The Odyssey of Flight 33

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The Twilight Zone original series
Season two (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
Fall 1960 – Summer 1961
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. King Nine Will Not Return
  2. The Man in the Bottle
  3. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
  4. A Thing About Machines
  5. The Howling Man
  6. The Eye of the Beholder
  7. Nick of Time
  8. The Lateness of the Hour
  9. The Trouble With Templeton
  10. A Most Unusual Camera
  11. Night of the Meek
  12. Dust
  13. Back There
  14. The Whole Truth
  15. The Invaders
  16. A Penny for Your Thoughts
  17. Twenty-Two
  18. The Odyssey of Flight 33
  19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
  20. Static
  21. The Prime Mover
  22. Long Distance Call
  23. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
  24. The Rip Van Winkle Caper
  25. The Silence
  26. Shadow Play
  27. The Mind and the Matter
  28. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
  29. The Obsolete Man

“The Odyssey of Flight 33” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

[edit] Cast

  • John Anderson (Capt Farver),
  • Paul Comi (1st Officer Craig),
  • Sandy Kenyon (Navigator Hatch),
  • Harp McGuire (Flt Engineer Purcell),
  • Beverly Brown (Janie), and
  • Wayne Heffley (2nd Officer Wyatt).

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

This episode takes place on Global Airlines Flight 33, en route from London to New York City. About 50 minutes from Idlewild Airport, Capt Farver & his crew realize that the Boeing 707 has crossed some kind of sound barrier and that they have been thrown back in time to the age of the dinosaurs. They try to get back to 1961, but arrive above the 1939 New York Worlds Fair instead. Low on fuel, the captain realizes that they have to keep trying to get back home.

[edit] Trivia

  • The dinosaur scenes are taken from the film Dinosaurus!.
  • The plot of "The Langoliers", a novella by Stephen King, bears a striking resemblance to that of "The Odyssey of Flight 33". In it, the passengers and pilot of a cross-country flight find themselves in the past, forced to land in an older and lifeless version of Bangor, Maine.

[edit] Reference

At the end of the episode there is an error in referencing where the 1939 World's fair is, they are calling what's now called Flushing Meadows - Corona Park, Lake Success. Lake Success is actually miles away at the border of Queens and Nassau Counties, Lakeville Road. (HdPJr)

[edit] External link

Idlewild Airport, which opened in 1948, is the original name for what is now known as John F. Kennedy International Airport. It was changed to JFK a month after President Kennedy was assassinated in November, 1963.

[edit] Twilight Zone links

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