Black Leather Jackets

Black Leather Jackets

Infobox Television episode
Title = Black Leather Jackets
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption = The aliens address their commander.
Season = 5
Episode = 138
Airdate = January 31, 1964
Production =2628
Writer = Earl Hamner, Jr.
Director = Joseph M. Newman
Guests = Lee Kinsolving : Scott Shelley Fabares : Ellen Tillman Denver Pyle : Stu Tillman Michael Forest : Steve Tom Gilleran : Fred Irene Hervey : Martha Tillman
Music = Nathan Van Cleave
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = Number 12 Looks Just Like You
Next = Night Call

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

Opening Narration

ynopsis

Three men wearing leather jackets are part of an advance alien invasion force, sent to Earth to infect city water reservoirs with bacteria. Their plan is to kill all men and domestic animals via this means. They require room to expand, and this is an easy way to take over the earth for themselves. The excuse given by the alien leadership, for the extermination, is that men are violent and hateful and therefore deserve to be destroyed. The youngest of the three men, Scott, falls in love with the girl next door, Ellen played by Shelley Fabares. He tries to convince the leader of his world that not all men are evil and that love exists among people of the Earth. When he is unsuccessful in getting the alien leadership to change their minds about invading the planet, he tries to convince Ellen to run away with him so that she will escape death. Unfortunately, Ellen and the other members of her family do not believe his warnings. They call the local deputy sheriff to take the "disturbed" man away. The deputy turns out to be one of the invaders, and so the family and the Earth 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.

Closing Narration

Preview for Next Week's Story

References

*DeVoe, Bill. (2008). "Trivia from The Twilight Zone". Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360
*Grams, Martin. (2008). "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic". Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090

External links

*imdb title|id=0734557|title=Black Leather Jackets


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