Finally there are great episodes of Insight on Youtube! Martin Sheen and Eve Plumb and More!

this jack albertson robot sci-fi one is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDQurNbNCi4&feature=relmfu

martin sheen breaking down and eve plumb looking fine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63cxt2KGi4&feature=related

harvey korman all serious!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_oJ9HXzAM&feature=relmfu

Xian twilight zone seriously fucked me up when i was a kid in the 70's. i didn't know what the hell was going on. that's what i get for watching t.v. on sunday mornings instead of being at sunday school.

warren oates!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQi79Qchz7k&feature=relmfu

klugman and newhart. what could be more right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtWvv6Vt82A&feature=relmfu

joanna cassidy alert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEurnQN4uts&feature=relmfu

joanna cassidy one has some choice creepy moments.

good article about this strain of '70s christian twilight zone morality plays: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_moving_image/v009/9.1.cullum.html

i got to see a print of "and then they forgot god" recently and it is SUPER-unsettling

flip wilson and martin sheen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_28MoM1m_tU&feature=relmfu

But within the insular world of Christian drama, the gold standard was Insight, produced by a Catholic order, the Paulists, about which Bob Hope once declared, “A Paulist is a Jesuit who signs with the William Morris Agency.”3 Beginning in 1960, the year after The Twilight Zone, which it more than superficially resembled and with which it often shared writers, directors, and cast, Insight was the brainchild of Father Ellwood E. “Bud” Kieser (rhymes with wiser), a born showman and natural heir to Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, the cape-wearing Catholic clergyman whose Life Is Worth Living on Dumont and then ABC in the mid-50s was the only show to ever hold its own against Milton Berle, television’s first superstar. Father Kieser christened his series “the experimental theater of Hollywood” not only for its fiercely activist politics, which still seems radical four decades later, but also its [End Page 219] willingness to allow young talent a chance to stretch the medium. Writers as diverse as Michael Crichton, Rod Serling, John Wells, Exorcist author William Peter Blatty, Oz creator Tom Fontana, and even noir novelist John Fante found a sympathetic berth for their talents under the watchful eye of Father Kieser.

great article, thanks!

And anyone familiar with William Peter Blatty’s hyper-surreal novel Twinkle Twinkle, Killer Kane (1966) or its film adaptation The Ninth Configuration (1980) will spark to “The Man from Inner Space,” starring Louis Gossett Jr., as a banjo-playing alien in a blue jumpsuit who claims to be God, wherein the U.S. president tells his Marine guards, “Start wearing cast-iron underwear, boys, because you’re both in for the wildest reaming since Eva Braun had to tell Adolph Hitler she lost her diaphragm.”

"The shows were originally produced on two-inch videotape and they would distribute them gratis to whoever would broadcast them,” says Mark Quigley, manager of the Archive Research and Study Center, UCLA Film & Television Archive. Quigley and UCLA television archivist Dan Einstein removed four vans worth of material from the Paulist Productions offices, making UCLA the home of the Insight archives. “They would also distribute them to school and church groups via 16mm prints,” says Quigley. “The interesting thing about these is that they’re video drama, which when you look at it, you’re used to seeing a soap opera aesthetic. But if you turn on an Insight by accident, you’re suddenly thrust into this creepy netherworld, where human frailties are at the forefront and people are struggling with morality. There are these Insight moments that you don’t really see in television drama, where they go in and rip off the outer layer."