The Last Flight
- Episode aired Feb 5, 1960
- TV-PG
- 25m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
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A World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air base in 1959 France.A World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air base in 1959 France.A World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air base in 1959 France.
Paul Baxley
- Driver
- (uncredited)
Jack Perkins
- Ground Crewman
- (uncredited)
Rod Serling
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Richard Matheson
- Rod Serling(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWriter Richard Matheson explained that the title of this episode and its short story referred to both the protagonist's physical journey as well as his departure from cowardice.
- GoofsWhen Decker arrives at the Lafayette Air Base, he is told that he is in an American base. When he sees the 1959 aircraft for the first time, he says, "We had no idea you were so advanced!" However, he should be surprised that there is an American base in France at all as the United States did not declare war on Germany until April 6, 1917, one month after Decker's departure.
- Quotes
Rod Serling - Narrator: [Closing Narration] Dialog from a play, Hamlet to Horatio: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Dialog from a play written long before men took to the sky: There are more things in heaven and earth and in the sky than perhaps can be dreamt of. And somewhere in between heaven, the sky, and the earth, lies The Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: The Last Flight (2020)
Featured review
Another chance at his destiny
One of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes was this one involving a rift in time. Some similar type plots were used to great effect in Star Trek and in Star Trek - The Next Generation.
A World War I pilot from the British Royal Flying Corps lands at his base after a sortie with some Germans. Kenneth Haigh pilots his ancient biplane for a landing and gets quite the surprise. It's 42 years later and what was his airfield is now an American NATO base with all kinds of airplanes with advances that his mind could barely conceive.
Of course the folks in charge of the base have a lot of trouble swallowing his story. And they've got a big VIP visiting the base shortly, a British Vice Air Marshal played by Robert Warwick who was a hero of World War II and who was learning his trade during the first World War who Haigh knew back in the day.
I can't say more, but a trip to The Twilight Zone has given Haigh a chance to fulfill his intended destiny. This episode was well written and acted and not a moment of film frame was spared in bringing a most engrossing story.
A World War I pilot from the British Royal Flying Corps lands at his base after a sortie with some Germans. Kenneth Haigh pilots his ancient biplane for a landing and gets quite the surprise. It's 42 years later and what was his airfield is now an American NATO base with all kinds of airplanes with advances that his mind could barely conceive.
Of course the folks in charge of the base have a lot of trouble swallowing his story. And they've got a big VIP visiting the base shortly, a British Vice Air Marshal played by Robert Warwick who was a hero of World War II and who was learning his trade during the first World War who Haigh knew back in the day.
I can't say more, but a trip to The Twilight Zone has given Haigh a chance to fulfill his intended destiny. This episode was well written and acted and not a moment of film frame was spared in bringing a most engrossing story.
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- bkoganbing
- Jan 4, 2013
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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