Considered by many who saw it when first aired in October 1959 as the best TZ episode of all time. Features a bravura performance by Gig Young (as the frazzled ad man Martin Sloan, fleeing the madness of Manhattan for the serenity of his boyhood home in upstate New York) who brings out the pathos and sensitivity of the you-can't-go-home-again theme of Rod Serling. Contains a few false notes such as Sloan's less than mind-numbing reaction to first meeting his long-deceased parents, but the poignant conversation with his dad (the versatile but underrated Frank Overton) near the close of the episode is as touching a scene as you'll find on the tube.
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