The Obsolete Man [full version] Twilight Zone Classic

[mad cow]

In the prologue,Serling is smoking a cigarette as he often did in prologues and epilogues.One of the actors during the course of the show also was smoking a cigarette.
I don't doubt that one or more of the commercials when this episode first aired was by a cigarette company.

I am a smoker,old enough to have seen this episode when it first aired.I have not seen a cigarette on any network TV show or commercial in perhaps twenty or thirty years,although I still see Librarians.

I am the Obsolete Man.

 

[MelissaWV]

In the prologue,Serling is smoking a cigarette as he often did in prologues and epilogues.One of the actors during the course of the show also was smoking a cigarette.
I don't doubt that one or more of the commercials when this episode first aired was by a cigarette company.

I am a smoker,old enough to have seen this episode when it first aired.I have not seen a cigarette on any network TV show or commercial in perhaps twenty or thirty years,although I still see Librarians.

I am the Obsolete Man.

It wasn't so long ago that smoking was not THAT huge a sin.

Watch the original Nightmare on Elm Street. They're still smoking in a hospital. Airplane? Smoking on planes.

 

[mad cow]

It wasn't so long ago that smoking was not THAT huge a sin.

Watch the original Nightmare on Elm Street. They're still smoking in a hospital. Airplane? Smoking on planes.

Nightmare On Elm Street?1984
Airplane!?1980
And both movies. and also both 25 to 30 years old.


There is a new(3 or 4 months)TV channel in this area called ME TV that plays nothing but old network TV shows.It is my favorite channel.It is where I watched this episode of Twilight Zone,one of 96 episodes I have recorded since receiving this channel.

I know from ME TV that mid-70's TV shows,35-40 years ago still had cigarette smoking on them,I don't recall exactly when it became taboo on network TV.

 

[Cap]

In the prologue,Serling is smoking a cigarette as he often did in prologues and epilogues.One of the actors during the course of the show also was smoking a cigarette.
I don't doubt that one or more of the commercials when this episode first aired was by a cigarette company.

I am a smoker,old enough to have seen this episode when it first aired.I have not seen a cigarette on any network TV show or commercial in perhaps twenty or thirty years,although I still see Librarians.

I am the Obsolete Man.

I too am old enough to have seen the original broadcast of this episode. Like Orwell's 1984, this condensed version was a warning and an eerie forshadowing of the direction of this country's heading. People (the majority) at the time refused to believe it was possible in our "beacon of liberty". Yet they have been proven to have been wrong. Our country is now synonymous with the "beacon of tyranny" label. It is so sad to see how far we have fallen.

Yet there is hope, the critical thinkers are here. Like a beacon himself, Ron Paul brought us together and for that, I am thankful. Josh and now Bryan have facilitated our meeting place and for that, I am thankful. I see the valiant here, I see the brave, I see the same seed that I am sure was planted by our founders here...and for that, I am thankful.