Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x13 Production Number: 4820 Airdate: Friday December 15th, 1961 |
Co-Guest Stars
Uncredited
Recap
In the year 1890, janitor Woodroy Mulligan is walking down the streets of Harmony, New York, and bemoans noise pollution, high prices, and women's independence. Mulligan is knocked into a water trough by a bicyclist. Going home to change, Mulligan sees his employer Professor Gilbert working on a Time Helmet that lets you travel to any time period but for only thirty minutes. He leaves it on the table and Mulligan decides it to go to a future where there's peace and quiet. He sets the helmet for 1960 and it starts to spark and smoke. Mulligan runs outside and a police officer chases after him. Mulligan grabs a chicken and then there's a burst of smoke and Mulligan finds himself in 1960 in the middle of a busy street on Harmony. Everything makes noise and the prices are dozens of times higher...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Buster Keaton was the uncredited writer of the episode. Many of the sight gags were taken directly from his silent films. Episode was part of the rebirth of Keaton's popularity.
This episode of The Twilight Zone has no spoken dialog at the beginning.
Jesse White, who played the "fix-it man", would later be well-known as the Maytag repairman.
Half of the episode was made to be just like an old silent movie, Buster Keaton's forte'.
An extended sequence in Jack's Fix-It Shop was directed by Les Goodwins over a month after production of the episode had ended.
Harry Fleer is also in "The Obsolete Man."
James Flavin was also in "A Passage for Trumpet."
Jesse White is also in "Cavender is Coming."
Milton Parsons was also in "I Dream of Genie" and "The New Exhibit."
Stanley Adams is also in "Mr. Garrity and the Graves."
The clothes ringer seen in this episode is the same kind which caused a 3-year old Buster Keaton to lose part of a finger by getting it caught inside the rollers. As a joke, Buster sticks the same finger inside in the roller during filming.
Episode Quotes
Opening Narration
Narrator: Mr. Mulligan, a rather dour critic of his times, is shortly to discover the import of that old phrase, 'Out of the frying pan, into the fire,' said fire burning brightly at all times in the Twilight Zone.
Narrator: Mr. Mulligan, a rather dour critic of his times, is shortly to discover the import of that old phrase, 'Out of the frying pan, into the fire,' said fire burning brightly at all times in the Twilight Zone.
Rollo: You don't understand. This man must get back to 1890.
Repairman: Well, you're in the wrong block. This is only 1600.
Repairman: Well, you're in the wrong block. This is only 1600.
Closing Narration
Narrator: 'To each his own' - so goes another old phrase to which Mr. Woodrow Mulligan would heartily subscribe, for he has learned, definitely the hard way, that there is much wisdom in a third old phrase which goes as follows: 'Stay in your own backyard.' To which it might be added, 'and if possible, assist others to stay in theirs' - via, of course, the Twilight Zone.
Narrator: 'To each his own' - so goes another old phrase to which Mr. Woodrow Mulligan would heartily subscribe, for he has learned, definitely the hard way, that there is much wisdom in a third old phrase which goes as follows: 'Stay in your own backyard.' To which it might be added, 'and if possible, assist others to stay in theirs' - via, of course, the Twilight Zone.
Episode Goofs
Les Goodwins was not credited for his effort in this episode.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Rod Serling |
| • Executive Producer | Rod Serling |
| • Producer | Buck Houghton |
| • Editor | Jason H. Bernie |
| • Casting | James Lister | Lynn Stalmaster |
| • Music | William Lava | Ray Turner |
| • Set Decorator | Henry Grace | H. Web Arrowsmith |
| • Director of Photography | George T. Clemens |
| • Art Director | Philip Barber |
| • Production Manager | Ralph Nelson |
| • Sound Editor | Bill Edmondson | Franklin Milton |
| • Main Title Theme | Marius Constant |
| • Assistant Director | E. Darrell Hallenbeck |
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