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Flight 107 arrives just as it should, but when it does, no one is there. No pilots, no crew, no passengers, no luggage, nothing. While investigating the flight, they can’t find anything about it, until slowly things start to disappear, until finally one of the investigators bursts in on the others and it’s years later. It turns out that this is the only flight that he’s been unable to solve in all his years on the job. It just went missing one day and he’s been unable to come to terms with it.

This is one of the stranger episodes in the series, as it doesn’t have much dialogue. It’s also interesting because one of the other episodes that shares that aspect is The Invaders, from Season 2, and that stars Agnes Moorehead, who was also in Bewitched with Elizabeth Montgomery, who starred in Two. Whew. That’s a mouthful.

In any case, she and another well-known actor, Charles Bronson are veterans of a war, and they also appear to be the only survivors of the war, at least in this particular city, which makes things difficult because they are on different sides, and they don’t seem to speak the same language. So they follow each other around warily and forge an uneasy truce while they keep an eye on one another. All-in-all, pretty uneventful and rather boring.

Burgess Meredith stars in another episode (he was also in Time Enough at Last from Season 1 and Mister Dingle, the Strong, from Season 2 and Printer’s Devil from Season 4).

As with Time Enough at Last, he’s dealing with books here, as he’s a librarian, deemed “obsolete” by the state, and in his hearing, he has been sentenced to liquidation. Only in this future, he is given the option of determining how he would like to be liquidated. So he decides that he’d like to tell only his assassin, and he’d like to go in his room. So he does, and he invites the chancellor (Fritz Weaver, also in Third from the Sun from Season 1) over for a final word.

He doesn’t tell the chancellor that he wants to go by way of bomb, and that he’s locked the door. Not until he’s inside the room, that is, and the camera comes on. It’s only a minute or so before the bomb goes off, and the chancellor has buckled under the pressure and invokved the name of God (another no-no) when our little librarian lets him out. But by then the damage is done and the chancellor has become obsolete himself. Classic.

A pair of policemen witness something crash through the trees and into the lake, but they don’t know what it was. All they can find is a set of footprints headed off through the woods, headed to the diner. In the diner, a bus has stopped, and everything there seems to be okay, until they count heads and realize there is an extra person. But no one seems to know who the extra person is – is it the crazy old man, the businessman bound for Boston or even the bus driver himself?

In the end, no one can tell, so everyone gets back on the bus, and the bridge promptly collapses into the river as it has been weakened by the ice. Or so says the businessman as he re-enters the diner. The counter man wonders why the businessman isn’t even wet, and as the businessman shows a third arm, we begin to see who the alien might be in this case – until the counter man removes his hat and tells us he’s from Venus, and the Martian’s colonizing buddies have been intercepted, and the Venusians are coming instead. Nice.

Archibald Beechcroft has had just about enough of everyone, so when his co-worker Henry offers him a book on using the power of concentration to make things go your way, he’s only to anxious to try it out. First he makes the landlady disappear, then he makes everyone else go away. But then he rapidly gets bored, so he brings them back – but figures the world would be better if everyone is like him. Only that isn’t so good either, so he just puts it back the way it was.

A group of criminals steal a million dollars in gold, and then they proceed to put themselves to sleep in glass coffins for 100 years, by when they figure they heat will be off, and they can freely spend their ill-gotten gains. The only problem is that they are in the middle of the desert, and they didn’t bring along enough water – nor did they count on the factor of one’s greed, and his ability to extract gold from the others in exchange for his water.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, it turns out that after 100 years, gold is no longer as rare as it once was. Someone figured out how to make gold, meaning it wasn’t worth anything. So the bungling burglars killed one another off for no reason whatsoever, leaving a pile of gold alongside an old, abandoned highway in the desert.