Probe 7, Over and Out

Plot

Astronaut Adam Cook (Richard Basehart) crash lands on a strange planet with gravity and atmospheric conditions similar to those of his home world. Most of his equipment is destroyed in the crash and cannot be repaired due to a broken arm and lack of resources. He manages to contact his home base, but they have little encouragement for him; there is no replacement spacecraft to rescue him, and his home planet may soon be at war.

In his last transmission, Cook's superior back home, General Larrabee (Harold Gould), tells him that there may be no survivors when the war is over, so he can expect no rescue, hoping for Cook that his new world is more peaceful.

Cook readies himself to make a home on his new world when he discovers another inhabitant, a human-like female (Antoinette Bower). They cannot understand each other but communicate through sketches drawn in the sand and by pantomime. He learns that she is also stranded; her planet had left its orbit and she is its sole survivor. As they learn to communicate, he learns that her name is Eve Norda.

Together Cook and Norda search for a more fertile area, which Cook describes as looking like a "garden." He fully introduces himself as "Adam Cook" and Norda gives her full name as "Norda Eve." Adam and Eve begin a new life on this planet she calls "Earth." At this point she even offers him a "seppla" ("seppla" is an anagram of "apples," which is artistically depicted as the biblical forbidden fruit). As they venture further, Rod Serling narrates that even he presumes that the place they are heading to is Eden.