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"**And When the Sky Was Opened**"
"And When the Sky Was Opened"
The Twilight Zone episode
	Sue Randall and Jim Hutton
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 11
Directed by	Douglas Heyes
Teleplay by	Rod Serling
Based on	"Disappearing Act"; by Richard Matheson
Featured music	Leonard Rosenman
Cinematography by	George T. Clemens
Production code	173-3611
Original air date	December 11, 1959
Guest appearances
	Rod Taylor as Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes; Charles Aidman as Colonel Ed Harrington; Jim Hutton as Major William Gart; Maxine Cooper as Amy; Sue Randall as Nurse; Paul Bryar as Bartender; Joe Bassett as Medical officer; Gloria Pall as Girl in bar; Elizabeth Fielding as Blond Nurse;
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"And When the Sky Was Opened" is the eleventh episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on December 11, 1959.^[1] It is an adaptation of the 1953 Richard Matheson short story "Disappearing Act."^[2]

Opening narration

Her name: X-20. Her type: an experimental interceptor. Recent history: a crash landing in the Mojave Desert after a thirty-one hour flight nine hundred miles into space. Incidental data: the ship, with the men who flew her, disappeared from the radar screen for twenty-four hours.

The narration continues after Forbes' introduction.

But the shrouds that cover mysteries are not always made out of a tarpaulin, as this man will soon find out on the other side of a hospital door.

Plot

USAF Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes arrives at a military hospital to visit his friend and co-pilot Major William Gart. The two had recently piloted an experimental spaceplane, the X-20. During their voyage the craft disappeared from radar screens for a full day before reappearing and crash landing in the desert, leaving Gart with a broken leg. Forbes is agitated and asks Gart if he remembers how many people were on the mission. Gart confirms that only he and Forbes piloted the plane, but Forbes insists that a third man – Colonel Ed Harrington, his best friend for 15 years – accompanied them.

In a flashback, Harrington and Forbes are discharged from the hospital after passing their physical exams and visit a bar downtown. While there, Harrington is suddenly overcome by a feeling that he no longer "belongs" in the world. Disturbed, he phones his parents, who tell him they have no son named Ed and believe the person calling them is a prankster. Harrington then mysteriously vanishes from the phone booth and no one but Forbes remembers his existence. Increasingly desperate, Forbes fruitlessly searches for any trace of his friend.

Back in the present, Forbes finishes recounting the story to Gart and is dismayed by his friend's claim that he doesn't know anyone named Harrington. Forbes then glances at a mirror and discovers he casts no reflection, causing him to flee the room in terror. Gart tries to hobble after him only to find that Forbes has disappeared. Calling the duty nurse to ask if she saw where Forbes went, Gart is stunned by the nurse's claim that nobody named Forbes has been in the building and that Gart was the only man who was in the hospital room. Horrified, Gart also disappears.

An officer enters the building and asks the duty nurse if there are any unused rooms available to accommodate new patients. The nurse takes him to the now completely empty room which hosted the three astronauts, telling him that it has been unoccupied. The hangar which previously housed the X-20 is then shown, with the sheet that covered the craft lying on the ground. There is no trace of the plane, as if it and its crew never existed.

Closing narration

Once upon a time, there was a man named Harrington, a man named Forbes, a man named Gart. They used to exist, but don't any longer. Someone – or something – took them somewhere. At least they are no longer a part of the memory of man. And as to the X-20 supposed to be housed here in this hangar, this, too, does not exist. And if any of you have any questions concerning an aircraft and three men who flew her, speak softly of them – and only in – The Twilight Zone.

Episode notes

This episode is loosely based on the short story "Disappearing Act" by Richard Matheson.^[2] The story was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (March 1953).^[3]

Rod Taylor and director Douglas Heyes later worked together on the TV series Bearcats!^[4]

Toward the end of the episode, Rod Taylor's character, Clegg Forbes, panics when he appears to cast no reflection when looking into a mirror whilst in the hospital room. However, due to what is clearly a production error in crafting this illusion, Taylor's right elbow is, in fact, visible in the mirror throughout the duration of the shot. There's also three fingers of Taylor's right hand appearing in the mirror when he raises his hands in horror.

References

^ "Watch The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 11: And When the Sky Was Opened - Full show on CBS All Access". CBS. Archived from the original on 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
^ ^a ^b Zicree, Marc Scott (1982). The Twilight Zone Companion (second ed.). Hollywood: Sillman-James Press. p. 61.
^ "Contents". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
^ Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, Bear Manor Media, 2010 p69

Bibliography

DeVoe, Bill (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-136-0.
Grams, Martin (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9703310-9-0.

External links

[1] "Watch The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 11: And When the Sky Was Opened - Full show on CBS All Access". CBS. Archived from the original on 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2016-12-01.

[auto-2] Zicree, Marc Scott (1982). The Twilight Zone Companion (second ed.). Hollywood: Sillman-James Press. p. 61.

[3] "Contents". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2017.

[4] Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, Bear Manor Media, 2010 p69

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-* [[Maxine Cooper]]
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+* [[Paul Bryar]] as Bartender
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+"'''And When the Sky Was Opened'''" is the eleventh episode of the American television [[anthology series]] ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''. It originally aired on December 11, 1959.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_twilight_zone/video/4bTuEguACuKEAXZOXmrruLg6mKNhvXpn/the-twilight-zone-and-when-the-sky-was-opened/|title=Watch The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 11: And When the Sky Was Opened - Full show on CBS All Access|website=CBS|access-date=2016-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201143828/http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_twilight_zone/video/4bTuEguACuKEAXZOXmrruLg6mKNhvXpn/the-twilight-zone-and-when-the-sky-was-opened/|archive-date=2016-12-01|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is an adaptation of the 1953  [[Richard Matheson]] short story "Disappearing Act."<ref name="auto">{{cite book|title=The Twilight Zone Companion|last=Zicree|first=Marc Scott|publisher=Sillman-James Press|year=1982|edition=second|location=Hollywood|page=61}}</ref>
-"'''And When the Sky Was Opened'''" is episode eleven of the American television [[anthology series]] ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''. It originally aired on December 11, 1959.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_twilight_zone/video/4bTuEguACuKEAXZOXmrruLg6mKNhvXpn/the-twilight-zone-and-when-the-sky-was-opened/|title=Watch The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 11: And When the Sky Was Opened - Full show on CBS All Access|website=CBS|access-date=2016-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201143828/http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_twilight_zone/video/4bTuEguACuKEAXZOXmrruLg6mKNhvXpn/the-twilight-zone-and-when-the-sky-was-opened/|archive-date=2016-12-01|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is an adaptation of the 1953  [[Richard Matheson]] short story "Disappearing Act".<ref name="auto">{{cite book|title=The Twilight Zone Companion|last=Zicree|first=Marc Scott|publisher=Sillman-James Press|year=1982|edition=second|location=Hollywood|page=61}}</ref>
 ==Opening narration==
-{{cquote|Her name: X-20. Her type: an experimental interceptor. Recent history: a crash landing in the Mojave Desert after a thirty-one hour flight nine hundred miles into space. Incidental data: the ship, with the men who flew her, disappeared from the radar screen for twenty-four hours...But the shrouds that cover mysteries are not always made out of a tarpaulin, as this man will soon find out on the other side of a hospital door.}}
+{{cquote|Her name: X-20. Her type: an experimental [[interceptor aircraft|interceptor]]. Recent history: a [[emergency landing|crash landing]] in the [[Mojave Desert]] after a thirty-one hour flight nine hundred miles into space. Incidental data: the ship, with the men who flew her, disappeared from the [[radar]] screen for twenty-four hours.}}
+The narration continues after Forbes' introduction.
+{{cquote|But the shrouds that cover mysteries are not always made out of a [[tarpaulin]], as this man will soon find out on the other side of a hospital door.}}
 ==Plot==
-[[United States Air Force]] [[Colonel]] Clegg Forbes arrives at a military hospital to visit his friend and co-pilot [[Major]] William Gart.  The two had recently piloted an experimental [[spaceplane]], the [[X-20 DynaSoar]], on a mission that took them 900 miles beyond the confines of the Earth's atmosphere, the first time man had been that far out in space. During their voyage the men blacked out for four hours and the craft itself disappeared from radar screens for a full day before reappearing and crash landing in the desert, leaving Gart with a broken leg.  Gart inquires as to the status of the plane, but Forbes is clearly agitated and asks Gart if he remembers how many people were on the mission, producing a newspaper with a front page showing the likenesses of the two men and a headline stating that two astronauts were rescued from the desert crash.  Gart confirms that only he and Forbes piloted the plane, but Forbes insists that a third man – Colonel Ed Harrington, his best friend for 15 years – accompanied them.
+[[United States Air Force|USAF]] [[Lieutenant Colonel (United States)|Lieutenant Colonel]] Clegg Forbes arrives at a military hospital to visit his friend and co-pilot [[Major (United States)|Major]] William Gart. The two had recently piloted an experimental [[spaceplane]], the [[Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar|X-20]]. During their voyage the craft disappeared from radar screens for a full day before reappearing and crash landing in the desert, leaving Gart with a broken leg. Forbes is agitated and asks Gart if he remembers how many people were on the mission. Gart confirms that only he and Forbes piloted the plane, but Forbes insists that a third man – [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] Ed Harrington, his best friend for 15 years – accompanied them.
-In a flashback, on the previous morning, Harrington and Forbes are shown joking with Gart as they are discharged from the hospital after passing their physical exams, leaving the Major to recuperate alone.  The same newspaper that Forbes would later show Gart is present but, accompanied by a photo depicting a crew of three, the headline instead asserts three astronauts were recovered from the crash of the X-20.
+In a flashback, Harrington and Forbes are discharged from the hospital after passing their physical exams and visit a bar downtown. While there, Harrington is suddenly overcome by a feeling that he no longer "belongs" in the world.  Disturbed, he phones his parents, who tell him they have no son named Ed and believe the person calling them is a prankster. Harrington then mysteriously vanishes from the [[phone booth]] and no one but Forbes remembers his existence.  Increasingly desperate, Forbes fruitlessly searches for any trace of his friend.
+Back in the present, Forbes finishes recounting the story to Gart and is dismayed by his friend's claim that he doesn't know anyone named Harrington. Forbes then glances at a mirror and discovers he casts no reflection, causing him to flee the room in terror. Gart tries to hobble after him only to find that Forbes has disappeared. Calling the duty nurse to ask if she saw where Forbes went, Gart is stunned by the nurse's claim that nobody named Forbes has been in the building and that Gart was the only man who was in the hospital room. Horrified, Gart also disappears.
-Harrington and Forbes visit a bar downtown.  While there, Harrington is suddenly overcome by a feeling that he no longer "belongs" in the world.  Disturbed, he phones his parents who tell him they have no son named Ed Harrington and believe the person calling them to be a prankster.  Harrington then mysteriously vanishes from the phone booth and no one in the bar but Forbes remembers his existence.  Increasingly desperate, Forbes searches for any trace of his friend but can find nothing in the bar.  His girlfriend, Amy, does not remember Harrington, and neither does his [[commanding officer]].  Returning to the closed bar, he breaks in by smashing through the glass door looking for Harrington, calling his name repeatedly.  He then breaks down in the phone booth where his friend vanished.
+An officer enters the building and asks the duty nurse if there are any unused rooms available to accommodate new patients. The nurse takes him to the now completely empty room which hosted the three astronauts, telling him that it has been unoccupied. The hangar which previously housed the X-20 is then shown, with the sheet that covered the craft lying on the ground. There is no trace of the plane, as if it and its crew never existed.
-Back in the hospital in the present, Forbes finishes recounting the story to Gart and is dismayed by his friend's claim that he doesn't know anyone named Harrington.  Forbes then glances at a mirror and discovers he casts no reflection, causing him to flee the room in terror. Gart tries to hobble after him only to find that Forbes has disappeared.  Calling the duty nurse to ask if she saw where Forbes went, Gart is stunned by the nurse's claim that nobody named Forbes has been in the building and that Gart was the only man who was in the hospital room.  After getting back into bed, he notices the newspaper headline has changed.  It now says that Gart was the sole pilot of the X-20 – all mention of Forbes, including his photo, is gone.  Horrified, Gart also disappears.
-An officer enters the building and asks the duty nurse if there are any unused rooms available to accommodate new patients.  The nurse takes him to the now completely empty room which hosted the three astronauts, telling him that it has been unoccupied. The officer affirms that it will be appropriate for [[malaria]] patients and orders that new beds be installed. The hangar which previously housed the X-20 is then shown, with the sheet that covered the craft lying on the ground.  There is no trace of the plane.
 ==Closing narration==
 {{cquote|Once upon a time, there was a man named Harrington, a man named Forbes, a man named Gart. They used to exist, but don't any longer. Someone – or something – took them somewhere. At least they are no longer a part of the memory of man. And as to the X-20 supposed to be housed here in this hangar, this, too, does not exist. And if any of you have any questions concerning an aircraft and three men who flew her, speak softly of them – and only in – The Twilight Zone.}}
-==Cast==
-*[[Rod Taylor]] as Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes
-*[[Charles Aidman]] as Colonel Ed Harrington
-*[[Jim Hutton]] as Major William Gart
-*[[Maxine Cooper]] as Amy
-*[[Sue Randall]] as Nurse
-*[[Paul Bryar]] as Bartender
-*[[Joe Bassett]] as Medical officer
-*[[Gloria Pall]] as Girl in bar
-*[[Elizabeth Fielding]] as Blond Nurse
 ==Episode notes==
-This episode is loosely based on the short story "Disappearing Act" by [[Richard Matheson]].<ref name="auto"/> The story was first published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' (March 1953).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61245 | title=Contents|work=[[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]]|date=11 January 2017|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref> Which itself is a rewrite of the (arguably scarier) short story "Private-Keep Out!" by Philip Macdonald (1949). First published in
+This episode is loosely based on the short story "Disappearing Act" by [[Richard Matheson]].<ref name="auto"/> The story was first published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' (March 1953).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61245 | title=Contents|work=[[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]]|date=11 January 2017|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref>
 [[Rod Taylor]] and director [[Douglas Heyes]] later worked together on the TV series ''[[Bearcats!]]''<ref>Stephen Vagg, ''Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood'', Bear Manor Media, 2010 p69</ref>
-Toward the end of the episode, Rod Taylor's character, Clegg Forbes, panics when he appears to cast no reflection when looking at a mirror in the hospital room. Due to a production error in crafting this illusion, Taylor's right elbow is, in fact, visible in the mirror throughout the duration of this shot, with three fingers of Taylor's right hand appearing in the mirror as well when Taylor raises his hands in horror.
+Toward the end of the episode, Rod Taylor's character, Clegg Forbes, panics when he appears to cast no reflection when looking into a mirror whilst in the hospital room. However, due to what is clearly a production error in crafting this illusion, Taylor's right elbow is, in fact, visible in the mirror throughout the duration of the shot. There's also three fingers of Taylor's right hand appearing in the mirror when he raises his hands in horror.
-==See also==
-* "[[Remember Me (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Remember Me]]", an episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', in which ship's doctor [[Beverly Crusher]] undergoes a comparable experience.
-* "[[Stargate SG-1 (season 7)#Episodes|Revisions]]", a ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode with a similar plot.
-* "[[List of Eureka episodes#Episodes|Games People Play]]", a ''[[Eureka (U.S. TV series)|Eureka]]'' episode with a similar plot.
 ==References==
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+* {{IMDb episode}}
-* {{TV.com episode|12595}}
 * [http://tzone.the-croc.com/tzeplist/sky.html And When The Sky Was Opened | John's Twilight Zone Page]
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-[[Category:Television episodes about multiple time paths]]
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+[[Category:Films directed by Douglas Heyes]]
+[[Category:Television episodes written by Rod Serling]]

v t e The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes
Season 1	"Where Is Everybody?" "One for the Angels" "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" "Walking Distance" "Escape Clause" "The Lonely" "Time Enough at Last" "Perchance to Dream" "Judgment Night" "And When the Sky Was Opened" "What You Need" "The Four of Us Are Dying" "Third from the Sun" "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" "The Hitch-Hiker" "The Fever" "The Last Flight" "The Purple Testament" "Elegy" "Mirror Image" "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" "A World of Difference" "Long Live Walter Jameson" "People Are Alike All Over" "Execution" "The Big Tall Wish" "A Nice Place to Visit" "Nightmare as a Child" "A Stop at Willoughby" "The Chaser" "A Passage for Trumpet" "Mr. Bevis" "The After Hours" "The Mighty Casey" "A World of His Own"
Season 2	"King Nine Will Not Return" "The Man in the Bottle" "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" "A Thing About Machines" "The Howling Man" "Eye of the Beholder" "Nick of Time" "The Lateness of the Hour" "The Trouble with Templeton" "A Most Unusual Camera" "The Night of the Meek" "Dust" "Back There" "The Whole Truth" "The Invaders" "A Penny for Your Thoughts" "Twenty Two" "The Odyssey of Flight 33" "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" "Static" "The Prime Mover" "Long Distance Call" "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" "The Silence" "Shadow Play" "The Mind and the Matter" "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" "The Obsolete Man"
Season 3	"Two" "The Arrival" "The Shelter" "The Passersby" "A Game of Pool" "The Mirror" "The Grave" "It's a Good Life" "Deaths-Head Revisited" "The Midnight Sun" "Still Valley" "The Jungle" "Once Upon a Time" "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" "A Quality of Mercy" "Nothing in the Dark" "One More Pallbearer" "Dead Man's Shoes" "The Hunt" "Showdown with Rance McGrew" "Kick the Can" "A Piano in the House" "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" "To Serve Man" "The Fugitive" "Little Girl Lost" "Person or Persons Unknown" "The Little People" "Four O'Clock" "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" "The Trade-Ins" "The Gift" "The Dummy" "Young Man's Fancy" "I Sing the Body Electric" "Cavender Is Coming" "The Changing of the Guard"
Season 4	"In His Image" "The Thirty-Fathom Grave" "Valley of the Shadow" "He's Alive" "Mute" "Death Ship" "Jess-Belle" "Miniature" "Printer's Devil" "No Time Like the Past" "The Parallel" "I Dream of Genie" "The New Exhibit" "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" "On Thursday We Leave for Home" "Passage on the Lady Anne" "The Bard"
Season 5	"In Praise of Pip" "Steel" "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" "A Kind of a Stopwatch" "The Last Night of a Jockey" "Living Doll" "The Old Man in the Cave" "Uncle Simon" "Probe 7, Over and Out" "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain" "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" "Ring-a-Ding Girl" "You Drive" "The Long Morrow" "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" "Black Leather Jackets" "Night Call" "From Agnes—With Love" "Spur of the Moment" "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" "Queen of the Nile" "What's in the Box" "The Masks" "I Am the Night—Color Me Black" "Sounds and Silences" "Caesar and Me" "The Jeopardy Room" "Stopover in a Quiet Town" "The Encounter" "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" "The Brain Center at Whipple's" "Come Wander with Me" "The Fear" "The Bewitchin' Pool"

v t e Richard Matheson
Novels	I Am Legend (1954) The Shrinking Man (1956) A Stir of Echoes (1958) The Beardless Warriors (1960) Hell House (1971) Bid Time Return (1975) What Dreams May Come (1978) Earthbound (1982)
Short stories	"Born of Man and Woman" (1950) "Button, Button" (1970)
Screenplays	The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) House of Usher (1960) "The Last Flight" (1960) "Nick of Time" (1960) "A World of Difference" (1960) "A World of His Own" (1960) Master of the World (1961) The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) "The Invaders" (1961) "Once Upon a Time" (1961) Night of the Eagle (1962) Tales of Terror (1962) "Little Girl Lost" (1962) "Young Man's Fancy" (1962) The Raven (1963) "Death Ship" (1963) "Mute" (1963) "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963) "Steel" (1963) The Comedy of Terrors (1964) The Last Man on Earth (1964) "Night Call" (1964) "Spur of the Moment" (1964) Fanatic (1965) The Young Warriors (1966) "The Enemy Within" (1966) The Devil Rides Out (1968) De Sade (1969) Duel (1971) The Night Stalker (1972) The Night Strangler (1973) The Legend of Hell House (1973) Dying Room Only (1973) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974) The Morning After (1974) Scream of the Wolf (1974) Trilogy of Terror (1975) Dead of Night (1977) The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver (1977) The Martian Chronicles (1980) Somewhere in Time (1980) Jaws 3-D (1983) Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) "Button, Button" (1986) Loose Cannons (1990) The Dreamer of Oz (1990) Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994) Trilogy of Terror II (1996)
Adaptations by others	"And When the Sky Was Opened" (1959) "Third from the Sun" (1960) Cold Sweat (1970) The Omega Man (1971) The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) What Dreams May Come (1998) Stir of Echoes (1999) "Dance of the Dead" (2005) "My Ambition" (2006) I Am Legend (2007) I Am Omega (2007) The Box (2009) "The Splendid Source" (2010) Real Steel (2011)
Related	Richard Christian Matheson (son) Chris Matheson (son)