CBS airs the 14th episode of Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone. Fritz Weaver stars in Serling’s adaptation of a story by Richard Matheson.
On the eve of a global holocaust, two men who work on hydrogen weapons and the means of delivering them to their targets meet with their families. They have a plan: the government has also been secretly working on a craft capable of interstellar flight. They will steal this vehicle and resettle on another world, one they hope is free from the kind of madness that could wipe out all life on its surface…one that is the third planet from its sun. Unless, of course, someone from their own world puts a stop to their plan.
teleplay by Rod Serling
based on the short story by Richard Matheson
directed by Richard L. Bare
music not credited
Cast: Fritz Weaver (William Sturka), Edward Andrews (Carling), Joe Maross (Jerry Riden), Denise Alexander (Jody Sturka), Lori March (Eve Sturka), Jeanne Evans (Ann Riden)
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