Once Upon a Time
- Episode aired Dec 15, 1961
- TV-PG
- 25m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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Janitor Woodrow Mulligan gets a trip from 1890 to 1962 courtesy of his employer's time-machine helmet.Janitor Woodrow Mulligan gets a trip from 1890 to 1962 courtesy of his employer's time-machine helmet.Janitor Woodrow Mulligan gets a trip from 1890 to 1962 courtesy of his employer's time-machine helmet.
Harry Fleer
- 1962 Policeman #2
- (uncredited)
Norman Papson
- Trumpeter
- (uncredited)
Warren Parker
- Clothes Store Manager
- (uncredited)
Milton Parsons
- Prof. Gilbert
- (uncredited)
Rod Serling
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- …
George E. Stone
- Fenwick
- (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
- Sidewalk Onlooker
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaDuring Rod Serling's closing monologue, The Twilight Zone Theme can briefly be heard played in an unusual "Silent Movie/Honkey-Tonk Piano" arrangement, in tribute to the story's motif.
- GoofsIn the repair shop, when supposedly setting the dial on the time machine helmet to go back to 1890, one could see it was still set for 1962.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Time Travel: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy (1985)
Featured review
Serling does comedy (with some help from Buster Keaton)...and it works
Woodrow Mulligan is transported forward in time from 1890 to 1962 and he's not too happy about it.
A rare comedy episode of The Twilight Zone. Creator Rod Serling and writer Richard Matheson turn their hand to making a sight-gag-based, farcical, silent era-type comedy, complete with grainy black and white and title cards for the 1890s era. To complete the transformation to humour they enlist one of the greatest physical comedians of all time, Buster Keaton.
And it works. The plot is basic but pretty good. The comedy captures well the Chaplin/Keaton-type slapstick of the 1920s and hits the mark nearly every time. The great man himself, Keaton, may have been 67 at the time and well past his prime but he puts in a performance reminiscent of his heyday.
Funny and refreshingly different.
A rare comedy episode of The Twilight Zone. Creator Rod Serling and writer Richard Matheson turn their hand to making a sight-gag-based, farcical, silent era-type comedy, complete with grainy black and white and title cards for the 1890s era. To complete the transformation to humour they enlist one of the greatest physical comedians of all time, Buster Keaton.
And it works. The plot is basic but pretty good. The comedy captures well the Chaplin/Keaton-type slapstick of the 1920s and hits the mark nearly every time. The great man himself, Keaton, may have been 67 at the time and well past his prime but he puts in a performance reminiscent of his heyday.
Funny and refreshingly different.
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- Apr 12, 2020
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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