  "walking distance" is an episode of the american television anthology series the twilight zone. the episode was listed as the ninth best episode in the history of the twilight zone by time. ==plot summary== while driving his car in the countryside (c. 1959), thirty-six-year-old advertising executive martin sloan stops to have his car serviced at a gas station within walking distance of his hometown, named homewood. after walking into town, he sees that it apparently has not changed since he was a boy, and it is the year 1934. martin walks to the park where he is startled to see himself as a boy. following the boy home, he meets his parents as they were in his childhood. confused and worried, martin wanders around town and ends up at his former home again that evening, where he again tries to convince his parents who he is, but is again turned away. martin as a man wanders back to the park and finds his childhood self on a carousel, and tries to tell him to enjoy his childhood while it lasts. his advances scare young martin, who falls off the merry-go-round and injures his leg. after young martin is carried away, adult martin is confronted by his father who, having seen the documents and money with future dates on them in the mature martin sloan's lost wallet, now believes his story. the dad advises his son that everyone has his time, and that, instead of looking behind him, he should look ahead, because the happiness he is seeking may be in the places he has not looked yet. when martin walks back into the drugstore, he finds himself back in the 1959 homewood, during the afternoon. after discovering he now has a limp from the carousel injury, he makes his way back to the gas station. he picks up his car and drives away, content to live his life in his current age gro
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