TV Review: Twilight Zone: One for the Angels (1959)

I decided to review each episode of Twilight zone, because except for the narrator (Rod Sterling), each episode has a different cast, and each episode also tells a unique story. 
This is the second episode of the first season.  Lou Bookman (Ed Wynn) has an appointment with Death (Murray Hamilton).  However, as many of us might want to do, he actually does.  He bargains with death, and gets an extension on his life.  He has unfinished business.  This business is to make the big sale, "One for the Angels.  He is a pitchman.  He sells items from a suitcase on the street.  But when he negotiates this with Death, he decides never to sell again. 
But death will not be denied.  So instead he sets his eyes on a child, a particular favorite of our pitchman.  The child is hit by a car, and in danger of dying.  She has an appointment now with death at midnight, taking Lou's place.
Lou sees his folly; but Death has already set his sights on someone else.  The only way the pitchman can save her, is by offering himself, but to do so he must make a sale for the ages.
Ed Wynn does an excellent job in this presentation.  He is laughing on the ceiling in "Mary Poppins" and is an actor I always enjoy.

TV Review: Twilight Zone: Where Is Everybody? (1959)

The original Twilight Zone ran from 1959 to 1964.  For the most part it was short stories adapted by Rod Sterling to T.V.  The episodes do not carry over, but each is independent.  This is the first of the series, the first season.  Earl Holliman plays Mike Ferris.  However he in fact does not remember his name.  He wanders into a town with no people.  He mistakes a mannequin for a person, but there really are no people.  He looks for them, and finally breaks down as a result of being all alone.  We then cut back and see this has been an experiment in longevity in isolation in preparation for travel to the moon.  They realize they can take care of basic needs, food, air etc., but isolation is a problem to long  space journeys.