The Incredible World of Horace Ford

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The Twilight Zone Original series Season four (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) January 1963 – June 1963 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: In His Image The Thirty-Fathom Grave Valley of the Shadow He's Alive Mute Death Ship Jess-Belle Miniature Printer's Devil No Time Like the Past The Parallel I Dream of Genie The New Exhibit Of Late I Think of Cliffordville The Incredible World of Horace Ford On Thursday We Leave for Home Passage on the Lady Anne The Bard

“The Incredible World of Horace Ford” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 117
Season: 4
Original air date: April 18, 1963
Writer: Reginald Rose
Director: Abner Biberman
Producer: Herbert Hirschman
Director of photography: George T. Clemens

[edit] Cast

Horace Ford: Pat Hingle
Laura Ford: Nan Martin
Mrs. Ford: Ruth White
Leonard O'Brien: Phillip Pine
Mr. Judson: Vaughn Taylor

[edit] Synopsis

Horace Ford is a toy designer who keeps remembering his childhood. Finally he decides to go to his childhood neighborhood where he discovers to his amazement that he sees the same kids that he was friends with in his childhood. They bully and assault him, and Horace realizes that his childhood was not as glamorous as he would nostalgically recall. He returns to his own time period with new found appreciation for his current self.