"To Serve Man" - 1962

[EddMarkStarr]

Back in 2008 there were magnificent uploads on YouTube on my favorite episode on The Twilight Zone - "To Serve Man", first broadcast in March of 1962.

Now I can only find one upload left, I apologize for the poor resolution. At least the audio is OK.

 

[Object52]

That one had a good twist at the end. Those were usually the ones I liked best. A number of others were well done but the ending was predictable. I also think one that is nearly as go is "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?".

 

[Telstra]

So,
its like chicken farming or pig farming,
they live in peace and without hunger until slaughter time ...

 

[EddMarkStarr]

That one had a good twist at the end. Those were usually the ones I liked best. A number of others were well done but the ending was predictable. I also think one that is nearly as go is "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?".

Wow, I remember that one too. A UFO was reported near a lake and local police follow tracks going from the lake to a nearby diner. Someone in that diner is not from here!

Do you remember, "room for one more , honey"?

 

[Object52]

That is one I don't recall seeing.

 

[Sausy]

"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" was another great one.... showing that fear and hatred can turn even the nicest of people against the other. Aliens manipulated people in a typical suburban neighborhood to believe some of them were secretly alien, and plotting against them. None were, but the fear that preys on the mind of the seemingly different, of things out of the ordinary can take us to dangerous places we'd never believe we were capable of going.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

That is one I don't recall seeing.

Good to know you're not familiar with that episode - I've got a story for you!


The episode name is "Twenty Two" and it was one of a half-dozen Twilight Zone episodes not recorded used high quality film stock but cheaper video tape! The weird looking result is proof that video tape technology in 1961 was awful. As a result, "Twenty Two" usually gets passed over, for better looking episodes, in syndication.

I may be the only dude here that remembers this - when Rod Serling died in 1975, CBS aired a 2-Hour Twilight Zone Commemorative Special, featuring the most favorite episodes as selected by movie and TV critics from around the USA and Canada. And sure enough, the experts picked "Twenty Two" as the best episode of Twilight Zone . . . go figure!

Anyway, the story is about Liz Powell, a woman who has a recurring nightmare - the same nightmare Every Night, where she takes the elevator down to the hospital morgue featuring a vacancy - "room for one more honey!"

Shout out to Arlene Martel as the morgue attendant. Six years later she was Spock's wife on Star Trek!


Here's the entire "dream sequence" opener. This also includes Rod Serling's opening narration.
Remember, Liz Powell has has the same dream every night for a week! She's in the hospital, a nervous wreck - with no end in sight.
Notice how odd everything looks on video tape - like the Twilight Zone isn't creepy enough!

 

[EddMarkStarr]

So you guys all know that CBS is bringing back the "Twilight Zone" - right?

 

[Object52]

I always thought the videotaped ones were lacking, sort of look like soap operas did back then.

I also had not heard it was being brought back. Might be due to it showing on CBS All Access.

 

[Telstra]

"video not made available in your country"
So much for global village

 

[EddMarkStarr]

"video not made available in your country"
So much for global village

WOW!

I apologize, thought YouTube uploads "convert" to destination format so videos are available to all. Now I feel like a dunce.