Young Man's Fancy

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The Twilight Zone original series Season three (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1961 – Summer 1962 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: Two The Arrival The Shelter The Passersby A Game of Pool The Mirror The Grave It's a Good Life Deaths-Head Revisited The Midnight Sun Still Valley The Jungle Once Upon a Time Five Characters in Search of an Exit A Quality of Mercy Nothing in the Dark One More Pallbearer Dead Man's Shoes The Hunt Showdown With Rance McGrew Kick the Can A Piano in the House The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank To Serve Man The Fugitive Little Girl Lost Person or Persons Unknown The Little People Four O'Clock Hocus-Pocus and Frisby The Trade-Ins The Gift The Dummy Young Man's Fancy I Sing the Body Electric Cavender Is Coming The Changing of the Guard

“Young Man's Fancy” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 99
Season: 3
Original air date: May 11, 1962
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: John Brahm
Producer: Buck Houghton
Director of photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Nathan Scott

[edit] Cast

Alex: Alex Nicol
Virginia: Phyllis Thaxter
Mr. Wilkinson: Wallace Rooney
Mother: Helen Brown
Alex (age 10): Ricky Kelman

[edit] Synopsis

A newly-married husband and wife return to his late mother's home where he grew up. He finds it very difficult to leave the place, let alone sell it, and she can't bear it. Eventually the man becomes so engrossed in childhood memories that his mother reappears and he actually becomes a child again. His wife accuses the mother of causing this, but the mother rather sadly says that this was not her doing. In the end the horrorstruck wife flees the house, leaving her boy-husband and his spectral mother behind.

[edit] Themes

It is easy to absorb oneself into one's past, but when the ties of the past becomes too strong to resist, one will never be able to move forward to a new life.