Our protagonist in this Twilight Zone story is James Daly a forty something advertising executive who is really under the pressure from his boss Howard
Smith. As Smith is fond of saying it's a 'push push push' business they're in and
no room for failure.
On the home front wife Patricia Donahue is tired of being married as she sees it to a failure.
But on that commuter train to their little Eisenhower era palace in Connecticut Daly is suddenly on this 1880s era train coming into a town called Willoughby which he can't recall. It looks like the kind of small town Booth Tarkington might written about with a slower pace of life. Looks ideal.
Daly really makes this episode work with his performance as an every man type character. This could really have worked as a feature film and I could have seen Jack Lemmon in the lead. And Howard Smith is great as the tyrannical boss who loves being a tyrant.
On the home front wife Patricia Donahue is tired of being married as she sees it to a failure.
But on that commuter train to their little Eisenhower era palace in Connecticut Daly is suddenly on this 1880s era train coming into a town called Willoughby which he can't recall. It looks like the kind of small town Booth Tarkington might written about with a slower pace of life. Looks ideal.
Daly really makes this episode work with his performance as an every man type character. This could really have worked as a feature film and I could have seen Jack Lemmon in the lead. And Howard Smith is great as the tyrannical boss who loves being a tyrant.