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Similar to Twilight Zone episode


From DVDTalk.com:

"The episode is called "The Parallel" and was written by Rod Serling for the show's fourth season, the one with hour-long episodes. Steve Forrest stars as Major Robert Gaines. During a flight, his space capsule disappears off radar screens. Gaines wakes up in a hospital and learns his capsule was recovered, undamaged, close to his launch site. After he is released, Gaines starts to notice subtle differences: his house suddenly has a picket fence; everyone calls him Colonel rather than Major; no one has ever heard of President Kennedy; etc. He becomes convinced he's on a parallel world. Most people don't believe his fantastic story, but then scientists notice his capsule is NOT the one they sent up; there are noticeable differences. Gaines starts toward the capsule -- and suddenly finds himself in orbit, about to splash down. No one believes his story -- but then comes a report that an unidentified spacecraft appeared on radar for 90 seconds, accompanied by a radio transmission from a Colonel Gaines."

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Old post, but yes, I also thought of "The Parallel" while watching this. Anyone familiar with "The Twilight Zone" would be reminded of it. The TZ story may also be a little more plausible than this movie, because in it, the other Earth existed in an alternate universe, not literally in the same solar system.

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Well, that's just what I was thinking... But you got there a couple of years ago.

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It looks like there's plagiarism upon plagiarism with this movie.

The Parallel was apparently a steal from a story called Carbon Copy by Steve Masino and while I'm not sure if it's the same story, some comment out there says The Parallel was a rip off of a 1950 short story.

If anyone can find a link to the story Carbon Copy, please post it - I'd love to read it.

https://www.stevemasino.com/bio

https://twilightzonevortex.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-parallel.html

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