WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:11.880 You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension, 2 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:18.000 a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. 3 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.679 You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and 4 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:48.799 ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone. Critics of season five 5 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:53.880 of The Twilight Zone will say that this is the season where the show starts 6 00:00:53.960 --> 00:01:00.159 to run out of ideas, that it was now just recycling old episodes with 7 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:06.439 a slightly different take. And tonight when we meet Kennel Cook, an astronaut 8 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:10.920 in a ragged flight suit, sat in the remnants of his christ ship. 9 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:17.319 As fans of the show, how could we not immediately be reminded of episodes 10 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:23.200 like I Shot an Arrow into the Air, people are alike all over or 11 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:29.319 death Ship. But just because an episode is reminiscent of other ones, it 12 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:33.959 doesn't mean that it's not going to forge its own path. And here on 13 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:41.400 the Twilight Zone podcast, every episode gets a fair chance. A Probe seven 14 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:49.879 telling base, this is pro seven, Probe seven of the landing report overdio 15 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:55.840 Base overdio prop seven, this is base Probe seven. This is base. 16 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:00.760 You're coming through lowber audibly, go ahead, prop seven gradually into a planet 17 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:05.159 system four point three light years, my son, most of my equipment's gone 18 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:08.800 as at the moment, I don't know this planet's density or it's atmospheric composition, 19 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:14.439 but I'm alive and breathing. Your visual image is very indistinct. Can 20 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:17.199 you increase your power? And that half a generator and free solver sales left? 21 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:21.000 Just how I'm getting through to you? I can't you explain? Can 22 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.840 you effect repairs? If so, how long you asked me it will take? 23 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:28.599 I remember twenty years you right, arm, Maybe replace my head. 24 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:31.680 I can make a start and shot. I'm sure I need help. I 25 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:36.520 need help desperately. I need it right away. Retract you on impulses to 26 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:40.680 your approximate locations. We have nothing back here that can reach you, nothing 27 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:45.840 so familiar. It may be, But let us not forget that the writer 28 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:52.039 of tonight's episode is Rod Sailing, a man who time and time again has 29 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:57.240 shown us that is talent for picking up an old idea, putting a fresh 30 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:02.360 coat of paint on it, and making something even more worthwhile is considerable. 31 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:08.039 So let's not count him out just yet, And hopefully we won't have to 32 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:14.560 count out Cannel Cook either, and this truly won't be a case of probe. 33 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:20.159 Seven over and out one. Colonel Cook a traveler in space. He's 34 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:23.479 landed on a remote planet several million miles from his point of departure. He 35 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:27.879 can make an inventory of his plight by just one three hundred and sixty degree 36 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:32.159 movement of head and eyes. Colonel Cook has been set adrift in an ocean 37 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:36.759 of space in a metal lifeboat that has been scorched and destroyed and will never 38 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.439 fly again. He survived the crash, but his ordeal is yet to begin. 39 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:44.360 Now he must give battle of loneliness. Now Colonel Cook must meet the 40 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:47.599 unknown. It's a small planet set deepened space, but for Colonel Cook, 41 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:55.280 it's the Twilight. First broadcast on November twenty nine, nineteen sixty three, 42 00:03:55.319 --> 00:04:01.439 written by Rod Sailing and directed by Ted Poe. So I'm still waiting for 43 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:08.479 my perfect season five. Rod Sailing in the scene opening narration, and I'm 44 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:12.000 not sure I get it tonight, but there are still some things to enjoy 45 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:18.000 in this one. Sailing seems to be stood in front of some generic spaceship 46 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:24.399 arched doors, and when we see the crash ship in a moment the Colonel 47 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:29.839 Cook is on. They don't seem to particularly fit with that ship. But 48 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:33.879 I always enjoy when an episode is in the future or the past or a 49 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:40.480 different world, just seeing how Rod Sailing fits into that scene. But what 50 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:46.199 I really like about this one is how Rod Sailing performs it with a certain 51 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:54.160 grave urgency, setting up a sense of impending danger. And twice he drives 52 00:04:54.199 --> 00:05:00.279 this home by pointing towards the audience as he talks. And this opening narration 53 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:06.680 was originally scripted to be slightly longer, and it went like this one. 54 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:14.839 Cannel Cook a traveler in space. He's landed on a remote planet several million 55 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:18.560 miles from his point of departure. He can make an inventory of his plate 56 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:26.519 by just one three hundred and sixty degree movement of head and eyes. Cannel 57 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:31.519 Cook has been set adrift in an ocean of space in a metal lifeboat that 58 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:38.319 has been scorched and destroyed and will never fly again. He has survived a 59 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:44.800 crash, he has lived through the impact of flaming metal smashing against the atmosphere, 60 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:50.839 and what was beyond for his ordeal is yet to begin. Now he 61 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:58.519 must give battle to loneliness. Now he must stand up and face what awaits 62 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:03.720 him on the other side of the bulkhead. Now Colonel Cook must meet the 63 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:11.040 unknown. It's a small planet set deep in space, but for Carnell Cook, 64 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:16.079 it's the Twilight Zone. So although this was written by Rod Sailing, 65 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:19.639 there is a sense that he might not have been entirely happy with it. 66 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:26.279 And the director of this one was Ted Post and this is what he said 67 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:31.199 in Unlocking the Door to a television classic by Martin Graham's Junior. He said, 68 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:38.879 Richard Basehart and Antoinette Bauer were professional actors who worked together. Of all 69 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:44.120 the episodes I filmed, that was a breeze I recalled. The script was 70 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:47.560 nothing out of the ordinary. Rod told me that he felt it could have 71 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:53.560 been better. He granted me an exclusive to do what I could do to 72 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:58.839 improve the scenes. With actors like Richard and Antoinette, that was never a 73 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:04.439 problem. It's serendipitous that the last episode that we looked at was directed by 74 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:11.519 Don Siegel, the director of the Clintesau classic Derty Harry, Because to Night 75 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:16.920 behind the Camera is the director of its fair sequel, Magnum Force. But 76 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:24.360 although Siegel directed Derty Harry, facet ted Post beat him to the Twilight Zone 77 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:29.439 because Ted Post has been around for a while in the Fifth Dimension, haven't 78 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:33.560 directed the fair season episode A World of Difference. But then there is this 79 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:40.120 huge gap until he comes back in season five to direct Probe seven over and 80 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:45.519 out. And we'll see him again when he directs Mister Garretty and the Graves 81 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.199 and the Fear. So it's been so long that who knows what I said 82 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:54.240 about him in season one. Let's go back and take a look at the 83 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:59.600 life of Ted Post. He was born on March thirty face, nineteen eighteen 84 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:05.079 and brought in New York and he developed a passion for storytelling and filmmaking from 85 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:09.480 a young gage and it said that this came about from when he worked as 86 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:16.160 a nusher in a movie theater. And he began his career in the entertainment 87 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:22.879 industry as a theater director, working on various productions in New York City, 88 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:28.040 but his true calling lay in the world of cinema and he soon transitioned into 89 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:33.720 directing films and in the nineteen fifties, Ted Post made his mark in the 90 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:41.320 industry by helming a series of b movies and low Budger genre films. He 91 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:48.000 directed western's crime dramas, science fiction, and some of us Notable early works 92 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:52.639 include The Peacemaker in nineteen fifty six, The Hangman in nineteen fifty nine, 93 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:58.960 and The Legend of Tom Dooley also in nineteen fifty nine and liked on Segelt 94 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:05.840 also directed Clint Eastwood, although not quite in as many movies as Don Siegel 95 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:11.080 did. He directed them in the western Hangham High in nineteen sixty eight, 96 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:16.840 which was Clint Eastwood's retained to the US after becoming a superstar, following his 97 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:22.679 run of spaghetti westerns, culminating in the classic The Good, the Bad, 98 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.919 and the Ugly and then, of course That is That Deity Harry sequel Magnum 99 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:31.919 Force in nineteen seventy three. But as well as his work in feature films, 100 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.919 ted Post also left his mark on television with some of the favorite shows 101 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:45.120 at the time, including Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, and Rawhide, and in 102 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:50.360 the seventies and eighties he continued to direct feature films exploring different genres and themes, 103 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:56.799 and of course I could not mention that he directed the first Planet of 104 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:03.200 the Ape sequel Beneath The Planet of the Apes nineteen seventy and he developed somewhat 105 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:07.559 of a talent for working with smaller budgets but making the most of them, 106 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:13.519 and his contributions to the entertainment industry extended beyond directing, and he saved us 107 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:20.679 the president of the Director's Guild of America from nineteen seventy one to nineteen seventy 108 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:26.039 three, where he worked to promote the interests and the welfare of fellow directors, 109 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:33.320 and he lived a good long life, passing away in twenty thirteen. 110 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:39.200 Now, when Colonel Cook exits his spacecraft, we get a really nice view 111 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.519 of the exterior of the ship, and it's embedded into the side of an 112 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:50.399 embankment, and as we can see, this is a craft that looks like 113 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:54.039 it's made to carry only one or two people in it, which again makes 114 00:10:54.039 --> 00:11:00.320 the archway that sailing was stood in front of earlier not a particularly great fit 115 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.759 for this type of ship. But the craft itself, I really like, 116 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:11.200 probably one of the best setups of the show's history in terms of showing something 117 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:16.919 like this. And apparently it was originally used on that other show, The 118 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:22.759 Outer Limits in the episode Specimen Unknown, but Kayuga Productions bought it from them 119 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:28.519 once they had finished with it, and they used to hear and it makes 120 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:33.919 a change from the usual forbidden planet props at least. But now that as 121 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:39.240 boots are on the planet floor, Colonel Cook wonders that thing that we would 122 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:48.639 all wonder. Am I alone? Anybody around here? Anybody hear me? 123 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:54.600 So as Colonel Cook goes back to his ship, the music swells ominously and 124 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:03.039 the bushes outside begin to unnaturally rustle, suggesting that maybe he isn't alone. 125 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:07.200 So as Kennel Cook retreats to the safety of his ship and tries to radio 126 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:16.960 back to Bass lets meet the man who played him. Kennel Cook is played 127 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:24.480 by Richard Basshart and he was born John Richard Basshart in nineteen fourteen in Zanesville, 128 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:28.679 Ohio, and he initially worked as a radio announcer and then as a 129 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:37.240 reporter, following in his father's footsteps, but apparently there was controversy over one 130 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:41.799 of his stories in the paper which led to his departure, and he decided 131 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:48.360 to pursue an acting career, and in nineteen thirty two, Basshart made his 132 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:54.360 theatrical debut with The Right Player's Stock Company in his hometown and subsequently spent five 133 00:12:54.519 --> 00:13:01.639 years playing varied roles at the Hedgerow Theater in Philadelphia, and from nineteen thirty 134 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:07.039 eight he began to work in New York on and off Broadway, and seven 135 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:11.960 years later he received a New York Drama Critics Circle Best Newcomer Award for The 136 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:18.720 Hasty Heart, a drama by John Patrick in which Bashart played a dying Scottish 137 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:24.639 soldier. And he made his film debut in a movie called Repeat Performance in 138 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:30.960 nineteen forty seven, and his third picture, He Walked By Night in nineteen 139 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:37.240 forty eight, brought him critical acclaim for his performance as a sociopathic killer. 140 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.399 Now by the time he got to the Twilight Zone, he had already starred 141 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:48.360 in several films, and as TV became a thing, he transitioned into that 142 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:52.840 as well. And after his appearance in the Twilight Zone, he continued doing 143 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:58.600 what he did, being a hard working actor of the day, and from 144 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:03.200 nineteen sixty four to nineteen sixty eight he played the lead role of Admiral Harriman 145 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:09.799 Nelson in Erwin Alan science fiction television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 146 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:15.960 and with that great gravelly voice of his, he provided narration for various 147 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.440 television and movie projects, and he wasn't afraid to take any kind of job 148 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:26.039 later on in his career. One of my favorite roles that I've seen them 149 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:31.320 in is the nineteen seventy six movie Mansion of the Doomed also known as Eyes, 150 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:37.080 where he plays a doctor trying to restore his daughter's eyesight by stealing the 151 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:41.639 eyes from various people. And it's as shlocky as they come, but base 152 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:48.679 Heart approaches it with an earnestness and a seriousness that belies the silliness of the 153 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:54.039 story. And that's what he did with all of his work. He was 154 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:58.360 the gravity that could keep any project on the ground, no matter how silly 155 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:03.120 it might see. But most of all, the thing that I will remember 156 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:09.200 him for is his opening narration to one of my favorite shows as a child, 157 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:13.759 and the part that he played in it. His final role was as 158 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:22.759 Wilton Knight, the millionaire benefactor of the Night Foundation in Nightrider. Light Rider, 159 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:28.480 a shadowy played into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist, 160 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.440 Michael Knight, a young loner on a prencide to don't be on the 161 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.679 cause of the innocence, the helpless, the powerless, in the world of 162 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:56.639 criminals who operate above the law. A night rider turned out to be his 163 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:03.000 final role because he passed away in nineteen eighty four in Los Angeles, California, 164 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:11.519 following multiple strokes. But I think what I mentioned earlier about base Heart 165 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:18.360 having this gravitask that he brings to ridiculous materials, sometimes I think that earnestness 166 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:23.840 and that gravity really works well in this episode, And no matter how I 167 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:29.480 end up feeling about it, overall, I really do enjoy Richard Baseheart in 168 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:33.960 it. So when Colonel Cook gets in touch with his base, he discovers 169 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:37.960 that his world is on the brink of a war, a war that may 170 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:44.440 threaten their whole existence. There's always a major crisis, and there's always talk 171 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:47.360 of war. You'll forgive me, General, but my own problem has a 172 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:51.960 little more immediacy for me. It's a little more personalized. I've got a 173 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:56.320 week's food left and two broken bones and one arm. Can't another ship be 174 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.559 sent out for me? There isn't another ship, Cook, unless we build 175 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:03.240 one. If we have war in the next few hours, there isn't going 176 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.440 to be anybody left around to do any building. That's the realistic view kernel 177 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:11.039 that may go down hard, but those are the facts of life. Ten 178 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:18.680 hours from now, perhaps six four hours will be committed back here. I'm 179 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:23.799 talking half a billion people kernel, not just one lonely man. As early 180 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:29.160 on as this, the episode is setting up the groundwork for part of the 181 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:33.640 twist, and it is a twist that we've seen in this very show. 182 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:38.799 At this point, Cook talks about the planet he's on as having an atmosphere 183 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:45.359 and a gravity similar to his home planet. And Cook and the person he's 184 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:51.839 conversing with on his monitor both look human. We have no reason to suspect 185 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.400 otherwise. Now you will recall that there had been a shuffling of producers recently 186 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:03.640 on The Twilight Zone, and this is the first episode where William Fruge became 187 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:07.640 the producer of the show. And when he came on board, Rod Sailing 188 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:12.599 wrote to him and said, I am simply delighted that you're aboard. I 189 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:18.759 think this could be the beginning of some very good times. And Martin Graham's 190 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:25.400 junior writes that Sailing also enclosed the slightly revised version of Probe seven over and 191 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:29.960 out, and he says I did not puts a round with any of the 192 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:33.599 lines that are so definitely earthlike, but I did add in a beat or 193 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:38.240 two to give it a little more bulk and movement. If you drop me 194 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:42.400 a note giving me your ideas on line changers, or if you'd like to 195 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:48.440 do those line changers yourself, it would be just fine. So is that 196 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:53.119 another indication that maybe Sailing wasn't one hundred percent happy with this one? But 197 00:18:53.400 --> 00:19:00.359 is it just him being his usual gracious self. One of the episodes of 198 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:06.039 The Twilight Zone that this is reminiscent of is the episode Third from the Sun, 199 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:11.680 which we discussed a long time ago, and if you remember, that 200 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:18.039 story featured William Staker and his family who lived on a planet that we assumed 201 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:22.319 was Earth and they wanted to flee from it, and the twist was that 202 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:26.839 they were not on Earth, but the planet they were heading to was. 203 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:33.920 But the writers were fair and they gave us some subtle clues that the planet 204 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:38.640 they were on wasn't Earth, such as the weird music and the unusual decorations 205 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:45.200 in their homes. But in this episode, later on we learned the Cannel 206 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:49.079 Cook isn't from Earth, but he has landed on it. But we don't 207 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:53.680 really get any hints like that. But overall, at this stage in the 208 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:59.839 proceedings, I'm liking what this episode has given us. That are these duel 209 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:04.599 aspects to the show. Colonel Cook's home worlds being at war, and then 210 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:11.119 soon clues begin to appear that he may not be alone on this planet, 211 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:17.720 which begins with the discovery of some shapes drawn in the debt outside his ship. 212 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:22.799 So does intrigue here what's going to happen to his home world? Who 213 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:27.440 is the mysterious being that is outside? So this is a good start to 214 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:33.680 the episode, But things are not going well on Cook's home world. Probe 215 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:37.440 seven, this is base, this is our last contact Cook. Just a 216 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:42.839 few minutes ago we got ours five increase in the radioactivity around us. From 217 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:45.559 what we can gather, the enemy head it just as bad as we did. 218 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:51.480 We wipe them out, they wiped us out. Just one last forlorn 219 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:56.480 wish for your son, whoever you meet there, however you meet them. 220 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:00.680 I hope it can come without fear. I hope it can come without anger. 221 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:06.640 I hope your new world will be different. I hope you'll find no 222 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:15.640 words such as hate. I hope they'll be now. Unfortunately, Kenel Cook 223 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:22.119 was knocked out after taking a tumble when the message comes that there will be 224 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.039 no more contact from his home planet. They and the others that they were 225 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:32.720 fighting have pretty much destroyed each other. But when he wakes up, he 226 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:36.880 goes back into his ship and we get a scene where he and the unknown 227 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:42.079 being that is on this planet with him communicate via a series of knocks on 228 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:48.799 the metal in his ship, and then that being makes off into the woods. 229 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:56.160 Cook pursues them and discovers that it's a beautiful woman. What's gonna happen 230 00:21:56.200 --> 00:22:02.079 in films? I'm gonna wake up for this an. I'm going to charge 231 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:06.240 out of bed like a rocket. I'm going to tell him back home. 232 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:11.920 We can talk about dreams from now on, But I get the prize for 233 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:22.799 the most imaginative dream of a space age. Understand you understand? You do 234 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.839 understand anything I'm saying. To be honest, I barely understand what he's talking 235 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:33.559 about. Surely this is a time when Rod might have just overwritten a scene 236 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:37.480 a little bit. I think, who are you? And can you understand 237 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:42.240 me? Or probably the face things that would have come out of my mouth 238 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:48.599 rather than that dream speech. But respect to Richard Basehart for pulling it off. 239 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:56.519 So the person that he discovers is a woman played by Antoinette Bauer and 240 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:00.920 She was born in nineteen thirty two in barden Bar in Germany and grew up 241 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:07.079 in Canada. And she developed a passion for acting at a young age and 242 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:12.359 began her journey in the performing arts. She received formal training and acting studying 243 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:18.559 at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and the Hair acting career 244 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:25.799 spanned several decades too, and she made her television debut in nineteen fifty eight 245 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:30.759 in a TV movie of The Telltale Heart and then plunged into an acting career 246 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:37.559 where she barely stopped. She was in shows like Perry Mason, The Man 247 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:42.000 from Uncle, Star Trek, The Wild Wild West, and the volume of 248 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:47.759 her nineteen sixties work is pretty massive, so she was truly a hard working 249 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:52.839 actor of the day. And the seventies saw Hair take roles in popular shows 250 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:57.279 like Colombo, The Six Million Dollar Man and Cojack, and like her co 251 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:02.920 star Richard Basehart, she didn't mind getting into a bit of shocky horror either. 252 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:08.160 When she played Missus Hammond in the nineteen eighty movie prom night, and 253 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:14.799 it seems that she retired from acting in nineteen ninety two when she finished a 254 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:19.960 forty two episode run in a show called Neon Rider. And at the time 255 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:26.680 of recording, Antoinette is still with us, and I hope she's enjoyed a 256 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:32.079 long and relaxing retirement. Now, you would expect that when asked about a 257 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:36.279 time on The Twilight Zone, she would come up with a suitably sweet comment 258 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:41.680 about how great everything was and how wonderful everyone was. But Martin Graham's junior 259 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:48.079 in Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic, relays a refreshingly honest response to 260 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:52.880 that question. She says, this is not what I would call a behind 261 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:57.680 the scene story, But for myself, I always think that anyone in this 262 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:04.440 profession would subscribe to what happens on the set stays on the set. It 263 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:08.920 is a fact that we have selective memories, and heaven knows what happens to 264 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:15.640 memories from well over four and a half decades ago. I'm not much of 265 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:19.240 a nostalgia fan, and I just wouldn't want to think about it, except 266 00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:23.559 that in the case of Probe seven, over and out beyond the pleasure of 267 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:30.599 working with Richard Baseheart and director Ted posts not entirely tongue in cheek instructions to 268 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:37.559 run round the backlot for real breathlessness. That is something I will never forget. 269 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:42.240 I worried through the entire show about being able to make a charter flight 270 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:48.279 to Washington for the August twenty eighth March. It looked at one point as 271 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:53.200 if we might overrun on schedule. On the other hand, I was desperate 272 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:57.200 to get to the march. In the end, we wrapped in time, 273 00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:03.519 but in my anxious mind it was too tight. The flight left that evening 274 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:10.000 later unexpected because we waited for Harry Bellafonte to finish his show at the Greek 275 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:14.960 Theater. I made it in time. No need to say that the event 276 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:21.000 was unforgettable. It was extraordinary. It was one of the times one truly 277 00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:26.920 felt fond of the human race. And the march she is referring to is, 278 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:32.559 of course, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that occurred in 279 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:37.640 Washington, d C. On August twenty eighth, nineteen sixty three, a 280 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:45.160 massive protest march to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans, which 281 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:51.359 may be best known for Martin Luther King Junior's I have a dream speech, 282 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:56.599 which he delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Now, initially, Antoinette's 283 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:03.480 character identifies herself as no Order, and the episode is this back and forth 284 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:08.759 between Hare and Cook, and clearly they don't speak the same language, and 285 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:15.839 they try to communicate by drawing in the date. And there's an incident where 286 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.440 Cook quite innocently picks up a piece of metal that he had been carrying, 287 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:25.720 and this scares no Order off and they have to rebuild that trust again. 288 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.920 And I think after a strong faced half of the episode, this is where 289 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:34.799 it starts to run out of steam a little bit for me. And maybe 290 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:40.519 it's not the fault of the episode, but the spaceman finding the mute but 291 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:45.359 beautiful woman is a bit of a cliche. Now. An obvious example is 292 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:51.319 Taylor and Nova in Planets of the Apes, which admittedly does come later, 293 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:55.640 but that's kind of the point. I think this trope has been used so 294 00:27:55.720 --> 00:28:00.079 often now that even if this were one of the fair shows to do, 295 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:04.119 the fact that it has been you so often does make you feel a bit 296 00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:11.359 cliche. Now, the suggestion with Norder seems to be that she too has 297 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.359 escaped a planet, but this one is a planet that has broken away from 298 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:21.799 its son's orbit, and she is the sole survivor of the passengers on his 299 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:27.400 ship. Well, I canofer food and I can offer companionship. We can 300 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:33.400 spend the rest of our lives together drawing diagrams, which would become rather tedious, 301 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.000 but the brighter of us will have to learn the other's language eventually. 302 00:28:40.000 --> 00:29:02.519 Come Lada, eat understand eat food, Eat food, food food. I 303 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:07.680 guess what I'm wondering so far in this episode is what is it all about? 304 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:12.000 Is it just a story or is there any kind of message or subtext 305 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:17.519 to it, because it seems at a time Sailing is trying to put some 306 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:22.000 meaning in. There is a comment that this is how people ultimately respond to 307 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:27.480 each other, with fear and suspicion, and that's always welcome, but at 308 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:33.039 this stage in the episode, it doesn't seem to be what the episode has 309 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:37.319 been about. And ultimately, I think that's what is the biggest problem with 310 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:44.319 this one, the disconnect between the body of the episode and what happens in 311 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:49.920 the end. It will help, but we could to mitigates. Start right 312 00:29:51.000 --> 00:30:06.759 now, what do you call this in your language. H M. We've 313 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:11.480 just given this place a name. All right, we'll color death m h 314 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:30.559 Cook Cook, Adam Cook, Adam Cook, norda nor if all right, 315 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:37.359 Dave, Oh, I just possessed. Now we're going to possess. This 316 00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:45.480 is a home. Now, this is in the Twilight Zone. Companion Mark 317 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:52.319 Zickri says Probe seven over an outsets up a situation filled with a number of 318 00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:59.319 traumatic possibilities. An astronaut is stranded on an alien planet. Meanwhile, his 319 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:06.640 home world is devastated by nuclear war. Colonel Adam Cook is a Robinson Crusoe 320 00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:11.200 in space with no hope of rescue. He has a lifetime ahead of him 321 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:17.880 with an unknown world full of strange beauties and horrors, to explore what waits 322 00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:23.079 for him beyond the door of his wrecked spacecraft. Unfortunately, what waits beyond 323 00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:29.480 the door is one of the oldest science fiction chestnuts known to man. Colonel 324 00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:36.200 Cook is Adam, the woman he discovers is Eve, and the planet let's 325 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:41.079 just call that Earth. What could have been a marvelous adventure instead becomes something 326 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.680 that, had it been written as a short story, would have been rejected 327 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:51.759 by every science fiction magazine at the time because it had been done to death 328 00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:57.000 many years earlier, and I think on that point Mark Zikr isn't wrong. 329 00:31:57.799 --> 00:32:05.920 In nineteen forty one, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Robert Arthur presented the story 330 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:12.359 Evolution's End, about an old world coming to an end and Adam and Aver 331 00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:19.519 surviving to start everything over. And then in nineteen forty two in Blue Book, 332 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:25.559 Nelson S. Bond wrote another world begins, and in this story God 333 00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:31.400 is an alien and Adam and Eve are experimental creatures who proved to be too 334 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:37.480 clever for him. So this whole alternate explanation for Adam and Eve had been 335 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:44.000 done before. But when I watched this one, that wasn't the immediate thing 336 00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:47.480 that stood out to me, because to be fair, I haven't read those 337 00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:53.200 stories. But what did stand out to me was how derivative it was of 338 00:32:53.279 --> 00:33:00.160 other Twilight Zone episodes, where is everybody a man alone own in an unknown 339 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:06.480 place said from the sun. We assume that the people were watching it from 340 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:10.960 Earth, but they're not. Two a man and a woman who can't communicate 341 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:16.119 with each other form a bond. And there are probably more examples, and 342 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:22.200 when you blend them together, you have several of the things that go into 343 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:28.200 making Probe seven over and out. But does that make it bad? I 344 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:32.920 don't think so, but perhaps it stops it from pulling itself up into the 345 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:37.920 top tier of Twilight zones. I really like the setup. I genuinely think 346 00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:42.759 it's good. You know, the crisis on each end of the communication, 347 00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:47.240 Cook being injured and stranded on one side and his home planet being on the 348 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:52.119 brink of destruction on the other. But in the end, none of this 349 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:57.319 really seems to matter. It's just a device to have Cook be stranded on 350 00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:02.400 the planet to set up this Adam and Eve thing. Now to maybe give 351 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:07.559 it the benefit of the doubt. There is a thread running through the episode 352 00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:13.719 that I think might be reaching for something, but I'm not sure it quite 353 00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:19.119 gets there. General Larabee, before he signs off, says that he hopes 354 00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:24.000 Cook's new home is in a world without hate, a world better than the 355 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:30.119 one he came from. Later on, Cook recognizes that people react to each 356 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:36.960 other with fear, and this is the usual response, and this is a 357 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:44.519 bad thing. But ultimately him, Adam and her Eve overcome their fear and 358 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:49.679 unite, which is all well and good. But if this is indeed or 359 00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:54.039 origin. We still sit in a world where hate exists, so it's not 360 00:34:54.079 --> 00:35:00.599 a particularly hopeful ending. So ultimately there doesn't seem to be more h point 361 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:06.119 or meaning to the episode. Everything is just a set up to the twist, 362 00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:10.559 a twist which says, maybe the story of Adam and Eve isn't quite 363 00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:15.840 how it's presented to us in the Bible. Perhaps this is actually how it 364 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:22.440 happened, but years and the retelling has remolded it and reshaped it into something 365 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:30.199 else. It has passed from truth into myth or religious narrative, depending on 366 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:34.199 your point of view. And I do find that kind of interesting, but 367 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:39.480 but that's not really what it's exploring. I think the story I'm more interested 368 00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:45.119 in probably comes after this one. How did the truth of it become the 369 00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:52.920 story that we end up reading in the Bible? Interestingly, Rod Sailing is 370 00:35:52.000 --> 00:36:00.719 quite noncommittal in his closing narration about this being definitely the Adam and Eve of 371 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:06.519 the Bible. He doesn't commit to saying that the Bible is presenting a mythologized 372 00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:12.039 version of this true version of the story. His stance seems to be, 373 00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.039 well, it could be, but that's not for me. To say, 374 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:20.960 which is perhaps a wise stance to take so as not to cause offense. 375 00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:24.440 So it might seem like I'm pretty down on this one, but I actually 376 00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:31.039 think it's okay. I think Richard Bashart carries the weight of the episode pretty 377 00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:36.480 well and he's a very watchable lead. But over in the After Hours Club 378 00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:40.599 on Patreon, where me and my co host Emmy review the nineteen eighties and 379 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:47.159 the two thousands episodes of The Twilight Zone, we often use the phrase twilight 380 00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:52.960 Zone by the numbers, and that's episodes that seem to do a lot of 381 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:58.679 things right will have an artificiality to them. They hit the beats, but 382 00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:04.719 they don't really have to spark or much going on under the surface, and 383 00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:07.800 I think it's fair to say that in the case of Probe seven over and 384 00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:14.360 out, this one is kind of Twilight Zone by the numbers. It's got 385 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:19.360 a great setup, but when they start dropping those Adam and Eve references at 386 00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:23.800 the end, they clang like lead hitting the floor. I didn't dislike it, 387 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:30.679 but it's it's family in the mid tier for me. Unlike Adam Cook's 388 00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:36.559 ship, that doesn't seem to be much hope of it ever leaving do you 389 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:40.960 know these people? Names familiarity, they lived a long time ago. Perhaps 390 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.480 they're pipe feeble, perhaps they're pipe fantasy, and perhaps the place they're walking 391 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:50.639 to now is not really called Eden. We offer it only as a presumption 392 00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:58.280 this has been the Twilight Zone. So there we go. Probe seven over 393 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:02.400 and out. Another season five episode done. And as always every month, 394 00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:07.199 I go over to the members in the after hours club at patreon dot com 395 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:12.679 slash Twilight Zone podcast, and I put up a pole where people can vote 396 00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:17.360 whether they think it's top tier, Twilight Own, middle tier, or bottom 397 00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:24.519 and I think the results are quite unsurprising. Five percent call it top tier, 398 00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:31.199 seventy six percent call it middle tier, and nineteen percent say it's bottom 399 00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:36.159 tier. And there's a few good comments from the members over there. Our 400 00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:42.599 friend Duncommon NASA says this episode is the definition of middle tier. Cool concept, 401 00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:46.880 but dragged execution, semi predictable twist. I agree with you on that 402 00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:52.840 one. Sir Jordan Dlik says, the ending seems a bit predictable and I 403 00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:57.800 feel like it detracts from the episode a bit. But the first half of 404 00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:04.920 it him communicating with his contact requesting help hearing news about war. That part 405 00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:08.679 is much more effective than it used to be as a kid, when it 406 00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:14.519 just seemed like a lot of chatter. I found that material especially good In 407 00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:17.960 the radio drama, the episode feels a bit like a rewrite of two, 408 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.480 and I tend to mix up the ending of this with the ending of that. 409 00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:27.039 Despite this, I've come to like this one for the horror of getting 410 00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:31.400 to hear a personal narrative of the end of mankind via radio, even if 411 00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:37.320 the rest of it seems a little derivative, Pretty solidly middle tier. Yeah, 412 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:42.000 I agree with what you're saying there, and I did check out the 413 00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:47.400 radio version as well. I pondered whether to include that because the radio version, 414 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:53.519 the vast majority of it is made up of this back and forth between 415 00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:59.199 him and the planet, his home planet, and then it's almost like the 416 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:05.000 last there is when he meets when he meets Eve. Good friends of the 417 00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:08.039 show, Al Shadesman says, it has its moments of suspense and mystery, 418 00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:12.960 but I can't get past the clunker of an ending, an ending that Mark 419 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:17.159 scott zikri correctly cause one of the oldest science fiction chestnuts known to man. 420 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:23.320 Strangely, Rod seemed unaware of this if we can believe his unpredictable ending that 421 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:28.559 we doubt if even the most seasoned t Z fans will be able to pick 422 00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:31.960 up before it happens on your screen plug at the end of Uncle Simon. 423 00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:37.519 It's not completely worthless. It's not ninety years without slumbering. It's top of 424 00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:43.000 the bottom tier, but it's still bottomed tier. That's a good point about 425 00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:46.360 Rodd's making that comment at the end of Uncle Simon. I should probably have 426 00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:51.360 addressed that, but now I don't have to because you have also. Thank 427 00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:54.559 you. Champagne Drum says, I guess the tank was getting empty by this 428 00:40:54.639 --> 00:41:00.159 point creatively, but it does have the right parts of a good episode and 429 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:05.760 is repeat watchable. Jay Howard says the ending on this episode was so abrupt. 430 00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:08.800 I mean they are Adam and Eve now. Not a great episode, 431 00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:15.000 but not anywhere near the top either. Nice to see Richard Basehart, however, 432 00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:19.360 Yeah, it did just sort of wrap up, didn't It's like, 433 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:22.320 Okay, we're Adam and Eve. Now he's a garden, here's an apple, 434 00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:29.079 let's get going. Roger Moore says, Probe seven reminds me of past 435 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:34.719 Twilight Turn episodes. Cook just like Steaker and Riding is an alien being. 436 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:39.440 I can't remember if Cook's destination is Planet Earth like it is for Steaking and 437 00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:44.440 Riding and Third from the Sun, but Planet Earth is part of the twist 438 00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:50.119 ending in both episodes, Cook crash lands on a mysterious planet where he must 439 00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:55.159 face loneliness and the unknown, just as Conrad does in People Are Alike All 440 00:41:55.239 --> 00:42:00.679 Over. Finally, the language barrier between Cook and Ea reminds me of Charles 441 00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:07.800 Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery in the episode two Speaking of two? Is it just 442 00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:14.559 me or does antwinap Bowers Makeup and Look remind anyone else of Elizabeth Montgomery's character 443 00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:16.920 in that episode. Yeah, You're not wrong on that, Roger anyway, 444 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:22.599 It's still a good mid tier episode. Pala Cleanser. On the trivia side, 445 00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:27.320 Night Cole was supposed to air after Uncle Simon, but was shown later 446 00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:31.480 in the season. The network pulled all of its programming just hours before airtime 447 00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:37.159 because of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On the following week, 448 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:43.760 programming had returned to its regular schedule and Probe seven air Thanks for that 449 00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:49.519 trivia man I mentioned here before my co host over in the After Hours Club. 450 00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.440 Emmy, she said, sadly, a grown worthy ending to a fairly 451 00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:58.800 mediocre episode. I remember being quite surprised at how it ended, but didn't 452 00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:02.519 find it very sad as flying or the twist gripping to keep it memorable. 453 00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:07.519 The episode two did the relationship and loanliness aspect of it a lot better than 454 00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:13.079 this one. Probe seven is just far too slow, meandering throughout the phase 455 00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:16.440 twenty five minutes of the episode, and seems to rely heavily on the final 456 00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:22.760 twist rather than creating something meaningful and character heavy. Sadly, I'm not a 457 00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:28.000 fan of this one, thank you, Emmy. And then Jason Schwartz says, 458 00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:31.639 my first instinct was to say lower, but I decided to watch it 459 00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:37.239 again before I voted, and I'm glad I did. I decided on the 460 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:42.280 middle tier because I liked the episode despite all its flaws. It's a bit 461 00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:45.679 tropy, not a lot is happening, and it ends rather quickly, but 462 00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:51.280 Richard Basehart is great as Adam Cook, and even though not a lot is 463 00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:55.039 happening, I like what is happening. Also, I like the camera work, 464 00:43:55.280 --> 00:44:00.360 direction, and overall feel. It doesn't get a gold star but also 465 00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:05.880 it's not a thing about machines or mute. So there's that, Thank you, 466 00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:10.159 Jason. Okay, so those are comments from our friends over in the 467 00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:15.840 after hours club. Now, I was back and forth a little about, 468 00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:20.960 you know, continuing in the after hours club because you know, the twilight 469 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:23.519 Zone podcast is not going to be around forever. We're in the final season. 470 00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:30.559 We're on the final run, but I've decided to keep it around for 471 00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:35.599 another year. Now is the time to get on over there. There is 472 00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:39.679 a massive back catalog of podcasts on there, looking at the eighties twilight Zone, 473 00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:45.320 the two thousands twilight Zone, and going to be retaining to the twenty 474 00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:49.960 nineteen twilight Zone. But there's episodes on night Gallerries, there's episodes on the 475 00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:53.599 Loaner. There is a multitude of things over there. So it might be 476 00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:59.159 your last chance to hear a lot of these things. So it's a good 477 00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:05.119 opportunity to jump on board. And that is at patreon dot com slash twilight 478 00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:08.960 Zone podcast. Rod Serling, creator of the twilight Zone. We'll tell you 479 00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:15.199 about next week's story after this message. If you want to get your thoughts 480 00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:20.440 onto the show about a previous Twilight Zone episode or our next Twilight Zone episodes. 481 00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:24.000 Then drop me an MP three clip at tom at the Twilight Zone podcast 482 00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:29.199 dot com of about five minutes or less, and I will play your clip 483 00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:32.800 on the show. So let's go over to Rod Sailing to find out what 484 00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:37.960 is coming up next. Now, mister Sterling, next time Twilight Zone. 485 00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:44.239 Three National Guardsmen out of maneuver traveling across the same ground formerly occupied by George 486 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:49.760 Custer and outfit called the Seventh Cavalry. Time and its Infinite Complexity Measures and 487 00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:53.559 one of ours is a stunningly different story about soldiers and Indians suspending limbo between 488 00:45:53.599 --> 00:46:22.880 then and Now and Twilight Zone Next. The Seventh is made up of phantoms.