Passage on the Lady Anne
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| “Passage on the Lady Anne” | |||||||
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 Scene from "Passage on the Lady Anne |
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 119 |
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| Written by | Charles Beaumont (From his short story "Song for a Lady".) |
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| Directed by | Lamont Johnson | ||||||
| Guest stars | Lee Philips : Allen Ransome Joyce Van Patten : Eileen Ransome Wilfrid Hyde-White : Tobias "Toby" McKenzie Gladys Cooper : Mrs. Millicent "Millie" McKenzie Cecil Kellaway : Ian Burgess Alan Napier : Captain Prothero Cyril Delevanti : Officer |
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| Featured music | Rene Garriguenc | ||||||
| Production no. | 4869 | ||||||
| Original airdate | May 9, 1963 | ||||||
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"Passage on the Lady Anne" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Opening narration
| “ | Portrait of a honeymoon couple getting ready for a journey - with a difference. These newlyweds have been married for six years, and they're not taking this honeymoon to start their life but rather to save it, or so Eileen Ransome thinks. She doesn't know why she insisted on a ship for this voyage, except that it would give them some time and she'd never been on one before - certainly never one like the Lady Anne. The tickets read 'New York to Southampton' but this old liner is going somewhere else. Its destination... the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Synopsis
Six years into a troubled marriage, a young couple hopefully embark on a second honeymoon and their last chance at reconciliation. They board an old ocean liner, the Lady Anne, for a 14-day crossing from New York to Southampton, England.
The couple, Eileen and Allan Ransome, soon realize that all the other passengers are elderly and their vessel seems to be following a meandering course. Quarrelling aboard the ship, they decide to divorce when they return home. Then Eileen disappears.
When her husband finds her again, Eileen is wearing the nightgown that one of their fellow passengers wore on her honeymoon. The Ransomes find their love rekindled and are dancing in the ship's ballroom when the Lady Anne's engines suddenly stop. The captain enters and informs the young couple that he is putting them off the ship, telling them that there isn't time for lengthy explanations.
Despite their objections, the captain and the other passengers are adamant that the Ransomes cannot continue on the ship. The Ransomes are forced into a lifeboat stocked with provisions and set adrift in mid-ocean while the Lady Anne speeds away never to be seen again.
[edit] Closing narration
| “ | The Lady Anne never reached port. After they were picked up by a cutter a few hours later, as Captain Protheroe had promised, the Ransomes searched the newspaper for news - but there wasn't any news. The Lady Anne with all her crew and all her passengers vanished without a trace. But the Ransomes knew what had happened, they knew that the ship had sailed off to a better port - a place called the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Trivia
This was the last episode actually written by Charles Beaumont. Although there would be other episodes credited to Beaumont later, according to The Twilight Zone Companion, these episodes were ghostwritten, primarily by Jerry Sohl, as Beaumont was seriously ill.
