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Título V.O.: "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"
Guión: Rod Serling
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Fecha de emisión en USA: May. 26, 1961
Guest Starring: John Hoyt (Ross), Jack Elam (Avery), Barney Phillips (Haley), Bill Kendis (Olmstead), Jean Willes (Ethel McConnell), John Archer (Agente Bill Padgett), Morgan Jones (Agente Dan Perry)
Sinopsis: Durante una tormenta de nieve, un objeto no identificado cae en un paraje desolado. Dos guardabosques van a ver qué ha ocurrido, y encuentran unas pisadas que conducen desde el objeto hasta un bar de carretera cercano. En él, un autobús se ha detenido por culpa del mal estado del puente cercano. El conductor afirma que llevaba 6 pasajeros. Sin embargo, hay 7 personas más en el café... ¿Quién de ellos es un impostor?
Frases destacadas:
Opening Narration: Wintry February night, the present. Order of events: a phone call from a frightened woman notating the arrival of an unidentified flying object, and the check-out you've just witnessed with two state troopers verifying the event, but with nothing more enlightening to add beyond evidence of some tracks leading across the highway to a diner. You've heard of trying to find a needle in a haystack? Well, stay with us now and you'll be a part of an investigating team whose mission is not to find that proverbial needle, no, their task is even harder. They've got to find a Martian in a diner, and in just a moment you'll search with them, because you've just landed in the Twilight Zone.
Closing Narration: Incident on a small island, to be believed or disbelieved. However, if a sour-faced dandy named Ross or a big, good-natured counterman who handles a spatula as if he'd been born with one in his mouth, if either of these two entities walks onto your premises, you'd better hold their hands - all three of them - or check the color of their eyes - all three of them. The gentleman in question might try to pull you into... the Twilight Zone.
Curiosidades:
- El título hace referencia a un famoso concurso televisivo de los 50, "To Tell the Truth", que consistía en averiguar entre tres personas quién era el verdadero personaje que debía de buscarse, mediante todo tipo de preguntas. Al final, el presentador decía "Will the real ____ please stand up?" para que el verdadero personaje se levantase entre los impostores.
