# How did props from "Forbidden Planet" end up on Twilight Zone episodes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 1, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-props-from-forbidden-planet-end-up-on-twilight-zone-episodes/1033496 "2026-10-01T02:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-props-from-forbidden-planet-end-up-on-twilight-zone-episodes/1033496/32 "2026-10-02T18:36:38Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > I could have sworn that one of the space pods from _2001: A Space Odyssey_ (well, there probably only was one, really), also appeared in a late 1940s film, this time as a gunnery turret on a large bomber […] I’ve never been able to confirm this, though, or identify the movie. You started a [prior thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-prop-appearing-in-films-decades-apart-an-american-romance-and-2001/624437) (which appeared linked below for me in the “Related” section) about a prop from the 1944 film _An American Romance_ possibly being re-used 24 years later as the EVA pod in _2001_. Here’s the turret from the very end of _An American Romance_: [![](https://i.ibb.co/TXY0g0w/Turret.png) ](https://i.ibb.co/TXY0g0w/Turret.png) Here’s the EVA pod from _2001_: [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJweV0m9zRaafLX0SxZbTBqYo7wnuhAmhUv2DZg_4W3ynZR11f9aGahh4&s=10) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJweV0m9zRaafLX0SxZbTBqYo7wnuhAmhUv2DZg_4W3ynZR11f9aGahh4&s=10) They’re both pods with a circular window and two horizontal things on the front (folded on the EVA), but other than that pretty different. Plus, according to the [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Romance) on the film, the turret wasn’t a prop–_An American Romance_ ends with footage from of an actual B-17 airplane being assembled. You can see the turret in the end assembly line scene [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPW1L9jUGSw) (starting at 2:30). That being said, it’s possible Kubrick or production designer Harry Lange were thinking of a ball turret when creating the EVA pod, or maybe they just arrived at a similar design organically. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-props-from-forbidden-planet-end-up-on-twilight-zone-episodes/1033496)._