Probe 7, Over and Out

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The Twilight Zone original series Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1963 – Summer 1964 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: In Praise of Pip Steel Nightmare at 20,000 Feet A Kind of a Stopwatch The Last Night of a Jockey Living Doll The Old Man in the Cave Uncle Simon Probe 7, Over and Out The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain Ninety Years Without Slumbering Ring-a-Ding Girl You Drive The Long Morrow The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Number 12 Looks Just Like You Black Leather Jackets Night Call From Agnes—With Love Spur of the Moment An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Queen of the Nile What's in the Box The Masks I Am the Night—Color Me Black Sounds and Silences Caesar and Me The Jeopardy Room Stopover in a Quiet Town The Encounter Mr. Garrity and the Graves The Brain Center at Whipple's Come Wander With Me The Fear The Bewitchin' Pool

“Probe 7, Over and Out” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 129
Season: 5
Production code: 2622
Original air date: November 29, 1963
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Ted Post
Producer: William Froug
Director of photography: Robert Pittack
Music: uncredited

[edit] Cast

Colonel Adam Cook: Richard Basehart
Eve Norda: Antoinette Bower
Lieutenant Blane: Barton Heyman

[edit] Synopsis

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An astronaut crash lands on a strange planet with gravity and atmospheric conditions similar to those on his home world. Most of his equipment is disabled in the crash and he cannot repair it due to a broken arm and lack of resources. Shortly after the crash, he learns through radio transmission that his home world has entered a catastrophic nuclear war. As a result he cannot be rescued, nor can he have any contact with anyone back home after a few days, when the last of his people are forced to evacuate their bases to avoid radiation fallout. Eventually he finds a female astronaut, also stranded because her planet went astray of its orbit. Although they cannot interpret each other's languages, they manage to communicate through sketches drawn in the sand and pointing gestures. Together the two, Adam and Eve, begin a new life on this planet she calls Earth.