Twighlight Zone Coincidence or not?

Sometimes you can watch a movie or episode from a program and it will stick in your mind.  It stays there hidden away but remembered.  Not forgotten like other passively viewed material.  Somehow it has had an impact.  This for me is true of an episode I once saw of the Twilight Zone.  A fantastic series of science fantasy weird stuff, I think made in the 60s or perhaps earlier, but great viewing.   Funny thing is although I enjoyed watching the TZ there was only every one episode I could remember.  About a man on a planet who was given a robot to keep him company.  The robot was a woman.  A real woman acting the part not some make believe set of metal cans stuck together.  The man got to love his robot woman and then one day a spaceship landed and said he could go back home.  He wanted to take his robot but they said it wasn't possible, maybe because of the extra weight.  He refused to  go back and they in turn broke or killed the robot woman.  The program ended.  But it had somehow left it's mark on my mind.  The episode was old and in black and white.  Of all the episodes I saw this one I remembered.  Amazing.

By some very odd and mysterious chance, I then happen to come across an episode of TZ.  Coincidence or not?  It was the same one I had seen years before, the one which left an imprint on my psyche.  From nowhere it had come, it's called The Lonely.  I did think the one of the original actors was Spencer Tracy but I was wrong.   It was Jack Warden, who had led an interesting life before he went into acting.  Nightclub bouncer, was active during the second world war and broke his leg in a parachute jump and decided to become an actor.  He was a juror No 7 in 12 Angry men as well.  The robot was played by a British actress called Jean Marsh.  I found this a little odd as the series was made in America, she would of been in the US at the time.  Quite a feat for a young woman to travel there and pursue her career.  Jean Marsh subsequently made her name in a British TV series called Upstairs Downstairs (Rose Buck).  She was even married for a while to Joh Pertwee 1955-1960 which probably related to the fact she had also done a few episodes of Doctor Who and has continued her acting career since.

The Twilight Zone was a great TV series.  Each episode lasting about half an hour and having some thought provoking moral question.  The weird and wonderful mixed with the foibles of human nature.  So I couldn't help wonder whether this coincidence was along the same lines.  A clash of random possibilities all coming together to make a reality in a time and place which meant something.  Something to me.  In a world of statistical improbabilities there is certainty an improbably event can and will happen on occasion.  Well I'm glad it was watching TZ and not being hit by a meteorite.  Worse still would of be something unfortunate while at sea.  It begs the question of whether someone can actually be unlucky.  Especially when being unlucky is a statistical probability.  Because some unlucky events events are highly stacked in happening.  For example losing a bet on a horse race, not winning the national lottery, becoming a famous film star and having tea with Jean Marsh.  In which case, crossing fingers, not walking under ladders or having a lucky rabbits foot are all pretty much irrelevant.  If something will happen it either will or it will not and it will depend on the odds, but once in a while the odds aren't as unlikely as you'd think.