| | |  | VHS | Home » » The Twilight Zone Christmas: Night of the Meek [VHS] | | | | | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts, Vaughn Taylor, James Turley | | Format:
| Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC | | Number of Tapes:
| 1 | | Studio:
| 20th Century Fox | | VHS Tape Release Date:
| October 01, 1996 | | Run Time:
| 26 minutes | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 11 reviews |
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Christmas Twilight Zone StyleFeb 07, 2010
This is a nice short Christmas Story. It's a good video if you like Art Carney and/or Christmas Magic Stories.
I remember watching this episode almost 20 years ago...Sep 16, 2007
Youtube is a really good thing. I was watching some old Honeymooners skits and remembered how powerful Art Carney's performance in this episode was. I watched it a couple of times today and it really touches me today as it did almost twenty years ago, simply wonderful. Christmas is really more than barging up and down dept store aisles. I wonder how many Christmas specials made today would include the dialogue "and we will thank God for miracles".
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Wonderfully heart-warming episode from Mr. SterlingDec 12, 2006
Rod Sterling gave us a wonderful Christmas classic here for those who are fans of the Twilight Zone, AND for those who are not.
Art Carney plays Henry Corwin, a drunken department store santa whose heart is broken over poverty stricken children and elderly at Christmas time. Henry comes across a sack which allows him the opportunity to be santa, not only for the night but for all time as you will see at the end.
This is a charming story and Mr. Carney did an excellent job in portraying Henry.
I won't give away any more of the movie so as not to ruin it for anyone but this is a true Christmas classic and I'm surprised that someone hasn't tried to breathe life into this forgotten masterpiece. It is now a part of my Christmas movie collection and has already been watched numerous times this holiday season.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Christmas Eve in the Twilight ZoneJan 10, 2005
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.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Rod Serling + Art Carney = MAGIC!Mar 05, 2003
Every time I watch this I tear up at the end.This was a hastily done show to get it done in time for Christmas. Serling himself said that there was a holiday spirit on the set, maybe because they had more children than usual on the set. Art Carney's acting ability makes this episode shine with the magic of the season. A must have for sentimentalists who still enjoy the Magic of Christmas.
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