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Lou Bookman (Ed Wynn, who we would see again in Ninety Years Without Slumbering in Season 5) is a pitchman, and when he learns that he is about to die, he isn’t quite ready. He wanted to give one big pitch, a pitch for the angels, and he makes a deal with Death that he won’t go until he has done so. He thinks he made a great deal.

Unfortunately Death has a trick up his sleeve. Insted of Mr. Bookman, he is going to take little Maggie, and that won’t do at all. So Mr. Bookman has decided to delay Death past his appointed time, and as it turns out he does so with the pitch of a lifetime – one for the angels it seems. When he is done, Maggie will recover, and it’s Mr. Bookman’s time to go. Nice tale.

In the last episode of the series, we see a bit of continuity strangeness. It starts with two kids who are getting out of the swimming pool to find that their parents are getting a divorce. Then they run back into the pool. Next we see them and their parents in different outfits in a different conversations – turns out this is a prior conversation, but it explains that the pool is a gateway to another world of sorts, where they can escape their parents who no longer seem to want to be a family. But they return to the real world to give them another chance.

The son then runs back to the pool again to get away, and the daugther gets him one more time because the mother has promised something new. Finally they return once more to the real world and the parents talk to them, and tell them that what is new is the divorce. And that is when they finally run to the pool and disappear for good, never to return. And with that, the series ends.

In this penultimate episode of the series, Trooper Franklin goes to check on reclusive Charlotte Scott, and he suspects she’s just a snob. Then he finds out she is just scared, and so naturally he becomes protective – until he gets a bit of the same fear himself.

First they just see the lights, and then they hear things on the roof. Then he sees the giant fingerprints on his patrol car, and the next morning they see the huge alien itself! As he shoots it, they are suddenly in the midst of a bunch of wind – it was just a balloon.

Then they see the true aliens – a small spacecraft (that looks suspiciously like the one used in The Invaders way back in Season 2), and they are just a tiny race that was trying to frighten the people of Earth with trickery, and when they can’t, they take off again. That was a close one!

Wallace V. Whipple has found the answer for his company’s flagging fortunes, and it is to replace some 60 thousand people with machines. Once he’s done that he starts to replace everyone with machines. Pretty soon, he’s all alone in the factory, and then the board decides to replace him (with a robot that looks suspiciously like the one from Uncle Simon earlier in Season 5). Whoops.