The Twilight Zone Zone Episode 1: “One for the Angels” and "Walking Distance"

Every week on The Twilight Zone Zone, we go down Donald
Liebenson's list The 26 Episodes We Talk About When We Talk About
The Twilight Zone from Vanity Fair, chronologically by release
date and compare two episodes and choose which one to recommend.
This week we watched “One for the Angels” and "Walking
Distance."


From the article: 


“One for the Angels” Throughout the series, Serling and company
displayed great compassion for society’s seemingly commonplace
and unimportant denizens. Case in point: Sidewalk pitchman Lou
Bookman (a perfectly cast Ed Wynn), who outwits Death to earn a
stay on Earth—but at what price? The Twilight Zone could make you
scream, but there are several episodes, like this one, that can
also make you cry.


“Walking Distance” Gig Young stars as Martin Sloan, age 36, an ad
man “living in a dead run,” who finds himself back in his
hometown during the summer when he was 11 years old. This is the
best of Serling’s midlife-crisis reveries—certainly more
optimistic than the downbeat “A Stop at Willoughby.” Between
Serling’s poetic closing narration and Bernard Herrmann’s moving
score, if you cried at the end of Field of Dreams, this episode
will wreck you.


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