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The Twilight Zone

I Shot an Arrow into the Air

Season 1, Episode 15, Aired Jan 15, 1960

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Three astronauts crash on what they believe to be an asteroid. Unfortunately they have only limited water supplies to sustain them.

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Ted Otis

Pierson
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Leslie Barrett

Brandt
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Harry Bartell

Langford

Rod Serling

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Dewey Martin

Corey
Edward Binns

Col. Donlin

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absurd premise

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By OmarCayenne, Oct 30, 2011

The actual adventure part of the story is quite good. Unfortunately, the whole thing crashes and burns at the end with the ridiculous twist. I mean, any group of astronauts who can't figure out that they're back on earth pretty much deserve to die, in my book.
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Amazing twist at the end!!!

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By LOSTismylife, Feb 20, 2011

This episode is one of my favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone. I never ever expected it to end the way it did. Where did Rod Serling come up with this stuff!? He's a genius! At the end where the guy sees the telephone poles, my mouth was literally hanging wide open. That was so good! I just couldn't believe it! The whole time I, along with the three men in the episode, thought they were on an asteroid. And then it turns out that they hadn't even made it off the earth. This is truly a series classic .moreless
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Wonderfully written!

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By Jasmine_92, Sep 25, 2007

I Shot An Arrow Into The Air is one of my favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone. Like all Twilight Zone episodes it has a surprising twist at the end. Personally this is one of my favorite endings to an episode. I just never ever expected it. It was such a big shocker to find out that they had actually still been on the earth the whole entire time. I loved the guys reaction when he discovered what had happened. And then seeing the sign and the telephone poles at the very end. Truly awesome! And I love the little rhyme that goes along with the title:

"I shot an arrow into the air It fell to earth, I know not where."

I supposed this shoud have been a big clue to the ending! Anyways I love and truly enjoy everytime I get to see this episode.moreless
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A classic twist

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By zone46, Nov 26, 2005

This is one of the greats. Three astronauts crash land on an asteroid, and after mistrust sets in, paranoid Corey kills the other two. The second, however, draws a figure in the sand before he dies. Corey then discovers a gas station over a hill and realizes they had landed in the Nevada desert the whole time. The other astronaut had drawn the powerlines in the sand. Definately a classic.
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- (Closing Narration) Narrator: Practical joke perpetrated by Mother Nature and a combination of improbable events. Practical joke wearing the trappings of nightmare, of terror, of desperation. Small human drama played out in…the Twilight Zone.
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- (Opening Narration) Narrator: Her name is the Arrow One. She represents four and a half years of planning, preparation and training, and a thousand years of science and mathematics and the projected dreams and hopes of not only a nation but a world. She is the first manned aircraft into space. And this is the countdown, the last five seconds before man shot an arrow into the air.
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- Much of this episode was filmed in Death Valley National Park.
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- Included on volume 18 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
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- The episode title is a reference to the poem "The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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