Episode #34, segment 2 - Voices in the Earth
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Episode #34, segment 2 - Voices in the Earth
BoG Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:49 pm
#34b: VOICES IN THE EARTH (episode #10 of 2nd season)
written by Alan Brennert
Directed by Curtis Harrington
This takes place in the far future - a thousand years from now - and involves a small survey team arriving at a dead planet, the name of which is barely known. The elder scientist (Martin Balsam) of the group does know the name - Earth; he and the others are the descendants of the Earthlings who despoiled Earth but had the technology to leave it (it's mentioned how the ozone layer was destroyed by chemicals). This is meant to be a last survey, after which mining ships will arrive to strip the planet of whatever it has left. The old scientist encounters ghostly entities, some kind of last vestiges of the human life that used to be there. No one in his team believes him; the female commander, who also used to be his student (Jenny Agutter, looking quite different from her role in The Last Defender of Camelot), thinks he's losing it.
written by Alan Brennert
Directed by Curtis Harrington This takes place in the far future - a thousand years from now - and involves a small survey team arriving at a dead planet, the name of which is barely known. The elder scientist (Martin Balsam) of the group does know the name - Earth; he and the others are the descendants of the Earthlings who despoiled Earth but had the technology to leave it (it's mentioned how the ozone layer was destroyed by chemicals). This is meant to be a last survey, after which mining ships will arrive to strip the planet of whatever it has left. The old scientist encounters ghostly entities, some kind of last vestiges of the human life that used to be there. No one in his team believes him; the female commander, who also used to be his student (Jenny Agutter, looking quite different from her role in The Last Defender of Camelot), thinks he's losing it.