Mike Ferris (
Earl Holliman) doesn't know where he's been or where he's going, but he has a rough idea of where he
is -- in a typical small American town. This is all well and good, except for one detail: the town is utterly devoid of people. The explanation is more "logical" than one might expect from a
Twilight Zone episode, but that may be because this was the pilot show, and the producers wanted to "sell" the property to sponsors who might otherwise be skeptical about a weekly sci-fi/fantasy anthology. Scripted by series creator
Rod Serling and filmed on the familiar Universal backlot, "Where Is Everybody?" was telecast as the
Twilight Zone debut episode on October 3, 1959. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide