And When the Sky Was Opened
starring Rod Taylor, Jim Hutton
directed by Douglas Heyes
Colonel Forbes (Rod Taylor) goes to visit Major Gart (Jim Hutton) in the hospital. Both were crew members aboard X-20, a spaceship. Everyone seems to believe that it was just the two of them aboard the X-20 but Forbes remembers that there was a third crew member, Colonel Harrington. Forbes recounts what he recalls about the past 24 hours to Gart but Gart doesn't recall Harrington. He's mystified by Forbes' story but then Forbes leaves the room and disappears and Gart is the only one who remembers him. Not long after that he's gone too.
There's probably something to this story but it eluded me. I'm not sure what the significance was of the men disappearing. This episode failed to move me. It felt like it was missing something.
Notes
This is the only episode of the Twilight Zone (1959) in which either Rod Taylor or Jim Hutton appeared. Taylor also appeared in an episode of Tales of the Unexpected.
This is the first of nine episodes of this show that Douglas Heyes directed. He also directed an episode of Night Gallery.
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