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Husband and wife yuppies (James Whitmore, Jr. and Linda Kelsey) get on a nostalgic kick, longing for the other half of the 60s, and the Twilight Zone has a way of fulfilling such desires. Big Chill meets the TZ. Into their 40s, this couple can't help but yearn for their hippy better halves. The episode is decidedly one sided with Whitmore being revisited by Kelsey when still a flower child, eighteen, naive, and open to changing the world with a free spirit. Eventually he realizes that he isn't a hippy anymore, as does Kelsey, with their former selves revealed as a memory. They do realize that despite being a corporation counsel and gym instructor respectively, there are ways to make a better impact than padding their bank account and worrying about totally fit physiques. This probably would or did back then resonate with those in similar positions...trading free love and protests for tailored suits, a nice portfolio, five pound hand phones with antenna, and BMWs. There are conversations about selling out, abandoning ideals, and embracing cold, hard cash. The message isn't subtle.6/10

"Song of the Younger World" deals with a man of great wealth, privilege, law enforcement power, and religious fanaticism (Roberts Blossom, a menace quoting scripture while threatening violence if his commands aren't met) warning a poor pickpocket (Peter Kowanko) not to be around his beautiful bookworm daughter (Jennifer Ruben, A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors). The two are in love and will try and use a supernatural will of the mind to transport themselves elsewhere in order to be free of her father's tyranny. The wolves of a London novel could be their ticket. Classic love conquers all tale which is not bad if you like that sort of theme. Paul Benedict of The Jeffersons is a pauper who wants the lovebirds to persevere. 6/10

***SPOILERS*** Story about forbidden love between a young inmate Tanner Smith, Peter Kowanko, at "The House of Refuse for Wayward Boys" and it's strict and fanatically religious administrator Mordecai Hawkins', Charles Aidman, pretty young daughter Amy, Jennifer Rubin, who's just crazy about Tanner, and he her, which old Mordecai is determined to put to an end even if it kills him! That's Tanner not Mordecai!

Both Tanner and Amy are hopelessly in love with each other but they know it's not to be as long as Old Man Mordecai has anything to say about it! It's Amy dabbling in the occult that opens the door to her and Tanner being liberated from Mordecai's dictatorial rule! Tanner had already gotten his hide tanned by Mordecai's security guards when he was caught romping in the hey with Amy. The next time he won't get off so easy Tanner is told by the mad as a hatter Mordecai!

Meanwhile this local rummy who's always hanging around the place Hokey, Paul Benedick, sneaks into the reformatory, probably looking for leftovers from the kitchen, and get's Amy interested in transcendental meditation as well as out of body experiences! That's the only way both Amy and her eternal love Tanner can escape from the chains that the ruthless and religiously crazed madman Mordecai put on them! Amy knowing that she's on to something in her being able, with Hokey's help, to mentally conjure up a door to another world or existence tries to get a very reluctant Tanner, who thinks she's a bit off the wall, to go along with her! It when Amy's, in willing it to happen, soul departs from her body that Tanner thinking that Old Man Mordecai drove her to suicide that he finally loses it!

***SPOILERS*** Attempting to bash Moordecai's skull in Tanner is apprehended by a number of security guards and thrown into the "hole", solitary confinement, to rot there until he either ends up going mad or in his grave! Mordecai feeling that Tanner didn't suffer enough then goes down to the dungeon to pay Tanner a visit by putting a bullet in his head in order, that's what it seemed like, to put him out of his misery! Hokey getting to Tanner first throws him, through the bars of his cell, a secret illustration that if Tanner meditates hard enough on it he'll open the door to another world where his love Amy is waiting for him! Breaking through the chains or straight-jacket that Mordecai bounded him with Tanner breaks free for the world of pain and suffering that's he's confined to and enters into a younger and more peaceful world where hatred pettiness and ignorance is non-existence. A world where he and Amy can be together forever, or as long as they both live, as Tanner's most beloved creature, in being a big fan of writer Jack London, in the wild a pair of mated and forever happy wolves!