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The Incredible World of Horace Ford

Episode Number: 117    Season Num: 4    First Aired: April 18, 1963    Prod Code: 4854
Toy designer Horace Ford spends most of his time reminiscing about his idyllic childhood. But when he gets a chance to go back to those years he gets a bitter taste of reality.

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Writer: Reginald Rose
Director: Abner Biberman
Star: Pat Hingle (Horace Ford),  Nan Martin (Laura Ford),  Rod Serling (Narrator/Host)
Guest Star: Billy E. Hughes (Kid),  Ruth White (Mrs. Ford),  Phillip Pine (Leonard O'Brien),  Mary Carver (Betty O'Brien),  Vaughn Taylor (Mr. Judson),  Jim E. Titus (Horace (child)),  Jerry Davis (Hermy Brandt)

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This story was first produced in 1955 as an episode on Studio One starring Art Carney. (edit)
Included on volume 38 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit)
This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. (edit)

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(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Exit Mr. and Mrs. Horace Ford, who have lived through a bizarre moment not to be calibrated on normal clocks or watches. Time has passed, to be sure, but it's the special time in the special place known as--the Twilight Zone. (edit)
(Opening Narration)
Narrator: Mr. Horace Ford, who has a preoccupation with another time, a time of childhood, a time of growing up, a time of street games, stickball and hide-'n-go-seek. He has a reluctance to go check out a mirror and see the nature of his image: proof positive that the time he dwells in has already passed him by. But in a moment or two he'll discover that mechanical toys and memories and daydreaming and wishful thinking and all manner of odd and special events can lead into a special province, uncharted and unmapped, a country of both shadow and substance known as... the Twilight Zone. (edit)

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Similar to the episode "Walking Distance," where the main character, Martin Sloan, goes back to his old neighborhood and sees himself as a child and the rest of the place exactly as it was when he was young. (edit)
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