The Lonely
- Episode aired Nov 13, 1959
- TV-PG
- 25m
A convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.A convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.A convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.
- Director
- Writer
- Rod Serling(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe first of many The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes (including I Shot an Arrow into the Air (1960), A Hundred Yards Over the Rim (1961) and The Rip Van Winkle Caper (1961)) to be filmed on location in Death Valley. Unprepared for the terrible conditions they would face, the crew suffered extreme dehydration and heat exhaustion and director of photography George T. Clemens even collapsed, falling from a camera crane while filming continued.
- GoofsApparently, there was at least one other living thing on the planet besides James Corry. In the final screen shot, a bird can be seen flying in from the left, going to the right and circling up and over to the left again.
- Quotes
James A. Corry: Alicia and I'll climb into that ship of yours, and we'll - we'll look out the port, and we'll give it all a big kiss goodbye.
Adams: Who, Corry?
Captain Allenby: Oh, my dear God, I forgot her.
Adams: He's out of his mind. Who's Alicia?
Captain Allenby: A robot.
James A. Corry: She's a woman.
Captain Allenby: Corry, she's a robot.
James A. Corry: She's a woman! She's gentle and kind. Allenby, she kept me alive. Why, if it wasn't for her, I'd have been finished. I'd have given up.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: The Lonely (2020)
A particularly thoughtful episode that explores the complex nature of the human psyche, our fear of loneliness and ability to allow emotions to rule over logic, this romantic tragedy is perfect in all but one way: when Corry is first confronted by Alicia, a robot woman virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, he reacts with disgust, whereas I imagine that most men who have been alone for four years would have no such qualms, and would waste no time in finding out just how anatomically correct their new companion is.
Or maybe that's just me....
- BA_Harrison
- Mar 1, 2012
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1