And shucks darn, I missed out on my residuals on that one." 4. And it has a unique distinction of being the only Twilight Zone that was aired only once. "So for that reason, CBS pulled that episode. The episode's racial overtones and allusions to Pearl Harbor caused a bit of an uproar, particularly amongst "Japanese-American and Asian-American civil liberties and advocacy groups," according to Takei.
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Two years before he joined forces with Shatner on Star Trek, Takei played an out-of-work gardener named Arthur Takamori whose mysterious past is brought to the forefront over a shared beer with a neighbor-and World War II vet-to whom he has offered his landscaping services in "The Encounter." "This particular episode, however, gained some kind of notoriety," Takei recalled to the Archive of American Television in 2011. It was the inspiration for a segment in Twilight Zone: The Movie and got a semi-official sequel in 2003 with "It's Still a Good Life," which ran as part of the Twilight Zone reboot series. Fremont in the classic 1961 Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life," which depicts a malevolent child with terrifying powers that are merely hinted at until his temper erupts. With a near-70-year career (and counting), Cloris Leachman is still one of Hollywood's grand dames of drama. Just as creepy is his role as a newlywed who comes undone by superstition, thanks to a fortune-telling machine in a small town diner in the 1960 episode "Nick of Time." 2. That’s the only explanation I can come up with that makes that particular episode as popular as it is." Buried somewhere in all of us when the going gets rough up there is: If God meant us to fly, we’d have wings. touches another universal in the human psyche, and that is the fear of flying. "This young actor was pleased with that, to get all that attention and screen-time.
"The particular script by Dick Matheson was really inventive and very much a one-man show, really," Shatner told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year. Kirk stars in one of the classic episodes of the series, 1963's "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," as an unhinged airline passenger trying to convince everyone else that a monster is destroying the plane (an episode that was remade with John Lithgow for Twilight Zone: The Movie). William ShatnerĪ fresh-faced, soon-to-be Captain James T.
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Rod Serling's groundbreaking anthology series The Twilight Zone introduced some enduring science-fiction themes and one of the most iconic title sequences in TV history-not to mention a slew of famous guest stars. THE TWILIGHT ZONE and CBS, and related marks are registered trademarks of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Image Credit: Program Content 2014 CBS Broadcasting Inc.