Global Flight 33? Is your flight engineer Fred Purcell? Yes, that's correct. Dad, it's Johnny. I don't know where you've been for the past 20 years but please come home. Johnny?? Twenty years? We overshot. We want to refuel and try to get back to the correct year. And the first thing I'm going to do is tell you that I'm very proud of how you grew up.
If you noticed the closing credits, you would have seen Robert J. Serling as "Technical Consultant." That was Rod's brother! Rod needed credible technobabble for the flight crew and Robert provided it. He also wrote a novel "The President's Plane is Missing."
This was a wild one. Was sitting here watching a Twilight Zone marathon and this one came on. Don't remember seeing this one before. However, they were very calm about traveling back to a whole other decade. 😅
Funny you should mention the TZ marathon. Not sure when it comes on because I haven’t seen one in a while but I swear every time I watch one, there are episodes I just can’t recall and I thought I had seen them all throughout the years.
Proper radio procedure would be for them to have announced their intention to descend over the radio, even if they weren't sure anyone could hear them. That would give ATC a heads up and allow them to direct other traffic away of their route. They failed to do that. There's no way to know for certain that ATC can't hear you, just because you can't hear them. Proper NRDO (no radio) procedure is to continue the planned flight path and land at the intended airport, announcing your intentions the whole way, and looking out for visual light gun signals from the tower once you get close enough.
I love the, "Report to this office immediately upon landing." That's like being called to HR for a write up. They still do this and what you don't want to hear is your call sign followed by, "Take down this number and call me immediately upon landing." You just pissed off ATC. Such fun to watch!
I think one of the strongest and most original aspects of Rod Serling's writing for the Twilight Zone and his earlier live television plays is the incredibly effective way in which he posits wildly improbable, "sci-fi" situations and plots alongside timeless musings on human nature and its often less-than-savory side. The episodes are really modern-day morality plays distantly echoing the first flowerings of theater in ancient Greece when humankind was taking its first baby steps toward striving to understand of the complexity of mortal human existence.
To this very day they're still missing. Lost and yet so many things throughout time they got to witness that no one else has. If they did ever land it must have been so far back that it made no difference towards history in an obscure location where no one would notice and just assimilated themselves into ancient societies of the time. Or they landed far into the future ahead of our own time. One way or another they would have had to come done eventually, it's so interesting just speculating how it could have ended
Notice how all the passengers we’re wearing suits with ties, the women dresses? Now days, it’s shoes off exposing filthy toenails among other disgusting habits all exhibiting inconsiderateness.
So entertaining to once again watch what I did when I was a scared 9 year old. I do remember the SFX left something to be desired, aka, the lame Brontosaurus in the earlier scene. Can you imagine Rod Sterling returning to present times to watch Avatar? Lol. Actually, I just came up with a good idea for movie script.
Absolutely not! After coming forward in time by ~150 million years, I'd call 1939 "close enough" and land the plane. He said he's low on fuel, doesn't understand what happened, admitted he has no idea what he's doing, no idea where/when he's going. Just land. Considering what happens later that year, it would be nice to have that airliner to reverse engineer.
the farther into the future we get the more depressing that ending gets like they could have soared back to Panera or two seconds before we nuke ourselves
I wish I could go back time to the 90s again, and try to change my frikin life.
In thisituation, I just land.
I would land and immediately make some really good stock investments.
Could have been the 1964 World’s Fair.
This episode was on MeTV, 7-15-24.
It makes you wonder if this has happened to all the missing planes and ships.
One of the best episodes.
The pilot actor also played Gabriel the Angel and played Abe Lincoln in other TZ episodes. 🤔
One of my favorite episodes
I wanted to see the world fair 1939. Germany made a remarkable station there.
SCARY
The most amazing thing about this video is the amount of room all the passengers have in the coach section!! What???
Well damn did they make it back?
Ya no hacen programas como estos haha
Global Flight 33? Is your flight engineer Fred Purcell? Yes, that's correct. Dad, it's Johnny. I don't know where you've been for the past 20 years but please come home. Johnny?? Twenty years? We overshot. We want to refuel and try to get back to the correct year. And the first thing I'm going to do is tell you that I'm very proud of how you grew up.
It's full of rubbish statements but somehow it holds you into the story and is one of the top twenty episode episodes.
If you noticed the closing credits, you would have seen Robert J. Serling as "Technical Consultant." That was Rod's brother! Rod needed credible technobabble for the flight crew and Robert provided it. He also wrote a novel "The President's Plane is Missing."
According to "the Twilight Zone Companion" Robert Serling used an Airline Captain he knew for accurate cockpit "technobabble"
Imagine people will be able to go back in time someday...maybe in just a few years.
0:45 It's amazing, they used to have 5 GUYS in the cockpit for a commercial flight.
This was a wild one. Was sitting here watching a Twilight Zone marathon and this one came on. Don't remember seeing this one before. However, they were very calm about traveling back to a whole other decade. 😅
Funny you should mention the TZ marathon. Not sure when it comes on because I haven’t seen one in a while but I swear every time I watch one, there are episodes I just can’t recall and I thought I had seen them all throughout the years.
Proper radio procedure would be for them to have announced their intention to descend over the radio, even if they weren't sure anyone could hear them. That would give ATC a heads up and allow them to direct other traffic away of their route. They failed to do that. There's no way to know for certain that ATC can't hear you, just because you can't hear them. Proper NRDO (no radio) procedure is to continue the planned flight path and land at the intended airport, announcing your intentions the whole way, and looking out for visual light gun signals from the tower once you get close enough.
John Anderson has a commanding voice!
Pilot gives off USAF vibes. To his right is maybe Navy and the guy standing up has to be Army. 🙃
Idlewild Airport is now JFK in NYC.
I love the, "Report to this office immediately upon landing." That's like being called to HR for a write up. They still do this and what you don't want to hear is your call sign followed by, "Take down this number and call me immediately upon landing." You just pissed off ATC. Such fun to watch!
I think one of the strongest and most original aspects of Rod Serling's writing for the Twilight Zone and his earlier live television plays is the incredibly effective way in which he posits wildly improbable, "sci-fi" situations and plots alongside timeless musings on human nature and its often less-than-savory side. The episodes are really modern-day morality plays distantly echoing the first flowerings of theater in ancient Greece when humankind was taking its first baby steps toward striving to understand of the complexity of mortal human existence.
Can you imagine the effect gif they did land in 1939? All sorts of technology available to the US (and Britain) pre-Pearl Harbor???
2023 I am still wondering if they are going home soon.
Actually happened apparently landed and all were skeletons😮
To this very day they're still missing. Lost and yet so many things throughout time they got to witness that no one else has. If they did ever land it must have been so far back that it made no difference towards history in an obscure location where no one would notice and just assimilated themselves into ancient societies of the time. Or they landed far into the future ahead of our own time. One way or another they would have had to come done eventually, it's so interesting just speculating how it could have ended
To the people that was wondering did they make it back in time Rob / the narrator kind of confirmed they didnt at the end listen what he says
And, here, I live close to Seatsc. There's flight patterns above me at all times
I Listen to this Episode (Radio Version) EVERYTIME I take a Flight
One technical error. Manhattan Island would not have been shaped the way it is now millions of years ago during the dinosaurs.
And now it's 2022😄
I play a little game with myself when I watch TZ, I try to spot everyone that appeared in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show, their are quite a few.
Notice how all the passengers we’re wearing suits with ties, the women dresses? Now days, it’s shoes off exposing filthy toenails among other disgusting habits all exhibiting inconsiderateness.
So entertaining to once again watch what I did when I was a scared 9 year old. I do remember the SFX left something to be desired, aka, the lame Brontosaurus in the earlier scene. Can you imagine Rod Sterling returning to present times to watch Avatar? Lol. Actually, I just came up with a good idea for movie script.
It’s too bad you didn’t have the whole episode that was disappointing cause I would like to have seen the whole thing
Imagine if they ended up in the year 2022.
Rod Serling was a genius…too bad he was a chain smoker…
Some times when I get on a plane I would wonder if that will ever happen I will freak the heck out
At least they didn't arrive when the Indians still owned Manhattan 🤷🏼♂️🤓😎✌🏻
Absolutely not! After coming forward in time by ~150 million years, I'd call 1939 "close enough" and land the plane. He said he's low on fuel, doesn't understand what happened, admitted he has no idea what he's doing, no idea where/when he's going. Just land. Considering what happens later that year, it would be nice to have that airliner to reverse engineer.
1939 1961 > > > Ya tell Me More L o L L o L🤔
Mr.Serling? Did they make it? WELL! DID THEY?!
they should have landed in LaGuardia sucking all the technology out the jet and avoided world war II
Part 3 -- with no Part 1 or Part 2. :-(
This episode was just screaming for a follow up episode..... To be honest, hearing phantom engines flying overhead is haunting and scary...
I wasn't crazy about the hour long episodes but this one could have done well as an hour.
the farther into the future we get the more depressing that ending gets like they could have soared back to Panera or two seconds before we nuke ourselves