Come Wander With Me

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The Twilight Zone original series Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1963 – Summer 1964 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: In Praise of Pip Steel Nightmare at 20,000 Feet A Kind of a Stopwatch The Last Night of a Jockey Living Doll The Old Man in the Cave Uncle Simon Probe 7, Over and Out The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain Ninety Years Without Slumbering Ring-a-Ding Girl You Drive The Long Morrow The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Number 12 Looks Just Like You Black Leather Jackets Night Call From Agnes—With Love Spur of the Moment An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Queen of the Nile What's in the Box The Masks I Am the Night—Color Me Black Sounds and Silences Caesar and Me The Jeopardy Room Stopover in a Quiet Town The Encounter Mr. Garrity and the Graves The Brain Center at Whipple's Come Wander With Me The Fear The Bewitchin' Pool

“Come Wander with Me” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 154
Season: 5
Original air date: May 22, 1964
Writer: Anthony Wilson
Director: Richard Donner
Producer: William Froug
Director of photography: Fred Mandl
Music: Jeff Alexander

[edit] Cast

Floyd Burney: Gary Crosby
Mary Rachel: Bonnie Beecher
Billy Rayford: John Bolt
Old Man: Hank Patterson

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The Rock-A-Billy Kid, Floyd Burney, arrives at a small town in search of a new song he hopes to buy. He is directed to a dilapidated shop in the woods run by a reclusive old man. After his offer of money in exchange for an original song is rebuffed, Floyd wanders off through the woods and unknowingly passes a tombstone with his name on it. Beside a lake, he encounters a pretty but mysterious woman, Mary, who reluctantly plays a song for him about two lovers who meet in the woods and are torn apart by tragedy. Floyd offers to buy the song rights from her, but she claims it isn't for sale. As he tries to seduce her, a jealous young man named Rayford shows up and attacks Floyd, who defends himself and kills Rayford. Soon, Rayford's brothers arrive to chase after Floyd. As he prepares to flee, Mary begs him to stay, hoping things will be different this time. She implies that these same events have occurred before. Ignoring her, he runs away and finds himself back at the shop in the woods where he is killed by the brothers. The camera returns to the image of the tombstone in the first scene with a warning from Rod Serling that, "In the Twilight Zone, some things are not for sale."

[edit] Trivia

Last episode in the series to be filmed.
The 'Come Wander With Me' song, composed by Jeff Alexander and sung by Bonnie Beecher herself, was used almost 40 years later on the soundtrack of the 2003 film "The Brown Bunny" and in a 2006 television commercial for a Dutch insurance company (RVS), that showed Rene Magritte-like flying men with open umbrellas.