The Twilight Zone
Given that Rod Serling wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes and its iconic twist ending, it’s not surprising he used a very similar premise for one of his episodes of The Twilight Zone, titled “I Shot an Arrow Into the Air.” Three astronauts crash-land on a desert planet, where they begin in-fighting over their limited water, and two of the astronauts die in the chaos. The twist? The sole survivor eventually discovers they landed in modern-day Nevada, not far from Reno, and killed his crewmates for nothing.
