The Arrival (The Twilight Zone)

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Harold J. Stone in the third-season episode of the Twilight Zone, The Arrival

The Twilight Zone original series Season three (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1961 – Summer 1962 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: Two The Arrival The Shelter The Passersby A Game of Pool The Mirror The Grave It's a Good Life Deaths-Head Revisited The Midnight Sun Still Valley The Jungle Once Upon a Time Five Characters in Search of an Exit A Quality of Mercy Nothing in the Dark One More Pallbearer Dead Man's Shoes The Hunt Showdown With Rance McGrew Kick the Can A Piano in the House The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank To Serve Man The Fugitive Little Girl Lost Person or Persons Unknown The Little People Four O'Clock Hocus-Pocus and Frisby The Trade-Ins The Gift The Dummy Young Man's Fancy I Sing the Body Electric Cavender Is Coming The Changing of the Guard

“The Arrival” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 67
Season: 3
Production code: 4814
Original air date: September 22, 1961
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Boris Sagal
Music: uncredited

[edit] Cast

Grant Sheckly: Harold J. Stone
Bengston: Noah Keen
Paul Malloy: Fredd Wayne

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After a plane arrives without a crew or passengers, Grant Sheckly, an FAA inspector, tries to solve the mystery. It suddenly occurs to him that the plane is just an illusion. After sticking his hand through the propellers, the plane disappears. Later, it appears that Sheckly imagined the entire scenario because of a similar case that had happened approximately seventeen years ago, in which a plane completely disappeared, and Sheckly was never able to determine its whereabouts.

[edit] Critical response

“The show now seems to be feeding off itself. Last Friday’s episode, unless it proves to be an exception in the new skein, doesn’t augur well for the future of the series. Twilight Zone seems to be running dry of inspiration.” —from the Variety review.