You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind,

a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

Your next stop, the Twilight's on.

It doesn't seem to be that long ago since we talked about the unique mystique of the aviation mystery that Rod Sailing so expertly combined with the Twilight Zone in the Odyssey of Flight 33.

It was actually 13 Twilight Zone episodes ago, so is it too soon to go back to that particular

well? Later on I'll read you a review of this episode that thinks it is.

But 55 years later with the benefit of being able to watch the Twilight Zone whenever and in whatever order we want to, do we think so.

Well let's find out when we look at tonight's episode, The Arrival.

This object, should any of you have lived underground for the better parts of your lives and never had occasion to look toward the sky, is an airplane.

Its official designation of DC3,

we offer this rather obvious comment

because this particular airplane, the one you're looking at,

is a freak.

Now, most airplanes take off and land as per schedule.

On rare occasions, they crash.

But all airplanes can be counted on doing one or the other.

Now yesterday morning this particular airplane ceased to be just a commercial carrier.

As of its arrival, it became an enigma.

A seven-toned puzzle made out of aluminum steel wire and a few thousand other component parts,

none of which add up to the right thing.

In just a moment, we're going to show you the tail end of its history.

We're going to give you 90% of the jigsaw pieces, and you and Mr. Sheckley here of the Federal Aviation Agency will assume the problem of putting them together, along with finding the missing pieces.

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