Corrected entry: Right after Bemis's glasses break, he leans down to pick them up. Instead, he first opens the book. When he does that, you can see that the pages are completely blank and that there is absolutely nothing printed on them.
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street - S1-E22
Corrected entry: After all the power goes off, Steve tries to start his car. The starter can be heard turning the engine over. But, with all power gone, the engine shouldn't even turn over.
Correction: The aliens are deliberately confusing the residents by causing random things to happen. One house has power while the others don't, etc. This is in line with their plan.
Corrected entry: Ferris was locked up in the box for 484 hours which, according to the show, was the equivalent of going to the moon and 10 orbits and then back to earth, many times the actual time it would take.
Correction: He says "several orbits", not 10. But we don't know the technology of their orbiters, so we don't know how long a trip to the moon would take them (since in 1959 the US hadn't sent a man into space yet, they were using future, fictional, technology).
Corrected entry: When Maj. Wilson tells Lt. Decker that the year is 1959 instead of 1917, Decker mouths the words "fifty nine." However, no sound is heard.
Correction: It's stretching to call this an error - people often mouth words to themselves without vocalizing. The fact that this reviewer can tell what Decker is saying, simply by reading his lips, attests to the fact that The Silence was intentional.
Corrected entry: Mike Ferris is supposed to have been locked in the chamber for 484 hours, equivalent to 20.1666 days with no human contact. However, after all this time locked away his beard only grew about 2 - 3 days' worth. (00:20:20)
Correction: He also was consuming food supplements, using the bathroom, and had various entertainment. It's possible he was also shaving.
Could be. It's a tricky situation. But then it is The Twilight Zone, so I guess anything is possible.
The Lonely - S1-E7
Corrected entry: In the beginning, we see the rocket that came to bring the main character supplies carried 3 men and the crate containing the robot woman, meaning it can hold at least 4 people and perhaps more. However, at the end of the episode, the main character is told that the rocket only has enough room for him and the pilot, so he must leave his robot wife behind. Why wouldn't they return in the same rocket from before, and if this is a smaller rocket, why would they have chosen to bring this one when the main character possibly could have had a lot of stuff he wanted to bring home. We see he could have car parts shipped to him and was able to build a car, so these rockets must be able to carry a significant amount of weight. It's almost as if the pilot wanted him to have an ultimatum.
Correction: It is stated by the captain that they have to pick other convicts which means there will be more then four people present. Plus, there are captain and two crew members in the first place.
I Shot an Arrow into the Air - S1-E15
Corrected entry: When Corey takes his last drink of water before he finds the telephone poles over the hill, you can see plants growing out of the rocks right behind him. Since he is supposed to be on an "asteroid" no plant life should exist, but then again since an asteroid contains no atmosphere, meaning no oxygen, they shouldn't be alive in the first place.
Correction: This is not mistake even by far. Of course they can live and of course there are plants on this asteroid - it is not an asteroid, but a planet we all know very well called Earth. On Earth there are air and plants everywhere.
The Lonely - S1-E7
Corrected entry: If the rocket ship has so little room on board for everyone, including the robot and all the supplies, then why not just come back to get Corey and the robot on the next scheduled pickup? Since the ship wouldn't be full of other people and supplies they both could easily have gone back together the next time.
Correction: Earlier in the episode, it is explained that they have to leave the asteroid at a precise time, otherwise they might end up stuck on it for much longer. Therefore, they probably can't come and go whenever they want.
Mr. Denton on Doomsday - S1-E3
Corrected entry: TV antennas can be spotted in the distance in several shots. They didn't exist at the time of the Wild West.
Correction: There are no TV antennas to be seen in any shot. While there may be metal structures in some background shots, none resemble TV antennas.
Correction: They're not TV antennas; they're towers for high-voltage electric lines. Definitely an error showing the whole thing takes place on a backlot set.
Corrected entry: Lanser's cap says that he is Capitan Leutenant of Kriegsmarine. In German Captain is spelled Kapitan.
Correction: The cap correctly reads Kapitan with K.
Corrected entry: This episode holds the absolute record in TZ for having the most actors who also appeared in other episodes. Barney Philips (Gunther) appeared in "Miniature," "A Thing About Machines" and most notably as a Venusian diner counterman in "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" and is one of only two actors who appeared in four episodes (the other being Burgess Meredith). Dick York (Riker) had a memorable role in "Penny For Your Thoughts," while Warren Oates (Jeep Driver) appeared in "The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms." Despite being the main star in this episode, William Reynolds (Fitzgerald) never appeared in any other TZ episode.
Correction: 1. Regarding the supposed record, "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? " has five actors who appeared in other episodes: John Hoyt, Barney Phillips, Bill Erwin, Morgan Jones, Bill Kendis. Even that might not be the record, but I don't have time to go through the whole series right now. 2. Jack Klugman and John Anderson appeared in four episodes each, one of them together ("A Passage for Trumpet"). Vaughn Taylor appeared in five. These are all prominent appearances; Jay Overholts was credited for six smaller roles.
Corrected entry: If you look carefully,when Fitzgerald and Riker are talking in hospital hallway right after their comrade has died, you can see it is the same stage, with some differences, which was used for Barbara Jean Trenton's house in the episode "Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine." Note staircase and garden door.
Correction: This trivia, not a mistake. Sets and locations are resused all the time in films - the "Hill Valley" set in the Back To The Future films appears in dozens of other films, notably Gremlins.
Corrected entry: Though Pedott the street peddler sells his trinkets to several people in the bar, no one ever gives (or even offers) him any money. (00:07:00)
Correction: In the first bar scene and several other scenes, we see that Pedott is purposely giving his trinkets away, explicitly saying that there's "no charge tonight". It's easily understood that he's not charging for the goods he provides as they're "what they need".
Corrected entry: Throughout whole episode, Nan's car doesn't have rear-view mirror. But in the very last scene, when she needs to see Hitch-Hiker in back seat, she uses rear-view mirror.
Correction: Rather than using a rear-view mirror, she pulls down the visor and sees him in a mirror attached to its top side.
Corrected entry: The scientists, having carefully charted their course to Earth, state that it is an 11 million mile trip from their planet. Not likely. Mars is our nearest planetary neighbor, and it's over 34 million miles away at its closest orbital approach. There are no planets any nearer to Earth than Mars. This is one of the very few cases where Rod Serling simply failed to do his astronomy homework. (00:12:30)
Correction: The whole point is that a planet used to be 11 million miles away. They blew themselves up, planet and all.
Correction: There are many words printed on the pages of the book he opens after his glasses break.
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