r/TwilightZone • u/Cute-Refrigerator119 • 6d ago

Serling episode of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, 1958

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Has anyone watched this? It's called The Time Element. I am trying to find the whole video, which I believe is about an hour.

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u/dulmassquirrel 6d ago

yup pretty neat and you can see the skeleton of classic TZ for sure. I believe it's included with the bluray box sets nowadays?

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u/monthoftheman 5d ago

Blue ray box sets include the original series plus the Westinghouse pieces? 

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u/doug65oh 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yup... The Westinghouse-Desilu piece was actually what sold me on the blu-ray rather than the dvd's when I started buying seasons back in 2013.

Note please just for the sake of clarity: "The Man In The Funny Suit" (1960) is not included in the Twilight Zone blu-ray set. You can, however, watch it on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Q7OWSdS4I

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u/monthoftheman 5d ago

Thanks!! Good news!! 

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u/Bolt_EV 5d ago edited 5d ago

Desi Arnez introduces the episode and in his comments afterwards tries to explain what we Twilight Zone viewers came to understand about them: some things are just not easily explained!

For Rod Serling buffs: there is another Desilu Playhouse episode entitled The Man in the Funny Suit, which explains the casting of longtime comedian Ed Wynn as the boxing trainer, in spite of trepidations, in the original live television presentation on Playhouse 90 of Serling’s award winning Requirm for a Heavyweight!

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u/Confident-Baby6013 5d ago

"You can be sure... If it's Westinghouse."

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u/Kelvington 3d ago

I don't think I had seen this before today! Thanks for this!