The Odyssey of Flight 33 story
A strange increase in speed causes a jet airliner to travel back in time. Directed by: Jus Addiss. Story by: Rod Serling.
6 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| time travel | choice | A mysterious atmospheric phenomena sent a passenger plane back in time first to the age of the dinosaurs, and then to New York City in the year 1939. |
| human vs. inexplicable adversity | major | Things were inexplicably going awry on the flight, and nobody had a clue why. |
| what it is like on a passenger flight | major | The story is set aboard a passenger flight en route from London to New York. |
| coping with an obnoxious chatterbox | minor | We saw the military attaché to the British embassy in Washington endure an older lady ramble on about her deceased aunt. |
| to tell the truth vs. to offer a comforting lie | minor | The captain deliberated over how much of what was going on he should tell the passengers. At first he reassured them all is well, but later he came clean. |
| what if I found myself in the past | minor | A whole flight of crew and passengers suddenly found themselves in the time of the dinosaurs, from whence they rapidly made their escape. |