It wasn't a real TZ episode but a French film that was edited for the show. It won the Oscar in 1964, I believe. That one was so unsettling, I will probably never watch it again.

But you didn't see it when it first aired. It was shocking, let me tell you. I was a young girl when it aired and I never forgot it—ever.

The episode was really about segregation and racism. It was not about beauty or conformity at all. Given use of the phrases of "being with your own kind," "segregation," and "ghettos," and given the fact this episode was made during the time of the civil rights movement, it is obvious what Serling's message here was.

It was never proven at all Michael Jackson did anything untoward kids. I don't know why this garbage continues to be peddled.

"Perchance to Dream" is one of those overlooked episodes that really should be ranked among the best of the series.  Absolutely brilliant, this dream about a dream episode, with touches smack out of the old German expressionist films.

The emphasis was on Shatner's seeming paranoia and not on the "scariness" of the gremlin.  The gremlin's looks weren't supposed to be scary, but its actions WERE.