- Charles Whitley living in the Sunnyvale Rest Home thinks he's found the secret of youth in playing child's games and exhorts his fellow seniors into joining in. His friend Ben Conroy and facility superintendent Cox want this stopped.
- Charles Whitley is an elderly resident of Sunnyvale Rest, a home for the aged. It's not a happy place and Charles' hopes of moving in with his son David are dashed when he's told they can't take him in. He wistfully recalls his youth where they played kick the can and didn't have a worry in the world. His close friend Ben Conroy begins to worry him when Charles suggests all you have to do is wish it, and you can be young again. Ben is worried his friend will end up in the loony bin but it's Ben who is in for a surprise.—garykmcd
- In the Sunnyvale nursing home for the elderly, Charles Whitley believes his son will take him home. He is disappointed when his son leaves him back at Sunnyvale. He sees a bunch of kids playing "kick the can", and during the night, he tells to his best friend Ben Conroy that, if he acts like a kid, he will remain youth. Ben discloses to the Superintendent Fox and he believes Charles is senile. But this is The Twilight Zone.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Charles Whitley is one of several old persons living in Sunnyvale Rest Home. On his son's most recent visit, Charles thinks his son is going to take him away from the rest home, but his son admits he'll consider it, and Charles returns to the home's porch. As he does so, he observes a group of children playing a game of 'kick the can.' During the game, Charles picks the can up, and observes it with sadness, as the children ask for the can back.
Charles' roommate, Ben Conroy, is a rather grouchy old man, who does not know why Charles clings to the notion that his son will take him out of the rest home, feeling there's no use in hoping. Charles one day decides to play much like children do, and runs through a sprinkler on the front lawn. His actions cause the home's owner, Mr Cox, to have Charles confined to his room.
After this, Charles has a secret meeting with several of the other seniors, and explains his idea that playing kick the can could possibly make them young. Almost all the seniors warm to this idea, except for Ben. As the seniors rush outside, Ben goes to alert Mr Cox. However, upon coming outside, Mr Cox and Ben only find a group of children playing hide and seek! Mr Cox rushes off to check the rooms in the house, just as Ben sees a little boy that resembles Charlie in his younger days.
Ben eagerly pleads for Charlie to take him along, but it's too late, and Charlie and the other kids rush off into the night, as their voices echo in the darkness. Ben finds himself now alone, the only man who found out too late that his acceptance that he was old, has doomed him to stay the course he has chosen.
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