In the first scene we see some boys playing softball.\u00a0 When one is called out by the umpire a little girl with a leg brace (Jenny) complains about the call.\u00a0 An old man (Ben) with a big moustache chastises her for contesting the umpire.\u00a0 Then the old man is up to bat.\u00a0 He hits the ball and it disappears over the trees like a rocket.\u00a0 The kids lament the loss of the ball and the old man promises to make up for it by playing a game where they are space rangers and he is an outer space monster.\u00a0 When the kids sneak up on the monster\u2019s lair (a large bush) a real monster comes out and the kids \u201cshoot\u201d it with ray guns (really just their fingers pointing like a gun and making a ray gun noise).\u00a0 The monster pretends to be shot and falls behind the bush.\u00a0 And immediately the old man jumps out and says to the kids, \u201cI think you got him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Old Ben carries Jenny (because of her disability) back to the apartment building where they both live.\u00a0 Ben lives alone and Jenny lives with her very unpleasant Aunt Agnes (played by Nancy Kulp who was Miss Jane Hathaway on the Beverly Hillbillies).\u00a0 Aunt Agnes is unhappy because she\u2019s been forced to take responsibility for her orphaned niece.\u00a0 And Agnes hates Ben whom she thinks encourages her niece to misbehave.\u00a0 When Ben brings Jenny home, they both get abused verbally by Aunt Agnes.\u00a0 Ben heads to his apartment.<\/p>\n
Two men who claim to be police detectives show up at Aunt Agnes\u2019 door and want to know information about Ben.\u00a0 They imply that he may be a fugitive that they are chasing.\u00a0 Hearing this, Jenny sneaks away to Ben\u2019s apartment to warn him.\u00a0 When Ben hears about the two men, he tells Jenny that he really is a fugitive but from a different planet.\u00a0 And that he must leave Earth to escape these two men.\u00a0 Suddenly the two men and Aunt Agnes are banging at the door of Ben\u2019s apartment.\u00a0 When they come in, they find Jenny but Ben is gone.\u00a0 After interrogating her they bring her back to her room and the two men leave.\u00a0 Aunt Agnes yells at Jenny and sends her to bed without supper.\u00a0 As soon as she is alone, she takes a mouse out of her hand and putting it down it becomes Ben.\u00a0 Ben tells her it is time for him to leave but before he goes, he has something for her.\u00a0 She closes her eyes and Ben takes out a hand held device that has a whirling propeller and gives off a light and a noise.\u00a0 He plays the light over her crippled leg and she is cured.\u00a0 Ben turns into a fly and disappears out the window.<\/p>\n
Jenny runs down the stairs to go after Ben but before she gets out the door, the two detectives point another device like the one Ben used before and Jenny falls unconscious to the floor.\u00a0 A doctor is summoned and tells Aunt Agnes that Jenny seems to be dying.<\/p>\n
Ben returns to Jenny\u2019s room as a fly and then becomes himself.\u00a0 Using his mysterious device, he wakes Jenny and tells her that the two men did this to her to force him to return.\u00a0 And now they enter the room.\u00a0 But what we discover from their talk is that Ben is a runaway king of a far distant world and these two men are loyal servants sent to bring him back to his loving subjects.\u00a0 Ben acquiesces to returning home.\u00a0 Jenny begs to go with Ben but the men say it wouldn\u2019t be allowed by their laws.\u00a0 When Jenny asks them to leave to the room to allow her to say goodbye to Ben the agree as long as Ben promises not to escape.\u00a0 When they return Ben has changed himself into a twin of Jenny.\u00a0 Since neither of the twins will admit which is Ben, the detectives will be forced to take both Jennies back to Ben\u2019s world.<\/p>\n
Serling\u2019s closing monologue confirms that Ben doesn\u2019t appear as an old man back on his planet.\u00a0 A picture of him seems to be a boy of about sixteen, even though chronologically he\u2019s hundreds of years old.\u00a0 And Serling says when Jenny grows up, she\u2019ll be a queen.<\/p>\n
Most of the episode is a somewhat sentimental science fiction version of Cinderella.\u00a0 But I found the idea that Old Ben who was very grandfatherly toward ten year old Jenny would eventually become her husband quite creepy.\u00a0 Honestly, it ruined the whole thing for me.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0F<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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