Twilight Zone: The LOST Episodes | Why Were These 4 Episodes Excluded From Syndication?

Did you know that four episodes of TZ were originally withheld from the syndication package?

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[PhilippinesFarmLife]

Penny Singleton was also the Original BLONDIE in the 1938- 1945 movies. She was also one of the First actors to require residual payments in her contracts. Smart lady!

[SallySallySallySally]

Robert Duvall's performance in "Miniature" was really remarkable, especially given the fact that it was one of his earliest TV or movie acting jobs. He was 31 years old and his ability to underplay a part to perfection in "Miniature" is tantamount to the performance he gave as "Boo Radley" in "To Kill a Mockingbird" the previous year. He's never been out of work and is still performing to this day (2022) at 91 years of age!

[SpaceOutlaw_]

Can’t believe it was almost cancelled before season 5. People back then probably were ignorant about how good the show was lol it’s had a major impact in terms of the media we consume. It’s referenced a lot in other movies/shows and still influences works today

[louismcglasson]

A brilliant series and one of my all-time favorites. Rod Serling was a TRUE GENIUS!

[Liquid_Alchemy]

I remember seeing The Encounter when it was finally aired. I thought it was really intense and couldn't imagine how it would have gone down in 1960s America. I later learned a few years later that Rod Serling served in the Philippines during the war and saw a lot of bad s**t go down. It had a profound impact on his life. I would invite anyone reading my comments to look up old interviews that Rod conducted in the 60s and 70s, he had a lot of amazing insight on race relations and American society at the time. He was truly an American treasure.

[sisqsam]

As a kid I loved Twilight Zone. Even as an adult I looked forward to the holiday marathons.

[Banankos]

Another episode that should’ve been in this video is “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, which was only broadcast on American television twice (once during the original show’s run and once slightly after it ended) until finally airing again in the aforementioned January 1st, 2016 marathon on Syfy.

[someoneelseentirely]

Note: Fenten was played by actor Neville Brand who really was a highly decorated war veteran.

[bobblowhard]

Who remembers "Carol For Another Christmas"? Rod Serling's version of "A Christmas Carol". It was intense, insightful, and a bit creepy, had an amazing cast, and was done very well. Not sure if that was in syndication.

[panatypical]

I'm really happy for the way things turned out for Robert Duvall's character in "Miniature."

[rob-vy]

The episode with Duvall and the museum also sounds like...
The Night Gallery episode where the Nazi hiding out in south America keeps returning to a museum trying to "get me into the picture"! (wish himself into the painting.)
When the guards rush in trying to find him though, he has wished himself into..the wrong picture.
Rod really had a thing for museums....and art galleries.

[Dano]

One of my all-time favorites is the episode called..."And when the sky was opened."...With actor, Rod Taylor as one of three astronauts who's experimental spaceship crash lands in the desert.They all survive the crash...but one by one...they totally disappear from existence. Taylor's character is the only one that remembers the third astronaut named Harrington.
Seen it a hundred times. I STILL get chills down my back when I watch that episode.

[emkkahn]

"Miniature" was fantastic. I see that @Sally(x4) already beat me to saying the Robert Duvall's acting in that episode was what made it so good.
The music in that episode was so haunting in the story as well.
"The Encounter" reminds me of my father who fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII. He was a well-meaning man, but he could never find peace when it came to Japanese descended people after the war. The term PTSD wasn't invented yet, but he had a lot of stuff that he couldn't reconcile with. I think that episode was a good, if uncomfortable, look at where America was after WWII...
Great video!

[benschultz]

As a WWII history buff, while the Encounter is a great episode (George Takei grew up in one of the internment camps) my favorite episode is Death's Head Revisited. I quote the final narration all the time when people talk about why should we study history in general and the Holocaust specifically, since history has a cyclical pattern. Rod knew what he was doing with that episode since he saw the camps firsthand in the war.

[debbieanne]

Thank God the TZ wasn't cancelled after 3 seasons! There are great episodes in seasons 4 & 5. I bought the box set here in Australia with all 156 episodes about 5 years ago. I didn't care much for "The sounds and silences' or 'The encounter'
'A short drink from a certain fountain ' was very entertaining. 'Miniature ' is one of my top 10 episodes, love Robert Duvall the lead

[megschramm]

I have seen these episodes and they are among my favorites. My absolute favorite is still Long Distance Call. I think this could be remade with the child receiving a toy cellphone from his grandma.

[tarawho]

I love the old Twilight Zone episodes!! It's so cool to watch some of the world's greatest actors play characters on this show!!

[sdgakatbk]

Miniature was a GREAT episode! It's one of my favorite episodes from the whole 5 year run. Duvall was great in his role as well as Pert Kelton who played his mom. The ending of someone escaping to a positive place in the Twilight Zone reminds me of A World of Difference where a man escapes his alcoholism, his failing acting career, and his harpy wife into a role he was acting.

An episode that was probably done on the cheap was Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room. It had two actors and took place in a cheap hotel room. It was VERY well done.

[davesuter]

Robert Duval is such a good actor. I know his career was by no means bad, but I wish we had more of him in lead rolls, he had so much range and was able to so realistically convey his internal emotional space without seeming emotional in character.

Just amazing, it's hard to say he's underrated with how well respected he is, but I wish we had more of his work.

[valkyrie]

George Takai!!!! OMG is he a little cutie at that age. I don't know why, but I could have sworn I've seen some of these. LOVE the old Twilight Zone! Thanks for this!! George's family suffered, so if he thinks it is remarkable enough to agree to the script as written; I'm fine with his opinion. Parts of history are ugly, and it is not for us to condemn, but learn. Hope this bothered enough people that it never happens again.