TZ should have left back-to-childhood well enough alone by the fourth series. Unfortunately, as Serling stated, he wanted to go back to his youth, so far too many stories follow this path, even those by other writers (Reginald Rose, author of the excellent '12 Angry Men' in this case, and yet this is rubbish). I'm no fan of Walking Distance, Kick The Can, or Young Man's Fancy either. There's never a logical message to spring from these stories like giving your own children the most fun possible as you cant go back (though that comes up in the excellent In Praise of Pip).
Wishing to go back to a young adult state occurs in 'Of Late I Think Of Cliffordville', 'The Trade-Ins', 'Static','A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain', and 'The Trouble With Templeton'.
Horace Ford's immature little world is a padded and dull place inhabited by an irritating character. All too often in TZ the incorrigible protagonists with personalities to make you cross the road are too annoying to watch acted. The only actors ever to play a maddening lead without being maddening were Burgess Meredith as 'Mr Dingle' and Barry Morse in 'A Piano In The House' (I count Andy Devine's Frisby as a likable man, though full of bovine excrement).
This entry is almost devoid of any meaning. The little there is being spoken by Laura (Nan Martin) late on. Early on, the sensible colleague Leonard (Phillip Pine), gives a contrasting point of view to Horace's, saying in his case he just 'waited to grow up'.
Nostalgia within TZ doesn't make for nostalgia for me.
Wishing to go back to a young adult state occurs in 'Of Late I Think Of Cliffordville', 'The Trade-Ins', 'Static','A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain', and 'The Trouble With Templeton'.
Horace Ford's immature little world is a padded and dull place inhabited by an irritating character. All too often in TZ the incorrigible protagonists with personalities to make you cross the road are too annoying to watch acted. The only actors ever to play a maddening lead without being maddening were Burgess Meredith as 'Mr Dingle' and Barry Morse in 'A Piano In The House' (I count Andy Devine's Frisby as a likable man, though full of bovine excrement).
This entry is almost devoid of any meaning. The little there is being spoken by Laura (Nan Martin) late on. Early on, the sensible colleague Leonard (Phillip Pine), gives a contrasting point of view to Horace's, saying in his case he just 'waited to grow up'.
Nostalgia within TZ doesn't make for nostalgia for me.