Product Details

• Actors: Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts, Vaughn Taylor, James Turley
• Writers: Rod Serling
• Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: October 1, 1996
• Run Time: 26 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302541719
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,577 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Serling, June 6, 2001

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gobirds2 (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight Zone Christmas: Night of the Meek [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Rod Serling's yearning for those cherished days long gone or a part of ourselves that we think was lost is always evident in his best works. NIGHT OF THE MEEK is very uplifting and may bring a tear to those who cherish this episode. Art Carney showed us all a great dramatic side and depth which enhances this beyond the ordinary. The fact that this was one of the six episodes of the "Twilight Zone" that were recorded directly onto videotape instead of film gives it that `live' appearance and helps add to its validity as an icon of the days of `good television.' NIGHT OF THE MEEK is pure Serling.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Christmas Eve in the Twilight Zone, January 9, 2005

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NMdesapio - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight Zone Christmas: Night of the Meek [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Trust Rod Serling to dream up a Christmas story that combines warm-hearted sentiment with the grittiness and social commentary of a Clifford Odets play. In "The Night of the Meek," Art Carney gives an affecting performance as Henry Corwin, a man in the slums of New York who drinks to endure the poverty and hopelessness he sees around him, and who every year at Christmastime plays Santa Claus in a department store. On one particular Christmas Eve Corwin's despair turns to joy when he is magically granted the ability to give "the meek" - that is, every child and poor adult - his or her Christmas wish. While the episode belongs to Carney, the child-like John Fiedler is cute in the role of Corwin's mousey employer. As Serling suggests in his spoken introduction to this classic episode, "The Night of the Meek" is a "Night before Christmas" story with plot twists such as could only be found in the Twilight Zone.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's 1960 and I'm 12 yrs. old again., October 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Twilight Zone Christmas: Night of the Meek [VHS] (VHS Tape)

No fable of the Christmas season warms the heart more than this modern classic. All I wanted that Christmas of 1960 was a new American Flyer electric train. Watching this episode made me realize, really understand for the first time the power and joy of GIVING! I have never forgotten that lesson so wonderfully and sensitively played by Art Carney (and Bert Mustin!). The quality of this video makes one seem as if they were in the recording studio watching the monitor; it's that good! A film to watch forever.