The Long Morrow
Before leaving on a decades-long solo mission into deep space, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets attractive Space Agency employee Sandra Horn, and they both fall deeply in love. But what kind of a future can there be for them?
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"Slender entry with a poignantly ironic ending that I didn't expect. Seems Commander Stansfield is a pioneering astronaut in the 1980's. In a state of suspended animation, he's being sent to a distant planet that will take 40-years to arrive and return. So, by the time he returns, he'll be the same age, but everybody else will be 40-years older. Okay he accepts the sacrifice. But on his last day he meets adorable technician Sandra Horn. Both being single, they fall hard for one another. So what will he do now that his heart-throb will remain on earth no matter what he does. ..."
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Actress Mariette Hartley was a teenager when she first met Serling. "I was head of the drama club at Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut," recalled Hartley. "Around the mid-1950s, I saw the 'Playhouse 90' episode 'Requiem for a Heavyweight,' written by a man called Rod Serling. I was very courageous and gutsy in those days and called him to see if he would speak to our class. He actually answered the phone and said, 'I'd be delighted.' I can still see him sitting in the teacher's desk, with his pipe, at the front of the classroom talking to us. He was so handsome I thought my heart would jump out of my skin! We asked questions and I remember his charm and capacity to include all of us in the discussion." Years later, after she began working in Hollywood, Hartley met Serling again. "His limousine pulled up as I was walking out the studio," she said. "He remembered coming to my class. I told him I was looking for work and within a couple of months he gave me the wonderful gift of working in 'The Long Morrow' episode.'
📖 Synopsis
Before leaving on a decades-long solo mission into deep space, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets attractive Space Agency employee Sandra Horn, and they both fall deeply in love. But what kind of a future can there be for them?