Three astronauts are aboard the, by now familiar, Forbidden Planet flying saucer set that is bringing them to explore and evaluate a new planet that Earth hopes to colonize.\u00a0 Lieutenants Ted Mason and Mike Carter along with Captain Paul Ross (played by Jack Klugman) are scanning the planet\u2019s surface to identify a good landing site to begin their work.\u00a0 But they see a shiny object and land to investigate.\u00a0 It turns out to be a crashed flying saucer.\u00a0 They go to investigate and discover what appear to be their own three bodies lying dead in the wreckage of their own ship.\u00a0 Mason and Carter now start to hallucinate that they\u2019ve gone back to Earth.\u00a0 Carter imagines that he visits his home and sees a telegram with his death notice on it.\u00a0 Mason meets his wife and daughter but when Ross finds him and forces him back he is reminded that his wife and daughter died in an automobile crash years ago.<\/p>\n
Mason and Carter are now convinced that they\u2019ve all died in a crash.\u00a0 But Ross claims that aliens are causing them to hallucinate the crashed ship, the bodies and even the scenes on Earth.\u00a0 Ross tells them that they must escape from the planet to escape the delusions.\u00a0 But Mason and Carter are convinced that taking off will be the occasion for their ship to crash.\u00a0 When they successfully take off everyone is overjoyed but when Ross says it\u2019s now safe to return, Mason and Carter panic and attempt to stop him from landing.\u00a0 In doing so they force the ship into a power dive from which they barely escape without crashing.\u00a0 Once on the surface they see that the crashed ship is still there.\u00a0 Now Mason and Carter are despondent and convinced that all of them are already dead.\u00a0 But Ross refuses to believe he\u2019s already dead and says they must go over the logic of what\u2019s happening to them again.<\/p>\n
In the final scene we return to the beginning when they see the shiny object from orbit as they approached the planet.\u00a0 They are in an endless loop of denying their own deaths.<\/p>\n
While some of the scenes between the men and their friends and family from Earth are affecting and the interactions between the captain and his crew are somewhat interesting and Jack Klugman is fun to listen to, the season four hour format finally draws out this premise too long.\u00a0 It\u2019s too thin a premise to keep it going that long.\u00a0 C+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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