Twilight Zone, The: "Eye of the Beholder"
About This Show
SPOILERS!: HIGHLIGHTED SOUND BITES do suggest you've seen this episode. Watch the classic episode below, then listen to clips from Archive interviews with lead actress Maxine Stuart and associate producer Del Reisman on the making this classic episode.
Aired on November 11, 1960, "Eye of the Beholder" appeared in season two of The Twilight Zone. As Del Reisman says in his Archive interview: "It was really Rod's take on the McCarthy era: the demand for a conformity... it had come about through... the general political climate that we were in at that time."
Credits:
Written by: Rod Serling
Directed by: Douglas Heyes
Produced by: Buck Houghton
Cast: Maxine Stuart, Donna Douglas, William D. Gordon, Jennifer Howard, George Keymas, Jonnna Heyes, Edson Stroll
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Featured Content
Video: The Twilight Zone: "Eye of the Beholder" (aka "The Private World of Darkness") from Veoh.
Resources
Links:
Archive of American Television's The Twilight Zone page.
Other classic full Twilight Zone episodes at CBS.com.
"Eye of the Beholder" page on Wikipedia.
"Eye of the Beholder" on IMDb.
![Actress Maxine Stuart on [SPOILER ALERT!] The Twilight Zone: "Eye of the Beholder" and the irony in the show's casting, considering the show's message about conformity](http://www.emmytvlegends.org/files/imagecache/interview_carousel_thumb/header-thumbs/TRpCiqLjsFA.jpg "Actress Maxine Stuart on [SPOILER ALERT!] The Twilight Zone: \"Eye of the Beholder\" and the irony in the show's casting, considering the show's message about conformity"){kind=small}
![The Twilight Zone Associate Producer Del Reisman on the theme of [SPOILER ALERT!] "Eye of the Beholder"](http://www.emmytvlegends.org/files/imagecache/interview_carousel_thumb/header-thumbs/raKAOWfCP6g.jpg "The Twilight Zone Associate Producer Del Reisman on the theme of [SPOILER ALERT!] \"Eye of the Beholder\""){kind=small}
