The Twilight Zone: Escape Clause (1959)
Season 1, Episode 6
7/10
Perfect Health and Immortality
12 July 2012
When David Wayne asks for immortality and offers up his soul in the bargain what could be better. Satan, Applegate, Old Scratch or in this case Cadwallader can't collect until crack of doom as the saying goes.

In fact Thomas Gomez as a really broadly expansive and somewhat hammy devil offers him an escape clause. He can opt out of the immortality at any time. What would want to make him do it?

David Wayne is the hopeless hypochondriac who probably could have endowed a whole medical school with what he pay in doctor bills. He's driving his patient wife Virginia Christine to her wit's end.

When Wayne gets his immortality he goes full blast, jumping off buildings, diving in front of subways. Now this former bedridden complainer is living life to the limit.

Wayne, Gomez, and Christine are fun to watch in this sardonic episode from The Twilight Zone.
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