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Martin
Sloan is a 39-year old Vice-President of an Advertising Agency in charge
of Media in New York City. Feeling stressed out by his job, he takes a
little drive and ends up in the Twilight Zone. Blowing out a tire on a
corner, he finds that he is only two miles from Homewood, a small town
that he grew up in.
Driving his car with a flat tire one-half mile, he finds a
service station. While his car is getting fixed, he hikes into
town. As
Martin enters Homewood, he notices something strange . . . it hasn't
changed at all in the last 20 years. Martin enters the Soda Shoppe and
is surprised to find that the chocolate soda with three scoops is still
only ten cents. Mrs. Denton enters the shop and fails to recognize
Martin.
As he continues walking down memory lane, he finds himself on
the street where he grew up. He runs across a boy playing marbles in the
street and tells the boy that he is Martin Sloan. The Wilcox boy runs
away claiming that Martin is not Marty Sloan. When Martin meets Steve
Wilcox, the boy's father, Martin starts to say that he thought Steve was dead,
but stops himself. Martin then walks to his old house and rings the bell,
thinking to tell the current owners a little history of the house.
But
when his father answers the door, and his father appears to be Martin's
age, Martin realizes that something strange has happened to him. His
parents do not believe him when he tells them that he is their son, so
he heads down to the park where he spies the younger version of himself.
Young Marty runs away from Martin and falls into the machinery of the
local merry-go-round. How will this affect the Martin Sloan of today?
Walking Distance is a TV Tie In Graphic Novel written for the
television series by Rod Serling. This story originally aired on
television on October 30, 1959 as Episode 5 in Season One of The Twilight Zone. The script has been adapted by Mark Kneece and
illustrated by Dove McHargue. This story is intended for Young Readers
ages 12 and up.
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