Once Upon a Time
Janitor Woodrow Mulligan gets a trip from 1890 to 1962 courtesy of his employer's time-machine helmet.
- Rated
- TV-PG
- Runtime
- 25m
- Released
- 1961
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1961
Storyline
Janitor Woodrow Mulligan gets a trip from 1890 to 1962 courtesy of his employer's time-machine helmet.
Top credits
Buster Keaton — Woodrow Mulligan
Stanley Adams — Rollo
James Flavin — 1962 Policeman
Gil Lamb — Officer Flannagan
Did you know
• The old-fashioned clothes wringer that Buster Keaton is using to wash his pants in the beginning is the same kind of wringer that crushed his right forefinger when he was three years old. A curious little boy, he got his finger caught in the rollers and a doctor had to amputate it at the first knuckle. In this short, he gets the same finger caught in the wringer for laughs.
• According to Rod Serling's promo in the previous episode, Richard Matheson wrote this script especially for Buster Keaton.
• During Rod Serling's closing monologue, The Twilight Zone Theme can briefly be heard played in an unusual "Silent Movie/Honkey-Tonk Piano" arrangement, in tribute to the story's motif.
See all trivia →User reviews
fun little episode
Silents Please!
Serling does comedy (with some help from Buster Keaton)...and it works
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- Color
- Black and White, Black and White
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