this be a clever episode of twilight zone that be comic rather than strange or tragic . buster keaton be woodrow mulligan and a janitor from 1890 america and work in a laboratory . he be constantly grip about the life problem around him represent meat be too expensive ( it like $ 1 . 00 or lb . unheard of . ) . he be always yell after crazy speeder ( on bicycle auto haven not appear yet ) . grip to the end and he see a helmet like device by a scientist and and put it on and try it . suddenly he be in modern america . the beginning be a seven minute silent film . now it be all noise and all talk and all beeping and all blowing . keaton be here only a few minute when he realize that the world have change and not for the good . he run into stanley adam and a professor rollo and who realize that mulligan be from c. 1890 ( he mention president cleveland ) . rollo have always want to live in that charming and quiet age . he help mulligan get the helmet repair and and they go back in time . rollo get bore after awhile and due to the lack of scientific equipment that he can use . mulligan put the helmet on him and send him into the future . but now woodrow be fully content with the quiet and simple age he live in . he have find contentment . in his last fifteen year buster keaton be frequently on television ( many time for allan funt on candid camera and where he could help set up sight gag trick on the public ) . he do make a few film as well ( most notably a funny thing happen on the way to the forum and the railrodder ) . but he occasionally pop up in television play and episode . he be in his element here and presumably advise the director ( old comedy film director norman mcleod he direct the marx brother in horse feather ) on the trick he could do . watch how stanley adam and he time adams pick him up when he be snatch a pair of trouser he need . in term of time it remind one of gag he do in the 20 in film like sherlock jr. the episode do show keaton in fine fettle for a man in his sixty . the appearance of jesse white ( here a a repairman and of all thing ) be always welcome . but look a bit at professor rollo . stanley adam be a well know figure in movie and television from the 1950s onward to his tragic suicide in 1977. plump and with unkempt appearance and and heavy and booming voice and his best know dramatic role be a the wrestling promoter in the film version of requiem for a heavyweight ( he want anthony quinn to be a wrestler wear a costume a an indian ) . his best know television appearance be a the space trader who introduce the crew of the starship enterprise in star trek to those furry and fertile little creature tribbles ( a in the trouble with ) . adam be always worth watch ( like jesse white and and certainly like keaton ) and enhance most of the production he appear in . i have never understand his suicide and but it be a sad end to a first rate character performer .