Description: Season 5, Episode 10
Air Date: December 6, 1963
Plot Summary: Soldiers on an exorcise believe they are interacting with ghosts from a past battle.
Review: This isn't necessarily a bad episode per se, but it doesn't do anything to differentiate itself from similar, past episodes. At first the episode establishes the Battle of Little Bighorn as if it's about to occur, but then we realize it is the present day (or 1964 in the story line). Apparently the US military is doing some kind of exorcise in the region, and the three main characters are a part of a tank crew. They believe they are seeing and hearing various aspects of the battle and want to investigate further. Their commanding officer thinks they're crazy or drunk and reprimands them. Later, when they finally come face to face with the battle itself, the three men are killed in the fight; they didn't bring the tank to the battle in case you're wondering how the hell they could possibly lose. When their commanding officer and a few MPs go to find them, they realize that their names are coincidentally on a nearby memorial. And that's all there really is to it.
I'm assuming that the scope of the story was intended to be much grander which leads to the final experience being so bland. Instead of showing the main characters ever interact with the various Native American tribes battling the 7th Calvary, it is merely implied to be off screen. Likewise, whenever they do show something, the scale is incredibly limited. I don't blame TZ for this as they were obviously dealing with a limited budget as always--I'm simply pointing out why the episode appears shallow or missing something.
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