This was the only episode filmed at Universal Studios (then known as Unversal International Studios). The remainder of the series was filmed on the classic soundstages and backlots of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Today, the destroyed backlots are developed, the great M-G-M library is owned by Warner Bros. (through Turner), the Culver City dream factory is now Sony's, its current film library is mostly United Artists product, and M-G-M is now nostalgic name value, not much more.
Again, Westbrook Van Voohris- best known as the narrator of "The March of Time" on radio (and in their theatrical documentary shorts) during the '30s and '40s- was the narrator in the unaired version of the series' pilot. Everyone agreed Van Voohris sounded a bit "pompous" in his delivery to continue on a weekly basis...and eventually, Serling himself became narrator.
The Twilight Zone is one of the freakiest shows I have ever seen.When I watch it,I feel like that will happen to me.I doubt it will happen to anyone though.
Actually this intro was never broadcast. It was the one screened to the network. They liked the show but didn't like the intro or the narrator, so Rod Serling took over as narrator and changed the wording of the intro.
@TVFREAKMAN no this was the intro to the very first time they aired the first episode, and another thin about the first episode was when rod serlin ave an introduction to what the series was about
In a world...where Rod Serling didn't narrate the Twilight Zone, one man stepped up. He is...The Pompous Voice! Coming Summer 2XXX to a theater near YOU!
@49bradford Television decision makers seem to think in 2 dimensions. Maybe that is why television has been a sea of crap for decades. Or, maybe they can't figure out how to present the indoctrinating propaganda in a more easily-digested way...
Now THIS is cool. I have the 10 min promotional film Serling made to lure the sponsors, but i never knew this opening narration made it to the final cut. The narrator is Westbrook Van Voorhis... A very popular narrator during World War II and the Korean War that did many newsreels of the day. It was decided he just didn't portray the voiceover Rod wanted... The suggestion was made tongue-in-cheek that he should try it himself. It worked, and the rest is history.
Good thing they redid this with Rod doing the narration. The clown they have narrating this pilot sounds like he be better at shilling soap or ginsu knives.
"...and the SUNLIGHT of his knowledge..."? Man, I saw it transcribed that way once, but I figured it was a mistake! I always thought Rod Serling said, "...the pit of man's fears and the SUMMIT of his knowledge." Well, I don't care what it was. What I thought he said sounded better.
Am I the only one that infinitely prefers Herrmann's original theme? You can sure tell how awesome Rod Serling was as an announcer by his absence here!
I barely remember this series from when I was a child. In 1983, WGN aired the entire run of episodes. I was in the Navy in Florida and saw them all. Rod serling was one of a kind.
Rod's voice was better - it makes that narration complete! Sounds like they also changed "sunlight of his knowledge" to "summit" of same. This is very cool insider stuff.
Magnetism and Gravity are both properties, as they concern two entities, not a single one. A dimension is a measure of a single entity. SINGLE entity.
@rangeclerk Aren't the first three subsumed under the fourth? Height, width and depth would be the "space" part of space-time. Anyway, the traditional dimensions are more compatible with a pre-Einsteinian view of the cosmos. Some physicists nowadays speculate there could be as many as eleven.
@lesorciercalifornien Concerning 11 dimensions well consult Penrose as he has some major points as to the many problems with what some physicists think about other dimensions. A person or scientist can speculate all they want but science requires PROOF not just a bunch of math equations. Physical Proof and if that cannot be shown than it has the substance of vapor. There are Four Dimensions with SPACE/TIME being one of the FOUR. Wishful thinking is not physical science---just wishful thinking.
Considering the quality of the musicians at the time I find that unfair. The whole chart position is something I find debatable. There's so much more to music than chart positions and marketing. That's the promotional side of things.
But did Fifth Dimension perform the themesong for the first season of The Twilight Zone? If so, that's their longest lasting hit. So technically (and with the addition of "Aquarius" & "Up, Up and Away") that would set them right out of the "one hit wonder" slot.
According to wikipedia, the fifth dimension is a legitimate physics concept - "a hypothetical extra dimension beyond the usual three spatial dimensions and one time dimension of Relativity. The Kaluza-Klein theory used the fifth dimension to unify gravity with the electromagnetic force...etc"
So, the TZ must be in the sixth. Serling had it right.
Yes it is. There are the 3 basic demensions, the demension of time multiplied by the root of -1, and the demension caused by distorting those. Or something like that. See my above post.
Moron, listen to me very carefully: Gravity, magentism, and strong and weak interaction are FORCES; they're not dimensions. You don't even know how to spell dimension, you idiot.
.....Gravity? GRAVITY? Are you high? Gravity is a force based upon an object of significant mass attracting an object of lesser mass, compared to the first object. It has nothing to do with dimensions.
Gravity actually can be veiwed as the 5th demension. Seeing as how in alot of promintent theories, it is caused by the curvatured of space/time, considering that mass is only a construct, because it is just consentrated energy, so much so that it repells other matter and reflects light. Gravity is a distortion of space/time rather than the force that you likely veiw it as. Therefor, in some cases it can be veiwed as an additional demension.
By your logic, there are no forces, just dimensions. By your logic, magnetism is a dimension, as it concerns a property of an object. Properties are not dimensions.
I don't deny the existance of gravity, I simply say that it's not a true dimension. It is an interaction between two objects, which makes it the exact opposite of a dimension. Looking at one singular entity, I cannot tell if it is affected by gravity, due to the fact that a second entity has to exist to tell me this.
Notice he says "...sunlight of his knowledge..." instead of "...summit of his knowledge..."
Leads me to believe this narrator had the words dictated to him instead of written in front of him. It goes without saying that Serling's take was the best.
This is not the official opening of the debut show, it was the first opening they made for the pilot episode before changing it (thank Christ) to Serling's prior to the show's debut.
I just saw the pilot on CBS's website and the intro was waaaaaaaaaaaay different from this one. It even had Rod Serling's voice in it (or something close to it). Still, it makes me wonder where this intro came about.
The guy does sound pompous--like a patrician Grand Inquisitor or something. Whereas Rod's sonorous baritone sounds like an intellectual mystic acquainted with the street layouts of alternative realities. But Orson Welles would have been friggin awsome too! "We will sell no Twilight Zone before its time."
This one's good, but Rod's is better. There's just something about his voice, I don't know what it is, but it's perfect. No one does it better than him.
It's Westbrook Van Voorhis {the voice behind 'The March Of Time" on radio and their movie shorts in the '30s and '40s- "TIME MARCHES ON!"}, 'Mike'. Rod used him for the unaired version of the pilot episode, then decided he sounded "too pompous". After briefly considering Orson Welles [General Foods, the primary sponsor, decided HE was "too expensive"], someone said, "Why don't you YOU do it, Rod?". The rest is history...
On this pilot episode, I realise that isn't Rod Serling narrating. But who is this? Richard Basehart perhaps, or Frank Edwards from CBS News? The voice is familliar, Just can't place it though. Mike in Fresno, Ca.
there is a episode when a man and a woman are drunk and end up in a town,in the end they are in a dollhouse what is the name of this episode thank up so much sterling? wow all these years respect!
@dawnrexgurl He was a genius. There's no telling what kind of movies he would have made if had been able to live beyond 50 years old. he just couldn't seem to put those cigarettes down.
@dawnrexgurl He was a genius. There's no telling what kind of movies he would have made if had been able to live beyond 50 years old. He just couldn't seem to put those cigarettes down.
This was from an unbroadcast version of Where is Everybody? screened for Young and Repubicam in 1959. The narrator is Westbrook van Vorhees, famous for narrating the March of Time newsreels in the forties. Rod himself would do the narration when the episode came to air on October 2.
Most of the information was found in Marc Scott Zicree's "'THE TWILIGHT ZONE' Companion", 'tour'; that's how I first found out about the unaired version of the pilot and this "alternate opening".
This is Westbrook van Vorhees (the "March of Time" guy) doing the intro for an unbroadcast rough cut of "Where is Everybody?". The network wanted Orson Welles to do the intro, but he was too expensive.
Yeah, someone, I forget who, told Rod something to the effect of, "I've only ever heard of four dimensions, heighth, width, depth, and time," so the narration was changed. Good artifact, though.
Rod Serling realized that the Lusitania was a far more important ship than the Titanic. He wrote an hour long TZ ep where a man travels back into time to try to stop the Lusitania from being torpedoed not the Titanic from sinking. Serling knew the Lusitania's destruction brought the US into World War One. The Titanic sinking brought no country into anything!
How many dimensions are there? Five? Six? C'mon 50's TV. Whatever, I'll do well with the three that I know. Btw TZ is unmatched in depth and sincerity of content.
Based on what evidence? I have heard that those outside the standard 4 are essentially theoretical; theories designed to explain otherwise unexplainable phenomena.
According to The Twilight Zone Companion, Rod Serling believed there to be five, and wrote the intro so the Zone was the sixth. After someone told him there were only 4 (height, width, length, and duration/time), he corrected the intro and read it himself ("There is a fifth dimension") when TZ went in production.
That's Westbrook Van Voohris, the famous narrator of radio's (and the movie series of) "THE MARCH OF TIME" {"TIME...marches on!"}. Rod and CBS chose Westbrook to narrate this unaired version of the pilot episode [seen by network and potential sponsor executives], but decided not to retain him for the series because he sounded "too pompous". This also gave Rod a chance to change the opening title monologue a bit when he did it- from "sixth dimension" to "fifth", and "sunlight" to "summit"...
Thanks for that answer. It ended a decades-old question I had. (I'd always known that it was "summit" and NOT "sunlight", despite one article I read long ago). Then, I see THIS clip and the narrator says "sunlight"...I was gonna lose my mind! (LOL)
One question: How'd you get all this info?? I'm impressed.
Just saw that episode on Friday for school great one
boomerday487 1 week ago
This show was prob one of the funniest shows ive ever seen... It was like crazy funny hahahahahahahha
track200meters 2 months ago
This was the only episode filmed at Universal Studios (then known as Unversal International Studios). The remainder of the series was filmed on the classic soundstages and backlots of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Today, the destroyed backlots are developed, the great M-G-M library is owned by Warner Bros. (through Turner), the Culver City dream factory is now Sony's, its current film library is mostly United Artists product, and M-G-M is now nostalgic name value, not much more.
Noveltooner 3 months ago
Is there any way to see the rest of the pilot episode? I think I've seen all the rest! MANY times!!!
MoreThorin 4 months ago
@MoreThorin "Where is Everybody?" is up on YouTube.
AdrenalineAddict610 2 months ago
Again, Westbrook Van Voohris- best known as the narrator of "The March of Time" on radio (and in their theatrical documentary shorts) during the '30s and '40s- was the narrator in the unaired version of the series' pilot. Everyone agreed Van Voohris sounded a bit "pompous" in his delivery to continue on a weekly basis...and eventually, Serling himself became narrator.
fromthesidelines 5 months ago 3
Very impressive.
yogafan6500 5 months ago
Imagine if that voice was retained & Rod Serling never got to introduce the stories, would this series have been just as memorable?
Sounds too much like the "Control Voice" from The Outer Limits.
TimelordR 5 months ago
Meant to sound like Edward R. Murrow--or is is him?
ipmoic 5 months ago
I have never seen this intro. Thank You.
badoocee 6 months ago
@badoocee I did once but only once
TheVinegaroon 6 months ago
The Twilight Zone is one of the freakiest shows I have ever seen.When I watch it,I feel like that will happen to me.I doubt it will happen to anyone though.
thepatmandoo 6 months ago
@thepatmandoo I doubt that as well. . .
slimdudeDJC 6 months ago
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myrtlebox 6 months ago
to clarify, it was just the pilot intro and not the first couple of episodes, right?
balotelli456 6 months ago
@balotelli456
Actually this intro was never broadcast. It was the one screened to the network. They liked the show but didn't like the intro or the narrator, so Rod Serling took over as narrator and changed the wording of the intro.
TVFREAKMAN 6 months ago
@TVFREAKMAN no this was the intro to the very first time they aired the first episode, and another thin about the first episode was when rod serlin ave an introduction to what the series was about
balotelli456 6 months ago
In a world...where Rod Serling didn't narrate the Twilight Zone, one man stepped up. He is...The Pompous Voice! Coming Summer 2XXX to a theater near YOU!
MiniKirk 7 months ago
he narrator isnt Serling!
holdersteven 8 months ago
Serling's intro was much better than the pompous ass doing the voiceover in this one.
WoodyHertz 8 months ago
Future Events such as these will Effect you in the Future!
connerspencern 8 months ago
@connerspencern Criswell rocks! Ed Wood lives!
gompth1966 7 months ago
@gompth1966 He should have made a movie called: "Criswell LIVES!"
connerspencern 7 months ago
Very cool. Glad Rod decided to do the voice overs though.
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the 6th dimension was used in the pilot only.some exec.at cbs told Rod that there were only 4 dimensions so rod changed it to the 5th dimension.
49bradford 10 months ago
the 6th dimension was used in the pilot only.some exec.at cbs told Rod that there were only 4 dimensions so rod changed it to the 5th dimension.
49bradford 10 months ago
@49bradford Television decision makers seem to think in 2 dimensions. Maybe that is why television has been a sea of crap for decades. Or, maybe they can't figure out how to present the indoctrinating propaganda in a more easily-digested way...
bitzofdata 9 months ago
Horror novel see video book trailer
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lolmoneymoneylol 1 year ago
I like the lettering!
frankftw 1 year ago
I don't think this version was ever seen by the "general public" until it was released on DVD.
Westbroook vanVorhees was perfect for "March Of Time", but all wrong for "Twilight Zone".
altfactor 1 year ago
Now THIS is cool. I have the 10 min promotional film Serling made to lure the sponsors, but i never knew this opening narration made it to the final cut. The narrator is Westbrook Van Voorhis... A very popular narrator during World War II and the Korean War that did many newsreels of the day. It was decided he just didn't portray the voiceover Rod wanted... The suggestion was made tongue-in-cheek that he should try it himself. It worked, and the rest is history.
comdrsca 1 year ago
Good thing they redid this with Rod doing the narration. The clown they have narrating this pilot sounds like he be better at shilling soap or ginsu knives.
ryoushii 1 year ago
"...and the SUNLIGHT of his knowledge..."? Man, I saw it transcribed that way once, but I figured it was a mistake! I always thought Rod Serling said, "...the pit of man's fears and the SUMMIT of his knowledge." Well, I don't care what it was. What I thought he said sounded better.
racookster 1 year ago
@racookster i thought exactly the same!
kalsolarUK 1 year ago
Doesn't sound right with this guy. They made a wise decision having Rod Serling narrate the show.
FoxPlant2006 1 year ago
I was BORN in 1959!! Thx for the memories!
smileedi59 1 year ago
amzing that 60 years late this series still fuckin pwns noobs fro breakfast
jakeo96 1 year ago
In Soviet Russia, TWILIGHT ZONES YOU
jman22009 1 year ago
Friggin "twilight" Only if you have the ZONE.
KatangHarmony 1 year ago
With all the crap happening around us... THE WORLD is in the TWILIGHT ZONE!
dijibeat 1 year ago 12
Wow. The mysterious dimension is the 11th one in these days :D
epicmaster105 1 year ago
Am I the only one that infinitely prefers Herrmann's original theme? You can sure tell how awesome Rod Serling was as an announcer by his absence here!
axecalibore 1 year ago
I barely remember this series from when I was a child. In 1983, WGN aired the entire run of episodes. I was in the Navy in Florida and saw them all. Rod serling was one of a kind.
geinman1287 1 year ago
ウォルター・クロンカイトの声かな？ CBSだし．
Chikumaya 1 year ago
Rod's voice is definitely indispensable to this opening narration.
UnsilentE 1 year ago
damn twilight zone theme!! always giving me the creeps!
armorArtichoke 1 year ago
NICE , yes indeed , very 1950's , LOL !!! , I'm glad they made other intros. season 1
LadySierraSays 1 year ago
It MIGHT be called the Twilight Zone. It damn well is!
cyclysm748 1 year ago
Who is narrating this?
thetevinator 1 year ago
Sounds like Charles Collingsworth doing the voice-over.
He was a T.V. newsman back then.
ipmoic 2 years ago
did you know he was born december 25th?
mrfourtysevenman 2 years ago
This music makes me think of a 1959 Cadillac rusting on the side of society.
Supergungun 2 years ago
No matter which intro version to the Twilight Zone you see....they ALL give me the Heebie Geebies !!
dovermoreno 2 years ago
Gravity is a myth and you know what, Oxygen doesnt exsist haha
zZArsenicZz 2 years ago
well since these other comments are so rivoting i just wanna say that i love the monologue in this one. but i do prefer the other one with rod
giantshadow17 2 years ago 5
@giantshadow17
SHUT UP YOU GRAVITY DENIER
yington 2 years ago
Rod's voice was better - it makes that narration complete! Sounds like they also changed "sunlight of his knowledge" to "summit" of same. This is very cool insider stuff.
UnsilentE 2 years ago 2
@UnsilentE . I agree. He was way cooler than these standard 50s narrator voices.
MrFibes 2 years ago
Magnetism and Gravity are both properties, as they concern two entities, not a single one. A dimension is a measure of a single entity. SINGLE entity.
iammishahearmeroar 2 years ago
Wait a sec, this one says 6th, but the season one intros say 5th. What is with that?
riadse87 2 years ago
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iDraw3G 2 years ago
randy, thrilling, great.
kerbschnitzerxxx 2 years ago
First dimension--height
Second dimension--width
Third dimension--depth.
Fourth dimension--time
Fifth Dimension--mediocre '60s band.
lesorciercalifornien 2 years ago 100
Fourth Dimension is Space/Time
rangeclerk 2 years ago
You made my night!
ghostofdayinperson 2 years ago
6th Dimension--Briliant YouTube quotes :)
smallvilleSGL 2 years ago
@lesorciercalifornien Fourth Dimension is----space/time
rangeclerk 1 year ago
@rangeclerk Aren't the first three subsumed under the fourth? Height, width and depth would be the "space" part of space-time. Anyway, the traditional dimensions are more compatible with a pre-Einsteinian view of the cosmos. Some physicists nowadays speculate there could be as many as eleven.
lesorciercalifornien 1 year ago
@lesorciercalifornien Concerning 11 dimensions well consult Penrose as he has some major points as to the many problems with what some physicists think about other dimensions. A person or scientist can speculate all they want but science requires PROOF not just a bunch of math equations. Physical Proof and if that cannot be shown than it has the substance of vapor. There are Four Dimensions with SPACE/TIME being one of the FOUR. Wishful thinking is not physical science---just wishful thinking.
rangeclerk 1 year ago
@lesorciercalifornien Sixth Dimension-- a dimension of mind, time, and sound, a dimension otherwise known as, The Twilight Zone
DrayFan12 1 year ago
Who did "Aquarius", which (based on the lyrics alone) does not make them mediocre at all.
LunaSeaSane 1 year ago
@LunaSeaSane Which makes them a one-hit wonder, OK, two if you count "Up, Up and Away." Not exactly the stamp of greatness.
lesorciercalifornien 1 year ago
Considering the quality of the musicians at the time I find that unfair. The whole chart position is something I find debatable. There's so much more to music than chart positions and marketing. That's the promotional side of things.
But did Fifth Dimension perform the themesong for the first season of The Twilight Zone? If so, that's their longest lasting hit. So technically (and with the addition of "Aquarius" & "Up, Up and Away") that would set them right out of the "one hit wonder" slot.
LunaSeaSane 1 year ago
@lesorciercalifornien So, Alex Trebek belongs in the Mediocre '60s Band dimension?
n00buler89 1 year ago
@n00buler89 Where Alex Trebek belongs is probably better left unsaid. All I know is Jeopardy would be much more watchable with a different host.
lesorciercalifornien 1 year ago
weres the twilight zone dimension i wan go there
sdafdsffdsjkfdfhdjk 1 year ago
@lesorciercalifornien They used to think the fifth dimension was electromegnetism. We don't anymore though.
Anthonyk312 1 year ago
@lesorciercalifornien there's just one problem; he said sixth dimention, not fifth...(tin tun tin tun tin tun tin tun)
aksmar18 1 year ago
@lesorciercalifornien That was the coolest comment I have ever read.
TwizzleMyNizzleTV 9 months ago
Sixth Dimension--The Forbidden Zone.
larval1977 7 months ago
Good one.
badoocee 6 months ago
I miss Serling...
WetKant 2 years ago 5
This show is awesome! They should keep makeing it!
starpopcorn2 2 years ago
now they only make stupid stories... the original are way better!!!
thomasken 2 years ago 28
@thomasken the byrds had a record 5 d the 5th dimension
spacepatrolman 5 months ago
I love watching this show!!
jjmay12 2 years ago 3
"A sixth dimension?" Um, that should be "Fifth." Height, width, depth, time, and... an area which we call, the "Twilight Zone."
BigOldCar 2 years ago
According to wikipedia, the fifth dimension is a legitimate physics concept - "a hypothetical extra dimension beyond the usual three spatial dimensions and one time dimension of Relativity. The Kaluza-Klein theory used the fifth dimension to unify gravity with the electromagnetic force...etc"
So, the TZ must be in the sixth. Serling had it right.
genericmeatunit 2 years ago
What?!
It's well known that the five dimensions are:
Height, width, depth, time, gravity.
The sixth is known as Twilightinisity, which is where the name of this series comes from.
But thanks for coming! Now bye!
yington 2 years ago
Read my response above.
BigOldCar 2 years ago
Yes I know, & i refer you to my message.
yington 2 years ago
Ask any physicist, gravity is NOT a dimension
iDraw3G 2 years ago 3
@iDraw3G
What's it like in wonderland ?
Are there elves and santa claus ?
yington 2 years ago
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gravity is a force, not a dimension, you moron
etsyethbfxd 2 years ago
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Grow up mate, and learn some science.
yington 2 years ago
Gravity isn't a dimension, you fucking idiot
davidrey444 2 years ago
Yes it is. There are the 3 basic demensions, the demension of time multiplied by the root of -1, and the demension caused by distorting those. Or something like that. See my above post.
JumpsuitJamboree 2 years ago
Moron, listen to me very carefully: Gravity, magentism, and strong and weak interaction are FORCES; they're not dimensions. You don't even know how to spell dimension, you idiot.
iDraw3G 2 years ago
@davidrey444 , listen to me you fuckin idiot, you are trying to disagree with established science ?
Gravity is a dimension - fact.
What next, are you going to claim that height isn't a dimension ?
That width is merely a precondisolular abstract panasorian concept preluded by misconceptions ?
You mug.
yington 2 years ago
.....Gravity? GRAVITY? Are you high? Gravity is a force based upon an object of significant mass attracting an object of lesser mass, compared to the first object. It has nothing to do with dimensions.
iammishahearmeroar 2 years ago
Gravity actually can be veiwed as the 5th demension. Seeing as how in alot of promintent theories, it is caused by the curvatured of space/time, considering that mass is only a construct, because it is just consentrated energy, so much so that it repells other matter and reflects light. Gravity is a distortion of space/time rather than the force that you likely veiw it as. Therefor, in some cases it can be veiwed as an additional demension.
JumpsuitJamboree 2 years ago
By your logic, there are no forces, just dimensions. By your logic, magnetism is a dimension, as it concerns a property of an object. Properties are not dimensions.
iammishahearmeroar 2 years ago
Magnetism IS a deminsion, and so is radiation and heat. I forget who's theory it is, but I'm speaking fully in semantics here.
JumpsuitJamboree 2 years ago
@iammishahearmeroar
The only person that is high, is the person that denies that gravity exists , i.e. you.
Because in your world you will remain high because gravity will not bring you down...because you think it doesn't exist !!!
My gosh, what next, height isn't a dimension ?
Pitiful.
yington 2 years ago
I don't deny the existance of gravity, I simply say that it's not a true dimension. It is an interaction between two objects, which makes it the exact opposite of a dimension. Looking at one singular entity, I cannot tell if it is affected by gravity, due to the fact that a second entity has to exist to tell me this.
iammishahearmeroar 2 years ago
Great episode, but I've never seen the opening before. Thanks for posting this.
whbon73 2 years ago
I HAV 108 OF THEM ON VEOH
JOHN02099 2 years ago
Notice he says "...sunlight of his knowledge..." instead of "...summit of his knowledge..."
Leads me to believe this narrator had the words dictated to him instead of written in front of him. It goes without saying that Serling's take was the best.
steelymax 2 years ago
Imagine if you will an announcer you can barely understand.
Leafblade27 2 years ago
it sounds like he might be eating something, or perhaps he's drunk
grandrevolution 2 years ago
This is not the official opening of the debut show, it was the first opening they made for the pilot episode before changing it (thank Christ) to Serling's prior to the show's debut.
MisterMasterShafter 2 years ago
such a great series, will there be anything like it again?
aptajg 2 years ago
I just saw the pilot on CBS's website and the intro was waaaaaaaaaaaay different from this one. It even had Rod Serling's voice in it (or something close to it). Still, it makes me wonder where this intro came about.
Holmes82497 2 years ago
there are many cool intros, rod sterling speaks to the camera in the pilot giving a short intro ;)
EdgeUHF 2 years ago
The guy does sound pompous--like a patrician Grand Inquisitor or something. Whereas Rod's sonorous baritone sounds like an intellectual mystic acquainted with the street layouts of alternative realities. But Orson Welles would have been friggin awsome too! "We will sell no Twilight Zone before its time."
dnggitg 2 years ago
Awesome , Classic TWZ rulez. !!!!
LadySierraSays 2 years ago
This one's good, but Rod's is better. There's just something about his voice, I don't know what it is, but it's perfect. No one does it better than him.
gibsondevil666 2 years ago 2
I wholeheartedly agree with you gibsondevil666!
Rod Serling's voice gave it a dark, mysterious, somewhat deceptive tone and sort of set your psyche for what was about to happen.
ryanspeed 2 years ago
Van Voorhis had previously been the narrator of producers George Burns & Al Simon's 1957 short-lived anthlogy, "PANIC", 'typonids'.
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
wow first time ive ever heard this intro thanks
sodbuster925 2 years ago
It's Westbrook Van Voorhis {the voice behind 'The March Of Time" on radio and their movie shorts in the '30s and '40s- "TIME MARCHES ON!"}, 'Mike'. Rod used him for the unaired version of the pilot episode, then decided he sounded "too pompous". After briefly considering Orson Welles [General Foods, the primary sponsor, decided HE was "too expensive"], someone said, "Why don't you YOU do it, Rod?". The rest is history...
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
"too pompous"? Ouch...
AAMLfan 2 years ago
On this pilot episode, I realise that isn't Rod Serling narrating. But who is this? Richard Basehart perhaps, or Frank Edwards from CBS News? The voice is familliar, Just can't place it though. Mike in Fresno, Ca.
ATSFMike 2 years ago
there is a episode when a man and a woman are drunk and end up in a town,in the end they are in a dollhouse what is the name of this episode thank up so much sterling? wow all these years respect!
dawnrexgurl 2 years ago
'Stopover in a Quiet Town' from season 5
noshow22 2 years ago
Exit 5.
BadGurl404 2 years ago
your right Serling wow Im such a huge fan thanks for waking me up question
dawnrexgurl 2 years ago
Im39 and i swear I thought it Sterling all these years maybe im in the twilight zone how could i miss that?
dawnrexgurl 2 years ago
Sterling died too soon genius because of him I write thanks mr Sterling!
dawnrexgurl 2 years ago 9
His name's Serling, actually.
JasonMalaprop 2 years ago 18
@dawnrexgurl LOL he's sooo influential and you can't even spell his name?
ShaolinViolin 1 year ago
@dawnrexgurl He was a genius. There's no telling what kind of movies he would have made if had been able to live beyond 50 years old. he just couldn't seem to put those cigarettes down.
IamAdamWafer 1 year ago
@dawnrexgurl He was a genius. There's no telling what kind of movies he would have made if had been able to live beyond 50 years old. He just couldn't seem to put those cigarettes down.
IamAdamWafer 1 year ago
@IamAdamWafer
He didn't die of lung cancer he had a heart attack. Heart problems ran in his family. I'm not dismissing that cigs are bad for your health though.
MyTeelee 1 year ago
Damn i love this show. thanks for posting the original intro!
FearandLoathinginSD 2 years ago
No can replace the voice of Rod Serling in his own Twilight Zone show ... the thought of doing so is ludicrous. Rod's voice=TZ ... end of story.
TonyLearner 3 years ago 3
Hahaha! he fell down and tripped! WEEEE
ACKBART 3 years ago
This was from an unbroadcast version of Where is Everybody? screened for Young and Repubicam in 1959. The narrator is Westbrook van Vorhees, famous for narrating the March of Time newsreels in the forties. Rod himself would do the narration when the episode came to air on October 2.
lorddalek 3 years ago
isn't the actual episode here "where is everybody"?
BushidoBrownSama 3 years ago
yup
1devo6587 3 years ago
rod serling=genius
TonySav17 3 years ago 3
i love the other one ummmm the diff anouncer dude idk
ilyJonasBros55 3 years ago
Hey that's Earl Holliman walking down the road to Mulberry...
cmf1965 3 years ago
Who is the narrator? - That isn't Sterling's voice.
onn1320 3 years ago
ofcourse it isnt sterlings! sterlings voice is always noticable! lol
Markeyssc 3 years ago
you just gotta love the specil effects of the '50s! lol
LevCano1993 3 years ago
They're great.
NewDaysofNoah 3 years ago
Most of the information was found in Marc Scott Zicree's "'THE TWILIGHT ZONE' Companion", 'tour'; that's how I first found out about the unaired version of the pilot and this "alternate opening".
fromthesidelines 3 years ago
This show was way ahead of its time, much like Star Trek.
prausch65 3 years ago
His name was Westbrook Van Voorhis, 'lorddalek'...
fromthesidelines 3 years ago
This is Westbrook van Vorhees (the "March of Time" guy) doing the intro for an unbroadcast rough cut of "Where is Everybody?". The network wanted Orson Welles to do the intro, but he was too expensive.
lorddalek 3 years ago
I've never seen this one, I don't know where you got it! Very interesting!
tall32guy 3 years ago
i don´t speak english,(i`m from Peru) but i´ll make the try, this is the first episode, the pilot and the name is: "WHERE IS EVERYBODY?"
ps.: Led Zeppelin!!!
garuda102 3 years ago
Yeah, someone, I forget who, told Rod something to the effect of, "I've only ever heard of four dimensions, heighth, width, depth, and time," so the narration was changed. Good artifact, though.
Teflon65 3 years ago
where have i seen this. is it on the bonus features of the definitive collection? i know i've watched it before.
InlovewithNile 3 years ago
Rod Sterling fought in WWII. Its strange how the twilight zone the year JFK was killed.
doox420 3 years ago
Rod Serling realized that the Lusitania was a far more important ship than the Titanic. He wrote an hour long TZ ep where a man travels back into time to try to stop the Lusitania from being torpedoed not the Titanic from sinking. Serling knew the Lusitania's destruction brought the US into World War One. The Titanic sinking brought no country into anything!
BestManMe09 3 years ago
How many dimensions are there? Five? Six? C'mon 50's TV. Whatever, I'll do well with the three that I know. Btw TZ is unmatched in depth and sincerity of content.
bigern19882007 3 years ago
there are actually 11 dimensions
Blastuhamma 3 years ago
Based on what evidence? I have heard that those outside the standard 4 are essentially theoretical; theories designed to explain otherwise unexplainable phenomena.
nurbSoldier 3 years ago
According to The Twilight Zone Companion, Rod Serling believed there to be five, and wrote the intro so the Zone was the sixth. After someone told him there were only 4 (height, width, length, and duration/time), he corrected the intro and read it himself ("There is a fifth dimension") when TZ went in production.
1manwalkingfreakshow 3 years ago
Oddly enough, The Fifth Dimension would surface in seven or so years. Rod was eventually right :D
torgman 3 years ago
wow, great intro, never saw this before. I am glad Rod ended up doing the narration throughout the whole series. Thanks for the upload
fairfax662 3 years ago
That's Westbrook Van Voohris, the famous narrator of radio's (and the movie series of) "THE MARCH OF TIME" {"TIME...marches on!"}. Rod and CBS chose Westbrook to narrate this unaired version of the pilot episode [seen by network and potential sponsor executives], but decided not to retain him for the series because he sounded "too pompous". This also gave Rod a chance to change the opening title monologue a bit when he did it- from "sixth dimension" to "fifth", and "sunlight" to "summit"...
fromthesidelines 3 years ago
Thanks for that answer. It ended a decades-old question I had. (I'd always known that it was "summit" and NOT "sunlight", despite one article I read long ago). Then, I see THIS clip and the narrator says "sunlight"...I was gonna lose my mind! (LOL)
One question: How'd you get all this info?? I'm impressed.
tourmonkey 3 years ago
who is talking here?
Kvltman 3 years ago 2