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The Twilight Zone
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Black Leather Jackets

  • Episode aired Jan 31, 1964
  • TV-PG
  • 25m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.1K
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Michael Forest and Tom Gilleran in The Twilight Zone (1959)
DramaFantasyHorrorMysterySci-FiThriller

Leather-jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding male aliens Scott, Steve, and Fred invade a peaceful neighborhood, where Scott develops a romance with teenage neighbor Ellen Tillman and upsets bot... Read allLeather-jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding male aliens Scott, Steve, and Fred invade a peaceful neighborhood, where Scott develops a romance with teenage neighbor Ellen Tillman and upsets both his two comrades and Ellen's father Stu.Leather-jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding male aliens Scott, Steve, and Fred invade a peaceful neighborhood, where Scott develops a romance with teenage neighbor Ellen Tillman and upsets both his two comrades and Ellen's father Stu.

  • Director
    • Joseph M. Newman
  • Writers
    • Earl Hamner Jr.
    • Rod Serling
  • Stars
    • Lee Kinsolving
    • Shelley Fabares
    • Michael Forest
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    • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    2.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Joseph M. Newman
    • Writers
      • Earl Hamner Jr.
      • Rod Serling
    • Stars
      • Lee Kinsolving
      • Shelley Fabares
      • Michael Forest
    • 32User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Lee Kinsolving
    Lee Kinsolving
    • Scott
    Shelley Fabares
    Shelley Fabares
    • Ellen Tillman
    • (as Shelly Fabares)
    Michael Forest
    Michael Forest
    • Steve
    Denver Pyle
    Denver Pyle
    • Stu Tillman
    Tom Gilleran
    Tom Gilleran
    • Fred
    Michael Conrad
    Michael Conrad
    • Deputy Sheriff Harper
    Irene Hervey
    Irene Hervey
    • Martha Tillman
    Wayne Heffley
    Wayne Heffley
    • Mover
    • (uncredited)
    Gregory Morton
    Gregory Morton
    • Alien Leader
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Rod Serling
    Rod Serling
    • Narrator
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    • Director
      • Joseph M. Newman
    • Writers
      • Earl Hamner Jr.
      • Rod Serling
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    • Trivia
      In an interview with the Archive of American Television in 2003, the writer Earl Hamner Jr. admitted that he thought that this episode was bad and that he was not as proud of it as most of the other episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959) that he wrote.
    • Goofs
      When Scott and Ellen are sitting on a blanket in a park, when they leave they don't take the blanket.
    • Quotes

      [opening narration]

      Narrator: Three strangers arrive in a small town, three men in black leather jackets in an empty rented house. We'll call them Steve, Scott and Fred, but their names are not important; their mission is, as three men on motorcycles lead us into The Twilight Zone.

    • Connections
      Featured in Twilight-Tober-Zone: Black Leather Jackets (2024)
    • Soundtracks
      Twilight Zone Theme
      (theme song)
      Composed by Marius Constant
      (seasons 2-5)

    User reviews32

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    5/10

    A Genocidal Invasion

    Three refugees from Marlon Brando's motorcycle club arrive in small town USA to set up a command post for a planned genocidal invasion. Michael Forest, Tom Gillleran and Lee Kinsolving are not of this world. They're looking to wipe all the humans out and reserve the planet as grazing land for a truly large land lobster like creatures they eat like we do cattle.

    But things do happen when they move into an empty house as the youngest and hunkiest of them Lee Kinsolving falls in love with an earth girl Shelley Fabares. But that is not the end of the story far from it.

    The best part of this Twilight Zone episode is the pairing of Lee Kinsolving and Shelley Fabares. They are one beautiful couple.

    Otherwise though one of the weaker Twilight Zone stories.
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    • Mar 6, 2019
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    • Release date
      • January 31, 1964 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Cayuga Productions
      • CBS Television Network
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    • Runtime
      25 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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