The Twilight Zone: Black Leather Jackets (1964)
Season 5, Episode 18
3/10
'They're a stupid race (humanity)'.
18 January 2014
Not great. Three aliens ride around on motorcycles and they're up to no good from an Earthling point of view. Matters are complicated by one of them finding star-crossed love.

Perhaps best taken as an allegory about the ignorance and harmfulness of racism for the way that the arrogant aliens despise humanity. It is however, an unusually weak story from Earl Hamner Jr.

The 'normal' Tillman family get involved with this unholy three. We are first shown the aliens mighty power when Stu Tillman (Denver Pyle) is made to walk into a wall and a door closes by itself (modest special effects). Ellen Tillman (Shelley Fabares) starts falling for one of the bad boys and the other two report the problem to the leader of the pack (an eye on a monitor).

The story seems to be just getting going when suddenly it comes to a weak conclusion. This is followed by an even weaker closing narration by Rod Serling.

Earl Hamner's excellent work for the Zone includes 'Ring-A-Ding Girl', 'Stopover In A Quiet Town' and 'A Piano In The House'.
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