The Little People

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The Twilight Zone original series Season three (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1961 – Summer 1962 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: Two The Arrival The Shelter The Passersby A Game of Pool The Mirror The Grave It's a Good Life Deaths-Head Revisited The Midnight Sun Still Valley The Jungle Once Upon a Time Five Characters in Search of an Exit A Quality of Mercy Nothing in the Dark One More Pallbearer Dead Man's Shoes The Hunt Showdown With Rance McGrew Kick the Can A Piano in the House The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank To Serve Man The Fugitive Little Girl Lost Person or Persons Unknown The Little People Four O'Clock Hocus-Pocus and Frisby The Trade-Ins The Gift The Dummy Young Man's Fancy I Sing the Body Electric Cavender Is Coming The Changing of the Guard

“The Little People” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 93
Season: 3
Production code: 4822
Original air date: March 30, 1962
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: William Claxton
Music: Stock

[edit] Cast

Peter Craig: Joe Maross
William Fletcher: Claude Akins
Spaceman #1: Michael Ford
Spaceman #2: Robert Eaton

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Astronauts William Fletcher and Peter Craig--each of whom happens to be the chief thorn in the other's side--set down in a canyon on Venus to repair their ship. While scouting around, Craig finds a city populated by people no bigger than ants. He begins terrorizing the population by crushing their buildings, and he proclaims himself a god. Fletcher comes to inform him the repairs are done and they can depart, but Craig pulls a gun on him and orders Fletcher to leave alone; there's no room for two gods. Fletcher leaves disgustedly, and immediately another ship lands. Two spacemen, big as mountains, emerge. One of them picks Craig up and accidentally crushes him. The Little People rejoice at the death of their bullying "God."

[edit] Trivia

The towering two spacemen are wearing uniforms from the MGM film Forbidden Planet.

The episode has been spoofed by The Simpsons (in "Treehouse of Horror VII") and Futurama (in "Godfellas"). Furthermore, the Simpsons episode has itself been spoofed by South Park (in "Simpsons Already Did It").