Long Live Walter Jameson
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“Long Live Walter Jameson” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
[edit] Details
- Episode number: 24
- Season: 1
- Original air date: March 18, 1960
- Writer: Charles Beaumont
- Director: Tony Leader
[edit] Cast
- Kevin McCarthy,
- Edgar Stehli, and
- Estelle Winwood
[edit] Synopsis
Walter Jameson, a professor, has the gift of eternal youth, and is engaged to a young woman named Susanna Kittridge. The woman's father, Samuel Kittridge, discovers the truth after recognizing his future son-in-law in a Civil War picture. After his request to share Walter Jameson's immortality is refused (Walter does not know how to share his gift with others), he refuses permission for his daughter's wedding. Although Walter and Susanna make plans to marry, he is later murdered by one of his ex-wives (a woman, apparently in her 70's, portrayed by Estelle Winwood), whom he had left when she grew old and frail while he remained young. Upon his death, his body turns to dust.