Come Wander with Me

This is a decent ghost story. Gary Crosby, the forgotten son of Bing Crosby, is in quest of a folk song. Somehow he has been given directions to a music store in the woods. He parks his car, proceeds on foot, and find himself in the presence of an old man who us utterly uncommunicative. Apparently, this guy is a rockabilly star and normally gets what he wants. He is verbally abusive to those around him and driven to feather his nest. He throws money on the counter and grabs an old guitar, heading for the woods. While there, he hears someone singing a beautiful song. Sensing someone behind him, he turns and sees a pretty young woman in a sort of peasant dress. She teaches him her song which begins to parallel his activities, though he is too dense to catch the drift. She warns him that she is taken, but he misunderstands. He gets romantic with her but only because he feels he can get the rights to her song. She lets him know that the only way this will happen is if he promises to love her and take care of her. And, naturally, there is a guy who is bound to show up and he isn't going to be happy. The strength of this episode is in the beautiful melody that evolves as the story does, Crosby's selfish, obnoxious character, and an oppressive setting that the bewildered rocker can't figure out. Things get a little predictable at the conclusion and the slang is really dated now, but it's a pretty tight little story.

To start off with a couple of positive "notes"; I really like the idea about the lyrics of a tear-jerking torch song coming true while they're being sung! That was a nice and original touch for one of the last episodes in the overall derivative and disappoint final season of "The Twilight Zone". Secondly, debuting actress Bonnie Beecher is ideally cast as the cherubic, innocent, and naïve Mary-Rachel. And if that's her real singing, she also sounds like an angel! That's it for the good aspects, I'm afraid, as sadly "Come wander with me" is another typically structured and predictable episode with an unconvincing protagonist and an inconclusive ending.

Someone should definitely remake this into a movie or something with more explanation and a better ending. Like the person before me said, the beginning was really good and I was expecting the end to be just as creepy but it didn't really deliver. I've been watching the Twilight Zone a long time and that part in the beginning with the girl dressed in black standing in the distance was almost as scary as the first time I saw the Hitch Hiker episode when I was like 10.

Some aspects of the story that could use more detail would be a more in depth look at how the main character got to the woods, how/why the time loop occurs and more info about the mysterious girl and why she claimed she always loved the guy. How did she get stuck in the time loop?

Gary Crosby stars as Floyd Burney, the "Rock-A-Billy Kid", a traveling singer-songwriter who also likes to buy unknown songs for his profit. This takes him to some rural backwoods, where he hears a haunting ballad sung by Mary Rachel(played by Bonnie Beecher) who falls in love with him, but is powerless to change his preordained fate, as it seems Floyd is destined to live the song he wants to buy... Last produced episode of the series(though two more would air after it) is a misfire; though it does have a spooky aura about it, it also has little point or interest. Crosby's performance is sincere but coarse.

Still should have been aired last however...

Gary Crosby plays a hilarious and believable part as a jaded rockabilly star in search of new material in the backwoods. His character is too self-centered to comprehend the bigger picture of the strange situation he finds himself in. (To be fair,I doubt that anybody would understand it or handle it much different than Crosby's character does). Anyway, the whole thing is a weird and rather creepy episode. Crosby plays a hilarious part as a guy used to having his way that has had the tables turned on him in a strange way. Crosby nails his part. The mysterious girl songwriter-singer and her haunting song are a main part to the creepy story. Not the best but still pretty darn good!