"Twilight Zone" promo for "To Serve Man"

(Spoiler: do not watch if you haven't seen the episode yet!) From 1962, brief promo for the famous TZ third season episode starring Richard Kiel, Lloyd Bochner and Susan Cummings. Thanks to Mike Bruchas for this video.

From http://tulsaTVmemories.com/brucwing.html#griffin

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[Beerlejuice]

I know that he's not in the episode but doesn't the alien kind of sound like Vincent Price? I don't know maybe it's just me.

[tulsatv]

The highly refined voice of Joseph Ruskin was dubbed for Richard Kiel in this episode. He also played a well-dressed genie in "The Twilight Zone" episode "The Man in the Bottle", and "Galt" in the original Star Trek episode, "The Gamesters of Triskelion"

[TroyOi]

BTW, I just want to recommend to anyone who watches this that you also view the 3-part interview between Mike Wallace and Rod Serling, here on YouTube. What an incredible guy Serling was -- articulate, creative, and a man of great integrity and candor. To think what he might have done had he not been hampered by the timidity and self-imposed limits of commercial television of his day.

[tulsatv]

Thanks for that info, I just relayed it to the webmaster of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation web site.

[tulsatv]

No, Lurch was Ted Cassidy.

[TBomb068]

This one of my favorite episodes of the Twilight Zone. They don't make shows like this anymore.... Rod Serling was a man with an extraordinary gift in story telling. I still watch this show on Sci Fi Channel.

[generalserling]

One of the great theings about Rod Serling was that almost every one of his stories had a big twist, making it more interesting than Hollywood today

[marktsheppard]

...to serve kids/teenagers... for the Medical-Industry... so... don't get on that Ambulance... because they might take your organs... and especially if your an orphan... motherfuckers!!!

[Thundralight]

@tonycom They did not make promos for the twilight zone episodes!!

[Thundralight]

Makes you wonder. I mean everything is eating everything else and we believe we are at the top of this food chain but what if we are under a delusion and some aliens are feeding on us and we have no more a clue about it as does a cow grazing happily in a pasture has that he is being fattened for the slaughter. We are programmed to believe we all die or get old & die so that we will not become suspious or alarmed of people vanishing by the millions. Like cattle- some are left to age - some veal

[TroyOi]

@jackdeath Sorry guy, I was in a giddy mood when I wrote that. I was extremely surprised & amused at the brevity of that story. I'm sure Mr. Knight's irritation at Serling's treatment of his work was mild, at worst. It must have been well-tempered by the knowledge that it was immortalized as perhaps the definitive TZ episode, & that concessions had to be made to the limitations of a 30 min TV show in 1960. I doubt he got his panties into much of a bunch over the show, and neither should we.

[jackdeath]

@TroyOi Oh! So that’s how we’re going to play!

If you feel the need to be abusive, then can I play that game too?

Damon Knight was my professor at the Clarion Workshop. That is how I learned his opinion. He learned to accept it over the years. The same way Harry Harrison learned to accept “Solent Green is people” line based on his book *Make Room, Make Room*. (Don’t bother reading that book, it’s nothing remotely like the film.)

...But I support your right to be completely clueless.

[TroyOi]

@jackdeath Guess what? I just read "To Serve Man" by Damon Knight. And you know what? I think you are totally full of shit. Sorry for being so blunt.

Knight's story takes all of 10 minutes to read. If anything, Serling's version is an improvement. I also have some serious doubts about your assertion that Knight considered Serling to have "butchered" his story. But please feel free to show me the source of your certainty to that effect.

That said, thanks for inspiring me to read it.

[jackdeath]

@TroyOi Maybe if you pay more than a cursory attention to your own comments ...? Just saying...

Damon Knight didn’t like this episode based on his short story To Serve Man, which was a classical satire on the human condition turned into a shaggy dog story for television. He was firmly against second-order idiot plots, where the story could only happen if everyone in the society of the story acted like idiots. He thought that Rod Serling had pretty much done that with his adaptation.

[TroyOi]

@jackdeath OK, now I get it. (Hey, don't assume we all live inside your head... how about providing a little context for your comments, when warranted?)

So you think Serling could've done a better job within the confines of a 25 minute show? Not having read the story, I wouldn't have a clue. At the risk of giving away spoilers to anyone who might yet read the story (which, thanks to you, I'm now downloading), wanna explain what he mangled?

[jackdeath]

@TroyOi "To Serve Man" by Damon Knight, Galaxy magazine (1950).

Are you sure you know what comment for which video promo I am responding to?