Thursday 15 January 2015

The Twilight Zone - Elegy (1960)

From The Twilight Zone, season 1 episode 20.
Running out of fuel, astronauts Meyers, Webber and Kirby land their spaceship on a remote asteroid in 2185. They find the place quite Earth-like with buildings and people but after looking around begin to wonder where everyone is. The first place they come to is a farm where they can find no one. No one, that is, until they see a farmer gazing off into the distance. They approach him, tap him on the shoulder and try talking to him, but realize he is nothing more than a statue........ and so it begins.
Interestingly while I ponder as to the notion that that these might be the same suits as seen in Destination Moon, I find that Wikipedia is more than happy to point out that the equipment seen in the space ship was from Forbidden Planet.  Fancy that!
 


Steve

4 comments:

  1. This appears to be yet another Destination moon style suit,it differs from the originals and most of the copies by not having a single roll at the shoulder

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    1. I'm putting together a Destination Moon suit appearances post for purposes of just such debate as this...

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    2. I`ll look forward to it,also the DM suits show up very briefly in Robinson Crusoe On Mars
      http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlu55w_robinson-crusoe-on-mars_shortfilms [1:11:09 - 1:11:54]

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    3. I've included that one...That's probably the most obscure of them so well done for knowing that. And cheers for the link, that's given me a slightly better image than the one I had.

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