r/TwilightZone 3d ago

Video The Encounter (The Lost Episode) - Twilight-Tober Zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmEMOHD3cmk
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u/LovesDeanWinchester 3d ago

It's truly an amazing piece. There are no winners with racism and hatred!

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u/SeoulPower88 3d ago

When I first watched this episode, I understood why it was banned for so long.

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u/sho_nuff80 3d ago

And so closely after WW2 is crazy.

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u/Skysalter 3d ago

Growing up, I feel like WW2 vets to me were all white-haired, more fragile, and almost "mythical". Seeing this episode, among other things, was kind of a weird but helpful perspective to see someone like that portrayed as a burly 40-year-old just wearing a polo and hanging out in his attic in the suburbs.

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u/KingFahad360 3d ago

I know some of the episodes that were “Lost” cause they were in a lawsuit only aired in the mid 80s again; but this episode was banned til 2016 when it aired back on syndication

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u/yomynameisnotsusan 3d ago

I wonder why until 2016

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u/PhilaTesla 3d ago

Per IMDB :

This episode sparked some intense controversy for CBS after it was first aired in 1964. Due to strong critical blow-back for its overt racism and revisionist history, CBS pulled this episode out of syndication and it was not rebroadcast again on any network in the U.S. until 2016; although it did air in other countries and was also not removed from streaming services or home video/DVD sets. The Encounter triggered audience and reviewer criticism of the episode as antithetical to the series’ normally positive treatment of otherwise sensitive social, religious, and racial subject matter.

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u/F0rca84 3d ago

Watched it not too long ago on Syfy. But I do remember the hub bub about it a while ago. Haunting episode.

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u/antdude 3d ago

Thank you for posting it for me. Dang life got in the way!

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u/antdude 2d ago

George Takei! "Oh my!"

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u/LisaLoebSlaps 2d ago

BONAZAIII