There's some good suspense in this lead-off entry for the second season. Where the heck has the crew of King-9 gone. Cummings, the pilot, wakes up belly-down in the sand next to a crashed B-29. He's alive, but pretty groggy. However, where's the rest of his crew. He stumbles around the rotting hulk and shouts out names, but the only response is a deadening silence. Then too, what are those strange things flying overhead?
Naturally, the producers of a series try to hook viewers into another season with a better-than-average lead episode. Here they took something of a chance, because Cummings has to carry the plot with superior acting-- being a lone survivor in the middle of the desert. At the time, however, Cummings was not considered anything more than a light comedian, slightly on the inane side. Still and all, he comes through here well enough. Also, if memory serves, remains of a downed WWII bomber were discovered in North Africa in the spring of 1959. So the episode may well have been inspired by fact.
Frankly, the twist seems a little too facile for my liking. Nonetheless, the show remains a well-produced half-hour of suspense and a worthy entry into a new season.