And When the Sky Was Opened
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Template:Infobox TTW season one And When the Sky Was Opened is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.
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Details
- Production code: 173-3611
- Original air date: December 11, 1959
- Writer: Rod Serling (story by Richard Matheson)
- Director: Douglas Heyes
Cast
- Forbes: Rod Taylor
- Harrington: Charles Aidman
- Gart: James Hutton
Synopsis
Three astronauts disappear from radar for twenty minutes on a test flight, then reappear. However, all is not as it seems upon their return to Earth. After they land, Gart is sent to the hospital with a broken leg. During the evening, the other two, Forbes and Harrington, go to a bar. There, Harrington suddenly gets a strange feeling. He immediately goes to a phone booth to call his parents, but they tell him that they have no son. Then Harrington mysteriously disappears, and no one but Forbes remembers that he ever existed. When Forbes tells his story to Gart, even Gart says he does not know any person named Harrington. Suddenly, Forbes gets a strange feeling and runs out of the room. By the time Gart gets up to run after him, Forbes has mysteriously disappeared too, and nobody remembers him. Then Gart mysteriously disappears, and the ship does too -- wiping them off the face of the earth.
Themes
This episode explores the subject of fear.
External link
- TV Tome episode page (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-237/epid-12595)