Probe 7, Over and Out

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“Probe 7, Over and Out”

The Twilight Zone episode

Scene from "Probe 7, Over and Out"

Episode no.

Season 5
Episode 129

Written by

Rod Serling

Directed by

Ted Post

Guest stars

Richard Basehart : Colonel Adam Cook
Antoinette Bower : Eve Norda
Harold Gould : General Larrabee
Barton Heyman : Lieutenant Blane

Featured music

Uncredited

Production no.

2622

Original airdate

November 29, 1963

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List of Twilight Zone episodes

"Probe 7, Over and Out" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Its plot is a Shaggy God story.

1 Opening narration
2 Synopsis
3 Closing narration
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Opening narration

“

One Colonel Cook, a traveler in space. He's landed on a remote planet several million miles from his point of departure. He can make an inventory of his plight by just one 360 degree movement of head and eyes. Colonel Cook as been set adrift in an ocean of space in a metal lifeboat that has been scorched and destroyed and will never fly again. He survived the crash but his ordeal is yet to begin. Now he must give battle to loneliness. Now Colonel Cook must meet the unknown. It's a small planet set deep in space, but for Colonel Cook it's the Twilight Zone.

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[edit] Synopsis

Astronaut Adam Cook crash lands on a strange planet with gravity and atmospheric conditions similar to those on his home world. Most of his equipment is put out of commission by the crash and he cannot repair it due to a broken arm and lack of resources. Shortly afterwards, he learns that his home world has embarked on a catastrophic nuclear war. In his last transmission, Adam's superior back home, General Larrabee, tells him that there may be no survivors when the war is over, so he can expect no rescue.

Eventually he finds a woman from another species who tells him her name is Eve Norda. They cannot understand each other's language, but she communicates through sketches drawn in the sand and by pantomime that She is also stranded; her planet left its orbit for some reason. Together, Adam and Eve begin a new life on this planet she calls "irth", which Adam pronounces as Earth.

[edit] Closing narration

“

Do you know these people? Names familiar, are they? They lived a long time ago. Perhaps they're part fable, perhaps they're part fantasy. And perhaps the place they're walking to now is not really called ‘Eden'. We offer it only as a presumption. This has been the Twilight Zone.

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