@@matthewslonaker5432Rod Serling Twilight Zone Circa 1959-1964? You've gotten your time lines compulcumup; it's all become discombobulated in your mind.
You won’t regret it. Episodes that are a must see: The Monsters are Due On Maple Street Time Enough at Last The Midnight Sun Eye of the Beholder Five Characters in Search of an Exit Nightmare at 20,000 Feet There’s more greats but those are some I’d start with. 👍
@@yajy4501 All the episodes you listed are true classics of the genre. Nightmare at Twenty Thousand Feet terrified me as a six year old child. It scared the H__l out of me when William Shatner tore back the curtain and the gremlin had his face pressed up to the window. It's still one of the scariest things I've ever seen on TV or in the movies. The people who say Shatner can't act need to watch him in this episode because he proved them all wrong.
@@thehatter9400long story short, Decker traveled to 1959 with the thought that he let Mackeye die because he ditched him and left him fighting 7 German fighters. So he disappeared into the clouds where he lands in 1959. But throughout the episode, he starts to get a guilty conscience and deduces that if Mackeye lived, it was because he went back to save him. So, he gets back into his plane and goes back into the “white cloud” and it isn’t until he does that, does Mackeye show up on base and once these two officers mention his old nickname that only Decker could know, they show him Deckers belongings such as his dog tags, military ID and picture. So as long as he was in 1959, Mackeye was “dead” and he went “back in time” to save him which allowed Mackeye to “exist” in the future.
Arguably the greatest show in television history. These episodes always gave us something to think about. The half hour episodes are great, but it's always fun to watch the rarely broadcast one hour episodes too simply because they are so rarely seen on TV.
Watching these bring back all the good memories of being 5 years old and watching a guy freak out on a plane when he sees something on the wing. Or the time a child controlled his whole family out of fear. Oh the good times
In the end he steals his plane back and saves captain Mackaye in 1917, in another scene (now) Marshal Mackaye arrives to this base in 1959 and says that Tucker saved his life in 1917 when coming in a plane from a white cloud, before being shot down and dying from German plane.
So clearly the thing to do is immediately doubt the man and not look up his service record, see that he disappeared on 05MAR1917 and was recorded as MIA or KIA.
Remember that finding records back then was a bit more of a process than hopping in a computer. You’d have to send for the records to be pulled from whatever facility they are at, presumably during a war (I’m assuming that this is during WWII and not an inter-war period) which would put a request for personnel on the back burner for non-essential taskings.lord only knows how much of a pain it would be to thumb through physical documents from probably 20 years prior. Anyway, that’s my take on the reality of this discussion happening while that was occurring.
In the episode he gets back to his own time and so there wouldn’t be records of him MIA or KIA. It’s a good thought but would only work if he wasn’t able to return. Since he returned, they couldn’t use the records like you suggest.
Aight imma watch all of 'em. After watching Roy Rogers, Bud Spencer, John Wayne, Terrence Hill and all the old black white movies I'm watching these now.
that's when the writers were writing original movies that no one had ever written before. now there's dozens of versions of this same plot, and many others.
I thank the holy mo that I'm old enough to have seen these, maybe not all of them and not this one in particular but generally they were so entertaining and enchanting.
One small detail that was mistaken. He couldn't know what happened to Capt. Gyuenemer, if he dissapear on 5th of March. Gyuenemer never came back from his flight on september 1917, six months after the RFC pilot time travel 😉
And when he escaped and flue back to his own time. Dorthy was hangin out the window. He got away! He got away! 😅😅. I saw this episode and he did fly back to his time.
He teleported/time traveled to the future. Little did they know, he was a coward who took off instead of fighting the enemies and accidentally entered the clouds. He was interrogated, escaped in his plane and went back into the clouds. To redeem himself, he saved his friend, shot down enemy planes and died a hero.
Twilight Zone was the greatest series. Rod Serling was brilliant. I winder if tge SciFi channel will have their annual New Year's Eve Twilight Zone marathon this year ?
The old pilot had left his Wingman Captain Mackaye to die and ran away from the fight, but history demanded a different action, and showed him a future where Mackaye had survived and become a high ranking officer. He knew that he was going let his friend die if he didnt return. So he promptly grabbed his plane and flew back into the clouds. Mackaye arrived just after the leftenant had flown away, and he recounted how he had thought he saw his wing man flying away leaving him to face the enemy alone, but then, he saw his wingman return take on the enemy and at every opportunity put himself between the enemy and mackaye. He was shot down by the germans and Mackaye managed to fly home safe
Vacuums as a matter of empirical study and experimentation date back to the 17th century and as a theoretical/philosophical concept extends into classical history.
I watched this episode, it was fire. If you dont want to watch it, here is a summary: The soldier lands at an airbase, thinking its a field airstrip for the british in ww1, only to be apprehended by the american army. The Captain he refers to is a friend of his, who he left to die when a bunch of pilots attacked, and is amazed to hear that in the timeline he is in, not only is said captain mackeye alive, but also an Air Marshall, one who was visiting the base that day soon. They say they will bring in Mackeye to confirm the mans identity and story, but Decker is apprehensive, and dislikes the idea. He admits to being a coward, leaving his friend behind, and generally avoiding conflict and whatnot, going as far as to shoot holes in his cockpit walls to impress his friends. On his way back to base after abandoning Mackeye, he flew through the cloud that teleported him to the present day of that time, and has a revelation while awaiting Mackeye in a detainment cell. No one was near them to save Mackeye, so for no reason Mackeye shouldve lived. Realizing this, Decker demands to be let go to take off back into the skies to go back and save Mackeye. his detainers refuse at first, but he ultimately attacks them and runs to the airstrip, attacking a mechanic who stops him. One of his detainers has him at gunpoint as he climbs into his ship, threatening to shoot if he doesn't get out of the plane, but Decker stares him down and tells him to fire. Impressed by his resolve and shocked that he may just be right, he doesn't shoot, and Decker takes off into the skies, flying into the cloud and vanishing. His CO is pissed at him, but Mackeye shows up while hes being reprimanded. They ask Mackeye about Decker, who responds wistfully, fondly, claiming that Decker had saved his life. He flew off at first when they were attacked by 7 german planes but suddenly divebombed out of the sky, taking out several before being shot down and dying, saving Mackeyes life. Even further shockingly, the officers ask Mackeye if they ever recovered any of decker's personal effects, badges, id, pins and whatnot, since german fighters would return those of pilots shot down by them. Upon stating no, the officer pulls out a paper envelope they contained the ones taken from decker just half an hour prior, presenting them to Mackeye, who confirms the identity in the ID picture, and professes his shock and questions how they got the items. The officers sit him down for the story, one of which even further confirming the validity by calling Mackeye by a nickname only Decker wouldve known, but told one of the officers while they were sitting in his detainment cell. The episode ends there.
Sky is the limit😮the world is a strange strange place we are going after other planets but we have not explored most of our own planet that we live on, mysteries are everywhere.
Wasn't this like a sort of backwards self fulfilling prophecy? He left Mack to die and then flew away, ending up in 1959 where hes told Mack is alive, so he knows he can go back to save him?
Decker said, "March 5, 1917." The British would say, the 5th of March 1917. Great episode. Makes you think doesn't it? The next time you go fly abroad while your sitting there in the airplane, one of two things might happen: you see a "man on the wing" trying to destroy the outboard engine, or your on a odyssey going back and forward in time. Whatever happens. Would anyone believe you? "There is a 5th dimension....."
Ah Season 1 Episode 18 The last flight. I love all the episodes but season 1 just hits different, probably the nostalgia of watching it with my uncle as a little kid.
Spoilers: The pilot went through a Time vortex. He was actually a coward in a dog fight, and left his buddy to die. His buddy survived, and is now a general, who is coming to the base. The pilot goes back to the vortex, to right the wrong he did leaving his buddy behind. And when the general shows up, he speaks of the pilot, saying that he survived, because his friend gave his life to save him
