I remember watching this episode as a kid. They had actually gone back to prehistoric times, with the land below all jungle land and a brontosaurus (apatosaurus) looking up at the jet. They increased elevation and increased speed till they got to 1939 AD, only to come up a bit short again. I was fascinated with time travel from then on.

@richardwilliams473

2 жыл бұрын

Yes ,I remember watching this when I was a kid too. It scared me half to death !!!!

@mordecaiesther3591

2 жыл бұрын

I would’ve landed in 1939 , tried to stop WW2 . Plus it was a better time

@Diponty

Жыл бұрын

@@mordecaiesther3591 Have a go now at stopping WW3!

@giraffesareselfish9563

Жыл бұрын

@@mordecaiesther3591 Interesting. What would you have done to try and stop WWII? Hitler had already started his atrocities by 1939.

@mordecaiesther3591

Жыл бұрын

@@giraffesareselfish9563 the trick is NOT to stop the war entirely . But at least stop us from getting involved . Somehow your going to have to stop Japanese invasion of Peal Harbor . That !… is what got US involved .

Fun fact the actor playing the co pilot is my grandfather!

@Scripturegirl.

5 жыл бұрын

Cool.

@mkseo22

4 ай бұрын

So cool.

@sudabeh545

23 күн бұрын

Cool

" The Odyssey of Flight 33 " freaked me out when I saw it on TV in 1961. I was ten years old at the time. The fact that all the drama takes place in the cabin speaks to the excellence of the actors and script. Except for the dinosaur and the shots of the World's Fair, it's confined to the cockpit. Brilliant writing! John Anderson's great!

@charles1203

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, 1961. Shoot, I remember watching tv back in 1992.

@giraffesareselfish9563

Жыл бұрын

There are some scenes in the cabin with the flight attendants and the passengers.

@barbaracollins5605

Жыл бұрын

I was 8. My fave was the monkey and 2nd the ugly pretty girl.

@susangreene9662

9 ай бұрын

John Anderson was great in every thing!

@aux2414

6 ай бұрын

Damn you old

Malaysia Airlines brought me here. Rod Serling was a brilliant and magnetic writer and performer. Gracias for posting this!

@b.j.n.g.354

4 жыл бұрын

TWILIGHT ZONE WAS MY ALL--TIME BEST FAVOURITE TV SHOW WHEN I WAS A CHILD. AND MANY YEARS LATER , TWILIGHT ZONE IS STILL MY BEST ALL--TIME FAVOURITE TV SHOW OF ALL TIME. ROD SERLING WAS , IS , AND WILL ALWAYS BE GREAT , BRILLIANT , AND UNIQUELY IN A CLASS OF HIS OWN. ✏📈🐟

@b.j.n.g.354

4 жыл бұрын

TWILIGHT ZONE WAS MY ALL--TIME BEST FAVOURITE TV SHOW WHEN I WAS A CHILD. AND MANY YEARS LATER , TWILIGHT ZONE IS STILL MY BEST ALL--TIME FAVOURITE TV SHOW OF ALL TIME. ROD SERLING WAS , IS , AND WILL ALWAYS BE GREAT , BRILLIANT , AND UNIQUELY IN A CLASS OF HIS OWN. ✏📈🐟

My all time favourite television programme. Thank you!

@mustafajackson9430

5 жыл бұрын

Mine too.

Serling was constantly scrutinized, censored & told his themes or stories were too controversial. That's the brilliance of Twilight Zone. He could right about , than, modern problems, just in a fantasy genre. I love them all. Maybe a few I care a little less about, but still beautifully filmed, dialogues, totally gives plenty of room for ones own opinion or thoughts. Remade atleast 3 separate times.

@annabodot962

10 ай бұрын

I did not know that about the censorship. Can you elaborate if possible? Very interesting and I know that we were full swing in the Cold War back then. I'm class of '76. We are all getting Medicare this year. Humph.

This was the inspiration for Stephen King's Langoliers

@phillipngo2133

3 жыл бұрын

Daniel Colasuonno also manifest I believe

@fredflinstone5431

3 жыл бұрын

And the blind girl was cute as can be... Note, she is same age as me...

@jimbobeire

3 жыл бұрын

and there was also a 1985 TZ episode "A matter of minutes" where a guy went round a corner and found the future still under construction, and it's explained that a new world is built for each minute, and then ripped apart, which also fits with the Langoliers. "inspiration" is rather a generous term for it, considering he seems to have lifted those ideas whole from the Twilight Zone.

@giraffesareselfish9563

Жыл бұрын

I think Steven King got a lot of his inspirations from TZ. Christine and Maximum Overdrive just to name a couple.

John Anderson - such a great character actor.

@nicholasschroeder3678

Жыл бұрын

He was in more Riflemans than anyone else. Usually the heavy. He always delivered. Had they made a movie of John Brown, he would have been the only choice.

@DavidTSmith-jn5bs

6 ай бұрын

He appeared in another TZ episode: "A Passage for a Trumpet." He played The Archangel Gabriel.

The crew dealt with that pretty well,all things considered.

This episode was just screaming for a follow up episode..... To be honest, hearing phantom engines flying overhead is haunting and scary...

@giraffesareselfish9563

Жыл бұрын

I wasn't crazy about the hour long episodes but this one could have done well as an hour.

I kept imagining Leslie Nielson opening the cockpit door like in Airplane

@sarahberkner

3 жыл бұрын

"I just want to tell you two, good luck. We're all counting on you."

@giraffesareselfish9563

Жыл бұрын

@Sarah Berkner Surely you must be kidding.

One of my favorite Twilight Zone Episodes

One of my favorite episodes

I think one of the strongest and most original aspects of Rod Serling's writing for the Twilight Zone and his earlier live television plays is the incredibly effective way in which he posits wildly improbable, "sci-fi" situations and plots alongside timeless musings on human nature and its often less-than-savory side. The episodes are really modern-day morality plays distantly echoing the first flowerings of theater in ancient Greece when humankind was taking its first baby steps toward striving to understand of the complexity of mortal human existence.

" John Anderson ... Actor to Actor. A Great Character Actor !!! Many films R.I.P "

@Scripturegirl.

8 жыл бұрын

Funny thing I know a JOHN.ANDERSON, HE'S ONE OF MY DOCTORS.!!.

@danielgolus4600

5 жыл бұрын

He was the used car salesman in the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho".

@JW...-oj5iw

5 жыл бұрын

John Anderson has appeared in so many episodes of series television and movies, it's very difficult to know them all. His career spanned decades and genres. One of my favorites was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He portrayed an immortal, extremely powerful being called a Douwd. He took on the alias, Kevin Uxbridge, pretending to be a human. The planet was attacked by a cruel race called the Husnocks. Kevin's human wife was killed in the fighting. In his sorrow and rage, he lashed out at the Husnocks, killing every single member of the race throughout the universe. He recreated his wife and land on the desolate remains of the planet.

@allaprimalady

3 жыл бұрын

He has played both good guy and bad guy

@giraffesareselfish9563

Жыл бұрын

@Scripturegirl1990 also a country music singer

I wonder if they ever made it home. That was the uniqueness of “TZ” they made the audience draw their own conclusion.

@Scripturegirl.

6 жыл бұрын

Their not lost in space, their lost in sky.

@a.b.sproductionsllc

6 жыл бұрын

Scripturegirl1990 Duh! But home would be 1961, not 1939.

@Scripturegirl.

6 жыл бұрын

It was a joke duh.!!.

@a.b.sproductionsllc

6 жыл бұрын

Scripturegirl1990 Sure......

@JW...-oj5iw

5 жыл бұрын

Scripturegirl1990 ... Poorly written, at that.

The most amazing thing about this video is the amount of room all the passengers have in the coach section!! What???

This was a wild one. Was sitting here watching a Twilight Zone marathon and this one came on. Don't remember seeing this one before. However, they were very calm about traveling back to a whole other decade. 😅

This was the second episode that I ever saw. I got a 4 episode TZ dvd when I was 8 and went to my aunt’s house that night and watched it. The first one was Time Enough At Last which freaked me out because of how upsetting the ending was. I decided to watch the next one in hopes that it was less depressing. It was not. This episode has no real ending to it. They’re just stuck in this time traveling limbo. At least there was a conclusion in the other one. This one freaked me out so much more that I was still thinking about it days later when I was outside and thinking about Serling’s closing narration staring at the sky

@frankkockritz5441

Жыл бұрын

Of course we now all realize how close we came to your mentioned ending with the 1962 missile crisis. The end of civilization was very much at hand.

@skaterdave03

6 ай бұрын

Same for me too, when he broke his glasses, it crushed me as a kid. Especially since I loved reading too.

They should've just landed. The fact that they returned to the same century is a miracle. It's like getting a 20 in Blackjack. You better cash out or you're a damn fool.

@mrpresidentbarry

7 ай бұрын

huge AGEEE, Pal…& running low on fuel, to boot!😝🙄😩

The poor navigator. He had to sit on a lawn chair.

That's a brontosaurus, right? Love it! Would love to vist the '39 World's Fair, too!

“Shoot up a flare or do something. That would be Global 33 trying to get home from the twilight zone.” No one in TV land had better opening and closing story lines.

The trouble I have with this scene is this is 1961 and when the ATC says he doesn't know anything about jets or radar the pilots seem basically unfazed - when in fact they should have been completely shocked because that would have been impossible.

they are still flying atop the overcast. lost in the twilight zone forever.

You gotta hand it to the captain. He remained as calm as possible and still in control amidst the scary situation. Question now is... did they get home?

@thesupermayoreo

4 жыл бұрын

RMJustine See that’s the key to being a good captain: keeping calm.

@LEFTaTIP

3 жыл бұрын

The entire context was, "remain calm and PRAY". I think the Captain was scared sh**t less

@charles1203

2 жыл бұрын

I’ll say they got back home and no one believed them.

@har8397

2 жыл бұрын

Flying with the mh370...

@douglaslett7504

2 жыл бұрын

They would land in 1939 they wouldn't have a choice it's better than death !

"LaGuardia this is a jet. We have four big lovely turbines and they're getting hungry. Running short on fuel. We want a radar vector to Idlewild. Do you have us in radio contact or don't you?"

@normanwaterman9877

3 жыл бұрын

"I don't know who you are, and we don't know anything all about radar or jets or anything else"

My brother really like this episode. Thanks for posting.

They should've landed in 1939 and used their knowledge of the future to get filthy, stinking rich.

@wildboar7473

9 жыл бұрын

With the people serving goverments we have I think not, killed them all or major brainwashing. For the greater good.

@55Quirll

5 жыл бұрын

lifelieswaiting Don't forget the passengers, they could have screwed things up royally, some might have gone to Germany and joined the Nazis, others might have to Russia and joined with Stalin and who knows what else. The result would be worse than what we have now, or it might be better who knows just don't mess with the past. I would rather have a look at the future and see what I could learn and take back with me.

@Renshen1957

5 жыл бұрын

Or had given technology to the US for WW2.

@angelacarleton9575

5 жыл бұрын

It isn't always that simple - there are consequences to each action one does. So don't jump to conclusions.

@albertcampos959

5 жыл бұрын

I know...what the heck!!!!!

One of the best episodes.

I love the, "Report to this office immediately upon landing." That's like being called to HR for a write up. They still do this and what you don't want to hear is your call sign followed by, "Take down this number and call me immediately upon landing." You just pissed off ATC. Such fun to watch!

I would have just gone ahead and landed the plane in 1939. Considering the fuel supply remaining, they might not get that close to 1961 if they try again.

@phillipngo2133

3 жыл бұрын

TheStapleGunKid the Wikipedia said the runway was too small to handle the 707 and could crash. Also, it will be like the Avianca flight 52 incident if they did fly back to 1961 but low on fuel

I play a little game with myself when I watch TZ, I try to spot everyone that appeared in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show, their are quite a few.

thanks for uploading. This actually describes my life in 2005. LOL

If they were flying over the Bermuda Triangle...well, it would have been a routine flight, and no big deal!

Kind of interesting in that, in the end, they managed to make it back to just about 25 years prior to time in which they lived. If this happened now, that would put the plane back into 1991. That is not so bad, as many of the people on the plane would be old enough to remember that time, and would recognize their family members.

@delstanley1349

8 жыл бұрын

I bet they would be more interested in recognizing what stocks, horses, NFL Superbowl winners, World Series winners to pick. Straight to Vegas!

@nassauguy48

8 жыл бұрын

Del Stanley Good point! :D

@RonaldVaughan

7 жыл бұрын

Actually,in the end they DIDN'T make it back. And if they landed,they could change history.....

If you noticed the closing credits, you would have seen Robert J. Serling as "Technical Consultant." That was Rod's brother! Rod needed credible technobabble for the flight crew and Robert provided it. He also wrote a novel "The President's Plane is Missing."

I,really do enjoy The Original Twlight Zone this episode one of ny favorites thanks for posting.

0:45 It's amazing, they used to have 5 GUYS in the cockpit for a commercial flight.

Ladies and gentlemen,this is your captain speeking,i want to inform you I'm on Acid ,triple dipped blotter to be exact ,and it is so good we went back in time.All I ask of you is you remain calm.

The bad thing is that everyone has to go through WWII again. Back in 1961 people still remember those harsh days.

What a classic. I bet that's what happened to Malaysia Airlines 370

@Scripturegirl.

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah maybe it has HAPPENED.

@terryhawkins8191

6 жыл бұрын

Akirah Shamie EXACTLY.........I was thinking about that SAME senerio !!

@mmlindsey8635

5 жыл бұрын

NAW...THEY R N THE OCEAN

@JW...-oj5iw

5 жыл бұрын

Easy to find it. Just find a place where the crabs are extra big.

@zae_xa

5 жыл бұрын

@@mmlindsey8635 but until now we couldn't even find a single debris... Of it

They should do a sequel of this episode where Flight 33 from 1961 finally lands in our present time in 2016 to 2017 with all of the passengers and crew are un-aged like the 4400.

@susanb2015

5 жыл бұрын

They all would really want to get back to 1961. Or die.

@phillipngo2133

3 жыл бұрын

If they did land in 2016 to 2021, I bet people would be confused to why a Boeing 707 is still flying in passenger service or what airline it is own.

@martinyarbrough1609

Жыл бұрын

@@phillipngo2133 All the instruments are analog, using high frequency transmissions in the era of GPS and HD transmissions? And another question-four people flying an airplane- while only two piloting Boeing 737,47,57,67,787 Dreamliner and Airbus?

The good news is that they got 4 billion air mile credits.

Proper radio procedure would be for them to have announced their intention to descend over the radio, even if they weren't sure anyone could hear them. That would give ATC a heads up and allow them to direct other traffic away of their route. They failed to do that. There's no way to know for certain that ATC can't hear you, just because you can't hear them. Proper NRDO (no radio) procedure is to continue the planned flight path and land at the intended airport, announcing your intentions the whole way, and looking out for visual light gun signals from the tower once you get close enough.

This episode is every claustrophobics nightmare

@giraffesareselfish9563

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, I hadn't thought about that.

I have a feeling that if a cow flew by, the captain would still keep his cool.

@KyleHerrera106

2 жыл бұрын

he sure wouldn't be on the phone with Julia

Not only that but another blooper is a scientific one. The landscape would not have looked the same way millions of years ago as it did in 1961; in other words, the captain would not have been able to identify any of modern-day New York's landscape features, as he so handily did. Entertaining episode, nonetheless.

Love this episode.

The pilot airplane is the seller car in Psycho 1 . A double life ... indeed .

@markpedroza7294

5 жыл бұрын

Character actor John Anderson.

@nevittwoods1730

5 жыл бұрын

first time I had the past high pressure the future

@richiebear1969

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you I was trying to figure out why he looked familiar.

@fayremead

5 жыл бұрын

He played a bereaved general in the last season of M*A*S*H.

@jimliftin1552

4 жыл бұрын

Appeared on Star Trek The Next Generation and Quantum Leap

This pilot would live to star in Star Trek the next Generation. The Survivors. 2nd season.

If they landed in 1939 they'd end up meeting their past selves -- that would create a huge time paradox since they could warn themselves of the future.

@bgtsllc1

4 жыл бұрын

Not according to Avengers Endgame. :P

@kheperasekmet5197

4 жыл бұрын

Set the delorean to 1985 !! LoL

@gamechanger8908

2 жыл бұрын

@@bgtsllc1 Avengers Endgame timetravel is pretty much multiverse theory, so timetravel whether it causes a paradox or not is still up in the air.

@giraffesareselfish9563

Жыл бұрын

They would land in 1939 and immediately be locked up and used for experiments, they would never be allowed to be out in the world.

Good one again, mostly newish ideas, many copyed in later movies or books...

I'd settle to get back to 1961 when this was made...

I could live in 1939.

A 5-man crew? I remember when the flight engineer made it a threesome, but didn't know there was a separate navigator and radio guy in those days.

land and invest in the stock market!!!

@cameraman655

4 жыл бұрын

MelissaSpirit Did you not learn anything, from Doc Brown and Marty McFly.....?

@lyndamccready1263

3 жыл бұрын

Nah Aaq, but 1

@mrnobody2018

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody would believe them

@vichy7661

2 жыл бұрын

Don't need money if you travel through time.

Awesome episode

Would like to have seen more conversation between the passengers and their reactions. If I saw a dinosaur out the window I would fill my pants !

What immediately made me think of this episode is the trailer I saw on NBC for the upcoming new show called 'Manifest' where a plane (737) took off from an island bound for New York in 2013, then when the plane lands at JFK airport its 2018 and the FBI is there waiting to tell them that they were all reported missing assumed dead for 5 years and no on the plane aged a day. I mean what a coincidence that is huh?

@kentmalone8291

4 жыл бұрын

Manifest started off strong, season one was great. I could only stomach episode 1 of season 2. It's getting boring now.

Why is this video so clear? The filming, the camera-work? The details are so precise as if this video has even more pixels than modern-day film productions. I don't understand.

@KyleHerrera106

2 жыл бұрын

Because it was shot on film. Film doesn't have pixels. This means there is no space between each piece of the image, no border as with pixels. Therefore it looks like it has more pixels.

Mr.Serling? Did they make it? WELL! DID THEY?!

To the people that was wondering did they make it back in time Rob / the narrator kind of confirmed they didnt at the end listen what he says

Show still scares the hell out of me!!

The music is epic!

To this very day they're still missing. Lost and yet so many things throughout time they got to witness that no one else has. If they did ever land it must have been so far back that it made no difference towards history in an obscure location where no one would notice and just assimilated themselves into ancient societies of the time. Or they landed far into the future ahead of our own time. One way or another they would have had to come done eventually, it's so interesting just speculating how it could have ended

So entertaining to once again watch what I did when I was a scared 9 year old. I do remember the SFX left something to be desired, aka, the lame Brontosaurus in the earlier scene. Can you imagine Rod Sterling returning to present times to watch Avatar? Lol. Actually, I just came up with a good idea for movie script.

Most likable episode

after going through the jurassic period, 1939 would have been "close enough"

I will see gone with the wind in theater personally 1939

My favorite episode!

@phillipngo2133

3 жыл бұрын

Ross Wood to be honest, I kind of like episode of the twilight zone involving planes and stuff like this one and and the nightmare at 20,000 feet

@mrnobody2018

3 жыл бұрын

I want to see violence or death or trauma inflicted on likable characters without anything happening on screen

@mrnobody2018

3 жыл бұрын

I like the episode instead of To serve man

@mrnobody2018

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody must believe Bob Wilson about what he says on the side of the wing especially when there's evidence that the wing was damaged

I wonder if they got any points for going back 150 million years ago to the late Jurassic Period to see a brachiosaurus. Wow! Then again I think most points are based on distance not time. The World's Fair? Jurassic Park is a hard act to follow. Anyway, they got to their destination early!

Can you imagine the effect gif they did land in 1939? All sorts of technology available to the US (and Britain) pre-Pearl Harbor???

Just awesome

I would do anything right now from where I am to go back to February 1992.

Global Flight 33? Is your flight engineer Fred Purcell? Yes, that's correct. Dad, it's Johnny. I don't know where you've been for the past 20 years but please come home. Johnny?? Twenty years? We overshot. We want to refuel and try to get back to the correct year. And the first thing I'm going to do is tell you that I'm very proud of how you grew up.

Exactly the way Captain Sully would have handled the situation.

Some times when I get on a plane I would wonder if that will ever happen I will freak the heck out

And, here, I live close to Seatsc. There's flight patterns above me at all times

Rod Serling was a genius…too bad he was a chain smoker…

THIS IS SCARY AND COULD REALLY HAPPEN PEOPLE. YOU JUST NEVER KNOW. STRANGE TIMES WE NOW LIVE IN

@Scripturegirl.

6 жыл бұрын

Well more than a year ago, a plane literally went missing, off the radars.

@ranibabe2383

4 жыл бұрын

It can't happen. You would affect the past. The past already happened

2023 I am still wondering if they are going home soon.

The captain had to report to The CAA, The Canadian Automobile Association.

I Listen to this Episode (Radio Version) EVERYTIME I take a Flight

What a classic

@mrnobody2018

3 жыл бұрын

Best fear

@mrnobody2018

3 жыл бұрын

I don't watch the number 1 episode's

@giraffesareselfish9563

Жыл бұрын

@mr nobody #1 episodes?

Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but the end of the episode was the only time the captain was perfectly honest with the passengers about their situation. When the people in power withheld their knowledge and true motives from the people they were meant to serve, they ended up putting everybody in a worse situation. Maybe now that they're being upfront, they'll finally be allowed to return to their home time period. Or maybe there was no lesson to this episode and was just a really good story. Regardless, I loved it!

@giraffesareselfish9563

Жыл бұрын

I never really took it that they were keeping information from the passengers, the crew really didn't know what to report because they didn't really know what was going on up until towards the end of the episode.

@mgmboy3778

Жыл бұрын

narrator, confirms that they didn't make it just got listen carefully the conversation he says the end

@dinohall2595

Жыл бұрын

@@mgmboy3778 I always interpreted that narration as happening roughly in real time, when the crew were about to attempt to go back. That would make it more of an advisory than a prediction.

Rod Serling knew history, tales, philosophies, science, and had a great imagination; he could've been another great occult magician of the world like Aleister Crowley, perhaps even BETTER!

sheer genius

Wow? That's the shortest storyline , that I ever came upon .

It's full of rubbish statements but somehow it holds you into the story and is one of the top twenty episode episodes.

In all honesty, if they were running low on fuel and had undershot their flight by 22 years, I would've counted my blessings and made an emergency landing in 1939, paradoxes be damned. If I was flying that plane I would've rather dealt with that than the plane running out of fuel and crashing who knows where or when.

They're probably gonna be stranded forever

@illmatic1026

Жыл бұрын

Because they dead.😌

Idlewild Airport is now JFK in NYC.

The original “Manifest”....

This episode came out only a few years before the 1964 worlds fair in New York.

@Scripturegirl.

9 жыл бұрын

What DA heck is DA world's fair.?.

@MCO18

9 жыл бұрын

Also before Idlewild was renamed JFK.

I didn't know that engines could sound "searching", "lost" or "desperate".

@KyleHerrera106

2 жыл бұрын

if it keeps going back and forth over your head it is searching, if it is searching it is either lost, desperate or both.

Low on fuel.. and gonna do the trip again. Captain will crash before he gets back.

Pilot gives off USAF vibes. To his right is maybe Navy and the guy standing up has to be Army. 🙃

Absolutely not! After coming forward in time by ~150 million years, I'd call 1939 "close enough" and land the plane. He said he's low on fuel, doesn't understand what happened, admitted he has no idea what he's doing, no idea where/when he's going. Just land. Considering what happens later that year, it would be nice to have that airliner to reverse engineer.

In prewar 1939 what a tech advantage they could’ve given the future allies w those jet engines alone - but they must’ve ended up landing in Germany instead. Rats! I love the earlier suggestion of a sequel w them landing in 2018 unaged - seeing smartphones, laptops, GPS, - and... their own grandchildren older than them! What a trip.