The plot of this one is very straightforward.\u00a0 A jet airliner in route from London to Idlewild (present JFK Airport in NYC) experience s strange turbulence that mysteriously boost its air speed to 3,000 knots.\u00a0 The pilots and navigators speculate about the jet stream and other natural phenomenon but most troubling they lose all radio contact with the outside world.\u00a0 The stewardesses attempt to keep the passengers calm but the strong turbulence frightens them.<\/p>\n
Finally deciding that risking a mid-air collision with another plane is less dangerous than their depleting fuel level they descend and get below the clouds.\u00a0 The can make out the shapes of the New York City islands, Manhattan, Long Island and Staten Island but there is no sign of the buildings.\u00a0 Flying in to get a closer look they discover that the area is a Jurassic landscape complete with jungles, giant fern trees and sauropod dinosaurs.<\/p>\n
Shocked by what they saw they decide that somehow, they not only broke the sound barrier but somehow, they also broke the time barrier.\u00a0 No knowing what else to do they decide to ascend back into the jet stream and push their speed to the maximum in hopes of reversing their situation.\u00a0 And this is what they do.<\/p>\n
When they begin to descend again, they can see the New York skyline and are jubilant.\u00a0 When they radio the tower, they get LaGuardia airport and ask to be provided a radar vector to land.\u00a0 When the tower says they don\u2019t know what radar is the pilot said that his jet aircraft was running out of fuel.\u00a0 The tower tells him they don\u2019t know what a jet is but he is free to try and land.<\/p>\n
But as they approach Queens, they see the unmistakable outline of the 1939 World Fair.\u00a0 They are still over twenty years in the past.\u00a0 The pilot tells the passengers over the intercom exactly what has happened and that they will make a second attempt to return to 1961 but that they are running low on fuel.\u00a0 He also asks them to remain calm and pray.<\/p>\n
Then Serling says if you hear a plane up there that sounds lost, it may be Flight 33 lost in the Twilight Zone.<\/p>\n
This is a straight up time travel story.\u00a0 No real explanation just facts on the ground (or in this case in the air.).\u00a0 Not a particularly likely or even clever premise.\u00a0 But guess what?\u00a0 I like this story a lot.\u00a0 The flight crew is very appealing.\u00a0 The captain and his officers are capable and don\u2019t lose their heads under extremely stressful circumstances.\u00a0 The two stewardesses are very human and refreshingly feminine.\u00a0 There is one funny vignette with two of the passengers that is mildly amusing and also very familiar.<\/p>\n
And best of all nobody starts screaming at the walls as is sometimes the case in a TZ episode.\u00a0 All the characters are stereotypes of the time; the brave war tested pilots, the pretty ingratiating stewardesses and the Claymation brontosaurus in the swamp.\u00a0 No neurotics.\u00a0 Check, check, check, check.<\/p>\n
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