"The Twilight Zone" The Odyssey of Flight 33 (1961)

Director:

Jus Addiss

Writers:

Rod Serling (creator)
Rod Serling (written by)

TV Series:

"The Twilight Zone" (1959)

Original Air Date:

24 February 1961 (Season 2, Episode 18)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Passing through the sound barrier a commercial airliner inadvertently travels back in time. |

Plot Keywords:

Time Warp | World Fair | Jungle | Cliffhanger | 1930s

Cast

John Anderson	...	Capt. 'Skipper' Farver
Paul Comi	...	1st Officer John Craig
Sandy Kenyon	...	Navigator Hatch
Wayne Heffley	...	2nd Officer Wyatt
Harp McGuire	...	Flight Engineer Purcell
Betty Garde	...	Passenger
Beverly Brown	...	Janie
Nancy Rennick	...	Paula
Jay Overholts	...	Passenger
Lester Fletcher	...	RAF Man

Runtime:

25 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Filming Locations:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company:

Cayuga Productions

Trivia:

"The Odyssey of Flight 33", (which takes place entirely on board an airplane) features authentically realistic cockpit dialog written by an actual airline pilot and Rod Serling's brother, Robert, who was the aviation writer for United Press International. (Robert Serling was credited on-screen as a consultant.)

Goofs:

Continuity: When the plane is making its first descent, the radio operator's headphones are lowered to his neck, then over his head and ears, and finally back across his neck.

Quotes:

Narrator: Rod Sterling narrarating- A Global jet airliner, en route from London to New York on an uneventful afternoon in the year 1961, but now reported overdue and missing. By now searched for on land, sea, and air by anguished human beings, fearful of what they might find...

Very Good Episode.

This episode was done very well. I don't get were they said they were traveling at 3000 knots which is about 2800 miles an hour and then come with we just broke the sound barrier at 726 miles an hour. I think they broke it 4 times there. I know its a knit pick. Still this was well done and well rehearsed. John Anderson was good in all his Star Trek/ Twilight episodes. He was a good actor. It was the 1939 World's Fair not 1933 which one writer said. The 1933 was held in Chicago and hailed as " The Century Of Progress" World's Fair. The 1939 was set in New York which they several times named. Manhattan,etc.Still it was a voyage of the imagination.