Writer:	Charles Beaumont
Director:	Douglas Heyes
Star:	Rod Serling (Narrator/Host)
Guest Star:	Cecil Kellaway (Jeremy Wickwire),  Kevin Hagen (Captain James Webber),  Jeff Morrow (Kurt Meyers),  Don Dubbins (Peter Kirby)

Kevin Hagen appears later in the series in the episode "You Drive." (edit) Director Douglas Heyes didn't like the concept of an automobile race frozen in time (as presented in the original Beaumont story) -- so he substituted the beauty pageant scene, to Beaumont's dismay. Heyes' judgment has been vindicated, however, as the beauty pageant scene is the most-remembered part of the aired story. (edit) The ice cream wagon shown in this episode was also used in episode #22, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street." (edit) Included on volume 20 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit) This episode is based on the short story "Elegy" by Charles Beaumont. The story was first published in Imagination (February, 1953). (edit)

(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Kirby, Webber, and Meyers, three men lost. They shared a common wish, a simple one, really - they wanted to be aboard their ship, headed for home. And fate, a laughing fate, a practical jokester with a smile that stretched across the stars, saw to it that they got their wish, with just one reservation: the wish came true, but only in the Twilight Zone. (edit) (Opening Narration)
Narrator: The time is the day after tomorrow. The place: a far corner of the universe. The cast of characters: three men lost amongst the stars, three men sharing the common urgency of all men lost - they're looking for home. And in a moment they'll find home, not a home that is a place to be seen but a strange, unexplainable experience to be felt. (edit)

The crew of the spaceship are supposed to be in "far corner of the universe", but 655 million miles from earth only puts them between Jupiter and Saturn. (edit) Despite the director's best efforts, the use of normal people simply trying to stand still and pretend they're statues doesn't work very well - they are almost constantly swaying and moving a bit. (edit) When Peter approaches the fisherman, there is a shot of the other two guys on the bridge, but for some reason it's clearly a still photo rather than the actors actually moving or reacting. Which is kinda ironic because the shots of people not moving are actual shots of the people when they could have used still photos on some occasions. (edit)

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