Incident one hundred miles off the coast of Guadalcanal. Time: The present (April 1963). A United States destroyers, on what has been a most uneventful cruise. In a moment, they're going to send a man down thirty fathoms and check on a noisemaker - someone or something tapping on metal. You may or may not read the results in a naval report, because Captain Beecham and his crew have just set a course that will lead this ship and everyone on it - into the Twilight Zone.
Seen on an episode of The Twilight Zone a prediction: The United States needs John F. Kennedy Jr. to defeat an age old rival ' The Tenessee Williams' as Captain America.
The GREATEST PILOT EPISODE in TELEVISION HISTORY is on ME-TV tonight @ 12:35am est: “The place is here...the time is now...and the journey into the shadows that we’re about to watch could be our journey...” —Rod Serling’s opening narration to The Twilight Zone’s pilot episode, “Where is Everybody?,” October 2, 1959 (directed by Robert Stevens). In “Where is Everybody?,” an amnesiac played by Earl Holliman wanders through a strangely deserted town and decries, “I’ve looked and I haven’t seen anybody around...maybe they’re all asleep or something, but literally, there hasn’t been a soul,” Serling himself observing the sleeping giant that was America in the Cold War conformity of the Eisenhower Fifties? Holliman turns out to be an astronaut in training (torn from the day’s headlines, following the April ’59 naming of the Mercury Seven astronauts by NASA) who, following 484 hours in an isolation tank to prepare him for solo space travel to the moon (three years before JFK’s moon speech), cracked from loneliness and began to hallucinate what we, the audience, thought was the “reality” of the episode—the first Twilight Zone twist ending and still one of its metaphysically best, its narrative structure upending the tacit agreement between storyteller and audience that what you’re being shown is “real.” A true pilot episode (and the greatest in the history of television) in that it included virtually all the existential and surreal motifs that would become associated with The Twilight Zone—isolation, fear, confusion with mannequins, hallucinogenic delusions that seem all too real—“Where is Everybody?” is finally a harrowing visualization of one man’s alienation from reality, indeed from one’s self, which would prove to be the defining, existential crisis facing man in the second half of the 20th Century, a time when the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge—the atomic bomb—first coexisted. arlenschumer.com/twilight-zone #twilightzone #thetwilightzone #rodserling #tv #television #tvhistory #televisionhistory #arlenschumer @dgareps @nyadventureclub @adamschumer @richardsyrettstrangeplanet https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVBerZJAO5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Aunque ya no está con nosotros, su trabajo seguirá inspirando y entreteniendo al público por décadas. Este video tributo conmemora sus inolvidables actuaciones y su impacto en la industria.
In a way, it can be said that Walter Ryder succeeded in his life's ambition, even though the man he created was, after all, himself. There may be easier ways to self-improvement, but sometimes it happens that the shortest distance between to points is a crooked line - through the Twilight Zone.
The stunning Susan Oliver as Teenya in The Twilight Zone episode People Are Alike All Over (1960) - 67 Drawing (of year NINE) *All art available $40 unless otherwise noted - commissions are temporarily closed* #adrawingaday #dailydrawing #quicksketch #sketch_daily #sketch #sketchbook #journal #art #artistsharing #artist #portrait #susanoliver #teenya #thetwilightzone #peoplearealikeallover https://www.instagram.com/p/CpjehseNUKS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
TONIGHT on ME-TV @ 12:35am EST, one of the GREATEST episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE: “THE AFTER HOURS” (written by Rod Serling, directed by Douglas Heyes, originally broadcast June 10, 1960) The casting of the incandescent Anne Francis in Serling’s “The After Hours” is perfect, because, as a woman who turns out to be a department store mannequin, she actually looks like a human Barbie doll—which, like The Twilight Zone, debuted in 1959 and became an American pop icon overnight, acknowledged as an influence on the plethora of TZ mannequin/doll/dummy episodes by Barbie Bazaar magazine in its June 2003 issue: “The reason that Twilight Zone still amazes us is the wonder that underlies episodes like ‘The After Hours,’ that recall childhood fantasies of dolls and toys coming to life when no one is watching.” And childhood nightmares, too—witness the whispering of the store mannequins en masse to a frantic Francis, “Marsha, come off it!” Serling might have been inspired to write this episode by English writer John Collier’s 1940 short story “Evening Primrose” (collected in his award-winning 1952 anthology, “Fancies and Goodnights”), about people living clandestinely in a department store who eventually become mannequins, too. "The After Hours" is one of Serling’s most accessible Twilight Zones—for who among the American generations who’ve grown up in and around shopping malls has never been afraid of being locked in a department store at night? By tapping into such deep-seated American neuroses, Serling mirrored the anxieties and apprehensions of his audience, as this excerpt from the episode’s closing narration testifies: "Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street?" arlenschumer.com/twilight-zone #twilightzone #thetwilightzone #rodserling #annefrancis #mannequin #tv #television #tvhistory #televisionhistory #theafterhours #arlenschumer @dgareps @bearmanor.media @nyadventureclub @the_richardsyrettshow https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2m21NsKup/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=