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The Twilight Zone Podcast

On Thursday We Leave For Home

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary






Join Tom Elliot on a journey to the world of tomorrow! When we visit the far future of 2021 – Pack your bags, because On Thursday We Leave For Home. 



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0:00.0

You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

0:10.0

Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind.

0:18.0

You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the twilight zone. The twilight zone. and the Tonight we find ourselves on the planet V9 Gamma in the far future of 2021.

0:55.0

Our friends here arrived in 1991 on the ship, Pilgrim One, hoping to leave behind the war-torn planet

1:05.0

heirs for a life of peace, a new beginning. But as we stand here in the heat of its two sons, watching its

1:13.6

residence queue up for their daily ration of water, we can see that this wasn't a new beginning

1:21.6

at all, and in fact, for many of the settlers here, it was their end.

1:28.8

Thankfully, the people in this extraordinary situation have an extraordinary man as their leader.

1:38.3

How's water, George?

1:40.5

Hot, flat and unforgettable, but wet.

1:44.4

Well, bear with it, folks, bear with it.

1:46.6

Six months' time we'll all be drinking chocolate ice cream soda.

1:51.3

Now that's Captain William Bentine, a man who raises spirits,

1:55.8

but isn't afraid to raise his voice just a little,

1:59.2

to dish out some discipline if someone isn't playing

2:02.4

fair. The settlers here spend their days hoping for rescue to take them back to earth.

2:10.5

But as our distinguished host is about to tell us, soon their prayers will be answered by a ship. But in the original script, Rod Serling's opening narration was a little different and a little longer.

2:26.3

And it went, this is a village without a name, on a planet that needs no name.

2:32.3

50 years earlier, at the end of the 20th century, a spaceship called the Pioneer 1, landed

2:40.0

a hundred people on its barren, lonely landscape.

2:44.0

They had only one mission that was to survive.

2:48.0

And this they did.

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