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In article <uu5l7q$4i18$1@dont-email.me>, arthur@alum.calberkeley.org wrote:
> On 3/28/2024 2:50 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

>> The Twilight Zone S5E07 'The Old Man in the Cave' - DVR
>> An old man in a cave offers guidance to survivors of a nuclear-war 
>> apocalypes, but their orderly world is shattered by the arrival of four 
>> soldiers.  (Comcast)
>
>This is an hour long episode?  This episode doesn't require more than 15 
>minutes!

No, it was a thirty-minute ep.

>> The Twilight Zone S5E09 'Probe 7, Over & Out' - DVR
>> An astronaut (Richard Basehart) learns was has killed his people.  
>> (Comcast)
>> Colonel Adam Cook, stranded on a distant planet with no hope for rescue, 
>> meets a woman who is the sole survivor from another planet.  (IMDb)
>> 
>
>I keep thinking Elizabeth Montgomery was in this one, but I know she was 
>in the other last two people on the planet episode.

I believe the title was "Two".

>> The Twilight Zone S5E10 'The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms' - DVR
>> Modern National Guardsmen maneuvering at Little Big Horn find ominous 
>> signs of an impending Indian attack.  (Comcast)
>> On June 25, 1964, three Army National Guard soldiers on maneuvers near 
>> the Little Big Horn battle site find themselves unwittingly involved in 
>> Custer's Last Stand.  (IMDb)
>
>I don't remember this one.  But sounds like they used this as a template 
>when they did the Alamo episode of "Amazing Stories."

It's a trope, really.

It was also full of plotholes.

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Let's go Brandon!