And When the Sky Was Opened story
Three astronauts return from the desert where their spacecraft crashed, but cannot remember what happened during their flight. Directed by: Douglas Heyes. Story by: Richard Matheson, Rod Serling.
7 total · 3 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. inexplicable adversity | major | Three astronauts returned from a space mission only to find reality was gradually correcting itself by disappearing them. They vanished from existence one by one. |
| what if I told the truth and nobody would believe me | major | Everyone thought Forbes was nuts when he told them about his missing friend Ed. |
| what if people around me started disappearing one by one | major | The three astronauts vanished from existence one by one. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | minor | Forbes and Amy. |
| friendship | minor | The three astronauts fraternized as good friends do. |
| space travel | minor | The story followed three astronauts mistakenly returned to Earth. |
| speculative spaceship | minor | Three astronauts piloted an experimental spaceplane 900 miles beyond the confines of the Earth's atmosphere. |