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| Mike Ferris | |
| Continuity: | Twilight Zone |
| Type: | Astronaut |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Status: | Alive |
| First: | TZ: Where Is Everybody? |
| Actor: | Earl Holliman |
Mike Ferris is a fictional astronaut featured in the original 1959-1964 science fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone. He was played by actor Earl Holliman and appeared in the series' pilot episode, "Where Is Everybody?".
Biography[]
Mike Ferris was a member of the United States Air Force and had been selected to partake in a special mission to journey as an astronaut to Earth's moon. The Air Force commanders placed Mike into a sensory deprivation tank in order to train his body for the phsyical hurdles that he would have to endure for his journey through space. Mike began to hallucinate and imagined himself thrust into an environment where he was seemingly the last man on Earth. After being confined to an isolation room located within an aircraft hangar for 484 hours and 36 minutes, USAF personnel released him and he was taken away on a stretcher. Mike was heard maniacally intoning, "Hey! Don't go away up there! Next time, it won't be just a dream or a nightmare. Next time, it'll be for real. So don't go away. We'll be up there in a little while..."