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The Arrival ()

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  • Season 3
  • Episode 2
Federal aviation investigator Grant Sheckly must deal with a mystery when a plane lands at an airport without pilots, passengers or luggage.
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Grant Sheckly
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Paul Malloy
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Airline Executive Bengston (as Noah Keene)
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Robbins
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George Cousins
Jim Boles ...
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Tower Operator (uncredited)
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Boris Sagal ... (directed by)

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Rod Serling ... (written by)
 
Rod Serling ... (created by) (creator)

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Buck Houghton ... producer

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George T. Clemens ... director of photography

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Jason H. Bernie ... film editor

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Philip Barber ... (as Phil Barber)
George W. Davis

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H. Web Arrowsmith ... (set decoration)

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Ralph W. Nelson ... production manager

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E. Darrell Hallenbeck ... assistant director

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Bill Edmondson ... sound
Franklin Milton ... sound

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Marius Constant ... composer: theme music (uncredited)
Robert Drasnin ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
René Garriguenc ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Van Cleave ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
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  • CBS (1961) (United States) (tv) (original airing)
  • Image Entertainment (2011) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)

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A commercial airliner makes a normal landing at an airport and taxis to its normal stop. The only problem is that when the doors are opened, there are no passengers and no pilots. An experienced FAA investigator, Grant Sheckly. is assigned to the case. Sheckly has a good reputation and good track record at solving crashes but this case is a difficult one explain. It all begins to get clearer when he realizes that not everyone is seeing exactly the same thing. For some the seats are blue, others see brown and others see red. They all see different registration numbers on the aircraft. Sheckly can only come to one conclusion: what they are seeing is an illusion. Written by garykmcd

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Trivia A tragic coincidence connected with this episode: at one point Sheckly deliberately walks toward a moving propeller blade. The episode's director, Boris Sagal, would be killed in 1981 when he accidentally walked into a helicopter's moving blades. See more »
Goofs After Sheckly meets with the airline personnel in Bengston's office, he dismisses them saying "stay around where you can be reached". As the personnel file out the door, the studio lights cast their shadows on the backdrop outside the door of what is supposed to be the airport grounds. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Arrival (2022). See more »
Soundtracks Twilight Zone Theme See more »
Quotes [opening narration]
Narrator: This object, should any of you have lived underground for the better parts of your lives and never had occasion to look toward the sky, is an airplane. Its official designation: a DC-3. We offer this rather obvious comment because this particular airplane, the one you're looking at, is a freak. Now, most airplanes take off and land as per scheduled. On rare occasions, they crash. But all airplanes can be counted on doing one or the other. Now, yesterday morning this particular airplane ceased to be just a commercial carrier. As of its arrival, it became an enigma, a seven-ton puzzle made out of aluminum, steel, wire, and a few thousand other component parts, none of which add up to the right thing. In just a moment, we're going to show you the tail end of its history. We're going to give you ninety percent of the jigsaw pieces, and you and Mr. Sheckly, here of the Federal Aviation Agency, will assume the problem of putting them together, along with finding the missing pieces. This we offer as the evening's hobby, a little extracurricular diversion which is really the national pastime - in The Twilight Zone.
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