On this day, February 19, 1960, the "Elegy" episode of "The Twlight Zone" first aired.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Elegy (The Twilight Zone)

Episode no.: Season 1, Episode 20
Directed by: Douglas Heyes
Written by: Charles Beaumont
Based on: "Elegy", by Charles Beaumont
Featured music: Nathan Van Cleave
Production code: 173-3625
Original air date: February 19, 1960
Guest appearances:
Cecil Kellaway as Jeremy Wickwire
Jeff Morrow as Kurt Meyers
Kevin Hagen as Captain James Webber
Don Dubbins as Peter Kirby

"Elegy" is the twentieth episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on February 19, 1960, on CBS. The episode was based on a short story by Charles Beaumont published in the February 1953 issue of Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy.

Opening narration

The time is the day after tomorrow. The place: a far corner of the universe. A cast of characters: three men lost amongst the stars. Three men sharing the common urgency of all men lost. They're looking for home. And in a moment, they'll find home; not a home that is a place to be seen, but a strange unexplainable experience to be felt.

Plot
In September 2185, while on a routine geological mission, astronauts Meyers, Webber, and Kirby land their spaceship on a remote asteroid 655 million miles away from Earth after running low on fuel. They find that the atmosphere and gravity are identical to Earth's. Opening the hatch to the spaceship, they find they have landed near a farm. They initially think they have traveled back in time, due to the old tractor they find, although they notice that there are two suns in the sky. They find a farmer gazing off into the distance and try to get his attention, but realize he is just a statue.

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[rampartd]

1. great episode

[Walleye]

2. So many stories are based on that one theme, trying to get back home