Twilight Zone Live: The Obsolete Man [full]

August 30th, 2008 live performance of Rod Serling's classic Twilight Zone episode "The Obsolete Man" at the Blue Room Theatre, Chico, CA.
Featuring Jesse Mills as the Chancellor, Quentin Colgan as Romney Wordsworth the librarian and Michael Townzen as Rod Serling. Adapted and directed by Craig Blamer.

[@millkee2180]

This was the absolute best episode of The Twilight Zone, of all times. That is why no one will ever upload the original. Indeed, ahead of it's time! This episode was supposedly taken place in the future; where TRUTH is the enemy, and LOGIC is a menace! My GOD, we have surly arrived! 🙏🏾💕👏

[@Soli_Deo_Gloria_.]

Check out Mark Dice newest video. It has arrived indeed.

[@jkronen1000]

My favorite of all time -

[@scottaynsley2152]

a clear representation of the long standing dichotomy. thanks to all that had a hand in making the episode available to all, and at no cost.

[@bornagain1589]

Clearly a omen of today's world!

[@gray2332]

+Bad Babboo Not an omen, a warning.

[@bornagain1589]

Isn't that the same ?

[@gray2332]

+Bad Babboo Well the word omen implies that it is actually going to happen no matter what. At least in my mind anyway.

[@TheOneAndOnlyZeno1889]

5 years later, and Proto-Nazis are going around forcing experimental injections into people against there will, implementing forced "papers please" policy straight out of Nazi Germany... welcome, to the Past. Fascism comes full circle.

[@Nonamearisto]

"The state has declared you deplorable! You cling to guns and religion! How do you plead?"

[@JimandSteph7]

Guilty as Sin

[@keiroty7187]

The government is guilty as charged

[@sandytinky]

I plead guilty.

[@markmace2113]

Obama clinging to your guns and your Bible. Also says America is no longer a Christian Nation what a wonderful vote that was for everybody. Not I

[@sonrouge]

"The state be damned."

[@Irishcloth]

To the person who said not to get political about this, the whole thing was extremely political. That's the point of the episode. It's a warning about a government that has gone to far. It's very clear about that. This needs to be shown to every person now. We are going down a very scary path right now and it's like no one realizes it.

[@Starwalker-lu3ot]

+Irishcloth You are correct.

[@ericpeterson1330]

+Irishcloth We have many ignorant people in this country who believe that old, failed ideologies (i.e. marxism) can be repackaged and sold. Unfortunately the ignorant folks are eating this up as if its something "new". The "liberal communists" in our country are putting us on the EXACT path to a totalitarian state, just as is shown in the great old episode of TZ. Words have "meaning". The meaning of the word "socialism" doesn't change just because someone puts the word "democratic" in front of it. This is what people don't see, in addition to the murderous nature of totalitarian regimes. This is the ideology that our parents/grandparents fought and died eliminating during WWII. Marxism needs to be eradicated, once and for all.

[@Redandranger]

Uh --- our parents didn't fight in WW2 to defeat Marxism. Your history book must have lost some pages.

[@rickroscoe4734]

Pritchard - No, but we fought Korea and Vietnam for that reason, moron. Your History book must have been written by Marxists.

[@Redandranger]

And how did Korea and Vietnam work out?

[@rafaelmadrigal9038]

Perfect for 2020 America today.

[@dwightmcqueen5771]

Rod sterling was so right about everything .

[@culperjr.122]

Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

[@Wellch]

Trudea of Canada is the chancellor

[@coastalcowboy707]

2021 Another step towards the Twilight Zone. The obsolete voter.

[@rawhorley5977]

Today it's Called "Being Canceled", by Social Media !

[@whitelion44]

I wish there were more episodes done this way

[@wesleycook7687]

I wish people would quit trying to remake classic Twilight Zone episodes.

[@loralynf.9722]

I can't believe how this hits home 🗽

[@jonneilsmyth9107]

what about now

[@loralynf.9722]

@@jonneilsmyth9107 most definitely

[@gabrielaparks4740]

It is here today.

[@brianemory1593]

MAybe folks need to hear this now!

[@rjww64]

How Prophetic this Episode was and how in 2022 is so relevant to the way things are happening to a Tee!! Lessons to be learned here for the Left.

[@rodicow3491]

Did you mean: The party committing genocide on trans people? The party who wanted immuno suppressed and compromised to die for the economy? The people who consistently vote against prenatal care and providing infant formula supply? Is that who you meant? Sorry for your typo

[@Mr72Dolphins]

2021........?

[@potatoguns7989]

Solid reproduction of one of the best peices ever written. BRAVO

[@TheFirstManticore]

Timely in 2021!

[@3V1LW1Z4RD]

That music gets me every time

[@clbdyc]

All episodes on Hulu

[@buggy123roberson]

To our Heavenly Father every man, woman, child and animal is precious.

[@fadej.3511]

The "Unessential" worker ...the irony!

[@Tom-ym2id]

So true.

[@UncaTuck]

After all the obsolete people are disposed of, wouldn't this panel doing the judging also become obsolete?

[@samuraichampionz]

Jesus said Judge not less you be Judged Matthew 7:1

[@Veevslav1]

@@samuraichampionz "1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. " Let me ask you, if you make a righteous judgment of anther's intentions will it be counted as a righteous judgment? How do you do anything if you judge not? Instead of a preacher maybe you should take the spirit of Christ to be your guide, the spirit teaches more and costs less.

[@aguyfromnothere]

They always find new people to make obsolete. Cultural revolution never stops.

[@annebruce5135]

And the republican states have achieved their goal now in 2022

[@toddbrothers5669]

good... no, great job fellas.

[@ralphcarneymovies1919]

So good. Thank you.

[@MegatronSmurf]

Thanks for doing this I just want to watch the episode but KZbin is Shiite now

[@sleepygothgirl]

@Craig Blamer, please fix your description of the video. Wordsworth was played by Burgess Meredith (yes, the same who played the Penguin on Batman in the 60's).

[@EmmanuelWifey]

excellent excellent job!!!! This is my favorite twilight zone episode 👍👍👍👍👍

[@sharoniam5426]

Red pill or blue pill!

[@Stanbott]

I was in chico and saw the sign but didnt get to see it at the tiem. I wished I had bought the ticket

[@ralphbentley5499]

I wasn't sure which of 2 of my playlist should include this video, so I included it in both Misconduct & The Case For Private Firearms Ownership.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

Iran...Cuba...North Korea....Great Britain...etc...etc...etc....Berkley many Campuses(?)

[@adamtal7569]

Ever-green !

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

@@adamtal7569 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

[@dilciafermin7180]

I can't believe there is a tl episode that i haven seen. Good one.

[@Treefoxxi]

Why was the actor playing Serling playing him so maliciously? Like snarling words out ...Serling was calm and grinning or serious...

[@therubicon]

This is most amazing that a troupe did an entire stage play!

[@GirGir183]

It used to be possible to see episodes from the original series from the late 50s-early 60s. Any way to watch them on youtube now? It seems they're just not available anymore.

[@225kristent]

Netflix has several of them and it has this episode. It's Season 2, Ep 29

[@AtticTapes14]

Bible did say RESPECT AUTHORITY, and GIVE TO CESAR WHAT IS CESAR'S.

[@Soli_Deo_Gloria_.]

Came here after seeing Mark Dice ask people on the street to sign a petition to ban Amazon from selling bibles, and the vast majority signed. *Sigh...*

[@RoemelloDouglas]

I came to find clip because of @WoodwardTv

[@randyc.7602]

at. :48 in this episode Rod Serling describes the future of Wynn & Encore Las Vegas & it's creater! STUDY, LEARN, MAKE LOTS OF $$$$ enjoy your life on planet earth.

[@kevinsspanish]

The DNC!...WOW!

[@atlas4628]

My Home town!

[@noneanywhere7600]

Good stage presence, although the actor playing Rod Sterling was trying too hard IMO.

[@barneydefanfaler4760]

excelent

[@dennismallagh174]

i cant believe it

[@archielamarr2950]

In the real episode it was a bomb not gas

[@jarrodlacy9856]

Impressive.

[@SlavenMansGym]

You can't silence me! :) You gotta have fun with it.

[@jeffwads]

I will bring night-vision goggle next time I see your play. You can't use them on KZbin, though.

[@marysylvie2012]

The insight of the authors of this highly political episode is frightening. How did they know so precisely what was going to happen in the future, unless they were part of the clique that is destroying us?

[@dreadcthulhu5]

Rod Serling fought in WWII. He knew what totalitarianism is. He knew what people like this did and will always do. He was warning us to always stay vigilant against them. We should have listened better.

[@culperjr.122]

The Twilight Zone is amazing. It's a cultural masterpiece.

[@blackbette07]

Because the writers saw Germany, Soviet Union and China? Same play different players.

[@GeorgeFitness-yo8bl]

He's no Fritz Weaver!

[@dakotanorth1640]

Bloody boot I'm checking consistency

[@jordin7091]

Commies of today.

[@bloodandwinearered]

Excellent, in a Perry Mason sort of way.

[@sharoniam5426]

REPENT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND! MESSIAH JESUS CHRIST IS SOON TO RETURN.

[@anothonypeterson3402]

I wish they wouldn't had made it so dark.

[@charlesgaskell5899]

Did you use the original music for this, or was it newly composed? It would be nice to see the composer credited in the description??

[@SignalXXX]

Been awhile...I'm guessing it was Bernard Herrmann. We used the 3-disc TZ OST for these productions.

[@cdybft9050]

Crazy cause I was hearing democrats say this on twitter tonight. They think it’s a good thing.

[@adventure_lewis3354]

Biden is gonna run this country into the ground even deeper than it already is.

[@HenryCasillas]

❄️

[@sambitmohanty949]

Craig pls upload more episodes of the twilight zone it's a pretty progressive show and teaches us very interesting aspects of life

[@markmower6507]

Eventually everything turns into dust.

[@gregakinson2800]

I should have figured there was a catch....no real television episode here.

[@michaeldymott5214]

It should have REMAKE in the title. I don't care to watch it.

[@donnahersh659]

+Michael Dymott Don't want to see how others view it? I have an open mind. Try too it's not that off.

[@markpettigrew3482]

Well, I did miss Rod Serling, with his iconic voice. But really, the strength of that show was its thought provoking stories. Rod had excellent writers.

[@sethronalds9457]

this butchered my favorite episode. could not get past the first couple of minutes with this

[@rahkinrah1963]

this stuff isn't the real Twilight Zone. this is click bait. T-down.

[@Wellch]

TZ Live.

[@et6493]

To show the original Twilight Zone as a screenshot makes this clickbait. Not to say the work is bad because it is actually good and I appreciate it but still clickbait nonetheless......

[@adamtal7569]

I tried to find original-which i prefer- but think youtube banned it (at least version i tried to find was deleted/banned !.)..Wonder why?

[@dennismallagh174]

scary

[@brianemory1593]

you should see it now.

[@gamerzero7735]

Next person who says they want to kill me, I'll tell them, "You may, but I alone am to choose the method. Consider it a last request from a dying man." And he's gotta agree, or I will resist.

[@halimahjedani7477]

Change your misrepresenting label or take this down. True twilight zone fans.expecting to see THE ACTUAL EPISODE are pissed!

[@kensanders1584]

Upload nick of time !

[@videoservicesja]

President robby 2024 will fulfill this with universal wages

[@theexisting1197]

I wish the upload was the original no talking unless it's rod Sterling, hearing some new narrator took the effect away my personal opinion...

[@SFsc616171]

Lousy camerawork!!

[@markpettigrew3482]

I can't help thinking here about Hillary's "basket of deplorables".

[@Vriappiopoi]

To which "deplorables" are you referring?

[@marciecowles7743]

Me be Irredeemable, worse than deplorable, despicable me ....

[@UberKrispy]

@Ricardo Santos that's what's so twisted about Trumps cult

[@recoveringnewyorker2243]

@@UberKrispy Let me get this straight! Trump supporters are a cult?! Yet the sub human street thug animals that burned cities , destroyed homes and businesses, took over ENTIRE city blocks and police stations, attempted to destroy federal courthouses and other government buildings, wanted to defund police forces etc etc etc are not a cult?!

[@KobaAM]

Clinton didn’t call all of Trumps supporters deplorable. She said there were two half’s. One, the people who feel they’ve been left behind, and then the other half, and yes, they are deplorable.

[@LesterDarioDeLaCruz]

What are you even saying.

[@DJ-vu9lx]

Many things have been stated. To whom is your question posed?

[@taratova]

This is the story of the democrat party of today!

[@sharoniam5426]

REPENT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND! MESSIAH JESUS CHRIST IS LORD GOD!

[@sarabrown7689]

LOL this episode always makes me laugh. The Chancellor talks about Hitler and Stalin not going far enough and then his "State" observes people for a year and 11 months before giving them a hearing to determine them to be obsolete? A year and 11 months??? Seems like it should take a week at most.

[@DJ-vu9lx]

Adds to the sentence, torture. This vignettes gives one pause. We need to think and evaluate all incoming info. Decisions are made far to quickly. We have stopped thinking independently. We wait to be told what to think. We are sleeping on our lives.

[@adamtal7569]

it has ben streamlinned, alot quicker than whe then eisode was made !

[@adamtal7569]

it has ben streamlinned, alot quicker than when this episode was made ! ....... They want the Govt (themselves) to become Godlike! Irrational illogical unholy trinity of Marx,Lenin,Stalin & Mao. They hate religion, family loyalty, morality-because it can be a rival to their totalitarial corrupt dictatorship!

[@adamtal7569]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4GshGaooZ2mp9E

[@frankm4243]

What a fake of the original. Why do you copy what is near perfect? Why? Leave it alone.

[@annebruce5135]

Theatre is different to screen, the message though is the same.

[@lovealways2609]

What kind d of b.s. is this?

[@guyfroml]

Excellent job. Am I the only one to clearly recognize the significance of this story as it relates to what is taking place today by U.S. government and the self-admitted radical progressives within the Obama administration? Remember the last line here by Rod Serling: "Any ideology that fails to recognize the worth of man, his dignity or his rights, that state is obsolete." I've read the entire Obamacare law and it critics were truthful. If we don't stop it, soon this story will be reality.

[@peterjumper881]

No, because that would be completely insane and deranged of you, detached from reality utterly.

[@Marie-qt1zc]

2021

[@pepeboy234]

This is fake and not a real Twilight Zone episode

[@adamtal7569]

Really - no sh*t Sherlock-thanks for the super clever coment -i recomend watch original

[@Wellch]

It never claimed to be the orginial, it is live.

[@jordin7091]

Click bait thought this was the tv versin with Burgess Merideth

[@Wellch]

TZ Live….read.

[@AnObsoleteMan]

You people are delusional. Just watch and admire the episode. Take your political crap some where else.

[@Nonamearisto]

The episode is entirely political in its content. There's no crap about it.

[@DJ-vu9lx]

@@Nonamearisto Right you are.

[@sadisticpatriarchysupporte3871]

There is nothing political about this video

[@WitchidWitchid]

Amen to that.

[@WitchidWitchid]

Amen to that. Screw the stupid delusional politics.crap.

[@gabrielvillanuevaiii3926]

Boo...

[@colemanadamson5943]

Live sucks.

[@darbyzworld]

not good.... ugh ...

[@4evrnick]

The modern Democrat Party at work.

[@RuthCampbell123]

quality rubbish

[@lulurowan303]

+Ruth Campbell indeed.......folks seem to have run out of creativity,just go to any modern movie or turn on any TV.

[@RuthCampbell123]

this is very true and sad .