★★★★1/2 November 29, 1963 Season 5 Episode 9
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Probe 7, Over and Out sets up a situation filled with a number of dramatic possibilities. This is an episode that could have been an hour long to explore more avenues. It reminds me of the episode Two but goes a different route. The acting in this one is very good as always. Richard Basehart plays Colonel Adam Cook who just crash landed on a planet. His ship is beyond repair, and he doesn’t have hope his home planet will help him. He does have communication with his General back home but the General has bad news of a Nuclear war coming.
There will be no help for Colonel Adam, but he has a new world to explore. He meets up with Antoinette Bower who plays Norda. Norda is also stranded on this planet. There is a language and personality barrier that they will have to cross. It’s a good Twilight Zone that could have been better with a little more exploration.
From IMDB Trivia
Norda refers to the apples as “seppla,” which is an anagram of “apples.”
This was the first episode of the series to air since The Twilight Zone: Uncle Simon (1963) two weeks earlier. The Twilight Zone: Night Call (1964) was to have been shown on November 22, 1963, but the broadcast was canceled due to the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas that day. It was eventually shown on February 7, 1964.
Much, if not all, of Norda’s language is simply backwards-English. For example, “em” for “me” and “ouy” for “you”
This show was written by Rod Serling
Rod Serling’s Opening Narration:
One Colonel Cook, a traveler in space. He’s landed on a remote planet several million miles from his point of departure. He can make an inventory of his plight by just one 360-degree movement of head and eyes. Colonel Cook has been set adrift in an ocean of space in a metal lifeboat that has been scorched and destroyed and will never fly again. He survived the crash but his ordeal is yet to begin. Now he must give battle to loneliness. Now Colonel Cook must meet the unknown. It’s a small planet set deep in space. But for Colonel Cook, it’s the Twilight Zone.
Summary
Astronaut Adam Cook crash lands on an Earth-like planet several light-years away. His ship is badly damaged and beyond repair. He manages to contact his home base but they have little encouragement for him. They don’t have a replacement spacecraft to rescue him and the security situation is such that they may soon be at war. Cook readies himself to make a home on his new world when he discovers another inhabitant, a human-like female from another world. As they learn to communicate, he learns her name is Eve Norda and together set off to begin a new life
***WARNING…VIDEO SPOILERS***
Rod Serling’s Closing Narration:
Do you know these people? Names familiar, are they? They lived a long time ago. Perhaps they’re part fable, perhaps they’re part fantasy. And perhaps the place they’re walking to now is not really called ‘Eden.’ We offer it only as a presumption. This has been the Twilight Zone.
CAST
Rod Serling … Narrator / Self – Host (uncredited)
Richard Basehart…Colonel Adam Cook
Antoinette Bower…Eve Norda
Harold Gould: General Larrabee
Barton Heyman: Lieutenant Blane
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Love this episode. Great write-up!
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Thank You!
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sounds very good, even if maybe a wee bit similar to the one with the soldiers from different countries meeting up in a bombed out city.
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A nice twist at the end.
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Adam and Eve with an apple, what happened to the snake?
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He is hiding in the bushes
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I wasn’t thrilled with this episode, but I did like the twist at the end. I was not expecting it at all.
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That kinda made it to me…I do think there was more they could have done.
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If I’m being honest, it kind of ticked me off that OF COURSE the lost woman would be beautiful and gentle and just perfect! Thanks for letting me vent.
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Well…she did scratch him! lol…sorry! I do know what you mean…and what are the odds a woman would be stranded the same way as him…
I love tomorrow’s episode…IMDB doesn’t but I do. I’m a sucker for time travel.
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Oh I forgot that part oops 😉 I am making good progress on the disks, I’m up to the 4th disc now. What a ride this season is. Is it the soldiers one?
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Yes….do you like that one? IMDB doesn’t much at all…6.7….maybe I’m just a sucker for Time Travel.
Awesome Lisa…when you are ready we will get them on the road…so to speak.
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I really like the episode for a lot reasons, one of them being Time Travel.
I’m going to email you something about tomorrow’s episode.
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Ok…I need all the help I can get!
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I emailed back
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ditto
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Looks like a fairly entertaining episode to me, though I can see Lisa’s complaint that Norda is “perfect.” Obviously, this was written at a different time and the way women are portrayed in film nowadays obviously has changed. While I haven’t watched the episode, I have a funny feeling about the twist at the end. 🙂
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Yea you probably know what it is….
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