Come Wander with Me

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 stars in this haunting Twilight Zone episode about a rockabilly folk singer looking for some new material. His quest takes him into the real piney woods of the Appalachins where he meets up with a strange young girl played by Bonnie Beecher.

Bonnie's got a song all right something like Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley and she sings the song which tells a story to Crosby. Gary likes it all right, but pretty soon he becomes part of the story and it's clear he'll not be getting back to American Bandstand any time soon.

Gary who did trash his father in that infamous memoir did in fact have a pretty good career as a character actor which continued even after Bing died. He's pretty good here in a role that showed him to best advantage. Beecher's a haunting young thing as well.

A nicely done story at almost the tail end of the Twilight Zone series run.

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!

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?

Bonnie Beecher was best known for being Bob Dylan's teenage girlfriend who helped him write some of his early hit songs. Gary Crosby does some singing too, almost as good as his famous dad. It seems his character, after stopping to cross a shaky bridge, is doomed to a feud with Mary's jealous engaged suitor, it's her song for him he wants to buy. His attempt to escape, stopping to fight too often, wasn't very instinctive. But he seems to be cursed by Mary's song for a violent death from the start. Buddy Holly died in an unanticipated plane crash the same year this was filmed, so the end was a strange departure from what people might expect.