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.