The Odyssey Of Flight 33 - Twilight-Tober Zone
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- "The Odyssey of Flight 33" is definitely one of the more unique time travel episodes from the original Twilight Zone run. There are a lot of behind the scenes tidbits about it out there as it used a few different filming techniques to achieve the visuals needed to tell the story. Is it worth a re-watch? Find out now as Walter discusses this episode in the Twilight-Tober Zone.
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"The Odyssey of Flight 33" is episode 54 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. An unlikely break of the time barrier finds a commercial airliner sent back into the prehistoric age and then to New York City of 1939. The tale is a modern telling of the Flying Dutchman myth. It originally aired on February 24, 1961 on CBS.
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How ironic that this cheap looking episode cost the most money. I think this is the one episode that should have been an hour long. Having little fuel left, it should stress the thought that going back to the jet stream again would be their last.
I liked this episode, as well as the stock footage they used for 1939 New York.
I thought it was kind of a snore, but it's cool that Rod's brother helped him make it.
I love this episode. It was one of the very first episodes I actually saw of TZ. It definitely keeps a nice holding pattern in my Top 10. ✈
I’ve seen this episode in reruns on the SyFy channel once, and it’s weird, but not boring though.
Genuinely one of the most chilling endings to a twilight zone episode
Yeah, this episode and "People Are Alike, All Over" especially gave me the creeps.
I honestly feel sorry for the folks on the plane. Imagine being trapped on an airplane traveling through time, unable to get to your actual time and not being able to see or reach out to your family or loved ones.
Edit: Also, I'm not sure if this is a coincidence, but yesterday, while I got out of work, I saw a plane in the sky, clear as day. However, I looked away to greet my brother who was picking me up, and when I looked back, the plane was gone as quickly as it came.
SHIT, YOURE IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE!
Or it could just be that it was closer to the ground than you might've thought.
I know, it's quite a chilling thought. Aside from one woman, we rarely get to glimpse the passengers' reactions, and only focus on the crew.
So do I. Thinking about that makes it hard for me to watch this episode, and plus I have bad anxiety whenever I fly on a plane. Stuff like time travel, disappearing into another dimension, and seeing a strange creature on the wing? Nope nope nope. XD
You are in the twilight zone....
Man I saw a plane like that it disappeared after I grabbed my phone to take a pic it was a fat gray plane with small wings and as soon as I got the camera ready it disappeared
This is the plot of the Langoliers.
Minus the Langoliers.
And this episode had better special effects.
Oh yes, I never thought about that before, another Stephen King influence!
@TheLeetSword 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This and ‘A Matter Of Minutes’ from the 80s TZ.
You beat me to it
I liked the unique touch of having an open ending, and deliberately leaving it unresolved whether the crew and passengers get home safely. It allows for the audience to draw their own conclusions.
It’s one ending the still haunts me
This episode is timeless, in that it takes place all across time.
Haha, love that pun, it's certainly unique!
You didn't need to explain the joke with the latter half. It's funnier if make your audience figure it out.
Then it isn't timeless. 8t contains 3 times.
@@dynomar11 "This episode is timeless" is a well enough known statement on its own that most people probably wouldn't interpret it as a joke. Therefore, the second half was required and necessary.
@@SnowdropHill This episode is truly "timeless"
In 1960s seeing a dinosaur and realizing your plane is traveling through time, a little freaked out is the expected response. After 2020, it's just kind of an eye roll and "of f*cking course"
This one always stuck with me. Such a haunting idea sorta similar to the Flying Dutchman legend. I would’ve toughed it out in 1939; would’ve been a hell of a “what if” if the US had access to all that future tech at such a historically pivotal point in time.
Edit: Shout out to H D who posted this idea before me. I just rarely read through what everyone else says before I spout off whatever’s on my mind.
I always thought they should have just landed in 1939. They have some REALLY great intel to try and help prevent World War II or end it early. Though their simple landing and gifting the US jet technology might change things anyway.
Also, they could make like Marty McFly intended with the Grays Sports Almanac.
The problem with doing that though is you have no idea how it would effect the future. Maybe preventing WWII ends up perfectly and there are no negative consequences, but there's also a chance that stopping Hitler's rise to power just clears the way for a worse Hitler or a better prepared Hitler and if that happens then you need to go back in time to stop yourself from changing history which causes you to cease to exist.
Or they'll have to fight WWII all over again.
Should’ve read the comments first I posted a similar thought.
@@noneed4me2n7 Except yours was 2 hours after mine.
@@DracoMagnius Hitler was already firmly in power in 1939. And if the Worlds Fair had begun, there would only be months before the invasion of Poland.
It's curious how "The Odyssey of Flight 33" is the episode that directly follows "22". There could be a mashup where "22"'s flight attendant looks down and goes "Room for one more, honey", switching directly to show the grazing brontosaurus stop and look up, like "You talking to me???"
I loved this episode. It held me the entire episode. Having the crew maintain calm is what held my attention. In defense of John Anderson, this is how pilots train. They knew if they panicked in any way, it would be chaos. Their training took over. You panic you die. That's why pilots train so rigorously so that when faced with dire situations they hit the training and stay calm. The more up the scale you are, the more this is important. However, it's fair to say that a snap of the tongue and an apology would have worked well too. Either way, it's one of my favorite episodes of the series.
Exactly. I've heard this saying by a pilot, 'You train and retrain so that when six hours of boredom become twelve seconds of maximum danger, you know exactly what to do." To me, Anderson is just acting like a pilot should act, because if he loses it, everybody loses.
I thought Anderson's performance was the definitive portrayal of an airline pilot. More than likely Captain Farber had seen action in WW2 and Korea and was accustomed to stress. I think the portrayal is right on point.
I think using the name 'Odyssey' is especially clever, as they get held back several times in the original Odyssey, but most people use it as a synonym for adventure, instead of a synonym for a HARD adventure.
They did a remake of the episode in the Twilight Zone 2010 comic series, this time, taking place in 1973, where there's a subplot involving a Vietnam Veteran and finding themselves 2,000 years into the future.
Doesn't a nutty passenger bail out and get stuck on dino island?
This is honestly one of my favourite episodes. I like the comradery of the flightcrew, and the sense of adventure and suspence.
5:30* I loved it! Too bad it was cancelled, but fear not, it will come back as a 2 hour Netflix movie in 2022.
wait, i thought Netflix was producing a final season, not a movie
Never heard of Manifest before, but the premise sounds nearly identical to the 2004/2006 Japanese novel/TV series called "kami wa saikoro wo furanai".
@@metalman_j its a series from 2019 on NBC
@@PrincessAshley972 Well, guess it might be a ripoff then. :)
I love this one. When they go back to see the dinosaurs, that just really makes me think of how freaked out I would be if it happened to me. The captain is the best and if I was on a plane where this happened, I would want a captain as cool as him to get me through it.
I’d be pissed if I got stuck in an airplane for all eternity. Worst Purgatory ever.
This episode was possibly the inspiration for the 1982 Doctor Who story Time-Flight in which two Concordes end up travelling 140 million years into the past.
I was thinking the same thing.
LOVE this series! LOVE this review series too!!
Been looking forward to it since last October!
I just love this episode, John Anderson is a great actor. Well done crew..... where ever you may be in 2021.
One of my favorite episodes from the twilight zone!!!💯 I especially enjoy John Anderson in this episode.. his voice is like something from another era.
Imagine in the end they come out of the Jetstream now in technicolor.
and in Oz.
"The Situation becomes even odder, when they pass a Dinosaur"
'OH hey look! A Dinosaur. That's odd!'
So the show Manifest, its actually really good. The supernatural elements play really well with the characters and their reactions do feel genuine. It can get a little melodramatic at times, but overall its a good show and really plays well on the concept of time travel with an airplane
a dope premise executed really well
The open ended ending makes this a favorite of mine. The idea of the captain being too cool is a fair point but it would also seem a bit out of character if he had started shaking so bad that he couldn't even light his cigarette.
This episode was a favorite of my father's and reminds me of him so much. Sadly he is no longer with us. But everytime I watch Zone, i am fondly reminded of him. Another of his favorite's was Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
This is one of the best time travel episodes of the series.
I wouldn't be surprised if this episode influenced Stephen King to write "The Langoliers", though with the addition of monsters!
The Langoliers is all about time travel. In other words: you’re probably correct about it being an inspiration.
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5 CHARACTERS
IN SEARCH OF AN EXIT
Responsible for TOY STORY
EXCEPT it was only BUZZ
This episode is definitely in my top 10 of my favorite TZ 👌
Thet episode reminds me of The Landgoliers TV movie. It uses time travel too with a plane, except time travel is unique. The future doesn't exist, and the past gets eaten by creatures.
Scaring the little girl!!
@@Reshme77 :D
This is a great example of great writing all the zones are, we lost so much when Rod Serling passed
22 years ago from OUR time, was Only 2000
Wouldnt mind going back
I read this story in a collection of Twilight zone stories when I was seven, back in 1962. Ever since then, whenever I hear the drone of a prop plane in the distance, I feel that time is passing me by.
Definitely one of my favorite episodes. I’m surprised they never made a show out of this concept.
3:45 Actually, this calmness is more realistic of a good airline pilot, and a well trained pilot in general.
A good pilot needs to keep their emotions in check. First off, it is unprofessional to lose control, it is a sign of weakness. But even more important the pilot must stay rational and make good decisions, especially in a crisis.
In addition, presenting calmness in an emergency will comport other and prevent panic. If the captain, the most experienced crew member, is not freaking out, there must be no reason to freak out.
A good pilot will seem calm and confident even if they are scared out of their mind.
I think the lack of emotion is deliberate, and the direction cam from Rod's brother.
one of my favorite episodes of TZ - especially for the points that the narrator dislikes - John Anderson's cool & calm attitude is what passengers would want - and he dominates the other actors cuz of it - there's no unexpected histrionics just to add some "human touches" to the guy - there is enuf intensity in the rest of the crew - but again - not too much - that would have made this episode feel like so many other dramas with the same theme
and i'm glad the passengers were left on the back burner - this is a half-hour show - it's success demonstrates that the time spent in the cockpit was enuf to tell an engaging story - without throwing in random passenger characterizations - those ho-hum bits are needed in movies to fill out the movie's time budget - supposedly involve the audience more in the plane's plight - or worse - provide a moral lesson
Rod Serling's brother Bob invited a TWA pilot to some collaboration and drinking - drunk or not - they worked out the realistic dialog used by Rod
the episode came about cuz American Airlines was renting out to film makers a passenger plane interior they used for training - when Rod heard about it - he started to work on a story to take advantage of it
like practically everyone - i loved the unresolved ending - and Rod's instructions to you should you hear "engines that sound searching and lost"
This is one of my favorite episodes
One of my favs and despite John Anderson’s monotonous performance, I loved the way he said Idlewild over and over again
Any time travel episode that involves dinosaurs is A-OK by me!
The "Dust" podcast of "Flight 008" from last year explores the passenger's stories from a flight displaced 20 years into the future over the course of 15 or so episodes. Great voice acting, I highly recommend it.
I freaking love this one.
My favorite.
I would not be shocked if this twilight Zone episode inspire the Stephen King novel, “The Langoliers” with the inclusion of monsters. If that’s case, this TZ episode had much better special effects and it’s from the pre-CGI era
I liked The Langoliers, but visually, it was horrifying for all the wrong reasons.
This episode and the one where the WW1 pilot ends up in the future are some of my favorite episodes of the twilight zone.
Loved this episode as a kid
I’ve been waiting for you to do this one!!!! I know it’s weird, but this is my favorite episode.
This is my fav series you are currently doing. Thank you Channel Awesome team and Happy Halloween!
It was a pretty good episode but we could've seen more of the passengers, also ik there wasn't enough time but I would've like to have seen the dinosaurs causing issue like being chased by a pteranodon or maybe they land in the jungle by accident and when they explore their surroundings they get attacked by deinonychus or something.
John Anderson's quiet and authoritative delivery was perfect.
It kept the rest of the crew and his passengers from panic.
And it was the progenitor of more than just Manifest.
Stephen King's The Langoliers, LaBrea, and more borrow from the open ended concepts that started here.
The opening and closing narrations of this episode were some of my favorites.
Opening Narration: *"You're riding on a jet airliner en route from London to New York. You're at 35,000 feet atop an overcast and roughly fifty-five minutes from Idlewild Airport. But what you've seen occur inside the cockpit of this plane is no reflection on the aircraft or the crew. It's a safe, well-engineered, perfectly designed machine. And the men you've just met are a trained, cool, highly efficient team. The problem is simply that the plane is going too fast, and there is nothing within the realm of knowledge or at least logic to explain it. Unbeknownst to passenger and crew, this airplane is heading into an uncharted region well off the beaten track of commercial travelers-it's moving into The Twilight Zone. What you're about to see we call "The Odyssey of Flight 33."*
Closing Narration: *"A Global jet airliner, en route from London to New York on an uneventful afternoon in the year 1961, but now reported overdue and missing, and by now, searched for on land, sea, and air by anguished human beings, fearful of what they'll find. But you and I know where she is. You and I know what's happened. So if some moment, any moment, you hear the sound of jet engines flying atop the overcast-engines that sound searching and lost-engines that sound desperate-shoot up a flare or do something. That would be Global 33 trying to get home-from The Twilight Zone."*
Manifest is a wonderful and great experience. I was hooked after the first episode. Most are.
This is my favorite episode and Last Flight is 2nd. As they both close you are left to think about what would happen next.
A jump from the doomed Flight 22 to perhaps more unsettling Flight 33 in just one week! What WOULD be the fate of THIS next possibly doomed ✈️🛫 flight? This is a stellar episode, with, well, only better than average performances, although you can't have everything. It's the heightened suspense, and of course those time paradoxed vignettes of the 1939 New York World's Fair, AND our favorite, the Stone Age that make all this episode as unforgettable as it gets. The ending, a twist of dread unease, had been experienced previously in "Nick Of Time", and would at its' most gruesome in "It's a GOOD Life". Here, it's effective enough to provoke our thoughts; WOULD they all make it back on that limited fuel supply? In the short story collection "More Stories From the Twilight Zone", we're given more unique cross-references to going over places like Montauk Point. If they were indeed past Montauk Point; over Long island, I'd say the odds were with them to make it to Idlewild. But while we might hope for the best, we're best off in the illusion of unease, and for our plan and purpose, we'll stick with the latter, because we're in....The Twilight Zone!!
The sacrifice of a straightforward denouement, and it's been criticized by reviewers who refuse the objective, really played Crescendo in "And When The Sky Was Opened". In THAT one, the twist played out like a nightmare!
Doubt the power of an uneasy finish, or not finish in any of the aforementioned episodes, and you might consider "Living Doll" where after wiping out a misunderstood, victimized man, the doll made it clear to his traumatized wife that it was far from through with the family.
I loved this episode, the brontosaur scene freaked me out
Manifest is a great show. Unfortunately, NBC didn't see it that way but Netflix did. They picked up the show for 20 episodes which will come to a final conclusion. Not shure when Netflix will start to air the final 20 episodes. You can catch the first 3 seasons on Netflix.
Manifest is a pretty good show that kinda goes off the deep end in the best way possible turning it into gravity falls meets raiders of the lost arc (Noah’s arc that is)
Remember watching this as a kid!
Next time Mr. Dingle The Strong!
Manifest the show was awesome! It got a little weird for me at times and a little dark, but over all good.
One of my favorites huge fan of the series
Another one that successfully through me. When they returned to the jet stream, left the jurassic period behind, and arrived back in modern New York, I thought it was all a little too easy and too quick of a solution. Turns out I was half right. I thought it was brilliant to leave the episode unresolved like that. Sure, we've been left asking questions before, but nothing has been left this open-ended, right? What a gut-punch. And to go from the era of the dinosaurs to the 1930s in one pass like that, they'll probably end up in the future next!
This one really sold me with its authenticity. I enjoy podcasts and tv shows about planes and air disasters, so I was struck by the accuracy of the flight lingo. It seemed unlikely to me that an average 1960s audience would recognize it, but learning Serling's brother was an expert who consulted here explained everything. The use of lighting was also really effective, I loved how they manipulated the shadows to create the sensation of flying above and through the clouds.
I liked John Anderson here (if I didn't know any better, I'd say Robert Stack takes direct inspiration of him while playing Rex Kramer in the comedy film Airplane!), but I agree with Walter that his cool bravado does stretch believability. And the cuts to the cabin seemed wasteful. The flight attendants were fine, but as it stands, the passengers were utterly unnecessary. Either include more to make them feel like real characters or excise them entirely so we can focus on more of the drama in the cockpit. The problem is that focusing more on the passengers takes away from the good stuff up at the front of the plane, but cut them out entirely and the audience would be complaining that there were no reaction from the passengers. This idea needed more time to cover all the bases. Weren't some of the Twilight Zone episodes 1 hour in length? Maybe that would've been a better use for this idea.
Then again, these are small wrinkles, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it. This is an episode that leaves the audience wanting more, and that's a pretty good thing.
One of the classics also & one I often revisit. Considering stories like have come from the Bermuda Triangle, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart & more, it still has a creepy vibe
It sure does
I think the pilot is the best part of the cast, His coolness is the only hope the flight has.
One of my favorites. Think about it every time I see a low flying plane
This was the first episode I ever saw and definitely a great introduction and great episode :)
The reveal that Rod Sterling's brother in named Rob is more surprising than the twist it self
My number 43 episode. I can't believe that the scene with the dinosaur was that expensive. When I was a kid I remember having a rubber dinosaur like that. You didn't have to have it move. Several years after this episode a Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared. I don't think anyone found it. Eerie? John Anderson did a good job. He had to stay calm; just like the pilot in the season five episode. And with all the crazy stuff happening with planes today, isn't that a relief 😢
There’s an excellent and tragic episode of torch wood that uses the same concept. 4 characters fly through the Bermuda Triangle in the 50s or 20s (I forget which) and end up in modern day Cardiff, and try to adjust. It’s pretty decent
50’s, the episode Out of Time. There’s no tangible villain, just the three temporal refugees and how they adapt, or don’t, to late 2000’s Cardiff and the ways they connect to the Torchwood team members.
Capt. Farver was indeed calm under pressure. He might have once been a B-17 pilot on a bomb run over Germany, taking flak at 17,000 feet. Just a thought...
One of my favorite TZ episodes.
If I had any writing skills, I would do a story inspired by this. Paleontologist digging for dinosaurs' fossils discover the wreckage of an airliner that mysteriously disappeared a few years earlier.
This was a great one !!
It'd be interesting if the passengers were as hysterical as the ones in the movie Airplane! lol
Reading other comments, I am clearly in the minority on this one. I just don't find enough interesting plot elements or surprise twists to make this one worth re-watching. A few things happen, which aside from being strange do not directly affect the characters in any obvious way, and they move along. Yes the ending is left open (un-written) which leaves the audience to fill in what they think happens next, but it's a far cry from, say, "The Hitchhiker" where we find out the woman was dead all along and the eponymous hitchhiker was Death coming to take her away from the physical world.
I like the episode, but I do find it to be a bit thin. I think some kind of subplot would have helped out.
I love this series, Walter.
~_~
I've seen a bit of Manifest. It's interesting, but I think it goes through too many seasons for the story it has to tell
This episode was great! The ending could leave people uneasy as Flight 33 could be anywhere in time or area without any clear answer, Flight 33 will always have a place in my heart next to To Serve Man-Kind and A Stop at Willoughby, I admire the ending as it makes you question where Flight 33 is in the Twilight Zone even the open ending allows the watcher to think and guess where it may land or be and if the fuel was low its makes you question..
Where did Flight 33 end up in the Twilight Zone?
Unfortunately, a real-world scenario already doomed the flight. Keep in mind that the pilot was constantly checking the amount of fuel. Naturally, the big jetliner was using up lots of fuel to stay afloat. The competent crew, for all their training, would have a no-win situation on hand. Hope to enter a timeline close enough to seek some means of help. Or find themselves stuck in aviation limbo. Lord forbid they ran out of fuel while passing dimensions....
They could even have ended up in modern times, although it wouldn't do them much good. In modern day, say 2024, Boeing 707's had by then been long out of production. They could load up on fuel but if they needed spare parts, they wouldn't be able to get any.
This one is so good, I forgot about it! ❤️ I love the concept of time-warps.
It shows, more changed between 1939, and 1961..than 2000 and 2020..on the surface
Probably seen WORLD TRADE CENTER
Aside from the rudimentary visuals, which is not uncommon in this show OR this entire period of the late 50sand earliest 60s, this episode is one of my favourite episodes of the Twilight Zone. 👍🏼
Honestly, landing in 1939 New York isn't the worst time to be stuck in from a 1961 perspective. The US was recovering from a Depression and there's an exciting World's Fair to attend. Of course for anyone older than 30, having to re-experience WWII would've been hell.
For me the more interesting challenge is the advancement in technology. Kind of like “The Final Countdown”… you’re introducing a bunch of new technology just before WWII. Plus, imagine the Japanese fleet is met and destroyed by a carrier group before Pearl Harbor. If it was early enough in 1939, maybe there is no Blitzkrieg. Interesting twist on the “Butterfly effect”
Maybe the captain was so levelheaded about the situation because it wasn't the first time he had been in such a situation. They made multiple jumps across time, the plane could run out of fuel, they could land, start new lives, potentially a captain could become one again and perhaps attempt another jump as it were.
Aw, the great Boeing-707! A very new and state-of-the-art jet aircraft back then. In 1979, I was happy (as a young kid, who knew about aircraft history) to be able to fly on a (707) American Airlines flight from Chicago to Dallas. The 707's were already being slowly phased out by then (in terms of commercial flights). I guess they are still around in various countries as cargo carriers. P.S. This was a great Twilight Zone episode - one of my favorites!
Have to say, I like this episode better than the one with the gremlin on the wing. That's the one everyone talks about, but hardly anyone shows any love for Odyssey of Flight 33.
I was wondering why they didn't try to refuel in 1931 for the longest time but it turns out the right type of fuel wasn't invented until 1951
To bring this into a modern perspective, imagine being on a plane that could either land in 1999 or try to make it back to 2021. What option would you choose?
Im 29. I wouldnt want to be stuck in '99 as an adult but I wouldnt mind re-living my childhood it was amazing. If I were stuck in that period as an adult I'd be anxious to be around my family (a lot of whom have passed since then, including my parents.) It wouldnt feel right knowing that you dont belong. Sorta like the "Walking Distance" episode. As f**ked up as the🌎 is right now I'd choose now lol.
Funny little “goof”: the island of Manhattan would not be anything Manhattan-shaped in the Cretaceous era they had traveled. It was still Pangea.
Pangaea had broken up by then, but yes, the coastlines were completely different in the mid-late Mesozoic.
Honestly they should have just landed 22 years earlier. Imagine all the lotery numbers they could have won
Like they know all the lottery numbers
I don't know they probably didn't want to go threw ww2 again.
@@alexwieland-ducher8792 They could have averted WW2.
Manifest is okay, although it was cancelled after season 3, a few seasons before the showrunners had been planned to wrap it up, thus leaving our last episode as a cliffhanger. But the real issue with Manifest is that it doesn't focus much on the time travel aspect. Rather, people are insinuated to have died and come back -- with it believed that your new life span will expire after the exact amount of time you were gone. The real focus is on these vague "callings," which are visions the fallen get that allude to some upcoming event that they must chase to correct. The formula gets a bit stale, and it's not recommended to play a drinking game where you drink everytime the word "calling" is spoken.
This episode was also the big inspiration for Stephen King's THE LANGELIERS
Surely not the recipe for those meatballs who literally chew the scenery?
Scaring the little girl?
A little bit more to Manifest than the summary makes it out to be. They don't just travel in time but also get healed. A boy who was diagnosed with Cancer was on his way to a specialist and after landing 5 years later it was discovered that there was no sign of the cancer in his body. Everyone on board the flight do have a weird genetic marker though that no one can explain and they hear what they call "a calling" that compels them to do things usually with positive results. The callings aren't always clear though and some of the passengers who can't figured out what they were suppose to do end up dead. There's a whole mystery behind everything connected with that flight. I've seen other "plane travels through time stories" including one that was done in an episode of Torchwood and I was expecting it to be the same kind of story. If you haven't watched it because you were expecting that's all it was, go check it out.
The bit about _The Doomsday Flight_ reminds me of _Die Hard With A Vengeance._ Apparently the producers got a visit from the FBI, wondering how they had come up with the idea for the heist at the center of the plot, because the FBI had looked at it and found it to be an actually plausible crime!
The whole thing makes me believe Manifest and The Langoliers by Stephen King -- which I believe he reviewed on his channel
I’ve often wondered if this episode and the 80s TZ episode ‘A Matter Of Minutes’ inspired Stephen King’s The Langoliers.
I like Manifest. There's a lot going on to keep you interested and some characters you can root for.
The beginning of this episode with the dinosaurs feels akin to a manga called cage of eden.
What makes this story so chilling is that, unlike other TZ victims, no one on this plane supposedly deserves this fate. They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time…..true victims of circumstance.
This was the first episode of the twilight zone that I watched after this became a fan
I seen manifest. It is kinda good, but the returned seem to have powers.
3:20 When pilot smoking on plane was OK:)
I like Manifest, and I'm looking forward to it's final season, which is going to be on Netflix.
Time travel in a plane? Maybe Dr. Emmett Brown should have made a time travelling plane on top of a Delorean!
Manifest is a great show, but it's focused less on the time skip and more on the callings, visions the those on the plane get once they return to normal society and the government's desperate attempts to control what's happening despite the supernatural obviously being beyond their control.
I recommend the show, just don't expect it to be about time travel.
Sometimes the Twilight Zone is really messed up and you just happen upon it without reason.
If they travelled all the back to dinosaur days, wouldn't the landmass below them also look different? Just a minor nitpick though in one of my favorite episodes.
Yes, that’s one of my minor pet peeves about an episode I really like. The science is all wrong. The landmass that they identified as New York didn’t exist in that form in the age of the dinosaurs, because of continental drift breaking up Pangea. The other pet peeve is the stewardess announcing that one of the other stewardesses is “available” to the men in the cockpit, and you can guess what that meant. Ugh, major cringe.
One of the rare episodes that needed to be less concise. It might have done well in the hour long season. Still, John Anderson's acting choice to remain professional in the face of the bizarre situation is fair.