Long Live Walter Jameson

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The Twilight Zone original series Season one (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1959 – Summer 1960 List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes: Where Is Everybody? One for the Angels Mr. Denton on Doomsday The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine Walking Distance Escape Clause The Lonely Time Enough at Last Perchance to Dream Judgment Night And When the Sky Was Opened What You Need The Four of Us Are Dying Third from the Sun I Shot an Arrow Into the Air The Hitch-Hiker The Fever The Last Flight The Purple Testament Elegy Mirror Image The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street A World of Difference Long Live Walter Jameson People Are Alike All Over Execution The Big Tall Wish A Nice Place to Visit Nightmare as a Child A Stop at Willoughby The Chaser A Passage for Trumpet Mr. Bevis The After Hours The Mighty Casey A World of His Own

“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

• Walter Jameson: Kevin McCarthy
• Prof. Samuel Kittridge: Edgar Stehli
• Laurette Bowen: Estelle Winwood
• Susanna Kittridge: Dody Heath

[edit] Opening Narration

"You're looking at Act One, Scene One, of a nightmare, not restricted to witching hours or dark, rainswept nights. Professor Walter Jameson, popular beyond words, who talks of the past as if it were the present, who conjures up the dead as if they were alive. In the view of this man, Professor Samuel Kittridge, Walter Jameson has access to knowledge that couldn't come out of a volume of history, but rather from a book on black magic, which is to say that this nightmare begins at noon."

[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. In spite of this, Walter and Susanna make plans to marry. Walter 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. Professor Kittridge enters the room in answer to the gunshot, where he sees Walter on the floor dying. Upon his death, Jameson's body turns to dust.

[edit] Closing Narration

"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."