This is one I find watchable even with some of the flaws . It drags a bit at times as some of the hour long episodes do but that happens with the half hour format occasionally.
Feathersmith is rich and powerful and takes great delight in humiliating others and destroying them as he does with a man from his hometown . Still he's bored and as he tells the janitor he wants to go back not only to his hometown but that specific time and start over. That was the fun part. Hecate the janitor is from the same town. Feathersmith is still looking down on people and mocks Hecate they come from the same place but Feathersmith is wealthy and powerful and Hecate is a janitor.
Later he sees a travel agency in his building it's never been there before. The agent is a Miss Devlin ( played by a delightful , wicked but strangely principled Devil) she can make Feathersmith's come true but the price is most of his fortune. Enough to make investments and retain his memory but Feathersmith isn't as smart as he thinks nor is his memories as clear he forgets the time frame or the details of inventions he plans to " invent " . He forgets how long it is from 1910 ( the year he travels back to) when they can actually get oil out of the ground. He may look thirty but inside he's still seventy five but that isn't the only problem. His memory of the girl that got away is nothing like he remembers either. He also gets humiliated by among others the man he destroyed in the future.
Miss Devlin makes it clear he's taken without giving and made money off what others worked for that others would benefit from. He only wants to go back to the present. Miss Devlin can arrange it but Feathersmith has to sell his plot of land to get the money. He does so and going back to the present we see he is the janitor and Hecate the billionaire! Hecate having bought the land that later struck oil. Many feel Hecate turned out no better and lost all his humanity and humility. Perhaps so. It might be more interesting if he was still largely the same person he was before.
Any scene with Julie Newmar is a treat to watch .She's actually the most interesting character in this episode .
Feathersmith is rich and powerful and takes great delight in humiliating others and destroying them as he does with a man from his hometown . Still he's bored and as he tells the janitor he wants to go back not only to his hometown but that specific time and start over. That was the fun part. Hecate the janitor is from the same town. Feathersmith is still looking down on people and mocks Hecate they come from the same place but Feathersmith is wealthy and powerful and Hecate is a janitor.
Later he sees a travel agency in his building it's never been there before. The agent is a Miss Devlin ( played by a delightful , wicked but strangely principled Devil) she can make Feathersmith's come true but the price is most of his fortune. Enough to make investments and retain his memory but Feathersmith isn't as smart as he thinks nor is his memories as clear he forgets the time frame or the details of inventions he plans to " invent " . He forgets how long it is from 1910 ( the year he travels back to) when they can actually get oil out of the ground. He may look thirty but inside he's still seventy five but that isn't the only problem. His memory of the girl that got away is nothing like he remembers either. He also gets humiliated by among others the man he destroyed in the future.
Miss Devlin makes it clear he's taken without giving and made money off what others worked for that others would benefit from. He only wants to go back to the present. Miss Devlin can arrange it but Feathersmith has to sell his plot of land to get the money. He does so and going back to the present we see he is the janitor and Hecate the billionaire! Hecate having bought the land that later struck oil. Many feel Hecate turned out no better and lost all his humanity and humility. Perhaps so. It might be more interesting if he was still largely the same person he was before.
Any scene with Julie Newmar is a treat to watch .She's actually the most interesting character in this episode .