Walking Distance

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"Walking Distance" is a highly acclaimed 1959 episode of the original The Twilight Zone series, in which a stressed ad executive magically revisits his idyllic childhood town and confronts the impossibility of recapturing the past.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf The Twilight Zone episode
television episode
airDate October 30, 1959
blackAndWhite true
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
createdFor television
criticalReception highly acclaimed
director Robert Stevens
followedBy Escape Clause
genre drama
fantasy
science fiction
mainCharacter Martin Sloan
medium television broadcast
musicBy Bernard Herrmann
narrator Rod Serling
notableFor exploration of nostalgia and the impossibility of recapturing childhood
originalAirDate 1959-10-30
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork CBS
partOf The Twilight Zone (TV series)
surface form: The Twilight Zone (original series)
plotSummary A stressed advertising executive returns to his childhood hometown and finds himself back in the past, confronting the impossibility of reliving his youth.
precededBy One for the Angels
producer Buck Houghton
protagonistOccupation advertising executive
runningTime 25 minutes
season Season 1
series The Twilight Zone (TV series)
surface form: The Twilight Zone
setting Homewood
starring Anne Barton
Ernest Truex
surface form: Barry Truex

Byron Foulger
Frank Overton
Gig Young
Helen Brown
Irene Tedrow
Joe Mell
Lillian O'Malley
Marlene Warfield
Michael Montgomery
Robert Connelly
Ronnie Dapo
Sheridan Comerate
Terry Burnham
theme irretrievability of the past
midlife crisis
nostalgia
time travel
writer Rod Serling

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