Why the PRODUCER Was TERRIFIED to Make This TWILIGHT ZONE Episode

Producer Buck Houghton was terrified at trying to pull off a half-hour episode where you don’t see anyone’s face until the last few minutes.
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[@amyfisher6380]

I’ve seen every episode of The Twilight Zone, and I’m still amazed at what the directors could do decades before CGI. It required a lot of smarts and creativity.

[@dontdiscriminatehateeveryo9263]

Times when actual talent was needed. Now you just have to be pretty and flashy who cares if you know what you're doing.

[@skinovtheperineum1208]

Yes indeed, the machines sent to save us have enslaved us.

[@larniieplayz6285]

@@dontdiscriminatehateeveryo9263 talent is still needed to make that pretty and flashy stuff

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

@@larniieplayz6285 Pretty...that's a matter of opinion.

[@Dian-kb2hg]

Really, you're that surprised,sadly I kinda am quite mentalised from it all and all this just getting worser

[@garyreid6165]

The Eye Of The Beholder was a shocking and sensitive story in the Twilight Zone. I remember admiring the doctor’s professionalism and compassion. He understood what this woman was going through. And when the reveal came, I wondered what happened to the hospital staff and why they had a government that frowned upon those who looked different. Was it a nuclear war or a biological weapon’s side effects? It wasn’t explained. But it was not the point. Rod Serling knew exactly what the message he was sending because it applies to everything. Rod Serling is still THE MAN.

[@moealbert7339]

I had assumed that it could have been on another planet somewhere.

[@virginiaconnor8350]

@@moealbert7339 Maybe meant for the future? Rod was a great writer. I remember reading his anthology books when I was a teen and letting friends read them too.

[@MsBackstager]

@@virginiaconnor8350 You were ahead of your time as a teen.

[@dianheffernan2435]

It is...read about Zachary smith... lost in space...his biography...😓

[@customsongmaker]

You may have missed the point. It's an alternate reality where everyone looks like that naturally, and people who look like us are shocking and disgusting to them. The government didn't frown on the ugly freaks, they were just so ugly that they couldn't go outside.

[@simonbarsinister8854]

TV sucks today. These guys were the best and brightest.

[@jamesmurray8558]

Everyone sucks today, even you.

[@meauxjeaux431]

TV started sucking at the end of the 60s, and beginning of the 70s, which ironically wasn't that long after color TV came out.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

@@meauxjeaux431 I hardly think that TV "sucking" today has anything to do with the advent of COLOR TV. The fact that these things happened at around the same time doesn't necessarily mean they're connected. Correlation doesn't mean causation.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

@@meauxjeaux431 TV started to suck by the '80s and certainly the '90s.

[@jack002tuber]

They did manage to find a place for her. It was in Beverly Hills.

[@brucedillinger9448]

Lol! Just where she belonged, right?

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Swimming in that SEE ment pond

[@brianjones7660]

I met her in the early 80’s when my wife and I attended a Bible college in Tulsa OK . Donna was as genuine a person as you’d ever meet. Had a real heart for children and loved working with them until she passed away.🥰

[@squint04]

Virgil from McHale's Navy lived happily ever after with Ellie Mae!!

[@hungfao]

I don't know about the producer being scared, but I do remember first seeing this in 1968. My sister and I were alone. Serling's brilliant intro set me up such that I was in terror right to the end. So was my sister. We couldn't decide who was going to be brave enough to look upon the face of the patient. Touche, Rod! You got me.

[@generatorjohn4537]

Donna Douglas was such a beauty!

[@ge0arc244]

You should be allowed to be different and Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Incredible written episode by highly intelligent and empathetic individuals.

[@kryptokrypto702]

One of the most memorable episodes ever. As a grasshopper around 10, I watched this late one friday night, thought it was quite a bore (people talking in a hospital, a bit slow for a 10 year old) but I followed through and thought it was mind blowing and freaky after the "epiphany". To be amazing, things don't have to be flashy, action packed, color kaleidoscoped to death. Excellent dialogue, perfect angling of picture and simple yet effective make up can make amazing episodes/films. P.S: This episode is a timeless classic.

[@soilmanted]

I saw this episode when it originally aired in 1960. I was 12 years old. Having seen many Twilight Zone episodes before this, and having read may "surprise ending" short stories, I was not at all l surprised when the patient's normal-looking face was revealed. I realized she was going to look normal within minutes after the screenplay started, when I realized the camera as not showing the faces of the health professionals.

[@MsBackstager]

@@soilmanted That Ellie Mae was a hottie.

[@raoularmagnac2037]

@@MsBackstager Yes, indeed, she was! 😍

[@panatypical]

​@@MsBackstager What if everybody else in her society looked like granny?

[@jamiealick8821]

This was one of the best episodes of the Twilight Zone. So creatively written with a perfect Twilight Zone Twist. A life lesson on how we sadly judge and view each other.

[@rickyrosario5200]

Oh goodness, was on of my best one ever. This guy was before his time. The flat screen TV 's on all..the walls. SO...Amazing. Love them all

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

Sort of like the telescreens in the novel "1984" by George Orwell.

[@raoularmagnac2037]

@@michaelpalmieri7335 Yes, when she's running off, trying to escape, at one point I think they show "Big Brother" on TV. 😳

[@jimmyc3238]

My older sister and I watched this when it first came out. (I was born in '54, she in '51.) I vividly remember her freaking out when they revealed the pig-like faces of the "normal" people. She ran out of the room screaming, and later had to check behind the sofa to make sure one of them wasn't hiding there. Good times!

[@skunklepew6276]

Weak character development is one of the worst things in films - and it happens often in today's industry. Serling was brilliant at developing his characters. --- This episode is among the fan favorites for a good reason! Dramatic with a horrifying ending.

[@lesnyk255]

When I was about 10, a teaser for this episode was broadcast in the middle of the day. It cut right to the chase, going from shock cut to shock cut of the faces, and it scared me so badly I couldn't even look away - I was simply frozen with fright. It wasn't until years later, after the show had gone into syndication (and I was old enough to stay up late enough to watch it) that I saw the episode - and even then the first appearance of The Faces sent a little shudder, an electric tingle, down my spine. Potent stuff.

[@debbylou5729]

Oh that's sad. I watched the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits since first grade. Maybe I was ahead of my time, but I understood reality

[@motaman8074]

This episode and The Masks are two of my absolute favorites

[@JohnnyAngel8]

I was very young when I saw this ... and it scared the hell out of me!

[@jdlives8992]

Yes it did me too. I got a kick out of showing it to my kid when she was around 9. She was like wtf!? Then her mom showed her the snl version. That calmed her down. Such a fantastic episode holds up great today and I’m sure will for many many more generations

[@virginiaconnor8350]

They were probably afraid it might come true! Donna Douglas-Elly Mae on "The Beverly Hillbillies" played the patient. Forgot who played the "Nurse Rachett" here!

[@virginiaconnor8350]

@@jdlives8992 There was a "SNL" skit of this?

[@Terminus_El_Camino]

@@jdlives8992 "I'm hot!"

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

@@jdlives8992 I don't remember SNL doing a spoof of this episode. It was probably either something I missed or it was on after I stopped watching it because SNL just wasn't funny anymore.

[@tamaraclaw]

Serling's social commentary is as relevant today as in the 1960s...perhaps it is eternal, as long as humans fear the other, the non conformist, and hate what is not like them.

[@Dian-kb2hg]

Yet it's still infected and going on

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

This was one of the best episodes ever.

[@chodeshadar18]

Gaaa-DAMMIT! This episode had me hiding behind the TV set when I was a kid! Those vacuum tubes were fascinating too!

[@MedOKC]

As we all know, "BEAUTY" is in the eye of the beholder!

[@CwL-1984]

This and to serve man are my favorite episodes

[@madahad9]

I truly envy anyone who had the opportunity to see these episodes on their original broadcasting. We nowadays are jaded and desensitized by decades of horror films that the twist reveal would probably only get laughter from a first-time viewer. But I cannot imagine how an audience of the early 60's would have reacted. There was nothing quite like the Twilight Zone, and I imagine that lights were left on after a night's viewing. I wish I could recall my reaction to these shows when I saw them for the first time. As a lover of all things horror related I was probably crazy about the series. You neglected to mention the effectively creepy score by Bernard Herrmann. He scored several classics, including Little Girl Lost, The Lonely, and the very creepy Living Doll. It's unfortunate that when they made the Twilight Zone movie back in the late 80's they picked some of those most uninspired episodes,especially John Landis who's episode was of his own creation and sadly had a tragic outcome. I wish someone would give it another try and pick four good episodes to update. I'd personally pick Time Enough at Last but have Henry Beemis catch his his glasses before they shatter on the ground-a twist of a twist. He lives happily ever after amongst his beloved books. 😊😊

[@rogerrendzak8055]

Beauty is in the eye, of the "beerholder"😁!!!!

[@martinlutherbling424]

Very good !

[@meauxjeaux431]

The EMPTY beer can holder!

[@MsBackstager]

On a TZ website, when I mentioned THE PIG PEOPLE -- I got banned and blocked for 24 hours from FB. But I'm glad that you brought it up here.

[@Allspark]

What? Why did you get banned for that?

[@MsBackstager]

@@Allspark I was inappropriate.

[@martinlutherbling424]

@@Allspark exactly. Why ? I was at a video thread that was linked into Facebook they were discussing a western movie from the 50s and I was talking about the characters shooting each other. Well... I got cited for talking about gun violence ... that my post was positively portraying violence. I said it's a goddamn movie ! you allowed the clip to be posted and people are discussing it ! what the hell is your problem ? ! They stuck to their guns. ( I probably shouldn't even say that ) They stuck to their decision and wouldn't let me post for a while.

[@jonnyq680]

@@MsBackstager No, it was the fb pig people who were inappropriate

[@jonnyq680]

@@martinlutherbling424 sounds like dem pig people done give you de biznezz. Land sakes and Lawdy be!

[@jamesmoss3424]

That is an classic twilight zone episode. 😀👍

[@defenda1960]

This was one of the best

[@4ourthLetta2010]

That's one of my favourite episodes, along with the guy in the library

[@rodrudinger9902]

That's called "building suspense". Read, "The Country of the Blind", by H. G. Wells. Similar theme. There was also another "Twilight Zone", Same theme, but opposite result; called "Number Twelve looks just like You", one of the Stars, was Robert Goulet. The Tyranny of Conformity.

[@johnkoval1898]

Exactly right. The tyranny of conformity. Going on now, 60 years later, in every newsroom, university, and woke corporation.

[@thomashoban6888]

One of the stars was Richard Long, not Robert Goulet.

[@jltrem]

I was eight years old when this was first broadcast in 1960. When the doctor turned and revealed his face it scared the bejesus out of me. I couldn't get that image out of my head when I went to bed that night.

[@luisreyes1963]

One of the best episodes from The Twilight Zone.

[@cheryldevine42]

I remember the first time I watched this and I was blown away. What a twist of an ending.

[@woodyforest2100]

I remember this episode well! Because my sister jumped up screaming and ran out of the room at the big reveal! I was a little scared of the show, but my skin crawled at my sister’s shriek! So many epic episodes… Agnes Moorhead being harassed by tiny government robots. And of course, “To Serve Man”… One of the greatest TV endings of all time!

[@jonnyq680]

mmm... man...is it really just a rumor that most junk food is part hobo?

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

Actually, the "tiny government robots" who terrorized Agnes Moorehead in the episode entitled "The Invaders" were actually astronauts from Planet Earth, who had landed on another planet that was inhabited by giants, and Miss Moorehead's character was one of them. In the end, she kills the two astronauts, but not before one of them, with his dying breath, sends a message to Mission Control on Earth, warning them not to send anymore spaceships or astronauts to this planet of giants and not to engage in a counterattack. "Stay away," he says before dying, "stay away!" The camera then pans over to the side of the small spaceship, which bears the words, "U.S. Air Force, Space Probe One." This was a typical "Twilight Zone" surprise ending. The viewers at home don't know that the main character, a woman (played by Agnes Moorehead) who lives on a farm all alone, is a giant who lives on a planet full of giants, or that the little astronauts are from Earth, because to the viewers, the woman looks like a "normal" sized person by our standards, while the space men look like miniature toy robots. Of course, the TV audience doesn't find this out until the very end. This episode could be a reverse of another "T.Z." story called "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit," in which five very different people, an Army Major, a circus clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, and a Scottish bagpipe player, find themselves trapped inside a gigantic cylinder with no memory of who they are or how they got there. After going over various suggestions about the nature of their imprisonment (one says that they might be on a rocketship in outer space, another thinks they're dead and are in some kind of "Limbo," while the Major is certain that they're in hell), the Major comes up with a plan of escape. By standing on each other's shoulders, they form a human ladder, which enables the Major to climb up over the rim of the cylinder, but he loses his balance and falls into the snow outside. It turns out that the five characters are only DOLLS, and that the cylinder is a donation barrel set up by a local orphanage to collect Christmas toys for the children. A little girl finds the Major doll in the snow and returns him to the barrel. As with the latter episode, the television audience doesn't know the real size of the main characters (they have no idea that they're looking at five different dolls), because they look like people who would seem to be of "normal" size by our standards. The only difference is that instead of thinking that the "giant" woman in "The Invaders" is a regular sized person, the viewers mistake the little dolls in "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit" for people who are THEIR size. Again, they don't discover the truth until the end of the story. It's interesting to note that in "The Invaders," Agnes Moorehead doesn't speak even one word during her performance as the female giant (although she does scream and shriek whenever the small space men torment her with their laser guns and then with one of her kitchen knives). It's believed that the writers and producers of the program wanted a contrast between this character and Miss Moorehead's various roles on old time radio, during which she had to use her voice continuously (this was especially so when she played the imperiled Mrs. Stevenson in "Sorry, Wrong Number," a classic 1943 episode of the long-running crime/mystery program, "Suspense"). Some have suggested that the end of "The Invaders," where the dying astronaut warns his comrades back on Earth to stay away from the planet of giants, may have been a subtle hint to the people of the United States itself to stay out of foreign countries where they're not welcome, and/or not to meddle in the affairs of these countries -- like, for example, VIETNAM? "The Twilight Zone" did in fact air an episode that seemed to question early involvement in the fighting in Southeast Asia. In this story, called "In Praise Of Pip," Jack Klugman (long before his role as Oscar Madison on "The Odd Couple") played a gambler who's informed that his young adult son, Pip, a soldier in the United States Army, has been seriously wounded in South Vietnam, and is now on the verge of death. "Pip is dying," Klugman's character says, "my son is dying in a place called South Vietnam. There's not even supposed to be a war there, and yet, my boy is dying there. It's to laugh, I tell you." What really bothers him is that he feels he wasn't much of a father to his son, that he was often too busy to be with him many times. At around the time that he receives the bad news about Pip, he reneges on a deal he made with a local crime boss and tries to run away, only to be shot and wounded by one of the boss's hoodlums. He then staggers towards an abandoned amusement park where he used to take Pip on the few times they were together. Just then, Pip miraculously appears out of nowhere, and he's a little boy again! He spends nearly the whole night with his father, having a great time in the amusement park (where the lights, rides, and attractions seem to go on by themselves), until suddenly, Pip gets an odd look on his face and runs away from his dad, who runs after him. When he catches up with the boy, Pip tells his dad that his adult self is nearing death in South Vietnam, so his childhood self will have to die too. In a frenzy of grief, his gambler father (Klugman's character) prays to God to let Pip live, then offers Him a deal -- his own life in exchange for his son's (by this time, he's lost a lot of blood from his gunshot wound). God grants his wish. Pip the soldier recovers from his wounds, and his father dies in his place. By the way, the boyhood version of Pip was played by Billy Mumy, who appeared in a few other "Twilight Zone" episodes, including the classic "It's A Good Life," which was remade as one of four segments from "The Twilight Zone ---The Movie" (1983). It was during the making of the film that actor Vic Morrow and two Asian children were killed in a freak accident while filming a scene from the first segment of the movie, a scene that was, ironically, set in war-torn VIETNAM!

[@raoularmagnac2037]

@@michaelpalmieri7335 That's a VERY clever, insightful, and THOROUGH analysis of some of the best episodes of this WONDERFUL classic show! It was EXTREMELY eloquent and well written (your analysis, that is)! You are an EXCELLENT writer! Thank you so MUCH for sharing with us! 🤩

[@jamesdrynan]

Douglas Heyes directed nine TZ episodes. My favorite was " And when the Sky was Opened " with Rod Taylor.

[@jesusdaniel40]

The Eye of the Beholder is an all time classic episode of fantasy and science fiction I loved the reveal in the end it creeped me out!

[@rentslave]

I missed this episode when it was first run in 1960,having decided to go a high school football game that night.The next day,my brother-in-law sister told me all about it.

[@jonnyq680]

brother-in-law sister? Good Lord! 'choke'...

[@kathleenking47]

@@jonnyq680 nope...his sister is married....her husbands sibling... I had a brother in law at 3. Some people are also aunts before birth

[@maxmaven99]

@@kathleenking47 It looks weird because the "s" is missing on the end of brother-in-law.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

@@maxmaven99 Apparently, "Tom Dockery" doesn't know much about proper grammar and spelling. Needless to say, neither do a lot of the people who leave comments on KZbin, or other internet websites, like Facebook or Twitter.

[@rentslave]

@@jonnyq680 I missed an apostrophe.Give a septuagenarian a break.

[@Jabberstax]

Back in the days of quality television. 👌

[@paulsto6516]

Another one of my earliest recollections of a "twist". Thanks for posting.

[@tyrssen1]

This was definitely the scariest Twilight Zone episode of 'em all. Saw it when it first aired!

[@robertflegal1735]

I have seen this episode several times and I enjoy it each time. Creepy to see but great to watch!!!

[@herbcraven7146]

William D. Gordon (the doctor) also appeared a couple of episodes earlier that season as the thug George opposite lead actor Joe Mantell's Jackie in Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (another nerve-wracking tour-de-force of camera work directed by Heyes).

[@derekbrown4696]

Top five of the show for me. But most importantly, the genius of Rod Serling.

[@noninoni9962]

Rod was an amazing writer!! No one comes close to having the imagination that he had, that was original and simplistic... I actually remember watching this years ago.

[@roberfaubus3455]

I remember watching this when I was a kid and now I am 65 years old.

[@topgeardel]

I remember this episode as a kid. Freaked me out. It was masterfully done

[@briansullivan5908]

Rod Serling presented more character development in a half hour then media today does in quadruple that.

[@peace-yv4qd]

The first episode of Twilight Zone starred Earl Holloman where he's in a town where there are no people. In the mid seventies I had the opportunity to visit the Warner Bros studio lot and see a number of TV series be taped where I saw Earl Holloman and Angie Dickinson doing an episode of "Police Woman". Over the years I've run into a number of actors and other personalities in various places in Southern and Northern California.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

You're lucky. Not everyone gets such an opportunity to hobnob with celebrities.

[@fannybuster]

When I was about 8 years old this episode gave me night mares,I still can't forget it

[@EthanWiner]

This is fabulous! Thanks for making this video.

[@scronx]

What a fantastic commentary -- thank you!

[@nickmanzo8459]

I remember being absolutely shocked by the ending the first time around watching this one. When the woman has her freak out “Take it off me!!!!!” I was shocked and hooked. Then the reveal was so confusing into it finally clicked, and I was so surprised that I was jaw-dropped for the whole finale.

[@tedspens]

This is the episode that gave me nightmares as a kid.

[@jonnyq680]

you too, BOO!

[@molonlabe9602]

Great video to show older students to explain the concepts of perspective, norms and cultural/social conditioning.

[@bernlin2000]

One of the finest episodes for sure, unforgettable reveal, a really great commentary on "beauty standards", humbling, really.

[@markwilliamwestonwilson1503]

This is a fantastic video , I loved the Twilight Zone, well done guys and gals x

[@nikkicole3331]

Hi Rerun Zone Producers! Thank you for your insightful narrative and commentary. I am someone who lost my hearing less than a year ago. I woke up deaf. It is so frightening for me to go outside that I sadly spend too much time watching KZbin. I am grateful for the job you do because I can only read the close captions and yours are great! So many are either captioned by non-native English writers or the narrators have a very poor grasp of American English Idioms.

[@loveisall5520]

I first saw this as a child in the sixties and was terrified by this. To me the scariest of episodes.

[@Shadowman...]

*The Twilight Zone should be mandatory viewing for high-school students.* It's been said these episodes look so good because the entire team working on the Twilight Zone knew to respect each others job positions. The set designers knew what the lighting people wanted. The lighting people knew what the director wanted to see and so on. A collaboration of respect, creativity and amazing cinematography.

[@robd1329]

....ah classic twilight episode. In those days...it was the story that made episodes like this one a classic. Today its hard to accomplish something memorable!

[@moealbert7339]

I remember seeing this episode with a bunch of neighborhood kids.There was only one whom questioned why they would not show any ones face and he was suspicious of the out come while no one else had any idea and did not notice that they would not show faces until the end.He was the cleverest of us all and the only one to become a successful business man.Great episode and in the top 10 on my list.

[@SamGarcia]

I figured out the twist as a kid, too, but I didn't expect the reveals to be pig people, and that unnerved me still

[@sherryrobinson7389]

The tear in the eye cracks me up everytime + one guy jumps back like he's afraid of her, another pig/person shakes their head like they think it's a sad shame!😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😆😆😆😆😆😆❤❤❤😄😃! This is my favourites TH U for this 😆

[@sdgakatbk]

One of the things I love about the Twilight Zone was the mixing of social commentary and politics that you mentioned into some episodes. There are a number of great episodes along these lines, but my two favorite episodes both had to do with totalitarian evil. One was He's Alive from season 4, about a neo-Nazi leader who meets Hitler. The other is Death's Head Revisited. A sadistic former Nazi concentration camp leader returns to the camp after WW2 to reminisce and is confronted or judged for his crimes by former inmates.

[@leamcclain1648]

This is my favorite Twilight Zone episode!

[@anthonywilliams7110]

Great episode! One of my favorites from The Twilight Zone!

[@baronvg]

Wow, it took me until this video to learn why it had two episode titles.

[@ThunderingJove]

Good video, thanks.

[@anthonya2349]

Why can't they do shows like this anymore? Because they wouldn't be allowed to. Episodes such as this one, The Obsolete Man and To Serve Man might open people's eyes to the world we are living in right now.

[@noninoni9962]

Some how, some way, all Rod Serling's episodes had some kind of moral or ethical message... Truly amazing talent!!

[@thomascollins4325]

Excellent episode!!! Made back when brains overcame low budgets.

[@tefenstrat]

I always loved the TZ but over the years I became a huge fan and I still will sit and watch these shows even though I have probably seen every episode 100 times by now. They were so well done and the acting was incredible....not to mention some of the best stars ever appearing on in these episodes. Rod was so ahead of his time....he was not afraid to take on things like racism head on. And what will really blow your mind is watch " He's Alive". And just tell me if his monologue and that show does not totally fit the times we are living in now? Tell me who is the modern day person who Rod is talking about in this Monologue...... "Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare - Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive."

[@lindaconstantineau1358]

Twilight Zone was an amazing series, this episode was one of my favorites and I liked it very much. Rod Serling was a true genius. Thanks for 'The Twilight Zone' Mr. Serling,

[@rickmcdonald1557]

I bet I have seen this episode many times but never knew that the beautiful woman was Donna Douglas so it was a minor shock to finally find out. These videos you have put out there are very entertaining and enjoyed very much~!

[@djquinn11]

Rod Serling was a genius.

[@kylecurry577]

Another Twilight Zone classic. Today’s TV is a sad comparison…!

[@ghramsey1681]

One of the best reveals ever filmed and seen on TV. The ending is amazing.

[@211sweetypie]

This was one of my favorites.

[@mimi2the4]

This was one of my favorites

[@SuV33358]

Like many other twilight Zones, this one has a moral.... 'It's all relative'

[@peterproductions5015]

I love this show so much. One of my favorite episodes!

[@steventhorson4487]

Fascinating

[@TexasTimeLord]

Hollywood spends millions on CGI and produces crap. Sterling uses shadowing, camera angles and latex to produce a masterpiece

[@henrybrowne7248]

Well said.

[@ExistentHope]

It all about talent.

[@georgeedward1226]

A creative, resourceful mind is the greatest special effect.

[@jeffsummstl]

This was the first Twilight Zone episode I ever saw, as a college freshman back in the 80’s. Absolutely blew my mind.

[@virginiaconnor8350]

Still blows my mind-and I never needed drugs!

[@robd1329]

This episode...and the William Shatner plane episode were forever memorable!

[@Terminus_El_Camino]

@@robd1329 There are actually two Shatner episodes...

[@calvinlewis8924]

I of the beholder was a masterpiece of ingenuity and my all time favorite twilight zone episode !!!

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

It was well done. 😊😊

[@BTScriviner]

One of my favorite episodes too.

[@khambrelgreen]

I've watched this episode on syndicated TV and the only title I know it by is The Eye of the Beholder. Until now I never knew it had a secondary title

[@fredmarinovich5477]

Yes my favorite along with to serve man

[@SamGarcia]

This is my go-to episode when thinking about Twilight Zone

[@hebneh]

Just in watching this video I could clearly see that the performers in the pre-reveal scenes were not actually wearing their scary facial masks, despite the shadows. But naturally, nobody wanted a first-time viewer to notice anything odd before the ending, and to think that all the others had normal faces.

[@debbylou5729]

Wow, you nailed it. You found the crack in a show that was made how long ago? Add to that the quality of of production and televisions sucked.....good for you

[@larryk731]

Great episode. I still am not sure whether the plot where the government makes all people alike or the subplot that those who are different must be isolated is darker.

[@NelsonMontana1234]

Great episode, but it's pretty obvious where it was going since you never saw any faces. This would work better read than viewed.

[@Maysoon3121]

One of my favorite

[@janicelloyd3875]

Brilliant

[@bikeradam]

I remember watching this episode with my dad when i was a kid. It freaked me out!

[@rfjohns4452]

As a kid I saw the original airing and yes caught by surprise but doubtful if an adult. Always enjoyed it and it came on every Friday.

[@daffidavit]

I was about 8 or 9 years old when I saw this episode played for the first time on TV. I remember "shock" for the first time in my life. It took months before I could look at my parents and not expect their faces to seem normal. I kept looking at them while watching other tv shows just to make sure they still looked like humans. This episode really f++ked me up because I was too young to expect what older people knew was coming in the end. I was too young so I didn't and it screwed me up for quite a while. I must say, as I grew older I became a true fan of the Outer Limits and other scary movies. This episode had the effect of allowing me to be prepared for the unexpected as I grew up. Still the best Twilight Zone episode ever.

[@silverthorngoodtree5533]

I will always know this as "eye of the beholder."

[@aristideau5072]

One of my favourite movies, Predestination, uses the same technique of hiding specific actors faces as well.

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

Watching it initially- i didn’t notice- not seeing faces.

[@sstaners1234]

It is an unsettling episode. Creepy but, awesome to say the least.

[@jeffw.1854]

Most interesting! I recall seeing this episode as a kid and it terrified me! Those faces! I cant speak for others but as I kid I did not notice they were not showing peoples faces and then the unwrapping comes. Ahhhhhhh! I have seen it years since and they really did do a good job of hiding the peoples faces. Im a Zone freak and this is my favorite epidose to be sure. The 'New' Twilight Zone did a remake of Eye of The Beholder and it was awful!

[@GothGuy885]

when they removed the bandages from Donna Douglas, she pulled a pet racoon out from under her bed and exclaimed " Now I can go Swimmin in the See-ment Pond!!" 😄