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The Twilight Zone
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People Are Alike All Over

  • Episode aired Mar 25, 1960
  • TV-PG
  • 25m
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8.1/10
3.6K
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Roddy McDowall in The Twilight Zone (1959)
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Fearing the worst, the lone survivor of a crash-landing on Mars finds the native inhabitants, to his relief, very hospitable indeed, but there's a catch.Fearing the worst, the lone survivor of a crash-landing on Mars finds the native inhabitants, to his relief, very hospitable indeed, but there's a catch.Fearing the worst, the lone survivor of a crash-landing on Mars finds the native inhabitants, to his relief, very hospitable indeed, but there's a catch.

  • Director
    • Mitchell Leisen
  • Writers
    • Rod Serling
    • Paul W. Fairman
  • Stars
    • Roddy McDowall
    • Susan Oliver
    • Paul Comi
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.1/10
    3.6K
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    • Director
      • Mitchell Leisen
    • Writers
      • Rod Serling
      • Paul W. Fairman
    • Stars
      • Roddy McDowall
      • Susan Oliver
      • Paul Comi
    • 26User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone (1959)
    Roddy McDowall in The Twilight Zone (1959)
    5413-12  "The Twilight Zone" Episode "People Are Alike All Over" - Roddy McDowall and Susan Oliver, CBS, 1960.
    Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone (1959)
    Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone (1959)
    The Twilight Zone (1959)
    The Twilight Zone (1959)
    The Twilight Zone (1959)
    The Twilight Zone (1959)
    Roddy McDowall in The Twilight Zone (1959)
    Byron Morrow, Susan Oliver, and Vic Perrin in The Twilight Zone (1959)
    Roddy McDowall and Susan Oliver in The Twilight Zone (1959)

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    Roddy McDowall
    Roddy McDowall
    • Sam Conrad
    Susan Oliver
    Susan Oliver
    • Teenya
    Paul Comi
    Paul Comi
    • Marcusson
    Byron Morrow
    Byron Morrow
    • Martian
    Vic Perrin
    Vic Perrin
    • Martian
    Vernon Gray
    Vernon Gray
    • Martian
    Rod Serling
    Rod Serling
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Herbert Winters
    • Martian Observer
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Mitchell Leisen
    • Writers
      • Rod Serling(uncredited)
      • Paul W. Fairman
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The living room set is the same one seen in Third from the Sun (1960). It is a redressed version of George's living room from The Time Machine (1960).
    • Goofs
      When everyone enters the house tape can be seen on the floor so the actors can hit their mark.
    • Quotes

      Narrator: [Closing Narration] Specie of animal brought back alive. Interesting similarity in physical characteristics to human beings in head, trunk, arms, legs, hands, feet. Very tiny undeveloped brain. Comes from primitive planet named Earth. Calls himself Samuel Conrad. And he will remain here in his cage with the running water and the electricity and the central heat as long as he lives. Samuel Conrad has found The Twilight Zone.

    • Connections
      Edited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: People Are Alike All Over (2020)
    • Soundtracks
      Twilight Zone Theme
      (theme song)

      Composed by Bernard Herrmann

      (season 1)

    User reviews26

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    7/10
    Bold Statements In Changing Times
    The subtlety of the episode is well crafted for those times I am sure most of the message is wasted on the similar plot like "The Cage" in Star Trek. The story, on the other hand, has a message about people and how we find any reason the isolate and ostracize others who look like us but have some unique distinction. Whether color, religion, or origin, we tend to keep people categorized when in fact we are all human beings. this message was boldly presented with McDowall's last lines. Many of the staff writers for TZ were victims of McCarthism and Nazism. The world was also turning upside down with equal rights emerging as a social concern. Writers like Roddenberry and Serling knew change was coming. They wrote these concepts of a world where everyone was considered equal and people accepted you as a peer based upon you and not what you looked like. On the other hand, the fact that the astronaut thought they were speaking English and instead he was speaking their language, maybe they only looked like humans from his point of view. Great episode which speaks volumes.
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    • blandiefam
    • Jan 1, 2011

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 25, 1960 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Cayuga Productions
      • CBS Television Network
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    • Runtime
      25 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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