Twilight Zone: “The Long Morrow” [Season 5, Episode 14] / Z-View

Twilight Zone: “The Long Morrow[Season 5, Episode 15]
Original Air Date: January 10, 1964

Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Robert Lansing, Mariette Hartley and Edward Binns.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

An astronaut [Lansing] chosen for a mission to deep space because he had no family falls in love with a woman shortly before leaving on his 40 year mission into space.  Since he will be in suspended animation, he will not have aged when he returns but everyone else (including his lover) will be 40 years older.

This episode could have been written by O. Henry.

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