I Shot an Arrow into the Air

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"I Shot an Arrow into the Air" is a 1960 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone that follows stranded astronauts whose desperate struggle for survival leads to a dark twist about their true location.

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instanceOf The Twilight Zone episode
television episode
basedOn story by Madelyn Champion and Dalton Trumbo
blackAndWhite true
castMember Dewey Martin
Edward Binns
Harry Bartell
Les Tremayne
Ted Otis
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Stuart Rosenberg
episodeNumberInSeason 15
followedBy The Hitch-Hiker
genre anthology television
science fiction television
hasClosingMonologueBy Rod Serling
hasMoral Human greed and fear can be more dangerous than the environment itself.
hasOpeningMonologueBy Rod Serling
hasSetting desert
isPartOf The Twilight Zone (TV series episodes)
surface form: The Twilight Zone (season 1)
leadActor Dewey Martin
mainCharacter Colonel Donlin
Corey
medium television
narrator Rod Serling
originalAirDate 1960-01-15
originalLanguage English
originallyBroadcastIn black-and-white television
originalNetwork CBS
partOfSeries The Twilight Zone (TV series)
surface form: The Twilight Zone
plotSummary After a rocket crash, surviving astronauts believe they are stranded on an unknown asteroid and turn on each other while searching for water.
plotTwist The astronauts are actually in a desert on Earth, near civilization.
precededBy Third from the Sun
productionCompany CBS
surface form: CBS Television

Cayuga Productions
runtimeMinutes 25
seasonNumber 1
seriesNumber 1
setIn United States desert
storyBy Dalton Trumbo
Madelyn Champion
theme deception of appearances
isolation
moral choice
survival
titleOrigin line from the poem The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
writer Rod Serling

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The Twilight Zone (TV series episodes) hasNotableEpisode I Shot an Arrow into the Air