La Gente Pequeña
Título V.O.: The Little People
Guión: Rod Serling
Director: William F. Claxton
Fecha de emisión en USA: 30/03/1962
Guest Starring: Joe Maross (Peter Craig), Claude Akins (William Fletcher), Michael Ford (Spaceman #1), Robert Eaton (Spaceman #2)
Sinopsis: Dos astronautas quedan varados en un planeta extraño tras una avería en su cohete. Mientras uno de ellos intenta repararlo, el otro descubre una raza alienígena del tamaño de hormigas.
Frases destacadas:
Opening Narration: The time is the space age, the place is a barren landscape of a rock-walled canyon that lies millions of miles from the planet Earth. The cast of characters? You've met them: William Fletcher, commander of the spaceship; his copilot, Peter Craig. The other characters who inhabit this place you may never see, but they're here, as these two gentlemen will soon find out. Because they're about to partake in a little exploration into that gray, shaded area in space and time that's known as the Twilight Zone.
Closing Narration: The case of navigator Peter Craig, a victim of a delusion. In this case, the dream dies a little harder than the man. A small exercise in space psychology that you can try on for size--in the Twilight Zone.
Curiosidades:
- Este episodio fue la inspiración de uno de los segmentos del episodio de Halloween de la 8ª temporada de Los Simpson, en el que Lisa crea una civilización de seres diminutos que la toman por su Dios. A su vez, ambos episodios están inspirados por el relato corto de Theodore Sturgeon "Dios Microscópico".