Twilight Zone Time Freezes

A selection of time freeze clips from the famous timestop episodes from the original Twilight Zone series of the '60's.

[@hebneh]

Nearly 60 years later, I still clearly remember the shot of the broken stopwatch lying on the speckled linoleum floor.

[@lyndior8963]

For all of these numerous actors to hold so perfectly Still! That was amazing! That alone was talent and great directing. Couldn't find an eye blink or a chest breathe. Try that today.

[@geoffreygoodyear3746]

Realy working hard for there bread :)

[@bennyhead8615]

If you look closely you can see some of them rocking

[@idontlikethis980]

bruh what are you talking about like it's impressive but you can tell they're moving really obviously the most obvious are the music band players at 0:38 the models at 4:06

[@lyndior8963]

@@idontlikethis980 you'd be fun at funerals. Idiot bruh

[@nightowl7459]

@@lyndior8963 🤣👍

[@thelakeman5207]

The episode with the stop watch is the best. Saw that when it first aired on Twilight Zone. Can you imagine the fun you could have with that thing? LOL!

[@adp5R3x]

... 'partial to Keenan Wynns' tape recorder

[@jaylaude9998]

And how !

[@tribeshift]

I saw the A Kind of a Stopwatch episode as a kid. It has always stuck with me. Great to have YouTune to rewatch it so many years later.

[@claudionatural5926]

Rod Serling was a genius!

[@villagebound61]

I love the twilight zone...

[@TheTonybudd]

~it's good isn't it . . .

[@zekest]

me too villagebound61

[@robertcubinelli4961]

Along with the Outer Limits, TZ made my day back then and moreso today !

[@michaelalexispalmer3375]

I would have loved to have been on the set when they were shooting this! just brilliant!

[@micheleellis4074]

The best show ever because it made you think. It was thought provoking.

[@peacefuljeffrey]

Michele Ellis And there was also “The Outer Limits,” which dealt a lot with social and political issues, especially relating to the use of technology and power.

[@briannahoff8589]

Yep. Star Trek and Twilight Zone original series. It's a shame how these "cheesy" 60s shows blow every other tv show I've seen out of the water.

[@PalmBaiReader]

thought provoking if you're a dumbass

[@bethclemensen2102]

Read "The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything" by John D. MacDonald, author of the Travis McGee adventure detective creep series. A great novel with this same premise. Predated the McGee series.

[@numbernine6390]

Made me think if Burgess Merideth getting books n time but broke his glasses.

[@100Singers]

The punchline of the stopwatch episode is truly ... timeless! :-)

[@ddavidmac6009]

Created in a time when radio programs still existed with stories that really fired the imagination. Twilight Zone, Very limited in the FX but well made up for by the whole project. From Conception to Directions to reruns Twilight Zone was an incredible composition of talent in the whole Entertainment industry. Now with FX being so real I thought to myself What is the Future of Movies when everything can be a digital studio composition? after a while its so good to just kick back and enjoy a gift from the past that still has value for your mind and spirit.

[@solidwoods6999]

He has plenty of time to learn how to fix a stopwatch .

[@roodine100]

genius, good point my friend

[@goodtimefolkrock]

And peek at girls boobs without them knowing it 😉

[@hischyoudontneedtoknow2896]

Probably not a normal stopwatch though

[@solidwoods6999]

Chris Hirschfeld Good point . Since he is in the Twilight Zone he may do good with time and knowledge but where will he get Twlight Zone tools for watch repair ?

[@colinp2238]

@@solidwoods6999 You see those shops that say that they are open night and day so they must be open at twilight.

[@thomasjorge4734]

Twilight Zone and Outer Limits not only provided the TV's equvilant of Edgar Alan Poe short-stories, but a good, common-sense, moral catechism as well.

[@RiverOfBlacklights]

_'Elegy',_ _'Still Valley'._ and _'A Kind Of A Stopwatch'._ Other _'The Twilight Zone'_ episodes with similar "character freeze" elements are _'The After Hours',_ _'Five Characters In Search Of An Exit',_ _'The Trade-Ins'_ and _'The New Exhibit'._

[@killyourjoy]

Thank you. But I could be wrong because it's been years. But was there one episode time frozen and there was a nuclear bomb in the sky? I thought it was A kind of a Stopwatch. Which I have been looking for years now. But no Marathon or grouping of the Twilight zone ever shows this class. Thank you.

[@RiverOfBlacklights]

@@killyourjoy Are you sure it was a _'The Twilight Zone'_ episode? I don't recall any TTZ episode with a nuclear blast in the sky. The episodes that immediately come closest to mind regarding a nuclear blast (though not in the sky) would be _'Time Enough At Last'_ and _'One Last Pallbearer'._ I will try to look into this a bit more. Could it perhaps be an episode of _'The Outer Limits'_ or _'One Step Beyond'_ instead of _'The Twilight Zone'?_

[@told2stop]

Thank you for these clips. This is one of the shows that "started it all" for me long ago.

[@malestatuevideoclub1270]

I know exactly what you mean. I was a kid also when I first saw these episodes, and got the same "tingling" feeling as I watched each of these TZ episodes. I knew there was something I just had to look for out there that these 3 episodes had. When I saw more and more of this in other different shows, I knew there was 'buried treasure' to be uncovered, that is...I wanted to find them ALL, as I got older. And that.....is what started the completest "search" for everything asfr in the media world that I could find (tv shows, movies, books comic books, cartoons, then anime and the internet media network sources). :)

[@told2stop]

***** lol, I know exactly what you mean by tingling feeling. I still get it often watching freeze clips! Thanks again!

[@danneye-raye1995]

One of the best good night shows ever

[@goodnamesareallgone1]

Getting locked outside of time with no way to get back would be scary.

[@DanKetchum007]

Actually, it would be pretty awesome. I would still have access to all the food and water in the world, so not bad.

[@bridgmjm]

@@DanKetchum007 Man does not live by food and water alone.

[@mattcunningham9235]

@@bridgmjm its a dumb concept. Why would the original guy give the watch to some idiot? Theres lots of dumb things going on here

[@ianmangham4570]

Tell me about it, my time is relevant

[@mentra1]

All you need to do is get the watch working again, you have all of eternity to learn and get parts to repair the watch

[@ronblack9181]

A time when true acting, was an art form.

[@lumberjackmagnum7416]

Ron Black So, stage acting?

[@robinbecker9218]

Ron Black right? F. In right on!

[@andocrates]

::snort::

[@truespyfan]

Could not have said it better myself.

[@AYKay-yb6zs]

I chortle the 40s actors who were delivered their lines. I winch for the 60s actors who play in front of the stage studios. I cringe for the 80s actors who were grandiose. No acting style is permanent. Remember that.

[@devildog2931]

They don't make them like Mr Sterling anymore..

[@mdavisgunter]

Who is Mr. Sterling?

[@zimjun7]

He's the Serling example of science fiction! Haha......

[@thomasromano9321]

Serling, not Sterling.

[@JJSeattle]

MANDELA EFFECT = Parallel Shift = Twilight Zone = In the world I once knew, my friends once knew, he was Rod Sterling, now in this universe, it has changed to Rod Serling... .

[@vincentfalsaperla]

@@JJSeattle I cant believe it my self ...i am sixty and watched as a kid ..his name was Sterling....this happened just recent....weird ???was i wrong all those years and just thought it was?

[@pepperwilliams4428]

Hahahahha Rod Sterling was a GENIUS! Way ahead of his time. The guy's stopwatch broke and now, everyone and everything has stopped! He's all alone with all the money in the world.............................and it doesn't do him any good!

[@subsamadhi]

Serling*

[@peacefuljeffrey]

subsamadhi *Serling When you correct something this way, the asterisk comes first.

[@subsamadhi]

@@peacefuljeffrey when did that rule start? Lol my grandma calls him "Sterling"

[@peacefuljeffrey]

subsamadhi It’s just common sense. Think about how footnotes work. In the text, there’s an indicator mark at the end of a given passage (analogous to the misspelled word, in this case). Then at the bottom of the page, a corresponding mark INTRODUCES the correction. That is, it comes first, not at the end.

[@subsamadhi]

@@peacefuljeffrey i love it that youtube comments section is the place where college professors come to correct us unwashed masses.

[@robbygaume600]

Happy New Year, everybody. The Twilight Zone marathon on SyFy starts early this year ! 12/30/15 at 7:00 Eastern time.

[@felixmadison5736]

Elegy is one of my favorite TZ episodes. Rod Serling's imagination was boundless. I was 10 years-old when 'The Twilight Zone' first aired in 1959, and boy was I hooked!!! Every kid I knew was talking about 'this great new show'.

[@marctremblay8087]

Amazing how they got the actors to remain so still

[@pvtrichter8816]

nobody did anything perverted !! true fantasy indeed ! lol! I'm just having a laugh it is well pulled off how these bit-actors stayed so still granted they do osme clever editing in some sequences but BRAVO a snapshot from a show that greatly influenced many and my own creative output!! enjoy!

[@lisaadler507]

pvtrichter88 I'm sure it'll, those chicks would of come to wet and sticky

[@markjones1126]

If you watch closely you will see some move

[@winterhaydn5640]

even the cows!

[@Rick8351]

Marc Tremblay , If you notice, none of the actors who are not moving are not on camera for more than 5 seconds or so. And they are trained actors so yes, if they needed to stand still on camera for more than 5 seconds, they could do it!

[@jennifergregorio3412]

How i wish they show all the old episodes again. I love Twilight Zone!

[@pesha600]

Netflix

[@alphaomega8373]

Reminds me of a Star Trek episode. The one where Spock falls in love,

[@capatga]

The twilight zone and the rifleman were the best shows on tv.

[@lincbond442]

I would also include The Fugitive.

[@bobhope866]

@@lincbond442 lol..i was going to say The Fugitive too. And lets not forget the Incredible Hulk

[@bobanderson2895]

Don't forget (One Step Beyond)

[@ignorecorporatenews]

the music soundtrack was great

[@davesabo7474]

Great writing great stories and really great music nothing like it since or ever again

[@dollarbil0579]

All this time I thought they were dead already but the old man actually killed them for landing there lol.i love twilight zone.

[@james5460]

I like the last one because it combines two of Serling's favorite tropes, the "nobody is moving" one with the 'ordinary guy suddenly starts losing his mind" one. If you took away all the episodes where some schmuck was too clever for his own good... you wouldn't' have many Twilight Zone episodes left.

[@revolutionaryprepper4076]

A man with a magical watch that can stop time with the press of a button. Too bad he dropped it. Now he can't restart time, unless he gets the watch fixed... maybe. Great episode, Rod Serling was the man!

[@gromitpesley]

Twilight Zone does the mannequin challenge.

[@ReclusiveDev]

Gromit Pesley damnit, beat me to it

[@MrgregDetroit]

lmao

[@RaiderDawg]

Stfu

[@57highland]

Even more so in "The After Hours" episode ....

[@slimdudeDJC]

What should have been happening throughout the ep was the continuous circle in the middle of the screen . . .

[@geezermann7865]

What fascinated me about this was all the actors who could hold a pose without moving. That is hard to do.

[@geezermann7865]

@Slomofogo Haha, yep, if you watch very closely.

[@pault8470]

Considering the camera was only on them for about 10 seconds if that it’s pretty easy don’t you agree

[@garychambers5850]

you can see them move alittle.

[@richardyoung9024]

@@garychambers5850 Those people with the instruments, you could see them try to hold very still but was not easy.

[@noirangel6416]

12:36 As dark as this is, this part always made me chuckle.

[@madbrowniac7871]

Oh Rod Serling was a Scientific Genius indeed. With the "Stopwatch" Episode he preceded TVO!😂🤣😂😉🎤📺B.W.

[@jimkahn957]

I always loved the space suits!

[@vivekraychowdhury4348]

Twilight Zone, burned in my memory because of its themes. Miss Twilight Zone badly. Thanks for the upload.

[@privatejimmy5861]

I thought for sure I'd seen them all, and many times over, but this one right here I do not remember at all! So this is a treat.. Okay wait now I remember it..😊

[@lindaeasley4336]

In the first episode clips, it turned out that the astronauts were on a planet ruled by an alien who thought mankind was too violent so whenever humans landed,he would kill them and pose them in their natural state. Sort of like his own menagerie

[@tedtate57]

Beyond weird and bizarre. I love these old classic twilight zone flicks.

[@georgemaragos2378]

Hi - the stop watch episode reminds me of the later series in 1985 - A Little Peace and Quiet. Basically without giving it all away a house wife has the same power with a object Good viewing Regards George

[@MAPologeticsIPeter315]

Love Rod Sterling and his classic TV series, "The Twilight Zone." Also his "Night Gallery" series is quiet scary.

[@taoist32]

*Serling

[@vincentfalsaperla]

@@taoist32 Bullshit ...my friends and family and myself have always said Sterling and so have a lot of people in the comment section....i am 60 and im starting to think the mandela effect is a real possibilty.They are F.....N with our heads for those who can remember.

[@lucysmith8326]

@@taoist32 Yes I remember his last name being Serling!

[@JohnPiperBoots]

Fast forward to 2021. The world currently is a bizarre "coronavirus lockdown" almost halfway there to Twilight Zones episode "Elegy." 👍😁

[@coiledsteel8344]

Watch the Very FIRST EPISODE, and Try NOT to think of the effects the Covid-19 Lockdown has on us!

[@troysummers9277]

How I am starting to truly believe we have been being shown what is going to happen through Hollywood

[@freemarketjoe9869]

The ones that work best are the ones where the camera keeps moving slightly so it hides any slight movements but still makes everything look stopped.

[@steveneardley7541]

In the "Glitches in the Matrix" stories there are a few about time freezing. In one, two children (around 10) are playing, when the lights go out in their apartment. They look out the window to see if the whole neighborhood is out and everything is frozen. There are frozen people who had been playing basketball. They were so freaked out they hid behind a couch until their mother got home, forty-five minutes later. She entered just as the lights went on again, and when they looked again, everything was normal. In another story (which also involved basketball), a guy was watching his friends play basketball, and everything froze, but only for a few seconds. His friends hadn't noticed anything.

[@wednesdaychild2408]

thumb up to all these original twillight zone . tq so much for uploading.

[@w.p8960]

I realized that I had read most of the stories in science fiction books in high school. He was good at adapting to tv.

[@ramonsobreira8061]

I'm a huge fan. At least 2 things beckon me: 1st) Extremely hard to find a black actor/actress or character in the original series, following a strong American movies and TV shows trend, that has lasted for decades. 2nd) A long list of masterpieces, reflexive, slow and creeping, awesome scripts, and a fantastic B and W photograph. But, I have also to mention the incredibly good episodes from New Twilight Zone (1985), Wordplay and A Little Peace and Quiet. Greetings from Brazil.

[@madbrowniac7871]

@ramonsobreira8061: Before he was "Sergeant Kinchloe" in "Hogan's Heroes", the late great and very talented Actor and Director Ivan Dixon Played a Boxer in the TZ Episode "A Big Tall Wish."🤔🥊📺B.W.

[@KarlSturmgewher]

Before za warudo, there's a stop watch!

[@rubystaging237]

Remind me of the later in color "A little piece and quiet"

[@kennyguitarallen5662]

loved this show,still do.

[@mariocapistran7526]

it took me 6 minutes of confusion to realize this is a compilation video and not an actual episode lol time to pass the dube

[@ronblack9181]

too the left hand side!!!

[@eddstraub1390]

Mario Capistran Don't skip me. I need a couple hits From Janie

[@patricew.4010]

The one with the 3 men was a complete episode.

[@Roger85able]

Was edpsiode

[@Roger85able]

First one was like funeral home

[@xamurai00]

Stopwatch guy has all the resources in the world to try and teach himself how to fix that watch.

[@timothyball742]

Like Bill with Groundhog Day.

[@Wellch]

xamurai00 go to a repair shop and read how to repair it.

[@jongaulthero]

For anyone that's interested: "Elegy" "Still Valley" "A Kind of Stopwatch"

[@MultiAlanR]

Thanks

[@jongaulthero]

@@MultiAlanR No prob.

[@motorman4605]

You are now entering the Twilight Zone.

[@wunone67]

So funny how they made the only homely woman win the beauty contest. The rest were gorgeous!

[@dawnstar12]

if i had a watch that stopped time i would be the worlds best stage magician

[@nitorishogiplayer3465]

Gotta make sure to stand back in exactly the same spot and posture before you stopped the time

[@dawnstar12]

@@nitorishogiplayer3465 do something like walk behind a pillar screen so you dont have to make it exact, or lights off for a second

[@khatpandwa]

good video, childhood memories, enjoyed

[@Naminski1a]

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror brought me here.

[@piotrd.4850]

A. C. Clark had similar short story, albeit with much darker ending ... "All the time in the world" I think.

[@markdamen730]

fantastic thanks for the reminder

[@Leigh-kk1yw]

If time were to "freeze" now, all you'd see is cellphones and selfie sticka😢😂

[@DanielSnedden]

Quality programs. I do miss them.

[@rogernelson5916]

Yea I remember that one right when you had it made something happened great episode of a brilliant show I watched every episode as a kid couldn't wait till it came on also the Outer Limits

[@57highland]

This episode was titled "Elegy".

[@matteogenova3485]

thank you

[@mariakatagiri3736]

Fantastic shows !!!❤️🌟✨🌻

[@danielparker711]

My life is the Twilight Zone....ugh

[@madbrowniac7871]

The guy in the "Stopwatch" Episode was Richard Erdman, who later Guest Starred in a "Wings" Episode where he popped into "Sandpiper Air" claiming that his goal was to fly around the world. As in Magellan's Circumnavigation!😂😉🎤✈🌏📺B.W.

[@paulcoy9060]

The first ones aren't temporal, they are dead people in their final wishes, preserved as they want to be remembered for all eternity.

[@nestorsalvador9236]

It's a cemetery

[@riobrasilsambashowssambist1453]

Time freezes are just the observer himself that get frozen in his conscious time

[@alainarchambault2331]

Of course, these guys were "spacemen," because their boots were polished silver.

[@OrchestrationOnline]

Shiny, shiny...shiny boots of silver... ;)

[@RonaldVaughan]

Time to call Mr. Potts. He,after all,gave that guy the stopwatch! So he alone might be able to fix it...

[@Scripturegirl.]

How about chip, or cogsworth.?.

[@michaeldennehy6406]

shades of 1959! the music I remember is "Fascination" which played on just about every radio station my parents would tune into in '59-when I was 4 yrs. old!-Tempus fugit!-Michael Brendan Dennehy@0840 hrs.,6 Feb.2018

[@vince1987]

the first ever manniquin challenge.

[@foxyroxstar]

It's Not That The Entire World Is Slowing Down to a Stop But That He's On a Time OUT of It!

[@Anastasia-pr6mq]

its amazing Mr sterling is a genius

[@vincethomas961]

Class programme loved them all this was viewing at it's best

[@zoliezee]

If TV still had shows with some substance instead of propaganda I still have cable TV!! Man I miss twilight zone!! Thank god for the Internet.... Twilight zone marathon coming up!!!

[@ianmangham4570]

DAILY MOTION, has some great shows

[@Rickswars]

Imagine time freezes '"*'*"' * you're on a island **** with everything you need to live like a king with no governments no enemies no watch just a beauty of a dame and a calm nature...

[@colinbagel860]

You would eventually go mad

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

The first episode is call "Elegy" from season one, episode 20.

[@Andrew-qm9pz]

No one: Me drunk at 4 in the morning:

[@dpayne09999]

need the box set now! same here.

[@beautyisme416]

I used to watch this in 8th grade and I and along with everyone else would hate these old outdated films and now that I’m 18 I finally understand and enjoy them oh the irony lol

[@jomic9060]

the episodes 'the masks", the "hitchhiker", and "the real martian stand up" are true treasures. but yes there are many a good episode. "happy with your picture mister" -"wrestling". "its a kookie camera"! "time enough at last" and to all you youtubers, my coin is still on edge. so yes i know what you're thinking. im only a penny fortune machine. so, "thats for you to find out". in the nick of time of course

[@Scripturegirl.]

+Jo mic baby sister loves the masks.

[@RonaldVaughan]

"my coin is on the edge"....isn't there a TZ ep which has that possibility? Or did you see the movie ZOTZ?

[@Scripturegirl.]

Ronald Vaughan what zotz.?.

[@RonaldVaughan]

Scripturegirl1990 just youtube it....it's a 1962 movie with Tom Poston....has time freezes....slow motiojn

[@ObscuredByTime]

If you are a fan of 'The Hitchhiker," I highly recommend listening to the original with Orson Welles from the old CBS Radio show, "Suspense!" Just google it and enjoy!

[@voltaire3214]

If time stops but you don't, all molecules around you stop oscilating making it absolute zero temperature. You would freeze to death immedeately. Also light particals stop moving which results in total darkness.

[@pondking2801]

Light doesn’t really move the way you think it does. Since photons travel at the speed of light, they are created, travel to where they are absorbed in the same instance from their point of view. You likely could still see.

[@genkatqltr737]

When I watched this the first time it showed, it REALLY creeped me out! The "beauty" queen, everyone "frozen" in movement, down to the dog. Unable to respond, a whole town, except one man.

[@stnicholas54]

Have to go the bathroom. I'll freeze this - hahahahaHAH !!

[@captain_black32]

Love it how the tick tock music theme (when he's robbing the bank) suddenly stops when the watch breaks.

[@Skylark_Jones]

Someone's having a laugh 😂😂😂 Excellent 😂

[@darryldee467]

Poor guy just bricked his world. Excellent episode.

[@peterbollinger8902]

Love this idea.

[@michellejsmith9618]

The voice that WAS Rod Serling. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@f.d.english5080]

i like it when they lye still! i been doing all them black and white whoes

[@paulbacchus1015]

The Twilight Zone is exqusit, simply the best tv show ever made, scarey, funny, sometimes very sad, beutifully writen and acted, interlectule and always burns into your memorie and makes you think. Paul Bacchus

[@IETCHX69]

Am I the only male , who would go around and see who had the firmest .. resolve?

[@JustCalMeBozeman]

You're not alone brother, every decent looking girl or above would be thoroughly examined.

[@Rocabear]

It’s like this at my job right now with all the calendars on people’s desk still saying March 2020.

[@jarodaily]

First ever mannequin challenge

[@ledestroyerofworlds9366]

Truly, jotaro, this is the world

[@Rickswars]

I want one for work break and ill be over productive ovr others lol.

[@laquindaarceneaux355]

another one of my best episodes.

[@Scripturegirl.]

Which one.?.

[@TylerNovakYT]

You don't know how long it took me to find this video.

[@ObscuredByTime]

4:12 -- "Hey fellas, why don't you go check out the barn. I'll be along in, oh, say, 10 minutes?"