The Twilight Zone: Season 1 Episode 15 I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
Three survivors of a spaceship that crash lands in a desert struggle to survive.
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The Arrow One launches from Earth, but as a half hour passes, it disappears from Space Control's radar. Brandt tells Langford that Arrow One is completely gone. Langford asks if a change of course would cause the spaceship to lose contact, but Brandt insists Colonel Donlin wouldn't change course. Langford recites the Longfellow poem, The Arrow and the Song, and wishes the crew luck.
Donlin writes the situation down in his log book that the Arrow One appears to have crash landed on an uncharted asteroid. He continues that the crash was caused by an explosion. He lists the survivors of the crash as Corey, Pearson, the severely injured Hudack and himself. He writes that the radio is gone and the bulk of supplies have been destroyed in the crash. Corey walks over and angrily grabs the log book and Donlin tells him that they are still a crew and there will continue to be discipline and protocol. He takes back the log book and Corey tells him to expend the energy figuring out a way for them to save themselves. Pearson yells at Corey and Donlin walks over and asks Pearson what happened to Corey to cause his behavior. As Donlin is giving water to Hudack, Corey accuses him of wasting water. He argues that Hudack is going to die, but Donlin refuses speed along his death. Donlin then tells Pearson to start digging the graves for the others. Pearson notices that the Sun is similar in location to where it is on Earth and thinks the asteroid they are on is in the same orbit as Earth.