People Are Alike All Over

Episode aired Mar 25, 1960
TV-PGTV-PG
25m

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

3.3K

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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.

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

3.3K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Mitchell Leisen
Writers
- Rod Serling(teleplay by)
- Paul W. Fairman(based on a short story by)
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5413-12 "The Twilight Zone" Episode "People Are Alike All Over" - Roddy McDowall and Susan Oliver, CBS, 1960.

Byron Morrow, Susan Oliver, and Vic Perrin in The Twilight Zone (1959)

Roddy McDowall and Susan Oliver in The Twilight Zone (1959)

Susan Oliver in The Twilight Zone (1959)

Vernon Gray, Byron Morrow, Susan Oliver, and Vic Perrin in The Twilight Zone (1959)

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 Conrad walks into the living room after banging on the front door, the shadow of the boom mic and its operator are clearly seen.

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
Referenced in My Favorite Martian: Man or Amoeba (1963)

Soundtracks
Twilight Zone Theme
(theme song)
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
(season 1)

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7/10

Good sci-fi tale with a surprise twist.

This "TZ" episode from 1960 features late great character actor Roddy McDowall(from 1980's "Fright Night" fame) as Sam a guy getting ready to go on a space mission to Mars. And his high hope is to find life of aliens and that of martians. Only when the spacecraft is one the planet Sam finds that life and the people are a little different it's not what he expected or what things seem to be. Overall okay episode that twist still it's entertaining with it's science fiction theme that involves aliens and space plus it's some good early work from Roddy McDowall.

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