The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 11 - And When the Sky Was Opened

The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode (156 in the original series) is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to serious science fiction and abstract ideas through television and also through a wide variety of Twilight Zone literature. The program followed in the tradition of earlier radio programs such as The Weird Circle and X Minus One and the radio work of Serling's hero, dramatist Norman Corwin.

Synopsis: Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling…

Season 1 Episode 11
Written by Rod Serling
Based on a short story by Richard Matheson
Directed by Douglas Heyes
Featured music Leonard Rosenman
Production no. 173-3611
Original airdate December 11, 1959

Guest stars
Rod Taylor: Col. Clegg Forbes
Charles Aidman: Col. Ed Harrington
Jim Hutton: Major William Gart
Maxine Cooper: Amy
Sue Randall: Nurse
Paul Bryar: Bartender
Joe Bassett: Medical officer
Gloria Pall: Girl in bar
Elizabeth Fielding: Blonde nurse