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A young Billy Mumy (also seen in the Season 3 episode It's a Good Life and the Season 5 episode In Praise of Pip) makes an appearance here as a young boy who is very close to his grandmother. Unfortunately his grandmother dies early on, but he can still communicate with her by way of a toy phone. Even more unfortunately, she isn't quite ready to let go of him, so she takes him, well, somewhere, and it's only after some serious begging on the part of her son that she releases him back to the land of the living. Really rather bizarre.

This may just be one of the best episodes of the series. When an older member of an exclusive club has decided that he can't take any more of a younger member's bragging, he wagers that the younger member cannot keep his mouth shut for one year. In return, the younger member, should he win, will get the sum of 500 thousand dollars. To make sure that things are on the up-and-up, the younger member agrees to live in a glass-enclosed cage in an unused room in the club basement.

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Drive Shaft Pole Vault. Somewhat similar to the Rear Axle myth from the Expolosive Decompression, Frog Giggin', Rear Axle episode, but with a twist - can a failing drive shaft cause your car to pole vault? The first challenge is, of course, to make the drive shaft fail on cue. So after a bit of investigation, the boys think they have that one down (they don't, but we'll get back to that). While Adam and Jamie rig a car up for remote control, the build team digs a rather large hole in the concrete where the failed drive shaft will end up.

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Bend the Light. While the contestants of The Amazing Race rough it a bit between legs, not so for these nine teams - at least, not this time around. They stayed in a bed and breakfast! The only downside, however, was that they would have a varying amount of warning before the next leg started. As it turned out, that warning was just a few hours after they settled in for the night.

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Albert Salmi (Execution from Season 1 and A Quality of Mercy from Season 3) stars as William J. Feathersmith, who is on top of the world. Or would be, if he could just find something that he doesn't already own. And so he meets the devil on his way home one night, and the devil has a new deal for him. The devil agrees to sell him a trip back in time, to Cliffordville, before he struck it rich, with just enough money to make the deals of a lifetime.

Unfortunately for Mr. Feathersmith, he seems to have forgotten a few details, like the fact that he doesn't have the equipment needed to drill down to the depths where the oil can be found. Everyone knows the worthless land contains oil, but no one can get to it. So he has just sold everything he has to get back to the past, with nothing at all to show for it. Perhaps it wasn't such a good deal after all.

Also a brief appearance by Julie Newmar (the original Catwoman) as the devil.

Finally, a cruise, albeit on a decrepit old ocean liner called the Lady Anne. Sure, there are faster vessels around, but beggars can't be choosers, can they now? As it turns out, perhaps they can. For it seems that this old lady holds a secret. It seems that this is the last voyage of this lady, as the passengers have been cruising aboard her for some time, and they have agreed that this shall be her final voyage.

So at the end, this young couple who embarked with such hope, and now faces an uncertain future, has even more worries, as they are set adrift in a life raft. At least they didn't go down with the ship.

Lanser is having a horrible time on the ship. He can't even remember how he got there. But he sure knows a lot about those German U-Boats. Then he sees one coming at them, but he can't find anyone to tell. So he picks up the binoculars, and who does he see but himself, looking at the boat, and then he remembers.

He remembers having a conversation with his second in command, who asked if perhaps they wouldn't be doomed to repeat the night over and over, for sinking a ship full of innocent people without so much as a warning. And the ship sinks beneath the waves. And then we see him back on deck as the dream starts over again.

A very young Dennis Hopper stars in this episode as a wannabe Adolf Hitler. That is, until Adolf Hitler himself shows up and helps him understand how to be a better leader. Well, better leader if you want to be Adolf Hitler, that is. So he starts speaking differently and people start following and all of a sudden he finds himself in a position to become the next Hitler. And that is when Hitler says that he needs a martyr, so he sacrifices one of his friends.

Next, an old friends challenges him in front of everyone and Hopper goes to him and shoots him, and the next thing you know, Hitler steps out of the shadows and just as Hopper is ready to ascend to the next step, the police burst in to arrest him in the death of his friend. So he runs, and as he runs, he is shot and killed. Perhaps next time, Adolf.

The interesting thing here is that the drama of this hour-long episode was really quite good, but the ending was a bit of a let-down. We never find out if Hitler was a part of his imagination or if he was actually alive. It doesn't matter so much, I guess, as I'm sure Serling meant it to be a commentary on hate, but after a good performance it just didn't end that well.

A young girl (played by Ann Jillian) is rescued from a burning house, only to find out that she can't speak. As it turns out, her parents never taught her to speak, fearing that it would interfere with her mind as they taught her as a telepath. This seems borne out as her new foster parents enroll her in school and in the first week her powers are considerably weakened. One of the better hour-long episodes.

This episode also has a short appearance from the late Oscar Beregi Jr. (who was in The Rip Van Winkle Caper from Season 2 and also Death's Head Revisited in Season 3).

Coke Oven Operator. We start this episode at a coke oven. Coke is carbonized coal. Or something. Basically they take a bunch of coal (20 tons at a time) and cook it. That's right, they cook coal. I thought if you cooked coal it was burnt. But then, they cooked trees to make charcoal in Micro-Algae Man, so what do I know? It looks like it's hot. And it is definitely dirty. They won't even let Mike go into one room, and they don't let him operator anything more than a shovel. This place is dangerous.

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Damien's parents have asked him to move home, but that doesn't seem to be working out so well. The Lottery Burglar has apparently spotted his $100K car out front, and decided to break into the house to steal, well, something from his parents. So he takes off for a night of unbridled love with Frankie. Well, as it turns out, it's just some kissing on the couch of the new apartment that Frankie's mom bought in NYC, but that's as close as these kids seem to get.

Meanwhile, Sean and Tally continue their pursuit of Zoe all the way to Buffalo, where they find nothing other than a trunkful of meth, which surprises no one except for Sean, so it looks like Zoe pulled a fast one on him. Good for her.

Devoted father Peter has taken the opportunity to jet to Mexico to be with his new friend the lawyer on a "fishing trip", complete with supplied fish, in order to hobnob with money men who will supply him with the capital for his startup business, since Cameron doesn't seem interested, at least in the business. Cameron does seem interested in Peter's wife Nina, who is back home minding the home and checking out their new mansion, which has water leaks, which strangely she seems to be intent on fixing - I thought the sellers had to fix problems with houses before the sale, not potential buyers.

Finally, a cliffhanger at the end of the episode as Frankie's dad is in bed with Sumer and he fires a gun at a woman in a coat at the end of the episode. We're led to believe that it's Frankie, coming home early from New York, but it's my suspicion that it's actually Frankie's mom instead - or at least some other woman. No way would they kill off the kid, especially with the whole Damien-Galina-Frankie triangle going on. We'll see soon, I'm sure.

While Earl and Randy are "treasure hunting" at the river, they come across a police badge, which brings back good memories. It seems that one day at the bowling alley, Earl and Joy stole the badge from someone's bowling shoes.

The poor sap in question liked bowling more than being an officer, and he would put his badge in his street shoes while he bowled, and he happened to have the bad luck to be bowling next to Earl and Joy. It's his worse luck to have his four sisters also on the force (his mom is the captain) and they find out he lost his badge one day when they turn in the stolen badge after finding out it has too much power for them to wield.

The poor guy gets even worse duty by manning the highway rest stop, so Earl feels it's his duty to help him regain his honor, and they try and trap Rodney (Clint Howard) into robbing the Crab Shack, but the would-be bowler won't step up to the plate , so Earl has to confront him at the bowling alley, and as it turns out, that's when he does step up - to arrest Earl. Of course, it all works out, as Rodney eventually flashes the stolen badge at the four sisters and the mom, who take him away in a police car.