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One of the best episodes of "The Twilight Zone" season 1 was "I Shot an Arrow Into the Sky," which follows a group of astronauts who crash onto a desert planet and soon start to turn on each other. Corey (Dewey Martin) is the last one left. After he betrays and kills the other survivors, he sets off on his own, prepared to survive as long as he can in this harsh alien wasteland. But then he comes across a sign labeled "Reno, 37 miles."

That's right: they were on Earth the whole time, and they could've all survived if they'd just kept their wits about them and had walked a bit in the right direction. Don't you hate it when that happens? On the bright side, at least they didn't have any talking apes to deal with; Rod Serling would reuse...