At only 5' 4", Rod was an amateur boxer, who enlisted in the army the day after finishing high school. He served as an airborne paratrooper and received several accommodations including the Bronze Star. I loved your shows Rod and your clear word annunciation with that great baritone voice. May you forever RIP.

@erichwise9936

Жыл бұрын

Although not so tall, Jack Benny towered over Rod Serling. On another episode Clint Walker (6', 4.5")towered over Jack Benny!

So great to see Rod being so funny in his signature deadpan manner.

Rod Serling, Irwin Allen, Gene Roddenberry, These guys made the 60's television so exciting for us youngsters.

@MONGOOSE1ful

8 жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention Leslie Stevens to that little group-he created "THE OUTER LIMITS" (1963-65) one the 1960s best science fiction TV series!!

@robharding1957

8 жыл бұрын

Absolutely !!!. I do apologise for not mentioning such an iconic show.

@catdaddy3302

8 жыл бұрын

Me too. Add a little LSD to the mix and SHAZAM!

@Gravydog316

7 жыл бұрын

I'm 21, but I agree with you 100%!! (except the Lost in Space carrot people...)

@sarcasticallyrearranged

4 жыл бұрын

Any of you watch Science Fiction Theater and was it any good?

The twilight zone was way ahead of its time! Rod Serling was a genius!

"Anyone who claims to be thirty-nine as long has he has is a permanent resident of The Twilight Zone." -Funniest Twilight Zone monologue line EVER!

@larryrubin5150

5 жыл бұрын

Schtolteheim Reinbach III YES

@judithflecha4725

5 жыл бұрын

Schtolteheim Reinbach III ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@cynthiaslater7445

4 жыл бұрын

JB was known for giving the best lines to others. However, he was still the master of the slow burn!

@lalboimanlun1230

4 жыл бұрын

I don't understand the line

@cynthiaslater7445

4 жыл бұрын

@@lalboimanlun1230 Claiming to be 39 years old when it was obvious that he was well past that age was a running joke with JB.

Rod Serling………. A GENIUS! RIP!

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

Amen to that !!

I'm so old, I remember when Rod Serling and Jack Benny were still alive!

@dennisdeleo74

4 жыл бұрын

And I'm so old, I remember when the Dead Sea was sick...

@RSEFX

4 жыл бұрын

I saw this when it was originally aired. Two of my favorites from that era, Rod Serling and Jack Benny! Who woulda thought. I love how gentle and silly humor was at the time. Not that everything has to be that way, but I'd appreciate bringing a taste of that back into our entertainment diets.

@GeminieCricket

4 жыл бұрын

We are not old we are gold.

@BlueNeahno

4 жыл бұрын

I’m so old that when I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick !!

@forestsoceansmusic

4 жыл бұрын

So do I, and I'm only 64, that's not that old. My cousin's partner flew Mosquito fighter-bombers at the end of World War II (at least 10 years before this episode).

Jack Benny's personality was so well defined that he drew perhaps the longest sustained laugh ever on radio by saying nothing! When a robber demanded, "your money or your life", Benny didn't reply. The audience response increased with each second of silence. Finally, after what seemed an eternity of now hysterical laughter, the robber repeated the line. Jack responded with, "I'm thinking". Then, more laughter. Few born after 1955 will understand at all why that line was so funny.

@ET-RAMBLINGS

4 жыл бұрын

@@Qrayon Here's a link to a recording of that episode: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X6iK3MaOk92zhJM.html

@Qrayon

4 жыл бұрын

@@ET-RAMBLINGS You're right, so I deleted my comment.

@fjccommish

3 жыл бұрын

My great great great great grandkids loved to watch Jack Benny when it was originally on TV.

@ericolsen5798

3 жыл бұрын

Jack was usually the straight man but he got a lotta laughs doing it.

@ArizonaWillful

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericolsen5798 Classic comedians of the 40's and 50's made fun of THEMSELVES instead of other people, which seems to be a norm now.

Rod Serling had a hand in many sifi movies. To mention one planet of the apes. The famous they blew it up scene. He wrote that ending. Genius!

@dmlevitt

3 жыл бұрын

wow I didn't know that. cheers mate.

@matthewbosco9190

3 жыл бұрын

I had a feeling that ending had twilight zone written all over it

Rod could actually act.

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

Indubitably !!

@i3ignorantidelweb43

3 жыл бұрын

He was actor, writer and recorder director

@jimibarrett8362

3 жыл бұрын

I always thought the best parts of The Twilight Zone were the opening and closing monologue

@i3ignorantidelweb43

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimibarrett8362 same

@hijodelaisla275

3 жыл бұрын

"actually"

Great to see these fantastic actors together. Alive and well in "The Twilight Zone"...................Miss them here on Earth...........

Jack Benny: "Had a rose delivered to his wife Mary Livingstone each day after his death until the day she died, almost nine years later."

@johnbgood52

3 жыл бұрын

Jack Benny made a career out of playing a grouchy penny pincher, but he was a kind and generous man in real life.

what's scary about this is the furniture in the house is still more modern than mine

@jonnyq680

4 жыл бұрын

you have furniture? We burned ours for heat 3 years ago! You must be rich!

@tek6423

4 жыл бұрын

You’re not alone.

@lalboimanlun1230

4 жыл бұрын

At least we have a modern looking furniture. Just the looks.

@sinjin6219

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonnyq680 "but to cut off a man's legs..." Lt Col. Henry Blake in that M*A*S*H episode about the super cold snap, at the end when he's sitting by his desk top that's sitting on the floor--'cause it has no legs. Can't remember the title of the episode.

@ArizonaWillful

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonnyq680 I steal plastic chairs from the college cafeteria room to have something to sit on at home.

Incredible treasure for me! I grew up with Jack Benny and Rod Serling. I've never seen this lovely bit before and how happy I am to see it!

"Rochester,who's the greatest entertainer in America?" "Nat King Cole!" I busted up when I heard that! This was such an unexpected bit of fun! Thank you for sharing!

@fromthesidelines

9 жыл бұрын

.....and Jack featured him a guest star a year later.

@thecowboy6617

6 жыл бұрын

Patricia Harold was nat King cole on the games called fallout 3 and fallout New Vegas?

@danielcrowe9324

4 жыл бұрын

Rochester's reply was classic!

@Chutney1luv

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! 😅

@markleng67

3 жыл бұрын

@algol29 True! Many of his episodes addressed racism and exposed it!

That was an absolutely classic bit! I miss Jack Benny, and Rochester. To have them teamed up with Rod Serling was hilarious.

My s.o. bought me the entire Twilight Zone series a few years back! One of the best gifts I've ever received!!

@MrTruckerf

Жыл бұрын

What is an s.o.? I have heard on an s.o.b.........is it like that? Oh, wait, I figured it out; s.o. stands for 'son Oscar'.

@TheRadioAteMyTV

Ай бұрын

Then the DVD player broke - but you finally had time to watch them all - Time Enough At Last.

"Anyone who claims to be 39 as long as he has, is a permanent resident of The Twilight Zone" I love it!

Rod Serling was very uncomfortable in front of the camera by all reports. Cool that he was willing to do this skit at all!

@CMZIEBARTH

4 жыл бұрын

He's out of his element but being a good sport.

@jmason2838

3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Serling should have done more on - camera work ... He was good ... and good - enough visually .. made a good impression 😎😃so ahead of his time . 🔮.. - a true pioneer. 🚪 🏆........ 🗿..... ... If only 🚫🚬🚬🚬. 💢 🤔😒. 😞😢😭🙏🕯️🏵️🌺💮🥀🌸🌼🌹🌻🏵️💐🙁☁️ 🦋💨. ⚰️😔☹️🕊️❤️👑🕵️. 🤞🖖✌️☕☕☕

@coloradostrong

3 жыл бұрын

@@jmason2838 Seriously? Try uninstallation of your idiotic emoji app. Most people do not use in 9 months what you have used in 2 lines. It looks as though a 3 year olds Speak-N-Spell blew up on the page.

@kimdracula1995

Жыл бұрын

He's actually really good if he is uncomfortable.

@MrTruckerf

Жыл бұрын

Uncomfortable? Sure couldn't tell it.

R.I.P. Rod Sterling: 1924-1975. He was talented, handsome and he was such a cult. His show was so popular that many sketch shows parodied it, like SNL (twice(one in the 1970s and again in the 1990s)).

I can't believe I've never heard of, or seen this before, Thank You! Rod Serling is a hero of mine.

Brilliant! Serling parodying Serling. Thanks for uploading this.

@Alan-qe6jr

6 жыл бұрын

morskojvolk He did that in an episode of Twilight Zone as well. I can't remember the title of the episode, but it's the one where the author is having an affair on his wife and he can type things and make what he types either come to life or disappear. At the conclusion of the episode he types Rod Serlings name and throws it into the fireplace and Rod disappears. Not a great episode, but I do love that part.

@LordZontar

5 жыл бұрын

That was "A World Of His Own", with Keenan Wynn as the playwright Gregory West. That was a Richard Matheson script. The original story Matheson submitted was a lot darker, but Serling and Buck Houghton suggested it should be reworked as a comedy. Matheson came up with the final gag with Serling being "erased" from existence as a spur of the moment joke. Serling loved it and decided to go with the scene and the episode as the closer for the season. Serling, as could be expected, had a great sense of humour, especially about himself.

"Who's the Greatest Entertainer in America?" "NAT KING COLE!"

@alfredorubiojr171

7 жыл бұрын

LegoMatt222 was that Nat King Cole? who said

@Shogunersash

3 жыл бұрын

@@alfredorubiojr171 That was Eddie "Rochester" Anderson en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_%22Rochester%22_Anderson

its not really a lost episode. thats just a joke. this was actually a segment on jack bennys old tv show.

@305Carnage

4 жыл бұрын

No shit

@traekas7228

4 жыл бұрын

Bart Broadhead, Hey 👋. Thanks for this and the explanation comment, too. This is pretty cool 😎!!! I loved this show so much, as a kid!! Twilight Zone was already in repeats status, by the time I fell in love with it. Thanks, much. Nice of you to upload this. TC!

@erikswanson224

4 жыл бұрын

It was pretty funny.

@TheKonga88

4 жыл бұрын

It was an episode from Lollipop Lenny and the plastic dollies from outer space.. 🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🌙🌙🌃🌃📺📺📻📻🚉📞🚉🐁🐁📷⛽⛽🎃🍭🍭🍭🍭🏃🏃💰💰🐁📺📺👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👾👾

@Chutney1luv

3 жыл бұрын

This was hilarious!! Thank you!🤣

Very impressed by how passionately Serling stressed how every aspect of his show was required to have a point. Bless him, I do not believe he was acting at that moment. The point of today's TV is to give the bovine masses the intellectual equivalent of bubble gum to chew on.

@jimscribner8314

10 жыл бұрын

Today people watch reality shows on television. As I recall reality used to be where we all lived back in the 20th century and the 21st century was someplace that didn't exist except on television. Welcome to the Twilight Zone. :)

@tonydalcon

9 жыл бұрын

@zoppie: I think that's what everybody said was the point of 1950s TV too... ;)

@zoppie

9 жыл бұрын

Charlotte Tan The 50's were a more innocent time. No one had any idea of how low TV would sink in just a few decades.

@tonydalcon

9 жыл бұрын

From Queen For a Day? lol

@andrewhall7930

9 жыл бұрын

zoppie Everyone says that based on the TV. The 50's were NOT innocent. People were terrified of Nuclear war, The Korean war was happening, we had just come out of the bloodiest war in world history. Believe it or not 2015 is the most innocent time.

Growing up in the 50's and 60's I wasn't aware I was having fun. Kids take those things for granted you know. I miss those days and I miss my old black and white TV.

@brocklesnar5246

7 жыл бұрын

peace2014

@ronaldtreitner1460

4 жыл бұрын

we only had a few channels back then but had far more quality shows to watch not all the crap we have today, 9999 channels and i have nothing to watch most of the time.

@erikswanson224

4 жыл бұрын

I never thought at the time, that someday I'd be telling my daughter about these wonderful shows.

We lived almost directly across the street from Rod in this place called Pacific Palisades right above Sunset boulevard in the 60s

@ArizonaWillful

4 жыл бұрын

You must have been very rich!

@giftedplanksify

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArizonaWillful it was the 60s ! The house is over 3mill in today's market

@Chutney1luv

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Did you ever run into him; while riding your bike by his home?

@giftedplanksify

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chutney1luv no I was just two

@giftedplanksify

3 жыл бұрын

@patrick m I'm not a liar, rent was cheap enough to even live by the beach in Malibu in the fifties and early 60s ( if my dad and mom were still here they would tell you)

This brilliant. I wish I had the chance to have met Rod, he was so insightful and a tremendous talent in telling stories. Touching upon things the human race still struggled with then, and even till this day. A visionary, in many ways. And hilarious with Jack!

Two greats working together, if even for a few minutes. Jack Benny was so funny when he was riled up.

@Gravydog316

8 жыл бұрын

+Rob Sokolyk Jack is the best!

@bradleyweiss1089

4 жыл бұрын

Even just his one word one liner in Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Nothing like a running joke.

From the days of my early youth, I have LOVED the Twilight Zone. To me, it was the BEST suspense program on TV...and nothing has ever matched it. The stories keep you entertained and there was a lesson to be learned from each and every one of them...if you had the mind to realize it. Thanks for sharing this. I had never seen it before and I THOROUGHLY enjoyed it.

@theyrekrnations8990

3 жыл бұрын

true, they had kind of a moral message to ponder

Actually, this is from an episode of Jack's program [originally telecast on January 15, 1963] that was never syndicated {there are a LOT of his filmed episodes that are waiting to be seen again, including 16 from the final 1964-'65 season}.

In every episode was a moral message. He truly captured the nature of mankind with a twist!

I remember when Serling (born Christmas 1924) was featured speaker at my College. His brilliance exceeded the comprehension of even the professors.

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

I read that he loved working with students. Very affable fellow !

Never knew this existed!

@howiecricket52

8 жыл бұрын

I didn't either, and I just LOVE it so much! So funny!

"No escape, no place to hide; here where time and space collide."

Rochester....& he had a great line fed to him by Benny about who's the greatest entertainer of all...Nat King Cole is one of the greats...

Jack Benny could do drama as well as comedy. Comedians that are successful are rare. He was genius !

My Dad loved Jack Benny and Jackie Gleason. Television was so much better in those days. All we had was ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS but the programming was diverse and most of it could be enjoyed by the whole family.

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

Indubitably ! My dad loved Jackie Gleason too & we watched him mot Sat nights, along with Lawrence Welk & then the Hollywood Palace. And on Sunday nights, we usually watched Ed Sullivan. Ed was good about having a variety of acts to appeal to all age groups.

a nice little gem.

My first time seeing Rod doing a bit of acting, and in a comic skit with Jack Benny at that. Kind of radical for the Twilight Zone meister himself. Hm. Well, this is definitely different.

@TralfazConstruction

8 жыл бұрын

+SwarthySkinnedOne I believe that Rod Serling was more well-rounded than the public-at-large gave him credit for. He's still missed by many today.

@SwarthySkinnedOne

8 жыл бұрын

TralfazConstruction Ditto.

@SwarthySkinnedOne

8 жыл бұрын

menckencynic I didn't mean to imply Rod being comic enough to step in for Milton Berle or Robert Hope.

@SwarthySkinnedOne

8 жыл бұрын

menckencynic It's cool man. Yeah Rod's forte and legacy was mainly in the screenwritng of tight thought-provoking dramas of the human heart and condition, particularly of modern Man's delimas and paradoxes of his own creating through the god of science and technology, replacing the biblical God, supposedly to make Man himself happier, yet that transformed him into a more conflicted, troubled, alienated and tragic creature no longer having a soul he can call his own, an existential condition that's seldomly funny, if ever. Yeah Rod did alright to treat this subject with a sharp seriousness not easy for him to shake off whenever making an attempt at comedy strictly for laughs.

@SwarthySkinnedOne

8 жыл бұрын

menckencynic Yep. And that created something better of his endowed him a vital presence in the minds of many through the major impact he made with the TZ.

Now I've seen every episode ever made! 👍👏🙆‍♀️

Poor Rod, always had that cigarette burning between his fingers.

@ArizonaWillful

4 жыл бұрын

He smoked 3 to 4 packs every single day.

@KRW628

4 жыл бұрын

He had a heart attack in May 75. He was dead by the end of June. 50 years old.

@montanacrone8984

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Powell he’s much missed.

@5roundsrapid263

4 жыл бұрын

He endorsed them, and he paid the price.

@keithbiz85

4 жыл бұрын

@@5roundsrapid263 No price is too high when it comes to Oasis brand cigarettes. The softest taste of all.

Thank you! I miss the original Twight Zone with Rod Serling. Damndable cigarettes!!!

What a classic!!....brought back childhood memories of those times and TV classics.... kids nowadays will never get it.....us elders will never loose it.

the thing that he advertized killed him :(

@Chutney1luv

3 жыл бұрын

And millions of other people! Those cigs had no filters! 😲

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

Malfunctioning whoopee cushion ?

@Chutney1luv

3 жыл бұрын

@@jubalcalif9100 Yep!! 🚬

Rod Serling wearing a skinny tie and smoking a cigarette That was cool

@billymule961

3 жыл бұрын

He reminds me of Dan Aykroyd.

@ArizonaWillful

3 жыл бұрын

He smoked 4 to 5 packs a day and this killed him.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArizonaWillful Yes, you'll notice he was in his late 30s when TZ started. He easily looks 15 years older...

@conniecrawford5231

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing “ cool” about killing yourself at a young age by smoking 4-5 packs of cigarettes a day!

Jack Benny was the king of the look-away-for-the-laugh move.

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

How true ! He knew when to pause & look at the audience for greater comedic effect. He was not one of those selfish comedians. He (like Carol Burnett later on) surrounded himself with talented people & didn't mind letting them shine & get the laughs too !

Benny was the best and Serling superb! Their respective series were two of my favorites in the early '60s, the apogee of television's true "golden age." Serling's clipped existential delivery and Benny's dry deadpan burn are classic moments from quintessential performers at once both sublime and absurd. As in an episode from the Twilight Zone, I would love to step into a time machine and return to that era. KZread is doubtless the next best experience. Thanks for this gem.

There was another show in the same period called "Thriller", hosted by Boris Karloff, does anyone remeber, that one had some hard core scary épisodes!

@ArizonaWillful

3 жыл бұрын

There was also OUTER LIMITS.

He also created night gallery.

@tommyd.743

4 жыл бұрын

Also, all the paintings shown at the beginning of each episode were from his private collection. It was called The Gallery of the Absurd.

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

Yes ! Sadly, he didn't have as much creative control on "Night Gallery" as he did on the earlier "Twilight Zone".

ROD SERLING was a pure creative Genius and his talents have yet to be matched in the 21st Century 😎

I knew I wasn't crazy. I knew Rod had played in his own episode!! I saw this episode only one time when I was a kid and hadn't seen it since until today. Thanks man.

"Anybody who claims to be 39 years old as long as he has is a permenant resident of the Twilight Zone." Epic.

Funnier than the crap you see on late night these days!

@davidweum

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing is funny on late night at all.

Rodman was not only a great producer but also a great actor. I didn’t realize how short he was, I guess cause a lot of his interviews he was sitting down. I read he would smoke 3-4 packs of cigarettes a day. No wonder he died young and looked a lot older than his age. There will never be another Rodman Edward Serling. RIP.

I love how Rod's playing it straight for most of it, but when he starts describing Twilight Zone, he kind of unconsciously slips into his TV persona.

One of the was with Keenan Wynn as a writer that could make people with his tape recorder. Loved the end when he pulled out an envelope with Rod's name on it.

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

Keenan Wynn's dad (Ed Wynn) also appeared on an episode of The Twilight Zone. He plays a salesman who tries to distract the Angel of Death (played by Murray Hamilton) so the angel won't come & claim the life on an injured little girl.

@terrypetersen2970

3 жыл бұрын

@@jubalcalif9100 I liked that one two. He wanted to make a pitch that would open up heaven. He had the Angel of Death eating out of the palm of his hand.

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

@@terrypetersen2970 Yes indeed ! It's a very heartwarming episode. At the end the Angel tells Ed that he must come along; but is assured he's going "up there" instead of "down there". Ed's character is a very kind & sweet man (just as Ed Wynn was off screen !).

@erichwise9936

Жыл бұрын

@@jubalcalif9100 He was on a fifth season episode as well "Ninety Years Without Slumbering," based on a more superior story by George Clayton Johnson titled "Tick of Time."

That was absolutely brilliant! Tv was so good then.I never knew that Jack and Rod did a sketch together.

i never realized that Rod Serling was only 5' 4" tall until i saw him standing next to Jack Benny and Rochester in this viceo clip. i also didn't realize Rochester isn't spelled "Rodchester"!

Love the great Rod Serling -- the voice of a master story-teller and a genius imagination and persona. I miss him so much. And, of course, there's the wonderfully humorous Jack Benny. Love Jack, too, and miss him as well. RIP boys!

"'Your honor'?" "Yes, I'm the mayor of this town. As a matter of fact they named it after me. I'm Mr. Zone." XD Hilarious!! XD

@sylph8005

4 жыл бұрын

"Twilight Zone???" "Just call me Twi ;)"

2 GIANTS in their FIELD; I LOVED them BOTH!!

"I've forgotten my name." "It's pathetic." "No, that isn't it..."

Thanks for sharing, I got a lot of laughs from this one. Amazing how talented and funny those old performers were, Gleason, Benny, Skelton et al. Humor that wasn't forced, and good clean fun. A bygone era, and another trip into the Twilight Zone....

This was great but would have been funnier if Rochester was the owner of the house. That would have been some real 60's Twilight Zone shit. Lol

This isn't a lost episode of The Twilight Zone. It's from The Jack Benny Show.

@Allen-ps6bx

4 жыл бұрын

Misleading title!

@jamesmarshall8836

4 жыл бұрын

Don Velasquez They should have known better than to try to fool you.

@donvelasquez7155

4 жыл бұрын

I have the complete Definitve Collection of The Twilight Zone on DVD. This "lost" episode would have been included in the DVD box set. The box set includes a documentary about Rod Serling. It shows clips of Rod Serling's appearance on The Jack Benny Show.

@donvelasquez7155

4 жыл бұрын

The big giveaway was The Twilight Zone doesn't use canned laughter.

@donvelasquez7155

4 жыл бұрын

BUSTED!

This was hilarious..I love The Twilight Zone..RIP Rod & Jack

Love Jack Benny and love Rod Serling! Both American T.V. Legends!

This was fantastic! Classic TZ and classic Jack Benny!

As a kid I loved The Twilight Zone Friday nights on CBS.

@ArizonaWillful

3 жыл бұрын

I think the Twilight Zone deepened me as a kid, since there were some very heavy themes that little kids don't often encounter.

Dude this is so awesome thank you for uploading this

Thurl Ravenscroft was an absolutely astounding bass...some of the notes he could hit didn't seem humanly possible.

Jack: "Who's the greatest entertainer in america?" Rochester: "NAT KING COLE!!!!!"

Lol, it's so funny 😂, "you can call me twi" Haha, so funny

Thanks for uploading it. I LOVE TWILIGHT ZONE and JACK BENNY! I'm a huge fan of both of them.

I listen to Jack Benny in my car on Sirius radio all the time on the radio classics channel. It's great to see them.

thanks for watching. i know it was a jack benny show. i was calling it a twilight zone lost show just to be silly.

You are the Best Mr. Serling

I love Rod Serling with the fury of a billion suns. God, he was just it.

Rod Serling was a genius writer. Jack Benny was a genius comic. Great combo!

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

Amen to that !!

Rod: "This is his house, he belongs here. Anybody who claims to be 39 years old as long as he has is a permenant resident of the twilight zone."

Most shows break the fourth wall. This one crashes through it and builds a new wall.

@mjf2891

6 жыл бұрын

Blake's Gaming PC there is a fifth wall....

Thought I'd seen every T.Z.episode...it's Halloween and this is the best treat ever! Thanks!!!

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, this is not an episode from the TZ series. It's a sketch from Jack Benny's TV show.

I'm a die-hard fan of the show and I've never seen this episode before. This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'm 44 and I've heard of Jack Benny but I've never seen him act and he's amazing. Rod Serling is a genius.

At the end I wanted so bad to step into the screen and smash the cigarettes and tell him, "THAT'S WHAT KILLS YOU!"

@nowvoyagerNE

4 жыл бұрын

while it's very likely that smoking contributed to his death, he died of a second heart attack: "In May of 1975, when he was 50 years old, Serling had a heart attack while running on a treadmill. A couple of weeks later, he had a second heart attack, at his cottage on Cayuga Lake, and was sent to the hospital for open-heart surgery. On June 28, 1975, Rod Serling died at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York." www.biography.com/writer/rod-serling

@shadowlouise

3 жыл бұрын

My reaction wasn't that strong, but I had a similar thought about the cigarettes.

@erichwise9936

Жыл бұрын

@@nowvoyagerNE Watch Jack Soo smoke on Barney Miller.

Rod was a time traveler. I'v seen him.

@michaelkaminski8339

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he's right next to that hipster time traveler from the '1940's' bridge photo...lol.

@jubalcalif9100

3 жыл бұрын

Rod was a good buddy of Mr Peabody & probably had use of his Wayback Machine.

Thank You for uploading this! Wow.

This is the first time I have ever laughed out loud at Jack Benny! And I'm old enough to remember him but Jesus this was funny!! Rod Serling with something else.

You really know you’re in the Twilight Zone when they refer to cigarettes as “refreshment”.

@mikhailiagacesa3406

Жыл бұрын

It's not the TZ; it's 'Marlboro Country'. ;-)

@MrTruckerf

Жыл бұрын

Rod is frequently shown smoking, as it was considered quite normal then. Cigarettes led him to an early death at only 51.

Great little comedy skit. Funny thing is that Twilight Zone produced a script with the same general idea: season three's "Person Or Persons Unknown".

We all miss you Jack. God Bless!!!!!.

That was awesome! Thank you for posting it!

I loved Rochester's answer :D

The most amazing part of this was the end when he pushed cigarettes, so weird to see a cigarette add like that.

@jaspertickler1831

5 жыл бұрын

ikr....that was a twilight zone moment in its own way lol

@michaelkaminski8339

4 жыл бұрын

They've been edited out, but these adds were at the end of most network shows from the era sponsored by cigarette companies: Lucy, The Beverly Hillbillys, etc. I even saw one on KZread with Fred and Barney smoking at the end of the Flintstones. Seriously.

@5roundsrapid263

4 жыл бұрын

They were banned in 1971. Before then, they were a major sponsor of TV series.

Never saw this before and I am old enough to have seen it a long , long time ago . This is great!!

Excellent, thanks so much for bringing that to us I love Jack Benny as well as the Twilight Zone that was worth the wait👏🏼

WOW 😮 WAS I SHOCKED 😳 I HAD NO IDEA THIS EXISTED AND I AM SIXTY TWO ! !

@finddeniro

4 жыл бұрын

1957. .Born. Me too. .

This is awesome!! Thank you for posting!!

Thank you for your service, Rod Serling! God bless!

I had never seen this. Brilliant on so many levels. Serling was a fabulous collaborator, playing it masterfully straight. Jack and Rochester hurled their lines at each other par excellence. Jack’s writers wrote a fabulous. And CBS brass had the willingness to go along with it all and allow one wonderful to have fun with one of their prized shows. The Golden Era of TV comedy for sure! Enjoy! ❤