8th episode of the 5th season of The Twilight Zone
"Uncle Simon"
The Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.
Season 5 Episode 8
Directed by
Don Siegel
Written by
Rod Serling
Featured music
Stock
Production code
2604
Original air date
November 15, 1963 (1963-11-15)
Guest appearances
Cedric Hardwicke: Uncle Simon Constance Ford: Barbara Polk Ian Wolfe: Schwimmer Uncredited: Robby the Robot: robotic Uncle Simon
Episode chronology
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"Uncle Simon" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The episode explores people's willingness to wallow in misery and hate, through the example of a woman who submits herself to serving first her mean-spirited uncle, and later the robot he malevolently designed.
"UncleSimon" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The episode explores people's willingness to wallow in misery...
ticket stub holders. Many of the matinee kids soon gave him the nickname “UncleSimon” because of all of his generous schemes. Tiring of trying to maintain...
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entertainer called "UncleSimon" and drummed in a cabaret band for the summer season. Using the pseudonym Lindsay Honey as he "didn't think Simon fitted the bill...
Hitchcock Presents, Target: The Corruptors!, and The Twilight Zone episode "UncleSimon". She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. In...
Fergusson Twilight Zone (November 14,1963) (Season 5 Episode 8: "UncleSimon") as UncleSimon The Pumpkin Eater (1964) as Mr. James - Jo's father (final film...
to Edmund's uncle, Charles I of Anjou. The "Sicilian business" outraged the barons led by the Earl of Leicester and Edmund's uncle, Simon de Montfort...
remakes. For television, he directed two episodes of The Twilight Zone, "UncleSimon" (1963) and "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" (1964), and was...
Never Have Paris, co-directed with Simon Helberg. Towne's uncle is screenwriter Robert Towne. Towne married actor Simon Helberg on July 7, 2007. They have...
played Tammy Ward, a spendthrift heiress under the financial thumb of her UncleSimon (Hiram Sherman). The series also stars Dick Sargent (billed as Richard)...
who would later join Suicidal Tendencies, before Simon Oliver joined. Their first album, Say Uncle, was released in 1988 through Caroline Records. Before...
triathlon. Brownlee was introduced to triathlon at a young age by his uncleSimon Hearnshaw, who regularly competed in the sport. As a junior, he was a...
Flinch; episode "The Spotlight" (1965) as Amos The Twilight Zone, episode "UncleSimon" (1963), as Schwimmer The Fugitive, episode "Nightmare in Northoak" (1963)...
responsible for the death of a young courtier, who reputedly had killed her uncleSimon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham. She had been given this esquire...