The Lonely
- Episode aired Nov 13, 1959
- TV-PG
- 25m
Convicted of murder, a man is sent to a deserted asteroid in space to serve a 50-year prison sentence.Convicted of murder, a man is sent to a deserted asteroid in space to serve a 50-year prison sentence.Convicted of murder, a man is sent to a deserted asteroid in space to serve a 50-year prison sentence.
- Director
- Writer
- Rod Serling(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
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- TriviaThe first of many The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes (including I Shot an Arrow into the Air (1960), A Hundred Yards Over the Rim (1961) and The Rip Van Winkle Caper (1961)) to be filmed on location in Death Valley. Unprepared for the terrible conditions they would face, the crew suffered extreme dehydration and heat exhaustion and director of photography George T. Clemens even collapsed, falling from a camera crane while filming continued.
- GoofsApparently, there was at least one other living thing on the planet besides James Corry. In the final screen shot, a bird can be seen flying in from the left, going to the right and circling up and over to the left again.
- Quotes
James A. Corry: Alicia and I'll climb into that ship of yours, and we'll - we'll look out the port, and we'll give it all a big kiss goodbye.
Adams: Who, Corry?
Captain Allenby: Oh, my dear God, I forgot her.
Adams: He's out of his mind. Who's Alicia?
Captain Allenby: A robot.
James A. Corry: She's a woman.
Captain Allenby: Corry, she's a robot.
James A. Corry: She's a woman! She's gentle and kind. Allenby, she kept me alive. Why, if it wasn't for her, I'd have been finished. I'd have given up.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: The Lonely (2020)
The kind of thing that allows a 1 sentence total spoiler.
But there is another substantial body of episodes that do not have a twist at the end. Most have a cataclysmic event (I do not do spoilers) but they seem to be juggernauts, proceeding to their doom as surely as anything can.
This one is like that. Jean Marsh is wonderful in her earlier roles, as the robot companion smuggled to the intergalactic exile's bare asteroid/prison.
Typical of the Fatalist Serling's stories, this one will satisfy you if you are a Twilight Zone fan, but the ambush comes from the cold slap of reality.
That is what Romantic Tragedy is all about.
I think this is one of the best.
- Brandon-161
- Jun 1, 2006
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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