***SPOILERS*** It's when US Astronaut Capt.Joseph Reardon, Karl Held, went thought this space time convulsion that he traveled through time and landed on earth in 2148, not 1963 the time he was sent off into outer space, a good 185 years into the future. It's on what looks like a lifeless earth that Reardon meets one of the planets last survivors Andro, Martin Landau, who's face looks like an overused and well broken-in catcher mitt! Andro who despite his overly rotten tomato like looks has a perfect set of teeth that he seems to brush at least, in order to keep them white and shiny, twice a day!
Andro tells Reardon this story about this mad scientist who wanted to make a name for himself back in the late 20th Century who ended up destroying almost the entire human race. The guy Prof. Berton Cabot Jr created this microbe that when it escaped from his laboratory caused the human population to both mutate and die over the next 150 years leaving him as one of its few survivor. Andro seeing his chance to save the earth's population comes up with the bright idea to got back into space with the rocket-ship that Reardon piloted and re-enter that mysterious black hole that would bring him back to 1963. That plan works to refection with only one slight drawback: Reardon didn't make it but Andro did!
disguising himself as a 20th Century human being Andro tracks down Prof. Cabot Jr's future parents Let. Bertram Cabot Sr, John Considine, and his soon to be wife Noelle, Shirley Knight, and tries to keep them from both marrying and conceiving their fist child Berton Jr in preventing him from growing up and destroying the human race and the world as we know it!
***SPOILERS*** interesting final with Andro convincing Noelle to take off with him on the late Capt. Reardon's space ship in order to keep her from having Berton Cabot, the First, first child Berton Jr. During all this Noelle fell in love with Andro the "tall dark and handsome" stranger from the future despite seeing him as he really was when he dropped his guard, and disguise, as he tried and succeeded to interrupt Noelle's marriage ceremony by trying to unsuccessfully assassinate the groom Let. Cabot Sr.
Now in the darkness of outer space Andro like Capt. Reardon disappears out of existence in that traveling back and forth in time made him a non entity and thus prevented him from being born in the first place! As for Noelle she did reach her destination, which was edited out of the episode because of time restraints, the year 2148 and began a whole new life in a world that her son Berton Cabot Jr would have destroyed if she ended up giving birth to him!
Andro tells Reardon this story about this mad scientist who wanted to make a name for himself back in the late 20th Century who ended up destroying almost the entire human race. The guy Prof. Berton Cabot Jr created this microbe that when it escaped from his laboratory caused the human population to both mutate and die over the next 150 years leaving him as one of its few survivor. Andro seeing his chance to save the earth's population comes up with the bright idea to got back into space with the rocket-ship that Reardon piloted and re-enter that mysterious black hole that would bring him back to 1963. That plan works to refection with only one slight drawback: Reardon didn't make it but Andro did!
disguising himself as a 20th Century human being Andro tracks down Prof. Cabot Jr's future parents Let. Bertram Cabot Sr, John Considine, and his soon to be wife Noelle, Shirley Knight, and tries to keep them from both marrying and conceiving their fist child Berton Jr in preventing him from growing up and destroying the human race and the world as we know it!
***SPOILERS*** interesting final with Andro convincing Noelle to take off with him on the late Capt. Reardon's space ship in order to keep her from having Berton Cabot, the First, first child Berton Jr. During all this Noelle fell in love with Andro the "tall dark and handsome" stranger from the future despite seeing him as he really was when he dropped his guard, and disguise, as he tried and succeeded to interrupt Noelle's marriage ceremony by trying to unsuccessfully assassinate the groom Let. Cabot Sr.
Now in the darkness of outer space Andro like Capt. Reardon disappears out of existence in that traveling back and forth in time made him a non entity and thus prevented him from being born in the first place! As for Noelle she did reach her destination, which was edited out of the episode because of time restraints, the year 2148 and began a whole new life in a world that her son Berton Cabot Jr would have destroyed if she ended up giving birth to him!