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"The Obsolete Man" hit the airwaves for the first time on this day in 1961!

2.29 The Obsolete Man

Director: Elliot Silverstein

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.”

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Celebrating its 64th anniversary today in the memorable classic Twilight Zone episode "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"

2.28 Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“You’ve heard of trying to find a needle in a haystack? Well, stay with us now, and you’ll be part of an investigating team whose mission is not to find that proverbial needle, no, their task is even harder. They’ve got to find a martian in a diner…”

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Way back in 1963, "The Bard" aired for this first time on this day in the Twilight Zone!

4.18 The Bard

Director: David Butler

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“You’ve just witnessed opportunity, if not knocking, at least scratching plaintively on a closed door. Mr. Julius Moomer, a would-be writer who, if talent came twenty-five cents a pound, would be worth less than car fare. But, in a moment, Mr. Moomer, through the offices of some black magic, is about to embark on a brand-new career.”

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"The Chaser" first aired on this day in 1960.

1.31 The Chaser

Director: Douglas Heyes

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“I promise you she’ll never leave your side. When she isn’t telling you she loves you, she’ll be gazing at you lovingly. She won’t even eat before you do, and nothing will be too much for you to ask of her. She’ll worship you. She’ll beg for kisses, and weep for joy at your touch. And if in passing time you should perhaps look at another girl, or, even do a little more than look, she’ll feel hurt. But she’ll forgive you, and love you just the same. Frankly, you’d get the same shake from a cocker spaniel.”

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OTD in the Twilight Zone, "Shadow Play" premiered 64 years ago!

2.26 Shadow Play

Director: John Brahm

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“Adam Grant, a nondescript kind of man, found guilty of murder and sentenced to the electric chair. Like every other criminal caught in the wheels of justice, he’s scared, right down to the marrow of his bones. But it isn’t prison that scares him, the long, silent nights of waiting, the slow walk to the little room, or even death itself.“

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For the first time, on this day in 1963, "On Thursday We Leave for Home" hit the airwaves!

4.16 On Thursday We Leave for Home

Director: Buzz Kulik

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“ William Benteen, who had prerogatives: he could lead, he could direct, dictate, judge, legislate. It became a habit, then a pattern, and finally a necessity. William Benteen, once a god–now a population of one.”

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OTD in the Twilight Zone, "Stopover in a Quiet Town" aired for the very first time in 1964!

5.30 Stopover in a Quiet Town

Director: Ron Winston

Director of Photography: Robert Pittack

“Bob and Millie Frazier, average young New Yorkers who attended a party in the country last night, and on the way home, took a detour. Most of us on waking in the morning know exactly where we are. The rooster or the alarm clock brings us out of sleep into the familiar sights, sounds, aromas of home and the comfort of a routine day ahead. Not so with our young friends.”

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Back in 1960, "A Nice Place to Visit" premiered!

1.28 A Nice Place to Visit

Director: John Brahm

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“He’s tired now, tired of running or wanting, of waiting for the breaks that come to others but never to him, never to Rocky Valentine. A scared, angry little man. He thinks it’s all over now but he’s wrong. For Rocky Valentine, it’s just the beginning.”

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On this day in the Twilight Zone, in 1964, "Caesar and Me" premiered.

5.28 Caesar and Me

Director: Robert Butler

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“Jonathan West, ventriloquist, a master of voice manipulation. A man, late of Ireland, with a talent for putting words into other peoples’ mouths. In this case, the other person is a dummy, aptly named Caesar, a small splinter with large ideas, a wooden tyrant with a mind and a voice of his own…”

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On this day 65 years ago, "Execution" hit the airwaves for the first time!

1.26 Execution

Director: David Orrick McDearmon

Director of Cinematography: George T. Clemens

“There are the marks of a rope etched deeply into his neck. He has no explanation for this. And I have one other observation, hardly scientific. I don’t like his looks. I don’t like the eyes, or the face, or the expression. I get a feeling of disquiet. I… I get a feeling that I’ve taken a 19th-century primitive and placed him in a 20th-century jungle. And heaven help whoever gets in his way.“

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OTD in 1964, Ivan Dixon returned to The Twilight Zone for "I am the Night—Color Me Black"!

5.26 I am the Night—Color Me Black

Director: Abner Biberman

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“In all this darkness, is there anybody who can make out the truth? He hated, and he killed, and now he dies. And you hated, you killed, and now there’s not one of you… not one of you who isn’t doomed. Do you know why it’s dark? Do you know why it is night all around us? Do you know what the blackness is? It’s the hate he felt, the hate you felt, the hate all of us feel, and there’s too much of it. There’s just too much. And so we had to vomit it out. And now it’s coming up all around us and choking us. So much hate, so much miserable hate.”

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OTD in The Twilight Zone, "Long Live Walter Jameson" aired for the first time 65 years ago!

1.24 Long Live Walter Jameson

Director: Anton Leader

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“I thought if a man lived forever, he’d grow wiser. But that isn’t true, is it?”

“You just go on living, that’s all.”

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"What's in the Box" starring Bill Demarest and Joan Blondell first hit the airwaves OTD in 1964!

5.24 What’s in the Box

Director: Richard L. Bare

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“Portrait of a TV fan. Name: Joe Britt. Occupation: cab driver. Tonight, Mr. Britt is going to watch ‘a really big show,’ something special for the cabbie who’s seen everything.”

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OTD in The Twilight Zone, "No Time Like the Past" starring Dana Andrews aired for the first time in 1963!

4.10 No Time Like the Past

Director: Justus Addiss

Director of Photography: Robert Pittack

“You’ll go back to your bank, and it’ll be business as usual… until next dinnertime, when you’ll give us another vacuous speech about enlarging and strengthening countries by filling graveyards. Well, if THIS country shares your devilishly virile sentiments–as I dread it just might–then you’re in for some gratifying times, Mr. Hanford. Believe me, there’ll be a lot of graveyards for America to fill… and not just her own. We’ll show how red our blood is, because we’ll spill it. And we’ll show how red our neighbors’ blood is, because we’ll spill that too. Chances are you won’t have to spill any yourself, or to be there when all that I’ve spoken of comes to pass. I simply don’t know whether to pity you because of said likelihood, or to envy you for it.”

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"Mirror Image" first hit the airwaves OTD in 1960! That makes today its 65th anniversary!

1.21 Mirror Image

Director: John Brahm

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“Obscure metaphysical explanation to cover a phenomenon, reasons dredged out of the shadows to explain away that which cannot be explained. Call it parallel planes or just insanity.”

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"Spur of the Moment" aired OTD for the first time in 1964!

5.21 Spur of the Moment

Director: Elliot Silverstein

Director of Photography: Robert Pittack

“This is the face of terror: Anne Marie Mitchell, forty-three years of age, her desolate existence once more afflicted by the hope of altering her past mistake—a hope which is, unfortunately, doomed to disappointment. For warnings from the future to the past must be taken in the past; today may change tomorrow but once today is gone, tomorrow can only look back in sorrow that the warning was ignored.”

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OTD in the Twilight Zone, "From Agnes—with Love" aired for the first time in 1964! Happy Valentine's Day... I guess!

5.20 From Agnes - with Love 

Director: Richard Donner

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“Advice to all future male scientists: be sure you understand the opposite sex, especially if you intend being a computer expert.”

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