The Twilight Zone (S3 Ep78) Original airdate: Dec 15, 1961Woodrow Mulligan (Buster Keaton) is a grumpy janitor in 1890, dissatisfied with his time and place: A backwater town called "Harmony" with 17 cent cuts of meat, 2 dollar hats, livestock freely roaming the streets and penny-farthing bicycles that knock him down while going the speed limit (8 miles per hour). He works for Professor Gilbert, who has just invented a time helmet. Pouncing on the opportunity, Mulligan uses the helmet to transport himself to 1960..This episode was one of the Twilight Zone's comedy episodes and has no spoken dialogue at the beginning. The parts set in the 1890s have no sound, silent film speech cards and a saloon piano. Much is made of the fact that Mulligan shows up in the 1960s with no pants due to his getting run over by a "high speed" bicycle.(opening narration) Mr. Mulligan, a rather dour critic of his times, is shortly to discover the import of that old phrase, 'Out of the frying pan, into the fire,' said fire burning brightly at all times in the Twilight Zone..(closing narration) 'To each his own' - so goes another old phrase to which Mr. Woodrow Mulligan would heartily subscribe, for he has learned, definitely the hard way, that there is much wisdom in a third old phrase which goes as follows: 'Stay in your own backyard.' To which it might be added, 'and if possible, assist others to stay in theirs' - via, of course, the Twilight Zone..

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