Where Is Everybody?
A man who doesn't remember his name or how he got to be where he is finds himself walking down a road into a town that he doesn't recognize. He finds signs of life but no people or animals of any sort. He visits a diner, the town's police station, a movie theater. At one point he gets stuck in a phone booth. He tries calling the operator but he just gets a recording.
The man is slowly losing it. The story ends with the reveal that the man is in a sensory deprivation chamber. He's been in there for about 484 hours or almost 3 weeks. His name is Mike Ferris. He's in the US Air Force and this was a test to see how he would handle isolation in a rocket ship.
I'm pretty sure that I have not seen this episode before. My past experiences with episodes of the The Twilight Zone (1959) is not extensive.
I did not recognize the actor who played the isolated man but his name is Earl Holliman and he's been in a couple movies I have seen.
The general in charge of the experiment was played by James Gregory. I didn't recognize him either but he was in an episode of Star Trek (1966) that I watched earlier this year: 1.09 Dagger of the Mind.
One of the other officers was played by Garry Walberg who played a small part in an episode of Star Trek (1966) that I watched earlier this year: 1.14 Balance of Terror.
The music for this episode was composed by Academy Award winner Bernard Hermann. Herman composed the music for Citizen Kane (1941) and several films directed by Alfred Hitchcock including Vertigo (1958) and North by Northwest (1959).
This was an okay episode. The idea behind it is more intriguing that the execution of the episode. It's possible that I missed something but it seemed like it was just one big downward spiral for the main character. It needed more than that to grab me.
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