Alright, I confess
I consider myself to be a die-hard fan of horror, Sci-Fi and cult and yet I've never watched the original "Twilight Zone" series. Shame on me, I know, but I plan to correct this as from now since I purchased the entire series. This very first episode quickly made me realize that I will soon discover that many of my personal favorite movie titles were inspired by – or even blatantly copied from – "The Twilight Zone". One movie that truly struck me as original and frightening, for example, was the made- for-TV movie "Where have all the people gone?" released in 1974 and starring Peter Graves, but it's only just now that I'm discovering that this great movie is pretty much identical to the pilot episode "Where is everybody" (including even the title!) It's a very powerful and clever pilot episode with a solid screenplay and a brooding atmosphere of tension. Earl Holliman is also fantastic as Mike Ferris, a man that we meet as he is drifting around a remote little town and looking for his own identity and recollections. The entire town is forsaken but it seems as if all human beings just vaporized and left behind everything they were doing. "Where is everybody?" is unsettling and compelling, and the climax comes as a complete and unpredictable surprise – at least to me it did – that works quite effectively. Very good start to a legendary TV-series, I'm sure I'll enormously enjoy the rest of the big fat DVD-box