This is one of my favorite episodes and Rod Taylor was excellent portraying a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, because no one believes him. When he broke through the glass door of the bar and screams, "Harrington!!." it always gives me chills.
This is still one of the creepiest episodes in the shows. The fact that you can disappear out of existence with no explanation and no one would remember you. Mix that with the acting of Rod Taylor panicking from the situation.
They called the ship the 'X-20'. It's worth looking up the 'X' series of experimental aircraft, beginning with the various X-1s, researching the speed of sound and how planes might go faster than that. Then try X-2, X-3, etcetera. Around X-15 you'll find a long, black rocket-ship, that was flown by numerous men who went on the be astronauts, Neil Armstrong among them. The X-20 'Dyna-Soar' was a planned aircraft that was intended to fly into orbit and return, proving the concept of an orbital nuclear bomber. It was never built, but a replica of one was seen in a film about rescuing astronauts from orbit made in the early 1970s. This parallels the idea of a space program that vanished from history as seen here.
The episode seems very Lovecraftian. Like a cosmic entity is out there with very little care for humanity, it sees that humans are progressing enough to go to space and says no, click, the astronauts are erased from existence. Like the people who made advancements in space travel are just escaped livestock to be put down by an entity that barely even pays attention to us. Whatever it is isn't some grand deity with some plan that works like clockwork or this flight wouldn't have happened in the first place. The space flight was just a little oversight, a little spill to be cleaned up.
Sometimes Twilight Zones don't work for me but having a recognisable actor is all you need to sell you on a story. This however is just plain amazing 😅
I’d like to think of this one is something a little bit more vague than aliens which is why it’s so frightening they’re pretty much saying the thing that let them get back that shouldn’t of was pretty much fate. They dodged it pretty much which is why they kept feeling like they shouldn’t be there, because technically speaking in the cosmic scheme of things they weren’t supposed to be, and it was just nature fixing it mistake one that lasted their entire lives
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Where does this episode rank among your favorite Twilight Zone episodes?
I believe the 2004 film The Forgotten was based off of this episode.
This is one of my favorite episodes and Rod Taylor was excellent portraying a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, because no one believes him. When he broke through the glass door of the bar and screams, "Harrington!!." it always gives me chills.
This is still one of the creepiest episodes in the shows. The fact that you can disappear out of existence with no explanation and no one would remember you. Mix that with the acting of Rod Taylor panicking from the situation.
Yeah. It's a pretty good job on Taylor's part of acting for certain.
Most unsettling episode for me in the series. Thanks for spotlighting. "HARRINGTON!!!!!!!"
No problem. Definitely unsettling.
It's scary because this is WORSE than death; it's literally being erased from ever existing.
Yeah. It's a pretty unnerving episode.
They called the ship the 'X-20'.
It's worth looking up the 'X' series of experimental aircraft, beginning with the various X-1s, researching the speed of sound and how planes might go faster than that.
Then try X-2, X-3, etcetera.
Around X-15 you'll find a long, black rocket-ship, that was flown by numerous men who went on the be astronauts, Neil Armstrong among them.
The X-20 'Dyna-Soar' was a planned aircraft that was intended to fly into orbit and return, proving the concept of an orbital nuclear bomber.
It was never built, but a replica of one was seen in a film about rescuing astronauts from orbit made in the early 1970s.
This parallels the idea of a space program that vanished from history as seen here.
Love this episode. Very thought provoking.
Rod Taylor was also in The Birds.
And in the cult classic, Birdemic, the lead character is named Rod, after him.
Nice. Yeah. I knew Taylor was in The Birds, but The Time Machine is what always go to when I think of him.
The episode seems very Lovecraftian. Like a cosmic entity is out there with very little care for humanity, it sees that humans are progressing enough to go to space and says no, click, the astronauts are erased from existence. Like the people who made advancements in space travel are just escaped livestock to be put down by an entity that barely even pays attention to us. Whatever it is isn't some grand deity with some plan that works like clockwork or this flight wouldn't have happened in the first place. The space flight was just a little oversight, a little spill to be cleaned up.
Yeah. It's definitely an episode that leaves it up for interpretation.
At 7:21 you can see a part of his left arm in the mirror
Sometimes Twilight Zones don't work for me but having a recognisable actor is all you need to sell you on a story. This however is just plain amazing 😅
Please continue to do more of these reactions to a classic TV show The Twilight Zone
I’d like to think of this one is something a little bit more vague than aliens which is why it’s so frightening they’re pretty much saying the thing that let them get back that shouldn’t of was pretty much fate. They dodged it pretty much which is why they kept feeling like they shouldn’t be there, because technically speaking in the cosmic scheme of things they weren’t supposed to be, and it was just nature fixing it mistake one that lasted their entire lives
To find a very similar story exploring another aspect, look up Philip K. Dick's 'Something for us Tempunauts'.
You've got some knowledge my friend. Will do.
One of my fav TZ episodes. But the very end kinda bugged me. If the spaceship never existed why the barrier.
Yeah. I wasnt fond of the end, but definitely a great episode.