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Trying to remember a movie or TV series.

One scene I remember. The space fighter pilot is part of a squadron that has had a group dogfight with a bunch of nasty alien craft. One alien craft escapes so 1 pilot chases the alien craft to the edge of a black hole of sorts (could be a collapsing star), but the pilot gets caught in the gravitational field and gets slowly sucked in. He tries reverse thrusters and no luck. As he’s getting sucked in to the depths, he plays a Jonny Cash Burning Ring of Fire song (I think) over the radio and the song slowly gets all distorted (like batteries going flat in a walkman) from the gravitational field.

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  • Hi, welcome to SF&F. Where and when did you watch this? Can you describe any of the visuals, like the shape of the fighter?
    – DavidW
    Commented Apr 24, 2022 at 22:30
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    Hey @DavidW, saw the Movie/Tv series in the mid to late 90’s. I can’t recall the type of the spacecraft involved, but Clara has identified the Tv series as per below. Thanks muchly for your interest in trying to solve the riddle….
    – Phoenix11
    Commented Apr 25, 2022 at 9:26

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This sounds like the 5th episode of Space Above and Beyond, entitled "Ray Butts".

Quoting from this summary:

It becomes clear that the Chigs are trying to corral the squadron towards a nearby black hole. Their fighters can operate in its wash but the Hammerheads cannot. Butts orders the 58th to go on ahead and turns to face them. He takes out the Chigs but cannot escape the pull of the black hole. His plane is pulled apart to the strains of Johnny Cash's I Walk The Line

The sequence is available on youtube.

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    Hey @Clara, That’s it!! Thanks heaps, just watched it on YouTube. Thanks for that, been bugging me for a couple of years. Thanks again.
    – Phoenix11
    Commented Apr 25, 2022 at 6:38
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    Glad to help @Phoenix11 - as soon as I read "black hole" and "Johnny Cash" the scene immediately popped into my memeory
    – Clara Díaz Sanchez
    Commented Apr 25, 2022 at 7:35
  • I was quite bemused that they used "Walk the Line" instead of "Ring of Fire".
    – Doug Warren
    Commented Apr 26, 2022 at 19:09
  • Walk the Line is about a man proud of his behavior. Ring of Fire is about a man suffering from his bad choices. Very different implications for a dying hero -- "F***all y'all anyways" vs. "Oh no what have I done?"
    – Ross Presser
    Commented May 21, 2022 at 2:35

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