"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" is a 1961 episode from the second season of The Twilight Zone. It was recently ranked as one of the top 10 “Best Original Twilight Zone Episodes” by Entertainment Weekly.
The episode, which is commonly compared to John Carpenter’s The Thing, is about a UFO that crashes in the middle of a snowstorm. Two state troopers arrive to investigate and find tracks leading across the highway into a diner. They must investigate this diner, where there are nine strangers—but only eight are human.
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As the opening narration stated, “You've heard of trying to find a needle in a haystack? Well, stay with us now, and you'll be part of an investigating team whose mission is not to find that proverbial needle, no, their task is even harder. They've got to find a Martian in a diner, and in just a moment you'll search with them, because you've just landed in The Twilight Zone.”
In the end, one person reveals themselves to be a three-armed alien from Mars—but they aren't the only one who isn't human. In a shocking twist, another character reveals themselves to be a three-eyed alien from Venus. The special effects for this scene were discussed in The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree.
He explained, "Someone crouched behind John Hoyt, reaching an arm around and under Hoyt's realms. The arm was clothed in the same material as Hoyt's arms and an overcoat was draped over Hoyt's shoulders to obscure the fact that an extra arm didn't originate from his body. With plenty of rehearsal to ensure a fluidity of movement between the three hands, the illusion was perfect."
Barney Phillips, who played the three-eyed alien, added, "They had run a wire over my head concealed in my hair and one of the property men was concealed behind me, manipulating the trigger on the wire to effectuate the rolling of the eyeball in the socket. They had done a very big makeup job. They made a cast of the eye socket. I guess they must have spent well over a day working with me, fitting that device proper to the actual shooting of the show."
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This episode is also known for having one of the highest body counts in the series, due to a twist at the end involving a bridge collapse that kills all of the human characters. However, the episode with the most deaths is "Time Enough at Last," where the entire world is destroyed, leaving only the main character alive.
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