Long Live Walter Jameson - Twilight-Tober Zone

"Long Live Walter Jameson" is an expertly understated story that puts realistic implications onto it's extraordinary premise. Charles Beaumont wrote this episode and his trade mark darker leanings are evident in it's underlying themes and principals. You should definitely check this episode out when you have some time, although time works a little differently in The Twilight Zone.
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Walterception. What did everyone think of "Long Live Walter Jameson"? Watch more Twilight-Tober Zone here - bit.ly/TwilightToberZone Follow Walter on Twitter - twitter.com/Awesome_Walter Follow us on Twitch - www.twitch.tv/channelawesome

[@adamhoward1408]

Reminder nostalgia critic planet of the commercials

[@dbfi01]

Cant you continue this series with all episodes of Twilight zone? Pleeeeeaaase?

[@Lesley_RedRhody]

Immortality seems to be one of those things nearly everybody wants... until they get it. Also, I loved Estelle Winwood in Darby O’Gill and the Little People and Murder By Death!

[@MLdoktor]

Pretty sure the people behind "The man from earth" saw this.

[@johntumahab323]

Very, very late to the party...but it's interesting to note Kevin McCarthy was an actor who both appeared in the original Twilight Zone series as well as the Twilight Zone Movie.

[@Jai137]

Moral: If you’re immortal, stay with your mortal spouse till she dies, and only then think of remarrying

[@misspriss2482]

How would you explain it though? Everybody would remember that y'all were married, but over time, you would stay the same while they got older. I feel for the wife though. Dang.

[@geoffreyfyfe2248]

So the Connor McLeod approach?

[@Ashaira]

dont confuse immortal with ageless

[@nochillwill4667]

People make it to their hundreds safely, whats doing it 20 more times at your apparent peak.

[@nochillwill4667]

Also the marrige part could work if you told your spouse, you work as a united front, and stay mobile. Hop from town to town and no people would know you. The only hang up would be a older woman with a younger man but at that time, not may people would bother you, may find it weird but not troublesome.

[@lens_hunter]

Dude imagine being ageless, in at least one war, and never having a fatal accident, or life-altering accident for over 2000 years. That's some insane luck.

[@geoffreyfyfe2248]

This is lampshaded in the episode, where Sam asks Walter how that can be and Walter replies by saying some people are just lucky that way. Which is true, as some people really do go through life without any illness or injury.

[@Psychol-Snooper]

Not luck! Walter Jameson was 'yella!' He never found a fight he couldn't run from... until the wrath of a woman scorned that is!

[@ThreadBomb]

I think that, if you're smart, you become better at avoiding accidents and conflicts as you get older.

[@tyrant-den884]

or cowardice.

[@brucef310]

I bet he had herpes.

[@TheYoungDoctor]

For a story about immortality all the main cast lived long lives: Kevin McCarthy died aged 96 in 2010 (on the 11th of September weirdly enough), Edgar Stehli died aged 89 in 1973, Estelle Winwood who played Laurette died aged of 101 in 1984 and Dodie Heath is till alive at the age of 92.

[@geoffreyfyfe2248]

Kevin McCarthy himself lived to 96.

[@LegendStormcrow]

Hot dang that is a long time.

[@michaelltd]

Wow!

[@mdaddy775]

Sadly, Rod Serling left us way too young

[@maydom04]

for those who may not be aware, Selt 11 (The date Mcarthy died) is the same date his character (Major Hugh Skelton) reads from his diary.

[@philipportelli7700]

This represents another great theme of TZ: that getting what you want doesn't bring you happiness! Walter Jameson isn't malevolent but he is selfish. He is a creature of habit, he gets lonely, wants a wife and family though he knows that he will eventually have to leave. He may love this girl now but will easily abandon her in twenty, thirty years out of necessity and vanity.

[@metsrus]

Yeah it shows people might not change after 2000 years. He admitted to being selfish and a coward from the beginning, from wanting all that life and not having the guts to kill himself when he no longer wanted it.

[@charleswest6372]

Wouldn't want to be Immortal.

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

@@charleswest6372 I would.

[@melissadahl7561]

This is one of my favorite episodes. I love the way McCarthy plays Jameson and the back and forth between him and Sam Kitteridge. But the best part is definitely the appearance of Laurette and everything about her. I watch it and I'm like, "Why doesn't something like this happen in more vampire stories for crying out loud?" But at least I have this. Props to Estelle Winwood for being the absolute MVP.

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

I think it's about cowardice, and how he values his own life above anything else, so he kept on living. I'm just not on board with the ending though. In 2000+ years worth of women, only now he has a resentful one that would shoot his ass?

[@marypowis7778]

@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119It's not cowardice it's merely pragmatism ..if he could live forever then why risk losing it ?

[@francisfatta]

Congratulations, Walter, you reviewed the episode with Walter. I bet Walter likes the character Walter.

[@MCDexpo]

Which one? 😏 (laugh track)

[@threedragonstalk2123]

I was looking for this comment.

[@sarahobothulhu]

The aging effects are very similar to the transformation scene in the 1932 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde film, and both are excellent.

[@johnhaladay5541]

What's great about this episode is that Walter is really a villain. He has no problem hurting women that he pretends to care about once they are of no use to him. Once they get old, he flees and engages in the same behavior again, even though he knows its wrong. The brilliant writing of Charles Beaumont and the terrific acting of Kevin McCarthy made Walter Jameson a sympathetic figure despite his arrogance, self-proclaimed cowardice, and vanity.

[@marypowis7778]

Would you want to be married to an 80 year old woman when you're 40 ?

[@skin_lizard]

​@@marypowis7778The thing is that he's not forty. He just looks it.

[@KrunchyTheClown78]

This one happens to be my favorite episode in the entire series.

[@wolffman2445]

@@KrunchyTheClown78 The closing narration is my absolute favorite: "Last stop on a long journey, as yet another human being returns to the vast nothingness that is the beginning and into the dust that is always the end"

[@worldofdoom995]

My mom was was born in 1950. She remembers being a little girl when this show was on and getting scared at some of the episodes.

[@melissacooper4282]

My dad was born in 1948. He would have hamburgers and an RC cola and watch The Twilight Zone.

[@starkman78]

Ditto for my mom (born 1952). She was especially in shock at the reveal of the “piggy-nosed people.” 😉

[@anubusx]

Tuesday September the 11th. "Fires that destroyed a great citadel of grace and beauty." That is spooky.

[@assassinmaster3419]

I just realized the date right when you said it

[@anubusx]

Predictive Programming.

[@rogue7723]

Yeah, I was like (cue sarcasm) "Well, that's not gonna be _insanely sad and disturbing_ in 42 years or anything."

[@rogue7723]

Was that _The Twilight Zone_ predicting the future, like how _The Simpsons_ sometimes does?

[@anubusx]

@@rogue7723 IMO yes. Or how some people think that the global elite put it in the media.

[@allys744]

Kevin McCarthy mentioned two things when he recorded the commentary for this episode: 1. he never actually met Rod Serling. 2. Aside from his breakthrough film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this was the episode that brought him the most fan mail.

[@ariadnefrolich7243]

"It's death that gives this world it's point." I felt that, without a deadline (no pun intended) we tend to become stagnant.

[@ThreadBomb]

The problem is that deadline means a lot of people never get to really live. They just get shunted from school to work to a nursing home, with no chance to really do what they want to do or really explore the world. The deadline makes those people's lives worse, not better. Also, saying that a flower is beautiful because we know it will die is obvious nonsense. Makes as much sense as saying a meal tastes good because we know it will become shit.

[@ariadnefrolich7243]

@@ThreadBomb ....I can't help but get the impression that you missed the whole point of the episode.

[@mr.harrison1658]

@@ThreadBomb By the time one can be privileged enough to retire, he is too old and worn out to climb mountains. So, it’s TV, junk food, and high priced drugs to moderate the cholesterol and blood pressure. It’s all by design to keep us overly busy and silent, then profitable to the pharm companies.

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

@@ariadnefrolich7243 The point is stupid.

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

A outdated message that means nothing and is generic nowadays.

[@TheNeonTheater]

Such a great episode. Feels like watching a good movie. Some real surprises and great acting. Sad but also somehow feels right

[@stardude2006]

Immortality consists largely of boredom - Zefram Cochrane

[@Raximus3000]

More like isolation consists largely of boredom.

[@stardude2006]

@@Raximus3000 No.

[@Raximus3000]

@@stardude2006 Yes, you know not the passage of time if you have things to do, to learn, to experience. If you put boundaries to all new things then you are isolated and you will grow bored.

[@hollyconnelly8871]

he needs to take a lesson from Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged and pass the time insulting everyone in the universe one by one, in alphabetical order.

[@ThunderLord1]

@@hollyconnelly8871 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, right?

[@geoffreyfyfe2248]

It was a good narrative touch by Charles Beaumont to have Jameson immortal but not invulnerable. Unlike a lot of immortals in fiction, he actually has an out, a way to end it all, but he's too much of a coward to take that option. It makes his situation even worse in a way; continuing in an existence he's grown tired of only because of his own lack of courage and character.

[@ThreadBomb]

The problem isn't that he's scared to kill himself (what normal person wouldn't be scared of that?), it's that he doesn't know how to live. He seems to be a selfish person with no imagination. That kind of person would be a bad fit for immortality.

[@Arkylie]

@@ThreadBomb Ooh, good point. Yeah, a person with a certain level of maturity would be able to find ways to enjoy life and enjoy the ways this world changes over time. A person who's shallow enough to think only of themself, and to think only of passing pleasures, or to focus on all the things they can't have or can't do, that kind of person would find it hard to keep going.

[@Arkylie]

Y'know, there's a short story written from a Reddit writing prompt that goes something like... a genie grants you immortality with only one thing you could do to end your life. And the person who filled the prompt put it as "complete every game in your Steam library." Then the story has it that the main character has been putting off playing the last game, just enjoying life as much as he can, until finally he decides it's really time, and he completes the game, and... nothing. And then he hunts through to make sure that he's beaten 100% of the games, and finds... the one game he never cracked the cover of was the worst-reviewed game on Steam -- Bad Rats. And then he has to decide whether he hates his life enough to actually try to beat Bad Rats. And he decides hey, he can go on living. I'm sure there's more interesting things out there.

[@marypowis7778]

Its not cowardice it's pragmatism..he has the gift of immmortality, so why risk losing it ?

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

@@ThreadBomb Exactly.

[@craigfin3222]

F October, y'all need to make this a permanent series for a while. Run through all of the Twilight Zone episodes.

[@ryanpyle9822]

We may have to wait another year to get another 31 reviews. I hope not though.

[@maydom04]

One of my favorite episodes, masterfully acted and utterly believable....and Charles Beaumont was a genius.

[@michaelharrington7656]

Thank you. This is one of my favourite episodes along with Queen of the Nile in the fifth season, which stars Ann Blyth in a story with a similar theme but a more sinister treatment.

[@spongylord7131]

Thank you for doing these videos wanting to not have the twists spoiled before I saw them This show means I have started watching all of the ones I’ve missed in order. Fully this results in me seeing every episode and having that motivation to sit down and watch such a good series is cherished at this time

[@Nasser851000]

Long Live the KI-Sorry, wrong piece of media XD

[@gregmatic2861]

Some of these feel like they should be longer or have more details. This episode leaves you wanting more.

[@VidWatcher01]

0:13 I get Jack Bauer/Kieffer Sutherland vibes from him

[@Purplesubmariner]

Ah, this reminds me of one of the episodes from The Storyteller, where a man is gifted a magic bag in which he could command anything into. At one point he commands Death itself into the bag, and for a while the world was without it. The narrative for that moment was _so good_ too. Something about opposing armies would face to battle and wage war, but after many hours they'd stand there injured and confused as none of them had died. Eventually the man releases Death from his bag, but Death feared the man and his bag so much he never came to claim his soul, and so the man walked forever on the earth, never able to die.

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

Some people say that "Queen of the Nile" from the final season is a weak remake of this one. Maybe they're right, but I've always liked that one too.

[@wstine79]

I like McCarthy's performance in this episode. And it was great to see him back in the Twilight Zone movie in the "It's a Good Life" segment.

[@geoffreyfyfe2248]

It's an ironically appropriate role that he played an immortal here since he lived well into his nineties and aged very well. Really, for a long time all that seemed to change about him was his hair going gray.

[@TheWrongHands18]

@@geoffreyfyfe2248 He was one of those actors like Leslie Nielsen or Peter Graves who went all white early and seemed to have it for the next 30 years.

[@jccw227]

I remember in the commentary for the Weird Al movie, UHF, Al mentions this episode specifically as Kevin McCarthy played the antagonist in that movie as well. Al notes how at the end of the episode, as Jameson began to age, for a brief second, the makeup made McCarthy look like he did during the shooting of UHF. This being said, McCarthy lived a relatively long life himself, dying at the ripe old age of 96.

[@CaptainRiterraSmith]

I've long been fascinated with the idea of seeing thousands of years of history, but if it's anything like this, perhaps I'll learn to be grateful for the time and experience I do get.

[@scdef.6009]

Those make up effects were incredible. Thank you for bringing that amazing piece of ingenuity to our collective attention!

[@raywalton1291]

I really like this episode, it was one that I came back to a lot when I first started watching it.

[@daniellevaughn4598]

Just watched this last night on Netflix. Great episode!

[@Fordo007]

the 'death and end give life meaning' moral is something I never buy in any story it's told in. I feel it's rationalizing to help cope with loss by making you think it's true, but that's all it is, something you tell yourself to make things hurt less or make the pain feel justified. I've never once seen the moral used in a way that made me agree with it.

[@drewmu88]

The first time I saw it I kept thinking of UHF. Also, the makeup is amazing!

[@Absolynth]

If I'm not mistaken, that actor played the villain in UHF.

[@bbarrett726]

You're right. And I love that movie

[@TheWrongHands18]

He was also the villain in Innerspace... and he was one of the original show actors to make it into the Twilight Zone movie.

[@JoseMorales-lw5nt]

Kevin McCarthy also has the rare distinction of having done the original TWILIGHT ZONE and TALES FROM THE CRYPT!

[@alexd0617]

You guys are zeroing on all my favorite episodes. I'm loving this!

[@andrewscolari5724]

It's amazing what they could do with just different color makeup and different color lighting in the days before CGI

[@jeffolds3253]

There is a similar movie called " The Man From Earth" but not as dark...it is a fascinating watch though

[@sarysa]

A less sinister version of this concept can be seen in the film Man from Earth, which was written by the same person who wrote the Star Trek episode Requiem for Methuselah. Both are low budget "bottle" productions but there's just something captivating about ancient history being delivered in the first person, and the reactions of those around said being.

[@marctelfer6159]

I was literally just coming down here to write about "The Man from Earth", which is an excellent film covering the same concept, going into many of the same points (an immortal being having to continue living as those around him die, his loved ones aging, his need to move on, never settling, the effect such a person can have on the world, both historically and on individuals), but, I think, covered in more depth in the film due to the runtime. While the endings to the two are different, they both support and build off of the themes explored, which makes them both satisfying conclusions.

[@earnestbrown6524]

SF Debris has a good review of the movie.

[@PixelatedH2O]

I've heard there's a sequel, but The Man from Earth is one of my favorite indie films.

[@marctelfer6159]

@@PixelatedH2O I need to give the sequel (The Man from Earth: Holocene) a second watch. I wasn't overly impressed by it, but with a 10 year gap between the two films, how much of that is "that's not what I was expecting" I don't know. I do think, though, that it leaned very heavily on the implications of John's existence on certain aspects of religion and faith (hinted at in the first film, but never really dug into very deeply), so much so that it's the central thematic tension, from what I can remember, where the first film was a bit "what about this, or this, or this?". I'd still recommend that people watch the sequel, though, if they liked the first, just to see what they think of it :)

[@neonnwave1]

Being immortal and marrying someone who is mortal always reminds me of Highlander.

[@WindyREDPanda]

Doctor Who?

[@geoffreyfyfe2248]

Except Walter never does what Connor did and stay with his wife while she ages and dies.

[@neonnwave1]

@@geoffreyfyfe2248 I know. Just saying it's what I'm reminded each time I hear something of this sort. Walter is a prick for what he did, but in a way you do understand where he was coming from. Not defending the guy, btw. Connor was devastated by the lost of his wife, as he distanced himself from people and was rather bitter towards others. Only exception being his (sort of) daughter, who too has grown old. Walter was pained by seeing his previous wives and even children die that he decided to leave them before experiencing that pain again. Still a dickish thing to do, even if it is understandable. Both cases shows one of the pains of being immortal, that there is no win-win, especially when love is involved.

[@TheWrongHands18]

I think he left her at a time when their ages were still believable. Otherwise, people would suspect something was wrong. It was probably out of necessity and not because he didn't love her anymore. And...he should be the richest man in the world. All he had to do was deposit a few dollars in multiple bank accounts all over the world and let the compound interest begin. Then, he just wills it to his next persona.

[@YuniorGamboa]

This is one of ny favorite episode👌

[@Spindler2007]

I remember William Tuttle as he also worked on The Time Machine as well. If you look at the photo he is in at 7:21, you can see he is sat next to a head of a Morlock from that movie. This episode also once again uses the set from The Time Machine of George's home as seen in previous and future episodes of The Twilight Zone.

[@BlackoutEclipse]

Good episode. A must see. Still waiting for The Howling Man

[@miroslavtomic7038]

Edgar Stehli, who plays Prof. Kittridge, previously appeared in previous similar series A Tales of Tommorrow in episode What You Need. This same story was, as we all know, reworked into Twilight Zone episode, with Ernest Truex replacing Stehli in the lead role. In your video about What You Need, you showed few short scenes from Stehli's episode and you can very easily recognise him.

[@roushpedish]

If you liked this episode of the Twilight Zone then try the movie “The Man From Earth”... You’ll probably like it.

[@mleighqs]

This is an awesome idea, would it be a blessing or curse to live forever? I guess it would depend on the person and the types of experiences that person would have. Very interesting.

[@MandleRoss]

I remember playing a seemingly simple flash-game years ago where you played a 17th Century pirate searching for the Fountain Of Immortality. If you could fight your way to it and win there's an epilogue, which was the part that blew me away. It is set billions of years in the future and you are still alive. You are in control of a massive starship fleet running on the amazing technology that you have invented over all that time. Your knowledge of science is boundless, and you are considered the greatest mind that ever lived. Because humanity also discovered the secrets of non-aging through science long ago, your condition is not considered unusual anymore and you don't have to hide it. What they don't know is that, while they never age, only you are truly immortal, as no injury or sickness can ever harm you. The heat-death of the universe is approaching and it is the one thing you truly fear. Everyone else will be gone but you will float through the endless nothingness for eternity. The story ends with your fleet firing up the device you invented that creates a wormhole leading to a different, younger, universe and you lead them through into it. I always thought that was an amazing story, worthy of a film or novel, especially considering it came at the end of a rather simple flash game about 17th Century pirates.

[@nsr60ster85]

There would be advantages, for sure. But when the universe collapses back on itself and everything goes black, you're going to be awfully bored.

[@breacat]

Good episode if you ignore how incredibly lucky Walter was for not being stricken with any disease or injury in over 2000 years.

[@johntumahab323]

In all fairness, he does call that out in the episode at least.

[@adislavchev]

Loving these. We need more

[@thomashugus5686]

Great episode! One of the best!!

[@charleswest6372]

Great episode. One of my favorites

[@drmattconrad77]

I’m going to miss this series when November rolls around.

[@ILostMyPreviousAccount]

“We All Love a rose because we know it’ll soon be gone,Whoever loved a stone”-Walter Jameson

[@gvegas]

I’m going to say this, this series had me want to watch the 1st season in an it’s entirety. Please do the rest of original series. There is no another KZbin videos that has your insight and knowledge. I just completed the first season and I will do for rest of the other 4 if you will do so

[@ApexTheDon]

My favorite episode

[@captainsauce2406]

Long live AWSOME-walter

[@theyoutubeanalyst3731]

"It gained good reception with a very young audience". No kidding, my mom would tell me about her and her sisters, as children, watching the Twilight Zone to spook each other. They usually had to sleep next to each other at night after watching though.

[@DanBrizuela]

Damn, it took until the 24th episode for the show to air? There's something crazy about that to me. Also, the fastest take to the spoiler twist section.

[@Undeadpriest94]

4:14 "I thought if a man lived forever, he'd grow wiser... but that isn't true, now is it." "You just go on living. That's all." This is a quote I think about when I write about immortal characters in my stories. Sometimes it isn't wisdom or madness that you develop over the ages. Sometimes, you just live on, with nothing worth learning and nothing worth going crazy over.

[@MegaMagicdog]

I don't think so. You do get wiser when you get older (usually). If one kept living century after century, some things would not change, but there will still be new things to learn.

[@PixelatedH2O]

@@MegaMagicdog Experiencing something does not mean you learn from it

[@Undeadpriest94]

@@MegaMagicdog That's why I said sometimes: Some people have the mental capacity to endure endless life and learn with it. Some people learn nothing and just get use to living. Some people buckle under the pressure of living forever and simply go mad. The possibility of eternity has different effects on the human mind. And as we know nobody that can live forever, we can't say for sure what effect would be the most prominent.

[@marypowis7778]

He was like a picture of Dorian Grey

[@brucef310]

Thank you for posting this. I just found your channel and I am a huge twilight zone fan. I just subscribed.

[@kimkelly5512]

Love this episode.

[@seraphim_hawkk]

Another favorite

[@TheTaylw1]

you should do an episode on the episode called "The Masks"

[@JackReynolds-w7g]

If you live forever - eventually your past will catch up with you.

[@socermomuva]

These are outstanding!!!

[@mattz1lla]

Idk if anyone else noticed this when watching this Episode, but Rod Serling doesn’t give the usual outro he does on other episodes, like he did on The 4 of us are Dying. Just a fun fact that kinda went over Walter’s head I think when narrating this episode

[@gabrielleward5610]

Dude I might talk to my college about putting this on as a show

[@jime6688]

This is one of those episodes that got my imagination running into overdrive when I was a kid. Together with a friend, we postulated that what if Jameson isn’t dead? He was reduced to dust, but perhaps the immortal soul and mind are still intact and he’s stuck in an inert form about to be vacuumed up and put in the trash. Truly fiendish stuff if you carry these stories out longer.

[@KnightVelkan]

check out a movie The Man From Earth it strongly resembles the idea of this episode

[@ApexTheDon]

I'm gonna check this out. I love stories like this one, immortality with some type of history behind it. Something along the lines of rip van winkle.

[@ApexTheDon]

Ok, I checked it out. I HATE EDITH, THE SHRINK THEY CALLED AND THE OLD FACE FUCKER IN THE BIKER JACKET. 1/10

[@pvtjhon]

Dude you do a great job on these. Keep it up. Stay healthy.

[@MandleRoss]

This is so much like the story told by Louis, Bard Pitt's character from Interview With The Vampire, even down to lines like "You just keep living.", that I wonder if Anne Rice took some inspiration from it.

[@kylepatrickhall1426]

Underrated story

[@shizzam5000]

My favorite one along with dead man shoes and Talky Tina

[@BugsyFoga]

WALTERCEPTION !!!!

[@Josephlunar824]

My favorite episode cuz it about History my favorite subject

[@SuperSongbird21]

This reminds me of something I read about the making of the film "Highlander". The idea that the immortals in that story couldn't have offspring apparently cam very late in the production and the original opening shot was going to be Macleod attending a funeral. He's confronted by the brothers and elderly mum of the dead man who know who he is and aren't happy to see him again, so Macleod ends up admitting that he's an immortal - the dead man and his brothers are Macleod's sons and the old woman is an ex-wife of his. Don't think the audience would've been very sympathetic to Macleod if they'd stuck with this version.

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

people think immortality is great but never consider what happens when the earth crumbles to dust or the sun burns out

[@akada74]

nice work

[@Unownshipper]

I feel this episode won't have the lasting impact on me that it might with others (some stories just leave more of an impression on some people than others), but I can freely admit this is a brilliant episode with philosophy, mystery, tragedy, and great effects.

[@autisticwriter5763]

Nothing lasts Forever

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Okay. I love immortal characters. But I think the whole immortality is a curse thing is overdone and overthought. It's become a meme that has become a box in which we "think." But what I love here is that the real twist is not how we go on. It's the fact that he is a douche bag who abandons people rather than ending his own if the pain of living is supposedly too much for him. He is just selfish.

[@Graywyck]

Ah, but it wasn't overdone back when this episode was made. Sure, there were similar stories before it, but it wasn't a cliche really.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

I would love for an Immortal character yo be characterized as good and not hating his/her immortality. That is sucks but it has perks, like Life itself. That sure it might be a pain in the ass yo see your loved ones die, but have thst character deciding to commit himself/herself to protecting the progeny and family of his nos deceased friend and ve the "Great Grandpa" for the Family, making sure the grandchildren know who their grandpas and grandmas were. It would be a heartwarming twist on the fórmula

[@sarafontanini7051]

The Sandman has an immortal who LOVES being immortal, though who still experiences the pain and sadness over the loss of his friends and family, he still enjoys living on despite that pain

[@medusagorgo5146]

I want more immortal characters to embrace it and live life to the fullest. I mean shit, if I were immortal, I could do so many things, go so many places and enjoy life, plus you could help other people and work towards improving their lives too.

[@Undeadpriest94]

​@@medusagorgo5146 Would you be considering it a gift after 2000 years?

[@Nasser851000]

Is there someone named Walter Jameson in the comments section?

[@trinaq]

It would be HILARIOUS if there WAS a real Walter Jameson, as well as THIS Walter! 😉🤣

[@TheFrugalVideoGamer]

Holy crap, it's RJ Fletcher from "UHF"!

[@chrisazylum6624]

Remember watching this one when I was younger! Next time we find out how People Are Alike All Over!

[@crystalgemgirl731]

Malfus from Disenchantment said it best, "Immortality is a curse"

[@jamesrav]

there's a made-for-TV 1972 movie 'The Night Strangler' (follow up to 'The Night Stalker') that covers this theme, and probably not coincidentally was written by Richard Matheson. There's even a Civil War picture in the movie that almost exactly matches the pic in this episode, both pics providing the proof that the main character is well over 150 years old and not aging.

[@MartinSage]

What is scary is to look at photos of Kevin McCarthy at his last yrs in his 90’s. He really aged like Walter did in the last scene.🤭🤔

[@CaptainCJ97]

Ah the tale of living for ever it's always a double edge sword

[@wstine79]

The only place where Walter can review Walter is in the Twilight Zone.

[@jerraldwest2935]

I'm a minute and 40 seconds into the video and have never seen this episode. He's an immortal, isn't he?

[@thomasraines1396]

Yes

[@Happymali10]

There's a famous scene from another movie where a woman turns into a witch, with huge dark spots on her face and changed eyes. They used the same color-trickery.

[@MLdoktor]

Pretty sure the people behind "The man from earth" saw this.

[@ziggy72170]

I Gotta say; Out of the Twilight Zone Episodes this one is my Favorite . I'm Exactly like Professor "Sam Kittridge".. I'm a 50 year old man , who constantly is Obsessed with YOUTH !.. I've done this my entire life. ( from age 15).I can't explain this,,,. But Iike Sam, im i'm very Fearful of Death...

[@ernestromano1967]

Kevin McCarthy was brilliant as Walter Jameson. My favorite performance in The Twilight Zone series!

[@TheCreepypro]

great premise great direction what else could you want?

[@adamf1980]

Watching this, then watching UHF. Kevin McCarthy didn't seem to age during the period between those two.

[@hayleybartek8643]

I like the question of how immortality would affect someone as presented by “Gulliver’s Travels.” I can’t remember how the body handled it, but the mind couldn’t keep up, and age was determined by asking who they thought the current ruler was. Like they couldn’t learn anything more.

[@davidzdziarek-zl8cu]

The Professor had spent 2,000 years on the run from the truth, until finally one night, the final skeleton degravitated from his closet, and the skeleton bit him to his bitter end that night! Charles Beaumont's best next to Living Doll.

[@ryancoulter4797]

There’s a Wayne & Shuster comedy sketch either like this or inspired by it (I’d love to find out which came first) where a professor discovers one of his students is immortal and the student starts showing him pics of cleopatra and Napoleon from his scrapbook.

[@ryancoulter4797]

@@BWMagus lol I know. It wasn’t smart comedy. They spoofed Six Million Dollar Man, saying they bought his parts at Canadian Tire (think Pep Boys) and Radio Shack

[@Demon666x3]

Walter Jameson...I'm gonna have to remember that name so I can put it on a tombstone in my yard for next year, the emathath too!

[@melissacooper4282]

This episode reminds me of a story about the wandering Jew. In that story a Jewish man was living around the time of Christ. The man becomes immortal not because of an alchemist but because Jesus tells him that he will remain until his second coming. I'm not sure if that story was true or not but it's a good inspiration to this episode.

[@jlev1028]

Obviously, no, and not just because the idea of human immortality is bullshit. The entire idea of Jesus as the Messiah and the Son of G-d is a hoax used to perpetuate the most fraudulent religion in the world.