Colonel Cook has been set adrift in an ocean of space in a metal lifeboat that has been scorched and destroyed and will never fly again.
It's a small planet set deep in space, but for Colonel Cook, it's the Twilight Zone.Astronaut Colonel Adam Cook crash lands on a strange planet 4.3 light years away from home, with gravity and atmospheric conditions similar to those of his home world.
Most of his equipment is destroyed in the crash and cannot be repaired due to a lack of resources and his having broken his arm.
In a subsequent communication, Larrabee reports that the enemy attacked and "our entire seacoast went" in 12 minutes after which there was retaliation "with alacrity and great effectiveness."
While looking for the source, he is hit by a rock from an unseen source, and knocked unconscious, causing him to not hear Larrabee's last transmission that radiation from the attacks will kill any remaining survivors and ends with the words, "Whoever you meet there, however you meet them, I hope it can come without fear.
Upon regaining consciousness, Cook returns to his ship and is startled by a noise coming from a closet.
Adam learns that the alien, whose name is Norda, is also stranded; her planet left its orbit and she is its sole survivor.
At this point she offers him a "seppla" (an anagram of the word "apples", which are artistically depicted as the biblical forbidden fruit).
Hours before "Night Call" was to air though, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
In the early 2000s, Twilight Zone historian Marc Scott Zicree recorded a commentary track with director Ted Post discussing this episode.