📺 The Twilight Zone: 'The Obsolete Man' • 1961 • (Drama/Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller)TV-PG •🕞25m

🚨(CLASSIC TV-Series): The Twilight Zone • (Season 2, Episode 29) • Episode aired Jun 2, 1961
📽 'The Obsolete Man' • 1961 • (DramaFantasyHorrorMysterySci-FiThriller) TV-PG •🕞25m
🌟 Stars: Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver, Josip Elic • 🎬Director: Elliot Silverstein • 📝Writer: Rod Serling
——• 👀 Plot:
In a future totalitarian society, a librarian named Romney Wordsworth is declared obsolete and sentenced to death. He stands condemned for the crime of being a librarian, enduring the harangues of the state's Chancellor, who lectures him about his obsolescence. However, Wordsworth makes one final request: he wants to choose his method of execution, and he insists that it be televised live for the entire society to see. The Chancellor agrees and later visits Wordsworth at his home, where he discovers that Wordsworth has rigged the house with explosives set to detonate at midnight, all in full view of the national television cameras. As the Chancellor attempts to leave, he realizes he has been double-crossed by Wordsworth. Now, he must confront the terrifying reality of Wordsworth's plan as the clock ticks down to the fateful hour of midnight.

——• 💡 Trivia:
▸ When Wordsworth is reading from the Bible, he quotes the following verses: Psalm 23 Psalm 59:1 Psalm 14:1 (or Psalm 53:1) Psalm 142:1 Psalm 130:1-2
▸ A year and a half after Time Enough at Last (1959), Burgess Meredith has a Twilight Zone character defined by his relation to books.
▸ The Blu-ray release includes Rod Serling's plug for the following week's episode, Where Is Everybody? (1959), which was the series pilot and the opening show of the first season.
▸ Fritz Weaver portrays a high-ranking member of a totalitarian state who, at one point, admires Adolf Hitler. Ironically, Weaver went on to play a Jewish victim of the Holocaust in Holocaust (1978).

——• 🎩 Review:
➤ 'This Episode Rocks!!!' - daleja-dale Mar 20, 2013
I watched this episode, "The Obsolete Man" last week on MeTV and it has to be just about the best episode of any series I watched so far! It has highly thought-provoking themes to it! It takes stabs at totalitarianism in Government and also has a good religious theme to it as well (which is the thing I enjoyed most about it)! It was very well acted by Burgess Meredith (an actor whose films I almost always enjoy), the show's hero, and by Fritz Weaver, playing the villain of the show! Now I know why the series "The Twilight Zone has ratings over 9 out of 10! It's because of intelligent episodes like this! I challenge anyone to show me any mindless, violent, and special effects-filled action film that can stand up to this "Twilight Zone" masterpiece!

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