The Twilight Zone
Young Man's Fancy
TV Flash files “Young Man's Fancy” as hour 99 of 156 in the TV Flash guide — The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) on CBS, season 3, episode 34, aired 1962-05-11, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E34: listed hour 99 of 156 in the The Twilight Zone guide, hour 34 of 37 in season 3. It aired 1962-05-11 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Dummy” (S03E33). Next is “I Sing the Body Electric” (S03E35).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Upon a newlywed's arrival to his boyhood home with his bride, he starts to have reservations selling the place following his mother's death. However, it doesn't take long for the home to have a magical effect on the couple: time has turned back to when the overbearing mother is back alive and the bridegroom is back living as a little boy, who promptly tells his bride to go away.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Young Man's Fancy sit in the The Twilight Zone guide?
S03E34 is listed hour 99 of 156 — hour 34 of 37 in season 3, season 3 episode 34.
When did The Twilight Zone S03E34 air?
Young Man's Fancy aired 1962-05-11 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with the empty-town opener, then the broken-glasses hour. Isolation first, stolen moral second; those two teach the anthology’s real instrument better than any twist ranking.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Serling used fantasy as a smuggled sermon when sponsors would not let a straight drama talk. Watch for isolation as craft, the twist as a bill coming due, and half-hours built to sit in the blood overnight — not to snack in a dump.
October 1959, CBS: a man walks into an empty town and the country learns a new address. The Twilight Zone did not invent the anthology. It invented the anthology as a national flinch — half-hour moral weather, a host in a dark suit, and a closing turn that was supposed to sting after the sponsor smile. Rod Serling had already fought live-drama censors and lost enough rounds to change weapons. Fantasy was the loophole. Aliens, bargains, small towns that eat themselves: the vocabulary of a writer who wanted to talk…
Filed against
- Rod Serling as Host / Narrator
Rod Serling created and hosted The Twilight Zone — moral fables in a black suit, twist endings that taught America to fear its own reflection. Sponsor and censor battles are as legendary as the episodes. On TV Flash he is prestige…