The Little People

Episode aired Mar 30, 1962
TV-PG
25m

IMDb RATING

7.9/10

2.8K

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After crash landing on a seemingly desolate planet, astronauts Bill Fletcher and Peter Craig find a society of very small beings. While Fletcher repairs the spaceship, Craig becomes a megalo... Read allAfter crash landing on a seemingly desolate planet, astronauts Bill Fletcher and Peter Craig find a society of very small beings. While Fletcher repairs the spaceship, Craig becomes a megalomaniac and decides to rule their society.After crash landing on a seemingly desolate planet, astronauts Bill Fletcher and Peter Craig find a society of very small beings. While Fletcher repairs the spaceship, Craig becomes a megalomaniac and decides to rule their society.

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IMDb RATING

7.9/10

2.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The rocket launch depicted was in reality a test flight of a Mercury-Atlas booster. This was quite timely; this episode aired about a month after NASA's John Glenn became the first astronaut to attain Earth orbit upon such a rocket.

Goofs
When Craig shows Fletcher the tiny village, his arm points out the landscape, and seconds later steps next to Fletcher and does it again.

Quotes
Peter Craig: All right, my little friends... Today begins a new age, the age of Peter Craig. Time to build the statue again... And there will be reminders that you must not anger me; we must have discipline, after all.

Connections
Featured in Top 10 Twilight Zone Episodes (2009)

Soundtracks
Twilight Zone Theme
(theme song)
Composed by Marius Constant
(seasons 2-5)

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Featured review

Before Land of the Giants....

On another planet, spacemen discover tiny people.

A very hard episode to review. The story is well written and acted but something about the general look of it turns me off. Perhaps I have seen so many re-runs of Land of the Giants (1968) that I demand this sort of "Little People" plot line be done with better effects?

Whatever, if you can forgive the flaws in production you will probably be impressed by the story here. There is a Forbidden Planet (1956) related moment at the end that makes the the whole thing worthwhile. In fact, the whole series of Twilight Zone has many Forbidden Planet related moments.