The time is the space age, the place is a barren landscape of a rock-walled canyon that lies millions of miles from the planet Earth.
Because they're about to partake in a little exploration into that gray, shaded area in space and time that's known as the Twilight Zone.Astronauts William Fletcher, the can-do captain, and Peter Craig, the malcontent co-pilot, set down in a canyon on an alien planet to repair their ship.
A small exercise in space psychology that you can try on for size - in the Twilight Zone.In an interview with Twilight Zone historian Marc Zicree, series producer Buck Houghton discussed the final scene in which the giant astronauts appear and stand towering behind the mountains in the foreground.
He explained that this was an optically composited matte shot which combined new footage of the two actors playing the "giants" with stock location footage of the real mountains around Death Valley, which had originally been filmed two years earlier for the Season 1 episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air".
In this case, the sidearms worn by the two Earth astronauts are two of the Forbidden Planet "blaster pistols", and the two "giants" who appear in the final scene are wearing C-57D crew tunics (with different belts).
One particularly unusual item is seen during Act I, when Claude Akins' character is shown working on a device he evidently has taken out of the rocket for repair.
The design, level of detail and standard of workmanship is highly suggestive of classic-era MGM props department manufacture, and it does bear some resemblance to other items originally crafted for Forbidden Planet.
The hyperbolic plexiglass cover Akins removes at the beginning of the scene is very similar in shape to the conical dome on the head of Robby the Robot although it is considerably smaller.