Black Leather Jackets

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The Twilight Zone original series Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1963 – Summer 1964 List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes: In Praise of Pip Steel Nightmare at 20,000 Feet A Kind of a Stopwatch The Last Night of a Jockey Living Doll The Old Man in the Cave Uncle Simon Probe 7, Over and Out The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain Ninety Years Without Slumbering Ring-a-Ding Girl You Drive The Long Morrow The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Number 12 Looks Just Like You Black Leather Jackets Night Call From Agnes—With Love Spur of the Moment An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Queen of the Nile What's in the Box The Masks I Am the Night—Color Me Black Sounds and Silences Caesar and Me The Jeopardy Room Stopover in a Quiet Town The Encounter Mr. Garrity and the Graves The Brain Center at Whipple's Come Wander With Me The Fear The Bewitchin' Pool

“Black Leather Jackets” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

• Episode number: 138
• Season: 5
• Production code: 2628
• Original air date: January 31, 1964
• Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
• Director: Joseph M. Newman
• Producer: William Froug
• Director of photography: George T. Clemens
• Music: Van Cleave

[edit] Cast

• Scott: Lee Kinsolving
• Ellen Tillman: Shelley Fabares
• Stu Tillman: Denver Pyle
• Steve: Michael Forest
• Fred: Tim Gilleran
• Martha Tillman: Irene Hervey

[edit] Synopsis

Aliens send three men wearing leather jackets to help contaminate the waters and kill all men and animals. This is a way of taking over the earth for themselves. Their reasoning is that men are violent and hateful and therefore deserve to be exterminated. The youngest of the three men fall in love with Ellen played by Shelley Fabares (better known as "Mary" in The Donna Reed Show). He tries to convince the leader of his world that all men are not evil and that love exists among people of the earth. When he is unsuccessful in getting the aliens to change their minds about invading the earth, he tries to convince Ellen to run away with him so that she could live. Unfortunately, Ellen and the other members of her family do not believe his warnings and are doomed to die.

It is unclear from the story whether the aliens were using violence and hate among men as excuse to invade the earth or whether mankind could have really saved themselves by becoming more peaceful and loving toward each other.