Robert Duvall's performance in "Miniature" was really remarkable, especially given the fact that it was one of his earliest TV or movie acting jobs. He was 31 years old and his ability to underplay a part to perfection in "Miniature" is tantamount to the performance he gave as "Boo Radley" in "To Kill a Mockingbird" the previous year. He's never been out of work and is still performing to this day (2022) at 91 years of age!
I saw it quite by accident. Really a great piece of work and needed the hour-long format to make it work And though the ending may "seem" obvious it isn't really at all
Every role is played he was good. Even the minor ones. The confused and scarred soldier in Captain Newman, the cab driver in Bullet, the gun range owner in Jack Reacher. However he will always be remembered as Lt. Col. Kilgore. A part that he played so well that he owns it.
@@garfieldsmith332 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like... victory!" Few remember his utopian role in THX 1138, which I saw on a 180° CINERAMA screen. A stellar performance!
I remember seeing The Encounter when it was finally aired. I thought it was really intense and couldn't imagine how it would have gone down in 1960s America. I later learned a few years later that Rod Serling served in the Philippines during the war and saw a lot of bad s**t go down. It had a profound impact on his life. I would invite anyone reading my comments to look up old interviews that Rod conducted in the 60s and 70s, he had a lot of amazing insight on race relations and American society at the time. He was truly an American treasure.
Can’t believe it was almost cancelled before season 5. People back then probably were ignorant about how good the show was lol it’s had a major impact in terms of the media we consume. It’s referenced a lot in other movies/shows and still influences works today
Thank God the TZ wasn't cancelled after 3 seasons! There are great episodes in seasons 4 & 5. I bought the box set here in Australia with all 156 episodes about 5 years ago. I didn't care much for "The sounds and silences' or 'The encounter' 'A short drink from a certain fountain ' was very entertaining. 'Miniature ' is one of my top 10 episodes, love Robert Duvall the lead
As a WWII history buff, while the Encounter is a great episode (George Takei grew up in one of the internment camps) my favorite episode is Death's Head Revisited. I quote the final narration all the time when people talk about why should we study history in general and the Holocaust specifically, since history has a cyclical pattern. Rod knew what he was doing with that episode since he saw the camps firsthand in the war.
Yes, it’s a shame it wasn’t as good as Deaths Head. Even with Neville Brand in the lead role, who was one of the most decorated soldiers of world war 2, it still was clearly inferior to many other episodes.
I love Death's Head Revisited also. One of the greatest qualities of the Twilight Zone was its ability to take a controversial subject that most likely couldn't have been shown as straight drama on Sixties T.V. and dealing with it through the use of fantasy. Rod Serling was a genius at doing that.
‘Death’s Head’ is brilliant but it has a fatal flaw - that was entirely intentional: not once was it mentioned that the Jews were by far and away the primary victims of the Holocaust. This was standard in Hollywood, where a huge share of the writers - including Rod Serling himself - were Jewish, not to mention the heads of studios, producers, directors. And that was precisely the reason you rarely heard even an obviously Jewish character described as Jewish. Rod rectified things in the first episode of “Night Gallery,” about a Nazi war criminal running scared in South America. There Jews were referred to as Jews. I suspect that in “Death’s Head,” the decision to avoid mentioning the primary victims, to avoid the Nazi ever expressing his anti-Semitism was the network’s, not Rod’s. Maybe the best example of Hollywood people being afraid of their own Jewish shadow was the film ‘Marty.׳ Originally, Paddy Chayefsky had Marty as Jewish butcher from the Bronx, not an Italian. Self-loathing, insecurity, box office considerations? A little of all three, I’d guess, and I’m referring to the studios, not Rod or Chayefsky.
@@haroldsteinblatt2567 Yes. I know what you're talking about. There was an hour long Twilight Zone episode called "He's Alive" , that starred Dennis Hopper as a White Supremacist being guided by a shadowy figure that turns out to be Adolf Hitler. Hopper's character rants about "foreigners" and people who are "not real Americans". An elderly man who had known Hopper's character since he was a boy , challenges him about his beliefs and the man is obviously Jewish , but no particular ethnicity is ever mentioned in the episode. Again , probably a network decision rather than Rod Serling's. All that being said , it was still a very effective episode and the parallels to a lot of what's going on today are chilling.
I have seen these episodes and they are among my favorites. My absolute favorite is still Long Distance Call. I think this could be remade with the child receiving a toy cellphone from his grandma.
A similar TZ episode, and a favorite of mine is Night Call where an elderly woman receives calls in the middle of a stormy night from her dead fiancée. Very creepy episode.
When my Granddaughter was 1 she received three phones from different people. Original 1960s rotary "Phoney", the 70s touch tone FP phone and a toy tpuchscreen smartphone. We called it baby call center. Always thought of the Billy Mumy TZ episode when I saw her playing with them
I too, have seen all of these episodes, and granted, none of them are in my personal 'Top 10' episodes of TZ. My all-time best? 'Will the Real Martian Please, Stand Up'
Robert Duval is such a good actor. I know his career was by no means bad, but I wish we had more of him in lead rolls, he had so much range and was able to so realistically convey his internal emotional space without seeming emotional in character. Just amazing, it's hard to say he's underrated with how well respected he is, but I wish we had more of his work.
What gets me, is that for years when stations had special "uncut marathons", this was based on the syndicated package, where the episodes as presented had actually been edited when the package was created. So the PR was misleading and a shame, because those "little edits" could take away the fleshing out of characters, or a lead characters' motivation: A key removed scene from "The Lonely", where Corry & Alicia talk about the stars in the sky, which adds more depth to their relationship, & "The Four of Us Are Dying", where the man who manipulated his face, explains the reason why he is impersonating certain people, are the biggest examples, here. I was shocked when I first saw the restored episodes for the first time on Blu-ray!
I think my favorite hour long episode was the "new exhibit" with Martin Balsam. those wax Figures were very creepy and then of course who really killed those people? was it Martin Balsam's character or was it the wax figures?
I am a bit surprised that Rod Serling wasn't even more of a target for plagerism suits. Not because I think he copied others submitted works, but because he put out a pretty wide net looking for scripts and of course writers who may have been turned down might have been looking to get a payday on even the slightest similarity in stories. The premise was after all, self limiting in the type of story that you would imagine might be proposed.
The sixteen-millimeter shrine was an obvious remake of Sunset Boulevard and the changing of the guard was a copy of Goodbye Mr. Chips. I think there were many others that got their inspiration from previous works.
"Miniature" was fantastic. I see that @Sally(x4) already beat me to saying the Robert Duvall's acting in that episode was what made it so good. The music in that episode was so haunting in the story as well. "The Encounter" reminds me of my father who fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII. He was a well-meaning man, but he could never find peace when it came to Japanese descended people after the war. The term PTSD wasn't invented yet, but he had a lot of stuff that he couldn't reconcile with. I think that episode was a good, if uncomfortable, look at where America was after WWII... Great video!
An Occurrence at Owl Creek's Bridge also wasn't part of the syndication package. The arrangement in adapting it for Twilight Zone included showing it only once.
Indeed, the short film was originally produced independently and won awards at Cannes and the Oscars. Including it in the original TZ run was a brilliant example of Rod Serling making the most of his budgetary restrictions, as licensing the film cost far less than producing an original episode, which brought the fifth season back in under budget. It was not seen in reruns for many years for the contractual reason cited above.
Who remembers "Carol For Another Christmas"? Rod Serling's version of "A Christmas Carol". It was intense, insightful, and a bit creepy, had an amazing cast, and was done very well. Not sure if that was in syndication.
Penny Singleton was also the Original BLONDIE in the 1938- 1945 movies. She was also one of the First actors to require residual payments in her contracts. Smart lady!
She was also the first woman elected president of an AFL-CIO affiliated union, and her behind-the-scenes work displayed a truly remarkable amount of courage for her time.
The Encounter definitely touches on controversial issues. So much so , that I'm surprised they allow to be shown today in this PC world. Personally , I love the episode. My father was a Korean War veteran and Neville Brand's portrayal of a clearly damaged vet reminds me somewhat of my Dad's struggles dealing with his wartime experiences. And George Takei who was actually in an Internment Camp during WW2 , draws perfectly on the hurt , humiliation and resentment that experience caused him to brilliantly portray a man who seems perfectly fine on the outside , but inside is being consumed by the trauma of his youth. Altogether a magnificent story of two men so overtaken by their inner demons , that they eventually destroy both the other and themselves. Great writing , wonderful acting and a topic that concerns us all. I can't think of anything that T.V. could use more than this kind of intelligent , artistic entertainment.
"in this PC world" the one where people are fighting to remind people that wars weren't just "heroic white guys fight evil Germans" but that a lot of horrible shit also happened? The one where people are working hard to spread the stories about the good and bad that happened to all people in all regions and times? Is it a pc world we live in now just because we can't say "you're very eloquent for negro" or is it a PC world because people are outspoken about the atrocities that have occurred that the history books keep sweeping under the rug? Too bad we can't go back to the totally not politically correct era where you weren't allowed to say the word "pregnant" on tv, or show a toilet, and married couples couldn't even be IMPLIED to share a bed.
@@FrenkTheJoy I believe that showing prejudice in all its ugliness , is not endorsing those opinions , but rather showing how divisive and destructive bigotry can be for the prejudiced people , those who their hatred is aimed at and to society as a whole. Of course that type of speech and thinking are offensive. That's the whole point. How do you expect to try to understand and try change these negative aspects of our society if we just close our eyes and ears and pretend that they don't exist?
I’ve got these 4 episodes on my Twilight Zone complete Blu-Ray set, They aren’t quite up there with the very best episodes of the Twilight Zone IMHO, but I wouldn’t call any of them bad. Probably ‘Miniature’ is my favorite of these four because of Duvall’s touching performance in this episode and it’s sweet ending.
I was born in 1955, and I watched The Twilight Zone as a kid. I'm not sure if I saw reruns or the original series. The shows were spooky, and they frightened me some. l loved Rod Serling's serious sounding voice in the intros.
I'm 76 & have watched t.v. since 1950 & truly feel that there has been very few t.v. series that can be called "One of a Kind"! "The Twilight Zone" was one of them! I was in the military when some of these 'lost' episodes were originally broadcast & never saw them! However, I felt that the hour-long shows contained superfluous scenes that weakened the tense atmosphere, contained in the 30 min. episodes! Bravo to Rod Serling's creativity!
I am 71 and I totally agree. This show was one of a kind. I feel honored to have seen it, experienced it then and as I got older enjoyed each episode more deeply. Many of these could be remade as long as they don't screw with the stories and " correct" them. What say you Ron ? I also agree that except for a few the hour long episodes were just stuffing. Miniature was an exception.
I hadn’t seen Miniature and The Encounter until about a year ago. Probably last New Year’s Eve. The other two I still haven’t seen. I was quite struck by The Encounter. It’s a powerful, strongly acted teleplay and shows that Star Trek didn’t make full use of George Takai’s skills. And, of course, Miniature gives an early glimpse into Robert Duvall’s prodigious talents. Twilight Zone attracted top notch acting talent during its too short run. Perhaps the network should have been as duly impressed as the actors were.
I grew up with this show and saw them premiere along with Outer Limits and the like. Little Girl Lost episode (season 3) gave me shivers for decades...love it.
I've seen all 4 and love them. Those stories are wonderful and nothing these days comes close. So sad. Thank you for sharing and all that you do! God Bless 😃 BTW, there's a movie called "Beyond Tomorrow" that's really good. Have you watched the series "Tales of Tomorrow"? Those came first before The Twilight Zone. Have you ever listened to OTR(Old Time Radio) shows Suspense and others? Also, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater is an excellent show for SciFi stories! The older stuff didn't need blasphemy, sex, etc to make a good story. These days it's just awful. I miss the awesome stories of old. Funnily enough, everything that is being debated and "hot topics" of today was being debated and "hot topics" back then. It seems everything repeats in every generation, lol!
I saw "The Encounter" in early 2000s at a cousin"s house. He had just bought the DVD collection and arranged a screening at his house, invited some friends and run the 4 best eposodes (in his opinion) and one of them was this. We had a great time commenting on this one. My cousin passed away in 2020 of a stroke, I really miss him. This brings fond memories of him, bless his soul...
Absolutely adore TZ, even though the vast majority of the themes are simply different takes on the The Monkey's Paw from 1902 (which itself is probably from a much older collection of folklore).
Saw the last two when they were finally re-aired. The very last one is better than people give it credit for. Two amazing performances. But, it dealt with uncomfortable subject matter. I mean realistically, 20 years after a young WW2 soldier came home from brutal hand-to-hand combat in Japan; he's obviously not going to be friendly towards any Japanese person he encounters. He's a man, not a Saint. When I watched the episode, I was genuinely surprised that the character wasn't *more* insulting.
The reason it was not shown is due to the racism that is displayed. Returning WWll vets seemingly had no such vehemence towards German or Italian Americans after similar experiences during the war, but treated Japanese Americans very differently. Being the son of a WWll Navy veteran, I can attest that these were the prevalent feelings of the men who served in both theaters of war and that they gradually began to change that outlook around the 1970's.
@@charlie-obrien I think that's at least part of what Serling was getting at with this episode, the undercurrent of anti-Japanese sentiment of that generation of Americans.
@@charlie-obrien That's easy to understand, because the Germans did not starve American prisoners to death, cut their heads off and mount the heads on poles (Cabanatuan POW camp), nor burn them alive (Palawan Massacre), nor mutilate their dead bodies (Guadalcanal). Besides, the Germans did not bomb Pearl Harbor in a sneak attack, nor openly declare that WWII was a "race war" like the Japanese did. Most people don't know that there were over 40,000 Japanese aliens (that is, non-citizens) on the U.S. west coast on Dec. 7, 1941. Some of the American combat veterans from the Pacific would never buy a Toyota nor shake hands with a Japanese after the war and I completely understand and do not hold it against them.
@@charlie-obrien The Germans weren't as recognizable. The Japanese killed more that 20 million just Chinese people. 85 % of American POW's died in Japanese custody as opposed to 5 % in German custody. We also "quarantined " Japanese people in this country and did nothing to German citizens. War sadly is war. It's horrible and ugly but the only way to win is to completely destroy the opponent , not the BS stuff we do today . Starting with Viet Nam and ending in the Afghanistan disaster . Our guys die for no gain and politicians get rich. Same BS in Ukraine right now.
The Encounter was a great episode. It had a creepy feeling throughout I can’t explain. The ending was tragic and unexpected with Japanese young man ( played by George Sakei) jumping through second story window to his death. Creepy.
I remember seeing the mini house one when I was very young. my dad knew Rod Serling they were friends, we are from Westport Connecticut. And I saw that and it was riveting I must’ve been very young, 12 years old or younger.
The best people they got for every episode! Young people watch this too and Twilight Zone will always be fan favorites along with Alfred Hitchcock and The 3 Stooges!
Well, here’s the weird thing I noticed that on the Paramount app where are the original twilight zone is a tear at 20,000 feet is missing so is to serve Man and the other William Shatner episode. I can’t remember the name of it all three of those episodes are missing or not there.
If memory serves, all four were reworked for radio for TZ the Radio Dramas. Matter of fact, Stacy Keach played the war vet from “The Encounter”. Loved those
I remember seeing them when they were originally showing on CBS. The twilight zone was a favorite show when I was a kid. I would watch it with my grandma.
A brilliant television show i was 10 years old when this show started. I still watch it today 63 years later and it still holds up.The show mirror image with vera miles and martin milner one of my favorites
Duvall always played fringe characters in his youth like ‘ Boo’ Bradley(?) in To Kill a Mockingbird’ a far cry from his role in the Godfather as the Corleone’s family lawyer and adopted son.
awesome video! I have not seen last twilight zone episode until 3 years ago. Other 3 episodes I seen when they were released again. I was born 1966 and watched reruns on late night Saturday or Saturday evening as I got older before it was no big deal showing the episodes on Saturday afternoon. Thanks.
Famous SF writer Philip Jose Farmer wrote that he submitted a script to TZ and it was refused, but then an almost exact duplicate was broadcast--written by Serling. Farmer found that several established writers he knew had similar experiences.
I remember seeing The Silence one in the 1980s late night on CBC in Montreal. I always remember him repeating ‘Mind over matter’. Lol. The filming was so clear in those shows was it filmed on 36 mm or 16 ?
What scared me as a kid was where the girl thought she was ugly, so she had Post- operative bandages wrapped around her ( we cannot see the Doctor nor nurse)). When the bandages are cut off, everyone shrinks back in horror; she is a beauty, while they have pig's faces! A man comes to her rescue,saying that she can live in their colony where others like them are ( he was normal, too)! I think that episode was entitled "Ete of the Beholder".
I dimly remember seeing the episode with George Takei when it originally aired, when I was a child. I would love to see it again. The others I might have seen when originally aired, but would be muddled in with later memories -- except the one with John MacIver. I was delighted as a child that an adult could get away with making all that noise! John Duvall's excellent performance of a man that longed to live in an earlier and slower time was one I appreciated only after I grew up.
Ive been able to see all of these, including Occurence at... in a marathon. BTW There was a Twilight Zone magazine which ran for several years in the 1980s. I believe Rod's widow Carol was associated with the mag it's entire run. It had a more horror-slanted companion Night Cry for a couple of years as well for those intetested.
Did you say "Ruda" Lee? I remember her from the episode of the Andy Griffith Show when she was an employee of a crooked businessman who had it out for Andy because of a fine. He wanted to find dirt on Andy, so he sent her in to pose as a college student taking interviews for her studies. That's the only other time I remember seeing her, though I'm sure there were more.
I saw 2 of the "lost episodes" recently, Miniature & Sounds and Silences. The other 2 I never did watch, but I remember from a book about The Twilight Zone series. 🌌
In the early days cable ('80s), I remember watching TW on an independent UHF channel. In the episode of "Minature", there were doll house scenes that were colorized.
I can understand them wanting to change it from a doctor to research. I took a test to get a license for human research and it kind of gives you the authority to do human testing and if the person signed of on the paperwork and they just happened to die then there's no liability.
Mr. Garrity and Graves seems to borrow heavily from Philip Jose Farmer's Uproar in Acheron. According to Farmer Sterling got behind on story creation and borrowed heavily from several short stories. It was a discussion at the time among writers. Mike Korologos is credited for the idea by the TW episode, but he never published any other fiction being a crime reporter.
I have seen all of these episodes. I did see the original broadcast of the episode with George Takei, but I was too young to understand what was wrong. I did see it again on the Sci-Fi network in 2016. I never missed a Twilight Zone marathon.
i`ve seen all but the last one. it should be noted that in the robert duvall one orginally and in at least in the 1984 showing everything that happened in the dollhouse was in color, making it the only episode with color.
The episode about the Asian man and past war veteran man, who actually was a real hero in world war 2.. look him up. but 2016? but I saw this episode before from beginning to end. so somebody had it playing. I mean years ago, not the internet. I saw it on tv
I'll be 69 this September. I watched maybe a half dozen Twilight Zone episodes, when first aired. This is great, a real human being narrating the channel reviews. Feels like a Twilight Zone experience these days, with AI narrated UA-cam reviews, but here we've got a real human being doing the Twilight Zone.
My favorite. Walking Distance with Gig Young, The Monsters are do on Maple Street, Changing of the guard, I Sing The Body Electric by Ray Bradbury and with David White, Long Distance Call with Dame Gladys Cooper, Two with Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson, Judgement Night, Where Is Everybody.
While it was not a network broadcast, I saw Encounter on KONG-TV (not KING) in the early '90's. They also showed the first (pilot) episode of Hogan's Heroes which was in black and white. The station had just signed on the air and they were trying to do things to stand out.
You missed the mark. Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was shown only once and was not seen for fifty years. It was actually a small French film that fit perfectly into the Twilight Zone slot. I actually saw this when it aired when I was a child and had thought about it for years wondering if I was misremembering. I finally found it on a Dvd with another lost episode, the one you previously mentioned in your video with George Takei. You can find it on UA-cam.
I just realized, the youth serum episode where the old guy wants to be young to get the girl……they actually put that story in Tales from the Crypt season 2 episode 2 “the switch” so Rod couldn’t air that story but Tales from the Crypt could in 1990…….sheesh
I want to see the episode of the Twilight Zone that has a man, in a modern setting, coming into a house and then going out the backdoor onto a street in the 1800's. He is quite fascinated with what he sees, how the people are living etc. However, when he wants to return, he can't find the same door that he came out of. Nothing is familiar. The houses all look old and unrecognizable. He is lost in that old world as the show ends. Can anyone guide me to it, or am I lost in the modern world without the opportunity to see it again?
Robert Duvall's performance in "Miniature" was really remarkable, especially given the fact that it was one of his earliest TV or movie acting jobs. He was 31 years old and his ability to underplay a part to perfection in "Miniature" is tantamount to the performance he gave as "Boo Radley" in "To Kill a Mockingbird" the previous year. He's never been out of work and is still performing to this day (2022) at 91 years of age!
I saw it quite by accident. Really a great piece of work and needed the hour-long format to make it work And though the ending may "seem" obvious it isn't really at all
Every role is played he was good. Even the minor ones. The confused and scarred soldier in Captain Newman, the cab driver in Bullet, the gun range owner in Jack Reacher. However he will always be remembered as Lt. Col. Kilgore. A part that he played so well that he owns it.
@@garfieldsmith332 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like... victory!"
Few remember his utopian role in THX 1138, which I saw on a 180° CINERAMA screen. A stellar performance!
Totally agree especially the character he created in Sling Blade, with just one scene he totally horrified the audience.
"Hey Boo."
I remember seeing The Encounter when it was finally aired. I thought it was really intense and couldn't imagine how it would have gone down in 1960s America. I later learned a few years later that Rod Serling served in the Philippines during the war and saw a lot of bad s**t go down. It had a profound impact on his life. I would invite anyone reading my comments to look up old interviews that Rod conducted in the 60s and 70s, he had a lot of amazing insight on race relations and American society at the time. He was truly an American treasure.
I know.
Can’t believe it was almost cancelled before season 5. People back then probably were ignorant about how good the show was lol it’s had a major impact in terms of the media we consume. It’s referenced a lot in other movies/shows and still influences works today
Thank God the TZ wasn't cancelled after 3 seasons! There are great episodes in seasons 4 & 5. I bought the box set here in Australia with all 156 episodes about 5 years ago. I didn't care much for "The sounds and silences' or 'The encounter'
'A short drink from a certain fountain ' was very entertaining. 'Miniature ' is one of my top 10 episodes, love Robert Duvall the lead
As a WWII history buff, while the Encounter is a great episode (George Takei grew up in one of the internment camps) my favorite episode is Death's Head Revisited. I quote the final narration all the time when people talk about why should we study history in general and the Holocaust specifically, since history has a cyclical pattern. Rod knew what he was doing with that episode since he saw the camps firsthand in the war.
Yes, it’s a shame it wasn’t as good as Deaths Head. Even with Neville Brand in the lead role, who was one of the most decorated soldiers of world war 2, it still was clearly inferior to many other episodes.
I love Death's Head Revisited also. One of the greatest qualities of the Twilight Zone was its ability to take a controversial subject that most likely couldn't have been shown as straight drama on Sixties T.V. and dealing with it through the use of fantasy. Rod Serling was a genius at doing that.
‘Death’s Head’ is brilliant but it has a fatal flaw - that was entirely intentional: not once was it mentioned that the Jews were by far and away the primary victims of the Holocaust. This was standard in Hollywood, where a huge share of the writers - including Rod Serling himself - were Jewish, not to mention the heads of studios, producers, directors. And that was precisely the reason you rarely heard even an obviously Jewish character described as Jewish. Rod rectified things in the first episode of “Night Gallery,” about a Nazi war criminal running scared in South America. There Jews were referred to as Jews. I suspect that in “Death’s Head,” the decision to avoid mentioning the primary victims, to avoid the Nazi ever expressing his anti-Semitism was the network’s, not Rod’s. Maybe the best example of Hollywood people being afraid of their own Jewish shadow was the film ‘Marty.׳ Originally, Paddy Chayefsky had Marty as Jewish butcher from the Bronx, not an Italian. Self-loathing, insecurity, box office considerations? A little of all three, I’d guess, and I’m referring to the studios, not Rod or Chayefsky.
@@haroldsteinblatt2567 Yes. I know what you're talking about. There was an hour long Twilight Zone episode called "He's Alive" , that starred Dennis Hopper as a White Supremacist being guided by a shadowy figure that turns out to be Adolf Hitler. Hopper's character rants about "foreigners" and people who are "not real Americans". An elderly man who had known Hopper's character since he was a boy , challenges him about his beliefs and the man is obviously Jewish , but no particular ethnicity is ever mentioned in the episode. Again , probably a network decision rather than Rod Serling's. All that being said , it was still a very effective episode and the parallels to a lot of what's going on today are chilling.
I have seen these episodes and they are among my favorites. My absolute favorite is still Long Distance Call. I think this could be remade with the child receiving a toy cellphone from his grandma.
A similar TZ episode, and a favorite of mine is Night Call where an elderly woman receives calls in the middle of a stormy night from her dead fiancée. Very creepy episode.
When my Granddaughter was 1 she received three phones from different people. Original 1960s rotary "Phoney", the 70s touch tone FP phone and a toy tpuchscreen smartphone. We called it baby call center.
Always thought of the Billy Mumy TZ episode when I saw her playing with them
I too, have seen all of these episodes, and granted, none of them are in my personal 'Top 10' episodes of TZ. My all-time best? 'Will the Real Martian Please, Stand Up'
Long Distance Call stuck with me too! It might be one of my favorites.
Robert Duval is such a good actor. I know his career was by no means bad, but I wish we had more of him in lead rolls, he had so much range and was able to so realistically convey his internal emotional space without seeming emotional in character.
Just amazing, it's hard to say he's underrated with how well respected he is, but I wish we had more of his work.
He, Dustin Hoffman, and Gene Hackman were buddies and roomies in there early days. The trio all did pretty well.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 you could print money with the three of them anywhere on the drama/suspense spectrum.
I love the old Twilight Zone episodes!! It's so cool to watch some of the world's greatest actors play characters on this show!!
What gets me, is that for years when stations had special "uncut marathons", this was based on the syndicated package, where the episodes as presented had actually been edited when the package was created.
So the PR was misleading and a shame, because those "little edits" could take away the fleshing out of characters, or a lead characters' motivation: A key removed scene from "The Lonely", where Corry & Alicia talk about the stars in the sky, which adds more depth to their relationship, & "The Four of Us Are Dying", where the man who manipulated his face, explains the reason why he is impersonating certain people, are the biggest examples, here. I was shocked when I first saw the restored episodes for the first time on Blu-ray!
I think my favorite hour long episode was the "new exhibit" with Martin Balsam. those wax Figures were very creepy and then of course who really killed those people? was it Martin Balsam's character or was it the wax figures?
I am a bit surprised that Rod Serling wasn't even more of a target for plagerism suits. Not because I think he copied others submitted works, but because he put out a pretty wide net looking for scripts and of course writers who may have been turned down might have been looking to get a payday on even the slightest similarity in stories.
The premise was after all, self limiting in the type of story that you would imagine might be proposed.
The sixteen-millimeter shrine was an obvious remake of Sunset Boulevard and the changing of the guard was a copy of Goodbye Mr. Chips. I think there were many others that got their inspiration from previous works.
I think that he changed stories enough while still giving original credit to the original authors to keep him from being sued.
T.S.Eliot said good writers borrow, great ones steal.
"Miniature" was such a magical episode.💖
"Miniature" was fantastic. I see that @Sally(x4) already beat me to saying the Robert Duvall's acting in that episode was what made it so good.
The music in that episode was so haunting in the story as well.
"The Encounter" reminds me of my father who fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII. He was a well-meaning man, but he could never find peace when it came to Japanese descended people after the war. The term PTSD wasn't invented yet, but he had a lot of stuff that he couldn't reconcile with. I think that episode was a good, if uncomfortable, look at where America was after WWII...
Great video!
An Occurrence at Owl Creek's Bridge also wasn't part of the syndication package. The arrangement in adapting it for Twilight Zone included showing it only once.
I saw this on Sy- Fi channel today.
Indeed, the short film was originally produced independently and won awards at Cannes and the Oscars. Including it in the original TZ run was a brilliant example of Rod Serling making the most of his budgetary restrictions, as licensing the film cost far less than producing an original episode, which brought the fifth season back in under budget. It was not seen in reruns for many years for the contractual reason cited above.
This was shown to my 8th grade English class iirc. Circa 1977. One of my favorite short stories ever. It may have just been a different adaptation.
I remember it from years ago. Believe it or not the song sticks in my head..."He walks around...."
Who remembers "Carol For Another Christmas"? Rod Serling's version of "A Christmas Carol". It was intense, insightful, and a bit creepy, had an amazing cast, and was done very well. Not sure if that was in syndication.
Penny Singleton was also the Original BLONDIE in the 1938- 1945 movies. She was also one of the First actors to require residual payments in her contracts. Smart lady!
She was also the first woman elected president of an AFL-CIO affiliated union, and her behind-the-scenes work displayed a truly remarkable amount of courage for her time.
Penny Singleton was the voice of Jane Jetson too.
@@janel.8921 he said that, just not the Blondie part. I prefer her on the Blondie movies because they are classics
Yes, she was great as Blondie. Arthur Lake was great as Dagwood too.
That would be 1938 to '50, a total of 28 Blondie comedies.
The Encounter definitely touches on controversial issues. So much so , that I'm surprised they allow to be shown today in this PC world. Personally , I love the episode. My father was a Korean War veteran and Neville Brand's portrayal of a clearly damaged vet reminds me somewhat of my Dad's struggles dealing with his wartime experiences. And George Takei who was actually in an Internment Camp during WW2 , draws perfectly on the hurt , humiliation and resentment that experience caused him to brilliantly portray a man who seems perfectly fine on the outside , but inside is being consumed by the trauma of his youth. Altogether a magnificent story of two men so overtaken by their inner demons , that they eventually destroy both the other and themselves. Great writing , wonderful acting and a topic that concerns us all. I can't think of anything that T.V. could use more than this kind of intelligent , artistic entertainment.
"in this PC world" the one where people are fighting to remind people that wars weren't just "heroic white guys fight evil Germans" but that a lot of horrible shit also happened? The one where people are working hard to spread the stories about the good and bad that happened to all people in all regions and times? Is it a pc world we live in now just because we can't say "you're very eloquent for negro" or is it a PC world because people are outspoken about the atrocities that have occurred that the history books keep sweeping under the rug?
Too bad we can't go back to the totally not politically correct era where you weren't allowed to say the word "pregnant" on tv, or show a toilet, and married couples couldn't even be IMPLIED to share a bed.
@@FrenkTheJoy I believe that showing prejudice in all its ugliness , is not endorsing those opinions , but rather showing how divisive and destructive bigotry can be for the prejudiced people , those who their hatred is aimed at and to society as a whole. Of course that type of speech and thinking are offensive. That's the whole point. How do you expect to try to understand and try change these negative aspects of our society if we just close our eyes and ears and pretend that they don't exist?
I’ve got these 4 episodes on my Twilight Zone complete Blu-Ray set,
They aren’t quite up there with the very best episodes of the Twilight Zone IMHO, but I wouldn’t call any of them bad.
Probably ‘Miniature’ is my favorite of these four because of Duvall’s touching performance in this episode and it’s sweet ending.
I own the DvD's😀😀
One the benefits of working at a records store 😀
I was born in 1955, and I watched The Twilight Zone as a kid. I'm not sure if I saw reruns or the original series. The shows were spooky, and they frightened me some. l loved Rod Serling's serious sounding voice in the intros.
I'm 76 & have watched t.v. since 1950 & truly feel that there has been very few t.v. series that can be called
"One of a Kind"! "The Twilight Zone" was one of them! I was in the military when some of these 'lost' episodes
were originally broadcast & never saw them! However, I felt that the hour-long shows contained superfluous
scenes that weakened the tense atmosphere, contained in the 30 min. episodes! Bravo to Rod Serling's creativity!
I am 71 and I totally agree. This show was one of a kind. I feel honored to have seen it, experienced it then and as I got older enjoyed each episode more deeply. Many of these could be remade as long as they don't screw with the stories and " correct" them. What say you Ron ? I also agree that except for a few the hour long episodes were just stuffing. Miniature was an exception.
I hadn’t seen Miniature and The Encounter until about a year ago. Probably last New Year’s Eve. The other two I still haven’t seen. I was quite struck by The Encounter. It’s a powerful, strongly acted teleplay and shows that Star Trek didn’t make full use of George Takai’s skills. And, of course, Miniature gives an early glimpse into Robert Duvall’s prodigious talents. Twilight Zone attracted top notch acting talent during its too short run. Perhaps the network should have been as duly impressed as the actors were.
Yes, I've seen all 4 episodes. Loved Twilight Zone. We still "sing" the intro in our own "twilight zone" life.
I grew up with this show and saw them premiere along with Outer Limits and the like. Little Girl Lost episode (season 3) gave me shivers for decades...love it.
I've seen all 4 and love them. Those stories are wonderful and nothing these days comes close. So sad.
Thank you for sharing and all that you do!
God Bless 😃
BTW, there's a movie called "Beyond Tomorrow" that's really good. Have you watched the series "Tales of Tomorrow"? Those came first before The Twilight Zone. Have you ever listened to OTR(Old Time Radio) shows Suspense and others? Also, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater is an excellent show for SciFi stories! The older stuff didn't need blasphemy, sex, etc to make a good story. These days it's just awful. I miss the awesome stories of old. Funnily enough, everything that is being debated and "hot topics" of today was being debated and "hot topics" back then. It seems everything repeats in every generation, lol!
I saw "The Encounter" in early 2000s at a cousin"s house. He had just bought the DVD collection and arranged a screening at his house, invited some friends and run the 4 best eposodes (in his opinion) and one of them was this. We had a great time commenting on this one. My cousin passed away in 2020 of a stroke, I really miss him. This brings fond memories of him, bless his soul...
Absolutely adore TZ, even though the vast majority of the themes are simply different takes on the The Monkey's Paw from 1902 (which itself is probably from a much older collection of folklore).
I've watched every episode of the Twilight Zone since I was 5 years old never missed any episodes I loved all of the episodes
So far I have seen every episode of the Twilight Zone. Rod will always be my favorite.
Saw the last two when they were finally re-aired. The very last one is better than people give it credit for. Two amazing performances. But, it dealt with uncomfortable subject matter. I mean realistically, 20 years after a young WW2 soldier came home from brutal hand-to-hand combat in Japan; he's obviously not going to be friendly towards any Japanese person he encounters. He's a man, not a Saint. When I watched the episode, I was genuinely surprised that the character wasn't *more* insulting.
The reason it was not shown is due to the racism that is displayed. Returning WWll vets seemingly had no such vehemence towards German or Italian Americans after similar experiences during the war, but treated Japanese Americans very differently.
Being the son of a WWll Navy veteran, I can attest that these were the prevalent feelings of the men who served in both theaters of war and that they gradually began to change that outlook around the 1970's.
@@charlie-obrien I think that's at least part of what Serling was getting at with this episode, the undercurrent of anti-Japanese sentiment of that generation of Americans.
@@charlie-obrien That's easy to understand, because the Germans did not starve American prisoners to death, cut their heads off and mount the heads on poles (Cabanatuan POW camp), nor burn them alive (Palawan Massacre), nor mutilate their dead bodies (Guadalcanal). Besides, the Germans did not bomb Pearl Harbor in a sneak attack, nor openly declare that WWII was a "race war" like the Japanese did. Most people don't know that there were over 40,000 Japanese aliens (that is, non-citizens) on the U.S. west coast on Dec. 7, 1941. Some of the American combat veterans from the Pacific would never buy a Toyota nor shake hands with a Japanese after the war and I completely understand and do not hold it against them.
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Yeah, the Germans were such sweethearts...
I guess your willing to overlook that Holocaust thing.
@@charlie-obrien The Germans weren't as recognizable. The Japanese killed more that 20 million just Chinese people. 85 % of American POW's died in Japanese custody as opposed to 5 % in German custody. We also "quarantined " Japanese people in this country and did nothing to German citizens. War sadly is war. It's horrible and ugly but the only way to win is to completely destroy the opponent , not the BS stuff we do today . Starting with Viet Nam and ending in the Afghanistan disaster . Our guys die for no gain and politicians get rich. Same BS in Ukraine right now.
The Encounter was a great episode. It had a creepy feeling throughout I can’t explain. The ending was tragic and unexpected with Japanese young man ( played by George Sakei) jumping through second story window to his death. Creepy.
I couldn't resist buying all the seasons of TZ on DVD; especially enjoyed the edition of season 1 that came with the book The TZ Companion.
I remember seeing the mini house one when I was very young. my dad knew Rod Serling they were friends, we are from Westport Connecticut. And I saw that and it was riveting I must’ve been very young, 12 years old or younger.
The best people they got for every episode! Young people watch this too and Twilight Zone will always be fan favorites along with Alfred Hitchcock and The 3 Stooges!
I liked the episode printers devil played by Burgess Meriddeth
Well, here’s the weird thing I noticed that on the Paramount app where are the original twilight zone is a tear at 20,000 feet is missing so is to serve Man and the other William Shatner episode. I can’t remember the name of it all three of those episodes are missing or not there.
If memory serves, all four were reworked for radio for TZ the Radio Dramas. Matter of fact, Stacy Keach played the war vet from “The Encounter”. Loved those
I watched talking Tina, and to this day I won't let my kids get a talking toy or doll. Scary!
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I recall not seeing the hour long episodes until much later, usually during TZ marathons. Only the half hours were shown in my market for years.
I've seen them all, the last 2 the least often. I probably watched them on during a SyFy marathon. Great vid.
The episode "Sound and Silence" reminds me a little of a Story from the Radio Show "X minus 1" of the 1950s. At least i think it was from "X Minus 1".
Next stop, Willoughby.
I believe I've seen only the Robert Duvall episode. Watching your vid makes me want to see all the Twilight Zone episodes in a row. Thanks!
I remember in the 80's one tv station did the "Twilight Zone A Thon" every New Year's Eve.
I remember seeing them when they were originally showing on CBS. The twilight zone was a favorite show when I was a kid. I would watch it with my grandma.
The Outer Limits was this shows only rival. Amazing stories
A brilliant television show i was 10 years old when this show started. I still watch it today 63 years later and it still holds up.The show mirror image with vera miles and martin milner one of my favorites
"Miniatures" is my favorite of all of these I've seen it many times it's a beautiful love story
Robert Duvall...arguably one of the greatest actors ever.
In syndication, I’ve seen “Sounds and Silences” twice and “Miniature” once. I’ve seen bits of “The Encounter” on UA-cam.
Duvall always played fringe characters in his youth like ‘ Boo’ Bradley(?) in To Kill a Mockingbird’ a far cry from his role in the Godfather as the Corleone’s family lawyer and adopted son.
awesome video! I have not seen last twilight zone episode until 3 years ago. Other 3 episodes I seen when they were released again. I was born 1966 and watched reruns on late night Saturday or Saturday evening as I got older before it was no big deal showing the episodes on Saturday afternoon. Thanks.
If I remember right. The Encounter episode ended with a bias ending that was also offensive was another strike against to be banned for so long.
Famous SF writer Philip Jose Farmer wrote that he submitted a script to TZ and it was refused, but then an almost exact duplicate was broadcast--written by Serling. Farmer found that several established writers he knew had similar experiences.
All I know when I was a teenager this show freaked me out ! But I loved it. So clever
I remember seeing The Silence one in the 1980s late night on CBC in Montreal. I always remember him repeating ‘Mind over matter’. Lol. The filming was so clear in those shows was it filmed on 36 mm or 16 ?
What scared me as a kid was where the girl thought she was ugly, so she had Post- operative bandages wrapped around her ( we cannot see the Doctor nor nurse)). When the bandages are cut off, everyone shrinks back in horror; she is a beauty, while they have pig's faces! A man comes to her rescue,saying that she can live in their colony where others like them are ( he was normal, too)! I think that episode was entitled "Ete of the Beholder".
That's all correct, Roxanne.
Why, I am perfectly happy with my not unusual pig's face!
How about, "The Time Element", which was supposed to be the pilot episode, but it was shown on Desilu Playhouse instead?
I dimly remember seeing the episode with George Takei when it originally aired, when I was a child. I would love to see it again. The others I might have seen when originally aired, but would be muddled in with later memories -- except the one with John MacIver. I was delighted as a child that an adult could get away with making all that noise! John Duvall's excellent performance of a man that longed to live in an earlier and slower time was one I appreciated only after I grew up.
Ive been able to see all of these, including Occurence at... in a marathon. BTW There was a Twilight Zone magazine which ran for several years in the 1980s. I believe Rod's widow Carol was associated with the mag it's entire run. It had a more horror-slanted companion Night Cry for a couple of years as well for those intetested.
I remember 2 of them. The one with Takei is one
Did you say "Ruda" Lee? I remember her from the episode of the Andy Griffith Show when she was an employee of a crooked businessman who had it out for Andy because of a fine. He wanted to find dirt on Andy, so he sent her in to pose as a college student taking interviews for her studies. That's the only other time I remember seeing her, though I'm sure there were more.
I saw 2 of the "lost episodes" recently, Miniature & Sounds and Silences.
The other 2 I never did watch, but I remember from a book about The Twilight Zone series. 🌌
My all-time favorite TV show. I’ve seen every episode including these four.
In the early days cable ('80s), I remember watching TW on an independent UHF channel. In the episode of "Minature", there were doll house scenes that were colorized.
"A stop at Willoughby" shows why The Twilight Zone was way ahead of its time...
No pun intended!
I've seen all but the first one. Will have to find it. Thanks for no spoilers!
Wait, when I was growing up in the '60's/'70's, I remember watching the John McGiver, silence episode. I seen it a few times.
I've always loved the Twilight Zone and I've watched it for years but the only episode out of those four that I have seen on TV was "miniature"
You're missing Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. That wasn't part of the syndication package.
I can understand them wanting to change it from a doctor to research. I took a test to get a license for human research and it kind of gives you the authority to do human testing and if the person signed of on the paperwork and they just happened to die then there's no liability.
My favorite episodes are Ring-A-Ding Girl, Nightmare As A Child, Eye of the Beholder, Dust, and The Obsolete Man.
I remember purchasing dvds of the complete series years ago and the whole season 4 wasn't on it
Mr. Garrity and Graves seems to borrow heavily from Philip Jose Farmer's Uproar in Acheron. According to Farmer Sterling got behind on story creation and borrowed heavily from several short stories. It was a discussion at the time among writers. Mike Korologos is credited for the idea by the TW episode, but he never published any other fiction being a crime reporter.
Penny Singleton was also in the Blondie movies. She also had a lovely singing voice.
I have seen all of these episodes. I did see the original broadcast of the episode with George Takei, but I was too young to understand what was wrong. I did see it again on the Sci-Fi network in 2016. I never missed a Twilight Zone marathon.
i`ve seen all but the last one. it should be noted that in the robert duvall one orginally and in at least in the 1984 showing everything that happened in the dollhouse was in color, making it the only episode with color.
Thanks I will be looking for these episodes.
Pardon but why was 'Miniature' starring Robert Duvall censored/excluded from syndication?
oh man thw twilight zone watched that was a kid brings back memories.
To serve man was always my favorite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Robert Duval felt better after his mother gave him some coco in minuature,I loved Ann Frances episode,about mannequins that take turns as real people,
Rod Serling was a paratrooper in WWII. He was wounded in the Pacific.
I remember watching the miniature episode. It was intriguing. I enjoyed it.
Dang the dollhouse one!!! Awesome!
I have seen all four. Lucky I guess or I watch SiFi too much.
A short drink was actually on last night
The episode about the Asian man and past war veteran man, who actually was a real hero in world war 2.. look him up. but 2016? but I saw this episode before from beginning to end. so somebody had it playing. I mean years ago, not the internet. I saw it on tv
I have seen all of these episodes. "The Encounter" is very intense.
@RerunZone John's last name was pronounced "Mc-GI (short I)-ver".
I'll be 69 this September. I watched maybe a half dozen Twilight Zone episodes, when first aired. This is great, a real human being narrating the channel reviews. Feels like a Twilight Zone experience these days, with AI narrated UA-cam reviews, but here we've got a real human being doing the Twilight Zone.
A lot of things became suspicious regarding Rod Sterling unfortunately. Talent does that to some people.
My favorite. Walking Distance with Gig Young, The Monsters are do on Maple Street, Changing of the guard, I Sing The Body Electric by Ray Bradbury and with David White, Long Distance Call with Dame Gladys Cooper, Two with Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson, Judgement Night, Where Is Everybody.
I love Two, an episode not many people mention. Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery are great
While it was not a network broadcast, I saw Encounter on KONG-TV (not KING) in the early '90's. They also showed the first (pilot) episode of Hogan's Heroes which was in black and white. The station had just signed on the air and they were trying to do things to stand out.
I have seen all of them except The Encounter. I really liked The Miniature!
I have seen all of them, and all were some of the most powerful of all the TZ episodes.
You missed the mark. Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was shown only once and was not seen for fifty years. It was actually a small French film that fit perfectly into the Twilight Zone slot. I actually saw this when it aired when I was a child and had thought about it for years wondering if I was misremembering. I finally found it on a Dvd with another lost episode, the one you previously mentioned in your video with George Takei. You can find it on UA-cam.
That isn't an episode, it's a French short film that was edited.
@@Zan_Jayna Yes, we know it was a short French film. It also aired as an episode.
@@gregorylapointe4157 It was a weak episode, like all Canada Film Board projects
@@Zan_Jayna That's just your opinion
I just realized, the youth serum episode where the old guy wants to be young to get the girl……they actually put that story in Tales from the Crypt season 2 episode 2 “the switch” so Rod couldn’t air that story but Tales from the Crypt could in 1990…….sheesh
I Hate to Bust your Bubble 😊,,, I’ve Seen All of these! I’m 64👍🙏🌹🙋♀️
I want to see the episode of the Twilight Zone that has a man, in a modern setting, coming into a house and then going out the backdoor onto a street in the 1800's. He is quite fascinated with what he sees, how the people are living etc. However, when he wants to return, he can't find the same door that he came out of. Nothing is familiar. The houses all look old and unrecognizable. He is lost in that old world as the show ends. Can anyone guide me to it, or am I lost in the modern world without the opportunity to see it again?