The Twilight Zone
Kick the Can
Season 3, Episode 21 · Aired 1962-02-09
Synopsis
The dispirited residents of a nursing home are urged by one of their number to believe that they can recapture their youth by playing a children's game. Note: Steven Spielberg remade this as Segment II of Twilight Zone: The Movie, showing the nursing-home residents being offered a second chance at youth by their new arrival, Mr. Bloom (Scatman Crothers).
In the series
This episode is part of The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) on CBS.
Moral fables in a black suit — twist endings that taught America to fear its own reflection.
Key cast
- Rod Serling as Host / Narrator