born.
You really know your Batman facts. Good job on this. I would suggest one more coincidence between "Caesar and Me" and Batman: The actor Caesar Romero played the Joker in the series.
@Tvcrazyman. FYI, you might be interested to know, just as Star Trek later had, had 2 piolet episodes. I read it in a book I highly recommend to all Twilight Zone fans, "The Twilight Zone Companion, before the Twilight Zone Episode, where is everybody, Rod Serling wrote an episode for Playhouse 90, called "The Time Element." It starred William Bendix, as a man whom was living @ Pearl Harbor on 12/6/41 whom knew of the upcoming attack, and tried to warn everyone living @ Pearl Harbor of the upcoming attack, but no one believed him. It was very well done! Thanks for the video, it was very educational & entertaining!😀😁
Wasn't Ivan Dixon also the pastor in the episode I am the night, color me black. When daylight didn't come for the town that was going to hang a prisoner? Also staring Goober from Andy Griffith and the Marshell from the Rifleman?
I'm glad you pointed out the two Russell Johnson time-travel episodes and the 1920's scene in "A Kind Of A Stopwatch". Those are two that I've always noticed. Here's a coincidence for you: Don Gordon, who played in "The Four Of Us Are Dying" and "The Self-Improvement Of Salvadore Ross" ended both of the episodes he was in by being shot and killed by an old man.
Burgess Meredith appeared in two Twilight Zone episodes where he played characters whose life revolved around books. In "Time Enough at Last" he played Henry Bemis, whose favorite hobby was reading, and in "The Obsolete Man", he played Romney Wordsworth, a librarian.. Claude Akins starred in the episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" about a group of townspeople driven to paranoia and madness by an alien invasion, and Joe Maross starred in the episode "Third from the Sun" where he and Fritz Weaver plan to leave their home planet that is doomed to destruction for another planet, which turned out to be Earth. Both Akins and Maross starred in the episode "The Little People"as astronauts who crash land on an asteroid where they encounter a race of tiny humans. All three episodes. "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (Starring Claude Akins), "Third from the Sun" (Starring Joe Maross) and "The Little People" (Starring Akins and Maross) dealt with aliens or space travel.
It's also crazy how many Star Trek alumni either starred or guest-starred on Columbo! To name a few: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig, Ricardo Montalbon, Marriette Hartley..... and more if I had to think about it.
CAESAR was called CAESAR as a tribute to gangster Little CAESAR played by Edward G. Robinson who also made a guest star appearance on Batman at a window as the caped crusaders are climbing.
I just recently watched your last video on the Twilight Zone, but the most shocking now is that the first episode, which I remember as one of my favorites from the show, that the town they used was the same one used in the Back To The Future movies, I would have figured they would have used some town built on the studio backlot or something, lol! Not a real town, but also the fact that Back To The Future used it too, I wonder if the producers of the movie chose the town because it was used in the Twilight Zone! If not what a real coincidence that was! And I don't how you manage to find all these goofs and other strange things about all these shows, it must take hours and hours of going through different old shows, to find all these goofs and spot all the big stars who appeared in the shows, before they were big stars!
Hope no one was on the outside of William Shanter's window when he really went into space. The stopping time bit, has been done a few times, remember one called The Magic Boomerang, but footage is hard to come by now. In it a boy throws the boomerang and time stops, although you can tell it's film footage. The one with the ventriloquist's dummy coming alive reminds me of Magic. Wonder if it inspired it?
Another connection with Bewitched: William Froug, who produced the 5th season of Twilight Zone ... also produced Bewitched. Bill Mumy, 4-time visitor to the Zone, also appeared once on Bewitched ... as a child version of Darrin when Endora makes him younger. Jack Warden starred in two Zone episodes, and both focused on robots! (The Mighty Casey and The Lonely.) Of course, he wasn't intended to appear in Casey since originally Paul Douglas was cast in the role, but Douglas was in very bad health during filming - he died before the episode aired - and since it was far too obvious on camera, they refilmed most of his scenes with Warden. There are a few long shots with Douglas left in the final episode - most prominently, the closing sequence where his character runs after Casey's creator (it's not Warden since he had shattered his leg during WW2, which made running very difficult for him). Regarding A Kind of a Stopwatch, when McNulty starts testing the watch, this section is full of odd stock footage choices, even using a barnstorming scene that's been around since the silent era! And remember, McNulty is in his apartment triggering the watch, so he can't actually see ANY of these timestops. Also, they filmed the closeups of the watch after filming the episode itself, and supposedly no one could find the watch they used in the episode. So, that's a completely different watch used in the closeups.
As Will Robinson in Lost in Space,_ Billy Mumy had a costar who also appeared on _TZ_ episodes: Jonathan Harris ("Dr. Zachary Smith") as a hospital doctor in "Twenty-Two", and a member of the gentleman's club in "The Silence". Another bit of interesting trivia is to observe the cast members of "The Grave", who also appeared in _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance:_ Lee Marvin, Strother Martin and Lee Van Cleef. The film was released six months after the episode with Marvin as the lead villain and Martin & Van Cleef as his henchmen.
Billy Mumy also played Dr. RICHARD KIMBALLS nephew in an episode of the greatest TV drama in history. The Fugitive. That show has a lot of future stars in it as well. What is amazing is Barry Morse spoke with a heavy British accent as that's where he was from. Yet on the Fugitive he talks as American as apple pie.
Many of the actors that starred in Twilight Zone have also starred in One Step Beyond. Both of these shows are among my favorite shows of all time, along with Star Trek!
Actor Albert Salami played a murderer in the episode execution, in real life Salami murderered his wife then killed himself. Now that's a real Twilight Zone.
Here are ideas in this vein of you want to do a deeper dive into this theme, besides just casting coincidences: Star Trek's first pilot was an adaptation of the TZ episode "People are Alike All Over" with Susan Oliver and Roddy McDowell. Charlie X is obviously Billy Mumy character, but found as a teenager. Strange New World's last episode is filmed on the same main street lot as "Where is Everyone?" and every other TZ town, which is being visited by the *USS Cayuga* . Cayuga Productions made TZ. "The Great Big Wish" was adapted into a "The Waltons" episode in the mid 70s with Clevon Little and was directed by Ivan Dixon. Every senior cast member on ST was in Bonanza Both Barrett and Nimoy were in an episode of The Lieutenant as was Nichols and her co guest star who were both in ST. Shatner and Doohan were in a low budget Canadian sci fi series in the 50s. Piece of the Action was a parody script of Desilu's "The Untouchables" using the same sets, costumes and cars...as well as actors that played gangsters on the series that wrapped just before ST aired. Oh and Elizabeth Montgomery and White were in an episode of The Untouchables together where she played a club dancer and ended up in Larry Tate's lap
I hope you all enjoy this look at interesting facts from the Twilight Zone. I didn't know until I came across it last week that the first episode of the Twilight Zone and Back to the Future were filmed in the same location.
Both Zone and Back to the Future were mostly filmed on the MGM lot, and MGM kept EVERYTHING ... at least until they sold off the backlot in the 70s. But that town square was around for a very long time.
Nearly all the spacesuits used on Twilight Zone came from Forbidden Planet, along with the flying saucer. And, of course, Robby the Robot made appearances in two Zone episodes. We also saw Robby's fancy car, which appeared in The Rip Van Winkle Caper (with the front section moved to the rear). It didn't actually drive particularly well, so that's why we never saw it actually move in the episode.
I definitely enjoyed this.. Keep up the good work.. Thanks much..
Caesar as in Caesar romero....joker in Batman.
6:10 Charles Bronson was very tough. he didn't even flinch when the frying pan hit his wrists.
I was a preteen when "Twilight Zone" was on the air, and I believe it was on Friday nights between 9:00 and 9:30 p.m. (or it could have been on a little bit earlier); anyway, it was an exciting show to look forward to seeing each week. Thank you for highlighting some of the interesting aspects of this television show. One correction I would like to point out to you is that Olan Soule's last name is phonetically pronounced "sue lay," as two (2) syllables. An aside: Mr. Soule stayed busy as a character actor, and one place you can see him is in some of Jack Webb's "Dragnet" TV shows from the 1950s.
Wow, Kim Hamilton appeared on Sanford and son at least twice
She was in more than two episodes of Sanford and Son, where she played Fred's girlfriend Donna, and she was also in an episode of Good Times, where she played the mother of a gang leader named Mad Dog, who shot J.J.. I'll never forget the scene where she told Mad Dog that she hated him and she sometimes wished he had never been born.
@@j.woodbury412 You mean Lynn Hamilton
@@wb3381 Yeah, you're right. My mistake.
You really know your Batman facts. Good job on this. I would suggest one more coincidence between "Caesar and Me" and Batman: The actor Caesar Romero played the Joker in the series.
@Tvcrazyman. FYI, you might be interested to know, just as Star Trek later had, had 2 piolet episodes. I read it in a book I highly recommend to all Twilight Zone fans, "The Twilight Zone Companion, before the Twilight Zone Episode, where is everybody, Rod Serling wrote an episode for Playhouse 90, called "The Time Element." It starred William Bendix, as a man whom was living @ Pearl Harbor on 12/6/41 whom knew of the upcoming attack, and tried to warn everyone living @ Pearl Harbor of the upcoming attack, but no one believed him. It was very well done! Thanks for the video, it was very educational & entertaining!😀😁
Thanks, I think I saw "The Time Element" on youtube last year or so ago. It was pretty good.
Wasn't Ivan Dixon also the pastor in the episode I am the night, color me black. When daylight didn't come for the town that was going to hang a prisoner? Also staring Goober from Andy Griffith and the Marshell from the Rifleman?
Yep, you are correct.
I'm glad you pointed out the two Russell Johnson time-travel episodes and the 1920's scene in "A Kind Of A Stopwatch". Those are two that I've always noticed. Here's a coincidence for you: Don Gordon, who played in "The Four Of Us Are Dying" and "The Self-Improvement Of Salvadore Ross" ended both of the episodes he was in by being shot and killed by an old man.
Burgess Meredith appeared in two Twilight Zone episodes where he played characters whose life revolved around books. In "Time Enough at Last" he played Henry Bemis, whose favorite hobby was reading, and in "The Obsolete Man", he played Romney Wordsworth, a librarian..
Claude Akins starred in the episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" about a group of townspeople driven to paranoia and madness by an alien invasion, and Joe Maross starred in the episode "Third from the Sun" where he and Fritz Weaver plan to leave their home planet that is doomed to destruction for another planet, which turned out to be Earth. Both Akins and Maross starred in the episode "The Little People"as astronauts who crash land on an asteroid where they encounter a race of tiny humans. All three episodes. "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (Starring Claude Akins), "Third from the Sun" (Starring Joe Maross) and "The Little People" (Starring Akins and Maross) dealt with aliens or space travel.
@@j.woodbury412 Good catch! I hadn't thought about those episodes.
@@oldschoolsinger Thank you! I could say the same about your comment on the two Don Gordon episodes.
It's also crazy how many Star Trek alumni either starred or guest-starred on Columbo! To name a few:
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig, Ricardo Montalbon, Marriette Hartley..... and more if I had to think about it.
CAESAR was called CAESAR as a tribute to gangster Little CAESAR played by Edward G. Robinson who also made a guest star appearance on Batman at a window as the caped crusaders are climbing.
I just recently watched your last video on the Twilight Zone, but the most shocking now is that the first episode, which I remember as one of my favorites from the show, that the town they used was the same one used in the Back To The Future movies, I would have figured they would have used some town built on the studio backlot or something, lol! Not a real town, but also the fact that Back To The Future used it too, I wonder if the producers of the movie chose the town because it was used in the Twilight Zone! If not what a real coincidence that was!
And I don't how you manage to find all these goofs and other strange things about all these shows, it must take hours and hours of going through different old shows, to find all these goofs and spot all the big stars who appeared in the shows, before they were big stars!
Thanks. It does take some time watching shows and researching.
Just stumbled on your channel, and I’m so glad I did! Great content👍🏻
Awesome! Thank you!
Hope no one was on the outside of William Shanter's window when he really went into space.
The stopping time bit, has been done a few times, remember one called The Magic Boomerang, but footage is hard to come by now. In it a boy throws the boomerang and time stops, although you can tell it's film footage.
The one with the ventriloquist's dummy coming alive reminds me of Magic. Wonder if it inspired it?
Another really enjoyable video. Good work👍
Thanks
Wow, just found out that famous episode of the Twilight Zone starred William Shatner.
Aww! You didn't mention the episode David "Larry Tate" White was in - "I Sing the Body Electric"! Very sad episode!
Awesome video loving this man
Appreciate it
Another top video as always bud 😀
Thank you very much!
Another connection with Bewitched: William Froug, who produced the 5th season of Twilight Zone ... also produced Bewitched. Bill Mumy, 4-time visitor to the Zone, also appeared once on Bewitched ... as a child version of Darrin when Endora makes him younger.
Jack Warden starred in two Zone episodes, and both focused on robots! (The Mighty Casey and The Lonely.) Of course, he wasn't intended to appear in Casey since originally Paul Douglas was cast in the role, but Douglas was in very bad health during filming - he died before the episode aired - and since it was far too obvious on camera, they refilmed most of his scenes with Warden. There are a few long shots with Douglas left in the final episode - most prominently, the closing sequence where his character runs after Casey's creator (it's not Warden since he had shattered his leg during WW2, which made running very difficult for him).
Regarding A Kind of a Stopwatch, when McNulty starts testing the watch, this section is full of odd stock footage choices, even using a barnstorming scene that's been around since the silent era! And remember, McNulty is in his apartment triggering the watch, so he can't actually see ANY of these timestops. Also, they filmed the closeups of the watch after filming the episode itself, and supposedly no one could find the watch they used in the episode. So, that's a completely different watch used in the closeups.
As Will Robinson in Lost in Space,_ Billy Mumy had a costar who also appeared on _TZ_ episodes: Jonathan Harris ("Dr. Zachary Smith") as a hospital doctor in "Twenty-Two", and a member of the gentleman's club in "The Silence".
Another bit of interesting trivia is to observe the cast members of "The Grave", who also appeared in _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance:_ Lee Marvin, Strother Martin and Lee Van Cleef. The film was released six months after the episode with Marvin as the lead villain and Martin & Van Cleef as his henchmen.
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I learn so many interesting facts everytime I watch one of your videos. Keep up the great work
Awesome, thank you!
It's A Good Life episode with Billy Mumy was epic.
I have to admit when I was a kid that one freaked me out really bad for some reason.
@@tvcrazyman Agreed. The way in which Billy Mumy turned that guy into a Jack n the Box was horrific
Billy Mumy said his mother drove him to the studio for that episode and he was pretending to change the traffic lights on the way.
That's funny. 😀@@vincentschmitt7597
Billy Mumy also played Dr. RICHARD KIMBALLS nephew in an episode of the greatest TV drama in history. The Fugitive. That show has a lot of future stars in it as well. What is amazing is Barry Morse spoke with a heavy British accent as that's where he was from. Yet on the Fugitive he talks as American as apple pie.
Many of the actors that starred in Twilight Zone have also starred in One Step Beyond. Both of these shows are among my favorite shows of all time, along with Star Trek!
355. "Im tellin you right now...."
I shot sn arrow into the air....
Actor Albert Salami played a murderer in the episode execution, in real life Salami murderered his wife then killed himself. Now that's a real Twilight Zone.
Here are ideas in this vein of you want to do a deeper dive into this theme, besides just casting coincidences:
Star Trek's first pilot was an adaptation of the TZ episode "People are Alike All Over" with Susan Oliver and Roddy McDowell.
Charlie X is obviously Billy Mumy character, but found as a teenager.
Strange New World's last episode is filmed on the same main street lot as "Where is Everyone?" and every other TZ town, which is being visited by the *USS Cayuga* . Cayuga Productions made TZ.
"The Great Big Wish" was adapted into a "The Waltons" episode in the mid 70s with Clevon Little and was directed by Ivan Dixon.
Every senior cast member on ST was in Bonanza
Both Barrett and Nimoy were in an episode of The Lieutenant as was Nichols and her co guest star who were both in ST.
Shatner and Doohan were in a low budget Canadian sci fi series in the 50s.
Piece of the Action was a parody script of Desilu's "The Untouchables" using the same sets, costumes and cars...as well as actors that played gangsters on the series that wrapped just before ST aired.
Oh and Elizabeth Montgomery and White were in an episode of The Untouchables together where she played a club dancer and ended up in Larry Tate's lap
interesting stuff! Thanks for the info. 😀
Character actor Olan Soule's last name is pronounced as two syllables: "Sou-lay."
It sounds like you're saying "The Twilo Zone", from The Dick Van Dyke Show "It May Look Like A Walnut".
Hmmm.. I don't know what to say about that. That was a good episode though. I do love the Dick Van Dyke show.
We know all these people we’re not famous yet and they probably needed to work. That’s why you see a lot of the different episodes they needed a job.
James Doohan was also in that one with the concentration camp.
Deaths head revisited
"Fake Darin"??? Please explain.
As not being the original actor to play Darin.
After Dick York left the show, Dick Sargent took over the role of Darrin.
1:47 Farther refers to physical distance. Further refers to time distance.