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Need help finding a mysterious lost episode...
Theres an episode I remember watching but can't find in the list of episodes I've scoured on Wikipedia, etc.
In the episode, people are waiting within an area enclosed by a gate. A man enters and is told the people are waiting to either be taken to heaven or in a UFO, etc. He waits for awhile but decides to leave because he doubts the value in waiting for an event that he believes may never happen. The moment he leaves, there is a bright flash of light and when he turns to go back to the gated area all the people have vanished.
Please help if you can. This one's proving tough to find.
Thanks!
Shimin
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Apr 12, 2008 1:19 PM
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Hey!
Here it is: (The guy's an Old man.)
On Thursday We Leave For Home (vhs/ntsc)
first aired: 5/2/63
"This is William Benteen, who officiates on a disintegrating outpost in space. The people are a remnant society who left the Earth looking for a Millennium, a place without war, without jeopardy, without fear - and what they found was a lonely, barren place whose only industry was survival. And this is what they've done for three decades: survive; until the memory of the Earth they came from has become an indistinct and shadowed recollection of another time and another place. One month ago a signal from Earth announced that a ship would be coming to pick them up and take them home. In just a moment we'll hear more of that ship, more of that home, and what it takes out of mind and body to reach it. This is the Twilight Zone."
Benteen has kept the colony alive with tales of the greatness of Earth. When the rescue ship comes, he realizes his power over everyone is going to be gone when they leave the planet. He tells them Earth is really hell, an awful place, and that they'll die if they go there. No one believes him, and he says he's staying. As the spaceship is preparing to leave, he returns to the caves and pretends everyone is still there. While talking about Earth, he suddenly remembers what he has been saying for so long. He runs out but the ship is gone. He is left there all alone.
"William Benteen, who had prerogatives: he could lead, he could direct, dictate, judge, legislate. It became a habit, then a pattern and finally a necessity. William Benteen, once a god - now a population of one."
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Sep 4, 2008 2:40 PM
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That was real fast!Thank you. Great to have people who know so much about this show here on this board.
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Sep 4, 2008 3:13 PM
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Cool!
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Sep 4, 2008 4:20 PM
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