This is a Cold War science fiction story.\u00a0 A worker at a nuclear munitions plant is sure that a nuclear war will occur within forty-eight hours.\u00a0 He plots with a friend of his who is a test pilot to steal an experimental space craft (actually it looked like the flying saucer from Forbidden Planet) and escape to another planet with their families.\u00a0 The base has some kind of security chief who suspects the plot and he shows up that night to transparently hint that he suspects they will attempt to steal the space craft.\u00a0 When they try to sneak on the base the security guy catches them and threatens them with a pistol.\u00a0 They turn the tables on him and after repelling the security forces they succeed in escaping into outer space.<\/p>\n
On the ship (which also looks like the internal set from the Forbidden Planet space craft) we find out that their destination is the third planet from the sun which the inhabitants call \u201cEarth.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, this is a pretty straight up sci fi from the period with the whole Cold War nuclear war phobia thing.\u00a0 The protagonist lays on the anti-military thing a little thick for my taste.\u00a0 I looked up the actor and found out he had been a conscientious objector in WWII.\u00a0 But Serling always seemed like a Lefty so it goes with the territory.\u00a0 It\u2019s a simple story and even though the surprise twist is kind of lame I actually enjoy watching the episode.\u00a0 It\u2019s sort of a fairy tale.\u00a0 I\u2019ll give it a B+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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