this television movie be aptly title and two doctor drs jones and enari play by robert culp and eli wallach be send to an isolated arctic research lab because dr vogel hadn not have contact with the base research station in five day due to snowstorm . but before they lose all radio transmission to dr vogel and radio contact between the base and dr vogel grow increasingly sporadic and irrational and the doctor ranting about conversation with napoleon and alexander the great have become a great concern naturally . the tower mountain research station where vogel be station have be conduct high altitude experiment on monkey and chimp furthermore fear their four year worth of research have be waste and two doctor choose for their experience in research in stress situation for space program be send to relieve dr vogel . what they find be the research station in shamble and the monkey nearly dead from exposure and and dr vogel sit prone frozen to death in the electronics room with the window wide open and 300 foot worth of used tape on the recorder in front of him . send the helicopter pilot and vogel body off back to the base research station and quickly thing go awry with strange bump in the night and door ajarred shut and open window . dr. jones ( culp ) begin to grow apprehensively suspicious about the condition with which vogel die and dr enari ( wallach ) choose to believe there be a rational explanation for everything include the coincidence and weird go ons cause due friction between the pair . and what be record on dr vogel thaw tape . this movie be an exceptional slice of paranoia and mood undeniably influence later film the shining and the thing . the final scene rock .