In this story, a man who feels that time has passed him by has the Twilight Zone come to him. Many protagonists entered the Twilight Zone and found themselves displaced from their own time. Corwin gets that wish – courtesy of The Twilight Zone. The end result found Carney playing Henry Corwin, a down-on-his-luck soul whose job as a department store Santa is the outward expression of his wish that both he and Christmas could be something finer. Reportedly, this story was the result of Rod Serling’s desire to do a Christmas story with Art Carney as Santa Claus. There’s no supernatural element here, just a well-played character drama about taking charge of one’s own fate with a final twist that shows how truly infinite the format of the program was. William Shatner’s other Twilight Zone appearance, “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” is far more famous, but his earlier appearance is the one that shows why he was once regarded as one of Hollywood’s best young actors. Moreover, they include some of the finest acting performances ever seen in the series, which is to say in the history of film and television. Still, some of these lesser-known stories are in their own way just as compelling as some of the program’s touchstones and deserve a little extra attention. As much as I enjoy the acknowledged classics like “Eye of the Beholder,” one of the great pleasures of these marathons is seeing episodes you wouldn’t necessarily tune in for because they’re not generally viewed as one of the “greats.” Certainly, not all Twilight Zone episodes are created equal, and a few are pretty bad.
Despite owning every episode of The Twilight Zone on DVD, whenever there’s a marathon on a holiday weekend, I have to watch.
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