A pilot of a downed WW II bomber comes to in the African desert and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.A pilot of a downed WW II bomber comes to in the African desert and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.A pilot of a downed WW II bomber comes to in the African desert and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.
- Capt. James Embry
- (as Bob Cummings)
- British Officer
- (uncredited)
- Blake
- (uncredited)
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe B-25 used in this episode was military surplus, purchased at a price of $2500. The plane was disassembled, transported to the desert location, and reassembled on site.
- GoofsThe shape of the B-25's top gun turret is completely different from the turrets actually used on these bombers.
- Quotes
Narrator: [Closing Narration] Enigma buried in the sand, a question mark with broken wings that lies in silent grace as a marker in a desert shrine. Odd how the real consorts with the shadows, how the present fuses with the past. How does it happen? The question is on file in the silent desert, and the answer? The answer is waiting for us - in the Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: King Nine Will Not Return (2021)
You may remember this from the show's pilot episode, "Where is Everybody?" where a Mike Ferris walked around a town basically having a conversation at the top of his voice with no one. In this episode, Embry is also calling repeatedly into the emptiness of the desert for his lost crew, at one point even squeezed into the back of the plane, still calling their names as though they had somehow managed to squeeze themselves into the cracks in the instrument panels. Isn't the back compartment of an airplane small enough so that you can pretty much see right away whether or not anyone else is in there with you? I don't know, maybe I'm wrong and those planes are bigger than I think.
At any rate, this episode actually deals with much heavier material than many other twilight episodes, as it ultimately turns out to be a very real depiction of some of the effects that many soldiers and military personnel suffer after being involved in conflicts.
As it turns out, Embry (played by Cummings, who has very real military experience himself, as does Serling) has a very real reasons for experiencing what he experiences in the show, and a very real and very revealing reason is given for what happens to him in the show. Much more moving than your typical twilight episode...
- Anonymous_Maxine
- Jun 24, 2008
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1