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Earl Holliman in The Twilight Zone (1959)

You see, we can feed the stomach with concentrates. We can supply microfilm for reading, recreation - even movies of a sort. We can pump oxygen in and waste material out. But there's one thing we can't simulate that's a very basic need. Man's hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness - that's one thing we haven't licked yet.

Earl Holliman

James Gregory

Paul Langton

Rod Serling

Mike Ferris finds himself alone in the small Oakwood town and without recollection about his name, where he is or who he is. Mike wanders through the town trying to find a living soul.

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A fine beginning to the series.

Here is the debut episode of Rod Serling&apos;s excellent and beloved legendary television series &apos;The Twilight Zone&apos;, and it kicked things off nicely. Earl Holliman stars as an amiable, upbeat young guy wandering along who comes to a small town that appears to be empty. Not a soul in sight. No matter where he goes, he finds nobody to talk to, not in a diner, ice cream shop, or police station. At first he&apos;s somewhat amused by the situation, but it doesn&apos;t take long for him to feel stress, because, despite the emptiness, he can&apos;t shake the feeling that *somebody* is watching him. Scripted by Serling himself, and effectively scored by Bernard Herrmann, this turns out to a believable study of a human being having to deal with the reality of loneliness, and how companionship is a fundamental need in human existence. It goes far on the engaging presence of Holliman, who&apos;s the only person on screen for almost 20 minutes of screen time. His banter, aimed at whomever may possibly hear him, is always likable, and it would be too hard not to feel some sympathy for him when he starts breaking down. The atmosphere here is undeniable, and for many of us it&apos;s a particular treat to see the Universal back lot used as the primary setting, a location we&apos;ve seen in such movies as &quot;Gremlins&quot; and &quot;Back to the Future&quot;. The moment of revelation proves to be worth waiting for, as it would be for all subsequent &apos;Twilight Zone&apos; episodes. Well worth watching overall. Eight out of 10.

Here is the debut episode of Rod Serling's excellent and beloved legendary television series 'The Twilight Zone', and it kicked things off nicely. Earl Holliman stars as an amiable, upbeat young guy wandering along who comes to a small town that appears to be empty. Not a soul in sight. No matter where he goes, he finds nobody to talk to, not in a diner, ice cream shop, or police station. At first he's somewhat amused by the situation, but it doesn't take long for him to feel stress, because, despite the emptiness, he can't shake the feeling that *somebody* is watching him. Scripted by Serling himself, and effectively scored by Bernard Herrmann, this turns out to a believable study of a human being having to deal with the reality of loneliness, and how companionship is a fundamental need in human existence. It goes far on the engaging presence of Holliman, who's the only person on screen for almost 20 minutes of screen time. His banter, aimed at whomever may possibly hear him, is always likable, and it would be too hard not to feel some sympathy for him when he starts breaking down. The atmosphere here is undeniable, and for many of us it's a particular treat to see the Universal back lot used as the primary setting, a location we've seen in such movies as "Gremlins" and "Back to the Future". The moment of revelation proves to be worth waiting for, as it would be for all subsequent 'Twilight Zone' episodes. Well worth watching overall. Eight out of 10.

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