The Little People (The Twilight Zone) Zone" historian Marc Zicree, series producer Buck Houghton discussed that the final scene in which the giant astronauts appear and stand towering behind the mountains in the foreground. He explained that this was an optically composited matte shot which combined new footage of the two actors playing the 'giants' with stock location footage of the real mountains around Death Valley, which had originally been filmed two years earlier for the Season 1 episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air". Like many other installments of "Twilight Zone" episodes, this episode used several props and costumes originally created for MGM's "Forbidden
The Hitch-Hiker (The Twilight Zone) The Hitch-Hiker (The Twilight Zone) "The Hitch-Hiker" is episode sixteen of the American television anthology series "The Twilight Zone". It originally aired on January 22, 1960 on CBS. It is based on Lucille Fletcher's "The Hitch-Hiker". It is considered by some to be among the series' greatest episodes. Nan Adams, 27, on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles, gets a flat tire on U.S. Route 11 in Pennsylvania and has an accident. A mechanic puts a spare tire on her car, comments that he's surprised she survived the accident, saying "you shouldn't've called for a