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->'''/Rod Serling''': Major Robert Gaines, a latter-day voyager just returned from an adventure. Submitted to you without any recommendations as to belief or disbelief. You can accept or reject; you pay your money and you take your choice. But credulous or incredulous, don't bother to ask anyone for proof that it could happen. The obligation is a reverse challenge: prove that it couldn't. This happens to be the Twilight Zone.
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->'''Creator/RodSerling''': In the vernacular of space, this is T minus one hour. Sixty minutes before a human being named Major Robert Gaines is lifted off from the Mother Earth and rocketed into the sky, farther and longer than any man ahead of him. Call this one of the first faltering steps of man to sever the umbilical cord of gravity and stretch out a fingertip toward an unknown. Shortly, we'll join this astronaut named Gaines and embark on an adventure, because the environs overhead - the stars, the sky, the infinite space - are all part of a vast question mark known as the Twilight Zone.
Major Robert Gaines, orbiting Earth in his space capsule, suddenly experiences a communications malfunction and passes out. He wakes up on Earth, with no memories of returning to the planet's surface. Though he is released into the custody of his family, Robert soon notices various differences throughout history as he remembers it and as everyone else does. These differences range from minor, such as a fence his house never had before, to major, such as John F. Kennedy not being President of the United States. Even facts about his personal life have changed, as he is puportedly a Colonel instead of a Major. Robert comes to discover that for reasons unknown, he has been transported to a parallel universe, and becomes desperate to return to his world.
Major Robert Gaines, orbiting Earth in his space capsule, suddenly experiences a communications malfunction and passes out. He wakes up on Earth, with no memories of returning to the planet's surface. Though he is released into the custody of his family, Robert soon notices various differences throughout history as he remembers it and as everyone else does. These differences range from minor, such as a fence his house never had before, to major, such as John F. Kennedy not being President of the United States. Even facts about his personal life have changed, as he is puportedly a Colonel instead of a Major. Robert comes to discover that for reasons unknown, he has been transported to a parallel universe, and becomes desperate to return to his world.
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->'''Creator/RodSerling''': In the vernacular of space, this is T minus one hour. Sixty minutes before a human being named Major Robert Gaines is lifted off from the Mother Earth and rocketed into the sky, farther and longer than any man ahead of him. Call this one of the first faltering steps of man to sever the umbilical cord of gravity and stretch out a fingertip toward an unknown. Shortly, we'll join this astronaut named Gaines and embark on an adventure, because the environs overhead- – the stars, the sky, the infinite space - – are all part of a vast question mark known as the Twilight Zone.
Major Robert Gaines, Air date: March 14, 1963
While orbiting Earth in his space capsule, Major Robert Gaines (Creator/SteveForrest) suddenly experiences a communications malfunction and passes out. He wakes up on Earth, with no memories of returning to the planet's surface.Though After he is released into the custody of his family, Robert soon notices various begins to observe a number of differences throughout history as between the world he is now living in and the one he remembers it and as everyone else does. from before. These differences range from minor, such as including a fence his house never had before, to major, such as John F. Kennedy UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy not being President of the United States. Even facts details about his personal life have changed, as he is puportedly a Colonel instead of a Major. Robert comes to discover that for reasons unknown, he has been transported to a parallel universe, and becomes desperate to return to his own world.
->'''Creator/RodSerling''': In the vernacular of space, this is T minus one hour. Sixty minutes before a human being named Major Robert Gaines is lifted off from the Mother Earth and rocketed into the sky, farther and longer than any man ahead of him. Call this one of the first faltering steps of man to sever the umbilical cord of gravity and stretch out a fingertip toward an unknown. Shortly, we'll join this astronaut named Gaines and embark on an adventure, because the environs overhead
While orbiting Earth in his space capsule, Major Robert Gaines (Creator/SteveForrest) suddenly experiences a communications malfunction and passes out. He wakes up on Earth, with no memories of returning to the planet's surface.
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->'''Creator/RodSerling''': Major Robert Gaines, a latter-day voyager just returned from an adventure. Submitted to you without any recommendations as to belief or disbelief. You can accept or reject; you pay your money and you take your choice. But credulous or incredulous, don't bother to ask anyone for proof that it could happen. The obligation is a reverse challenge: prove that it couldn't. This happens to be the Twilight Zone.
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* AlternateUniverse: While orbiting Earth in his space capsule ''Phoebus 10'', Gaines is sent to a parallel universe which is highly similar to his own but with some important differences, both major and minor. In terms of his personal life, he is a full colonel as opposed to a major, his house has a white picket fence which was never there before and he takes sugar in his coffee. In terms of wider history, UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is not the U.S. President in 1963 and no one has even heard of him, a man named Anderson supervised the construction of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} Panama Canal]] rather than George Washington Goethals and the UsefulNotes/WorldWarI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker was never found after his B-17 disappeared in October 1942. Gaines also mentions that he has determined from looking at the encyclopedia that there are numerous other differences between the two universes but he does not elaborate.
* DutchAngle: Several are used to represent Gaines' disorientiation upon hearing radio signals immediately before he is sent back to his own universe.
* EquivalentExchange: Major Robert Gaines loses contact with Earth and is accidentally transported to a parallel universe in which he is a colonel. At the end of the episode, shortly after he returns home, the space program receives a transmission from Colonel Robert Gaines.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: This episode was inspired by John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit Earth aboard the ''Friendship 7'' on February 20, 1962.
* StockFootage: Footage of a space capsule being launched is used to represent Gaines departing aboard the ''Phoebus 10''.
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* DutchAngle: Several are used to represent Gaines' disorientiation upon hearing radio signals immediately before he is sent back to his own universe.
* EquivalentExchange: Major Robert Gaines loses contact with Earth and is accidentally transported to a parallel universe in which he is a colonel. At the end of the episode, shortly after he returns home, the space program receives a transmission from Colonel Robert Gaines.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: This episode was inspired by John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit Earth aboard the ''Friendship 7'' on February 20, 1962.
* StockFootage: Footage of a space capsule being launched is used to represent Gaines departing aboard the ''Phoebus 10''.
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* AlternateUniverse: While orbiting Earth in his space capsule ''Phoebus 10'', Gaines Robert is sent to a parallel universe which is highly similar to his own own, but with some important differences, both major and minor. minor in nautre. In terms of his personal life, he is a full colonel Colonel as opposed to a major, Major, his house has a white picket fence which he says was never there before before, and he takes sugar in his coffee. In terms of wider history, UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is not the U.S. isn't President in 1963 and no one has even heard of him, a man named Anderson supervised the construction of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} Panama Canal]] rather than George Washington Goethals Goethals, and the UsefulNotes/WorldWarI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker was never found after when his B-17 disappeared in October 1942. Gaines Robert also mentions that he has determined from looking at reading the encyclopedia that there are numerous other differences between the two universes universes, but he does not doesn't elaborate.
* DutchAngle: Several are used to representGaines' Robert's disorientiation upon hearing a cacophany of radio signals signals, immediately before he is sent back to his own universe.
* EquivalentExchange:Major Robert Gaines loses contact with Earth and is accidentally transported to a parallel universe in which he is where he's a colonel. full on Colonel. At the end of the episode, shortly after he returns home, the space program receives controllers receive a transmission from Colonel ''Colonel'' Robert Gaines.
* TheMultiverse: Robert discovers that parallel universes exist, as he is accidentally transported to one that has a similar timeline to his own.
* RiddleForTheAges: The exact mechanism as to how Robert is taken to and from the parallel universe is left unexplained.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines:This The episode was inspired by John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit Earth aboard the ''Friendship 7'' on February 20, 1962.
* StockFootage: Footage of a space capsule being launched is used to representGaines Robert departing aboard the ''Phoebus 10''.
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* TheMultiverse: Robert discovers that parallel universes exist, as he is accidentally transported to one that has a similar timeline to his own.
* RiddleForTheAges: The exact mechanism as to how Robert is taken to and from the parallel universe is left unexplained.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines:
* StockFootage: Footage of a space capsule being launched is used to represent
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->'''Creator/RodSerling''': In the vernacular of space, this is T minus one hour. Sixty minutes before a human being named Major Robert Gaines is lifted off from the Mother Earth and rocketed into the sky, farther and longer than any man ahead of him. Call this one of the first faltering steps of man to sever the umbilical cord of gravity and stretch out a fingertip toward an unknown. Shortly, we'll join this astronaut named Gaines and embark on an adventure, because the environs overhead - the stars, the sky, the infinite space - are all part of a vast question mark known as the Twilight Zone.
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!!This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
* AlternateUniverse: While orbiting Earth in his space capsule ''Phoebus 10'', Gaines is sent to a parallel universe which is highly similar to his own but with some important differences, both major and minor. In terms of his personal life, he is a full colonel as opposed to a major, his house has a white picket fence which was never there before and he takes sugar in his coffee. In terms of wider history, UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is not the U.S. President in 1963 and no one has even heard of him, a man named Anderson supervised the construction of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} Panama Canal]] rather than George Washington Goethals and the UsefulNotes/WorldWarI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker was never found after his B-17 disappeared in October 1942. Gaines also mentions that he has determined from looking at the encyclopedia that there are numerous other differences between the two universes but he does not elaborate.
* DutchAngle: Several are used to represent Gaines' disorientiation upon hearing radio signals immediately before he is sent back to his own universe.
* EquivalentExchange: Major Robert Gaines loses contact with Earth and is accidentally transported to a parallel universe in which he is a colonel. At the end of the episode, shortly after he returns home, the space program receives a transmission from Colonel Robert Gaines.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: This episode was inspired by John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit Earth aboard the ''Friendship 7'' on February 20, 1962.
* StockFootage: Footage of a space capsule being launched is used to represent Gaines departing aboard the ''Phoebus 10''.
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->'''Creator/RodSerling''': Major Robert Gaines, a latter-day voyager just returned from an adventure. Submitted to you without any recommendations as to belief or disbelief. You can accept or reject; you pay your money and you take your choice. But credulous or incredulous, don't bother to ask anyone for proof that it could happen. The obligation is a reverse challenge: prove that it couldn't. This happens to be the Twilight Zone.
An astronaut pieces together clues that he has landed in a parallel
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!!This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
* AlternateUniverse: While orbiting Earth in his space capsule ''Phoebus 10'', Gaines is sent to a parallel universe which is highly similar to his own but with some important differences, both major and minor. In terms of his personal life, he is a full colonel as opposed to a major, his house has a white picket fence which was never there before and he takes sugar in his coffee. In terms of wider history, UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is not the U.S. President in 1963 and no one has even heard of him, a man named Anderson supervised the construction of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} Panama Canal]] rather than George Washington Goethals and the UsefulNotes/WorldWarI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker was never found after his B-17 disappeared in October 1942. Gaines also mentions that he has determined from looking at the encyclopedia that there are numerous other differences between the two universes but he does not elaborate.
* DutchAngle: Several are used to represent Gaines' disorientiation upon hearing radio signals immediately before he is sent back to his own universe.
* EquivalentExchange: Major Robert Gaines loses contact with Earth and is accidentally transported to a parallel universe in which he is a colonel. At the end of the episode, shortly after he returns home, the space program receives a transmission from Colonel Robert Gaines.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: This episode was inspired by John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit Earth aboard the ''Friendship 7'' on February 20, 1962.
* StockFootage: Footage of a space capsule being launched is used to represent Gaines departing aboard the ''Phoebus 10''.
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->'''Creator/RodSerling''': Major Robert Gaines, a latter-day voyager just returned from an adventure. Submitted to you without any recommendations as to belief or disbelief. You can accept or reject; you pay your money and you take your choice. But credulous or incredulous, don't bother to ask anyone for proof that it could happen. The obligation is a reverse challenge: prove that it couldn't. This happens to be the Twilight Zone.
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