This one is painful.\u00a0 Rod Taylor is astronaut Col. Clegg Forbes.\u00a0 Along with Col. Ed Harrington and Major William Gart (played by actors I\u2019ve never heard of) he has returned from Earth orbit to crash land in the desert.\u00a0 And the major mystery of the flight is that they were out of radio contact with Earth for twenty-four-hours (dah, dah, daaah!).\u00a0 Gart is the only one of the three to require more than a short-term hospital stay.\u00a0 I think he broke a collar bone.\u00a0 Forbes and Harrington are in a bar together when Harrington starts to feel strange.\u00a0 He describes it as if he doesn\u2019t belong on Earth and if he doesn\u2019t resist, he will just disappear.\u00a0 He calls home and his parents claim to have never known him.\u00a0 He tells Forbes from the phone booth what happened and disappears as Forbes goes back to the bar to get a drink for Harrington.\u00a0 Worse still no one else remembers Harrington being there and even a newspaper story about the space mission now only includes Forbes and Gart.\u00a0 Forbes tells his girlfriend and the commanding officer of their outfit and of course no one has ever heard of Harrington.\u00a0 He goes to the hospital and even Gart thinks it was just the two of them on the mission.\u00a0 Next Forbes looks in a mirror and can\u2019t see himself and runs out of the room screaming.\u00a0 When Gart gets to the doorway Forbes has vanished and nobody but Gart knows who Forbes was and now the newspaper says Gart was on a solo mission.\u00a0 Next day the hospital room is completely empty and the space craft that was in a hangar under a tarp is just a tarp on the cement floor.<\/p>\n
This is another Twilight Zone where a guy runs around screaming, shouting and crying because no one believes him.\u00a0 Last night it happened in Episode 10 where the U-Boat Commander tried to warn the occupants of the British freighter that his alter ego would sink them in a few minutes.\u00a0 That was bad enough but now poor Rod Taylor is running around like an hysterical adolescent girl screaming and crying because no one understands him.\u00a0 Rod had a pretty good career in Hollywood.\u00a0 He was in The Time Machine and stuff.\u00a0 He was a decent actor and not bad with decent dialog.\u00a0 People liked him.\u00a0 But this is not science fiction.\u00a0 It\u2019s primal scream therapy.\u00a0 There was a pretty girl in the bar and that could have added some interest to the show but they just neglected her.\u00a0 I mean, why couldn\u2019t she have been consulted about the problem.\u00a0 Maybe she could have consoled him on his last day on Earth.\u00a0 This is exactly the kind of episode that makes me cynical about television.<\/p>\n
Well, I\u2019m sorry this is a D or maybe even a D-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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