TZ Advent Calendar – Day Five
The Twilight Zone Podcast
Tom Elliot
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Day five of the Twilight Zone Advent Calendar – play along in the comments…
“The series features early roles for several future major film stars (Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Vera Miles, Martin Landau, Robert Duvall amongst others): which appearance did you most enjoy and why…”
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| 0:00.0 | Day 5 of the Twilight Zone podcast Advent Calendar, and it's a question from Emma, who I believe is in London, another Twilight Zone fan over this side of the pond. |
| 0:20.5 | Welcome Emma, and she says the series features early roles for several future film stars. |
| 0:26.6 | Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Vera Miles, Martin Landau, Robert DeValle, amongst others. |
| 0:32.6 | Which appearance did you most enjoy and why? |
| 0:36.6 | So, kind of link to our last question in a way, a flip |
| 0:40.1 | side of that. So I actually feel that my favorite in a lot of ways, it's so hard to choose, |
| 0:50.9 | but my favorite in a lot of ways is Dennis Hopper and he's alive because I think |
| 0:59.0 | there is a great combination of just youthful naivety which was very kind of fitting for the age |
| 1:09.0 | he was but he clearly had some chops about him. |
| 1:14.5 | He really nailed this thing of my life is broken in a lot of ways, so to try and solve |
| 1:20.8 | that, I'm latching onto the wrong thing. |
| 1:25.1 | He really had a great balance of that youthful naivety with the kind of evil that he |
| 1:32.1 | was letting invade himself if you like so Dennis Hopper and he's alive for me what about you |
| 1:38.9 | amy so it's also Dennis Hopper and he's alive that's why we we should coordinate these. It's just, it's just |
| 1:47.1 | undeniably an amazing performance. And like you say, at this point, he was, it was kind of pretty |
| 1:53.8 | unknown at this point. He was very young. And he's alive isn't even necessarily one of my |
| 2:00.4 | favourites. I mean, it's obviously a great episode, but in terms of ones that I would and he's alive isn't even necessarily one of my favorites. |
| 2:02.9 | I mean, it's obviously a great episode, |
| 2:07.3 | but in terms of ones that I would probably sit down and watch multiple times and get a lot of joy from, it's probably not high up there. |
| 2:10.0 | It's pretty heavy, but no, his performance is worth watching the episode just for that, frankly. |
| 2:17.4 | Because you're right. He does that, |
| 2:20.7 | the innocence, the naivity, the idea that he really, he wants to stand for something. He just |
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