The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

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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

“The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 130
Season: 5
Production code: 2606
Original air date: December 6, 1963
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
Producer: Bert Granet
Director of photography: George T. Clemens
Music: stock

[edit] Cast

Sgt. Connors: Ron Foster
Pfc. McCluskey: Randy Boone
Cpl. Langsford: Warren Oates
Lieutenant Woodard: Greg Morris
Finnigan: Jeffrey Morris
Scout: Wayne Mallory
Captain Dennet: Robert Bray
Sergeant: Lew Brown
Corporal: Jacque Shelton

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Three United States Army soldiers (MSgt. William Connors, Pvt. Michael McCluskey, Cpl. Richard Langsford) are participants in a National Guard wargame being conducted near Little Bighorn, the site of the last stand of General George Custer. They are given orders which, surprisingly, follow the same route of Custer and his men. As they follow the route, they find more and more proof that they’ve somehow gone back in time to fight the battle. The troops climb up to a ridge where they find the battle. They join it and they are never seen again. Later, their superiors look for them, taking a brief stop in the graveyard of the men lost at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Strangely, the officers find the names of their missing soldiers on the monument with the names of the men killed in the battle.