“The Bard” was ranked the worst episode of The Twilight Zone by Looper. The episode, which took place during season four, featured Burt Reynolds. He played a parody of Marlon Brando.
“He was an old friend of mine,” John Conwell revealed in The Twilight Zone Companion. “And I asked him if he would do it because he looked very much like Brando at that time and did a marvelous imitation of him.”
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The episode, which has been ranked as the worst by multiple outlets over the years, is about a screenwriter who is desperate for success. When researching black magic, he summons William Shakespeare and uses him as his ghostwriter.
Some believe the reason why the episode was ranked so poorly has to do with its length. Although most fans remember The Twilight Zone episodes as being thirty minutes long, this was one of the few episodes that lasted a full hour. This was a change made during the fourth season, which Rod Serling wasn’t a fan of.
“Our shows this season were too padded,” he said, as reported by The Night Gallery. “The bulk of our stories lacked the excitement and punch of the shorter dramas we intended when we started five years ago and kept to for a while. Twilight Zone in the half-hour form is quite simply plot stories with kicker endings. You just can’t do an hour show with a kicker ending.”
Before the change occurred, he was vocally against it as well, saying, “Ours is the perfect half-hour show. If we went to an hour, we’d have to fleshen our stories, soap-opera style. Viewers could watch 15 minutes without knowing whether they were in a Twilight Zone or Desilu Playhouse.”
During season five, the show returned to its original half-hour format.
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Although “The Bard” was ranked as the worst episode in the series, not everyone agrees. As one fan on Reddit said, “This is a bad episode, but it’s not the worst Twilight Zone, not in my book. And while it’s not especially funny, it made me chuckle more than the other ‘comedy’ episodes. Not one I want to revisit, but not quite as deplorable as some would make it out to be.” Another said, “Reynolds was worth the price of admission. The baseball fanatic bookseller was funny as well.”
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