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	The Twilight Zone: Walking Distance/ Kick the Can Twilight Zone 20th Century Fox, 1998 average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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In "Walking Distance" Martin Sloan( Gig Young) gets to look back on his life in a very special way. A shock to himself when he sees himself, as a boy, carving names into a post on a gazebo..( a gazebo that could have been possibly in Serling's home town of Binghamton New York.

The quagmire of time and space are now imposed on Martin Sloan..and this unique teleplay is one of the best 26 minutes you might see on Television. The montage scene on the merry go round...the field is at first tilted...then corrects itself with a return to Mr. Sloan's reality..Frak Overton, Byron Foulger and Ronnie Howard round out the singular cast.

If this were all not enough, Bernard Herrman lends a most meloncholy score to the whole proceedings. This is what happens when great artists combine talents to produce something timeless.

Some " Wisp of Memory" indeed!

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"Somewhere up the road, he's looking for sanity"

Often called the greatest episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE ever made, "Walking Distance" epitomizes the series at its finest. Everything about the episode is extraordinary: the script, which is Rod Serling's most personal; the acting by Gig Young, Frank Overton, Ronnie Howard, and the rest of the cast; the direction by Robert Stevens; the photography by George T. Clemens; and the moving score by Bernard Herrmann, which could stand on its own as a concert piece. Serling's emotional identification with this story of a tired advertising man who revisits his old hometown in a desperate effort to "put in a claim to the past" is clearly audible in his narrations, particularly the middle one ("A man can think a lot of thoughts..."), in which he sounds close to tears. Other reviewers have called "Walking Distance" the finest study of humanity ever put on television - and I can believe that this is true.
The theme of "Kick the Can," the second episode on this video, is also that of a mature man reencountering youth (the episode even uses some of Herrmann's music from "Walking Distance"). Old friends Charles Whitley and Ben Conroy live at Sunnyvale Rest, a home for the aged. Abandoned by his son and threatened with confinement by the home's doctor, who thinks him "senile," Charles realizes that it will take a children's game, such as "kick the can," to save him from a fate akin to death. But will his best friend Ben join him in The Twilight Zone? "Kick the Can" is a charming, magical piece, even if it does pale a bit next to "Walking Distance," which is greatness itself.

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This tape has Serling's classic episode "Walking Distance"

In Rod Serling's classic episode "Walking Distance," Martin Sloan (Gig Young) leaves his car at the gas station and walks into his hometown, where suddenly everything is just as it was when he was a child. In fact, he encounters his younger self (Michael Montgomery), and has to come to terms with the fact that he has not been happy with his life for a long, long time. The episode, directed by Robert Stevens, is one of Serling's best evocations of nostalgia, with a cast that includes Pat O'Malley and young Ronnie Howard. "Kick the Can" was George Clayton Johnson's final script for the series, and was the episode adapted by Steven Spielberg in "Twilight Zone: The Movie." Charles Whitley (Ernest Truex) and his friend Ben Conory (Russell Collins) are residents of Sunnydale Rest, a home for the aged. Charles becomes convinced that the secret to being young is acting young, and one night he begs the others to join him for a game of kick-the-can. Everyone agrees to join in the game, except Ben. Because this is the Twilight Zone, this is a tragic mistake and one that Ben will regret the rest of his life. This is an okay episode, but not a classic like the first one on this tape.

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Short subjects as timeless as their medium...

This is another fine package in the series, two classics that have obvious but effective stories to tell. "Walking Distance" is about Martin Sloan, successful in business but not successful in that walk of life that all men try sooner or later: trying to go home again. "Kick the Can" is an enormously moving and engrossing piece with Charles Witley dilivering the goods as an old man who refuses to die in Sunnydale Rest. He is a man who knows that he will die in this world if he does not escape...into the Twilight Zone. This is one you should see.


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