The Twilight Zone

… ingredient in someone's soup. It's tonight's bill of fare from the Twilight Zone.”

Except that the final narration is, if anything, MORE humorous: “The recollections of one Michael Chambers, with appropriate flashbacks and soliloquy. Or, more simply stated, the evolution of man. The cycle of going from dust to dessert. The metamorphosis from being the ruler of a planet to an …

Ha, yes! In fairness to Rod, the typo almost surely came from his secretary, who typed up the dictation recordings he made of his scripts. Either way, "gaLazy" is pretty funny. Sounds like a space-age recliner! 😄

And yes, his rewritten version is sharper and better. He often rewrote these intros.

"To the wee ones ... the little folk called man ... it's a marvelous adventure, a voyage to another planet."

Check out the rest of Serling's original closing narration for "To Serve Man," which he had rewritten entirely by the time the episode was filmed.

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Love Eddie! One of the all-time greats.

Congratulations! Wonderful news.

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Same here! Though age does make one appreciate it more. 🥲

That laugh! 😆

He basically elevated anything he was in. A true giant.

Was certainly happy to see him escape a world that insisted on trying to change him!

Agreed. :) Like other great actors, he had what they call “presence.”

Did a rewatch myself. :)

Very fun episode. :)

Mine too. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a word of criticism of this one!

Very apt!

When Rod Serling began writing "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" for The Twilight Zone, its working title was "The Missing Martian."

The final title was a play on the catchphrase of the popular game show "To Tell the Truth."

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RIP, Robert Duvall. 😢

"I hope you'll be able to join us next week when the Twilight Zone presents Robert Duvall and Pert Kelton in a production of Charles Beaumont's 'Miniature'."

— Rod Serling's promo for Duvall's sole appearance on TZ (February 21, 1963) during Season 4

On February 9, 1972, one of Night Gallery's best segments airs: Serling's chilling "Deliveries in the Rear," about a Victorian-era doctor who trafficks in grave-robbing, with two other stories, "Stop Killing Me" and "Dead Weight."

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February 9, 1962: Twilight Zone's "Kick the Can" airs. A man in a nursing home discovers the secret of youth is an attitude — and that a simple children's game can provide the escape he yearns for.

Written by George Clayton Johnson. Stars Ernest Truex (of TZ's "What You Need").

"They had to do a life mask with the cast in advance. After we were done filming, Ida Lupino told us we could keep the masks because they would not be needed. I used to have my mask for many years, but I don't recall what happened to it."

— Brooke Hayward, Paula in "The Masks"

How often that happens even outside the fifth dimension … 😦

Yes — a clever, non-intuitive lesson!

Seriously! 😳

Sure feels lately, as Serling says in the intro, like earth has slipped its orbit! 🥶

Hope you had a nice birthday! 🎉

syndication package—because NG (like Sixth Sense) was cancelled too early to have enough episodes on its own.

Which, when you think about it, reflects Serling’s approach on The Twilight Zone.

And yeah, I don’t blame you on the Sixth Sense episodes—which, as you may know, were part of a separate series later grafted onto Night Gallery proper simply to give it the right number of episodes for the

Agreed! Serling’s first idea was to use wax figures, but the painting idea was even better. :) One correction: During its initial run it was, incredibly enough, the work of one artist, Tom Wright, who proved adept at painting in many different styles.

Exactly the way I feel! I think the key is to approach it not as a follow up to TZ, which sets up impossible expectations, but as its own separate series, which is indeed tremendous fun most of the time. :)