Time Helmet - On episode No. 78 "Once Upon a Time" (12/15/61) on the sci-fi anthology TWILIGHT ZONE, Buster Keaton starred as William Mulligan, a clumsy janitor living in the 1890s town of Harmony. Upset with all the noise, Mulligan seeks some peace and quiet. When he sees a "Time Machine" in the form of a helmet created by a local scientist, Mulligan puts it on his head and suddenly appears in the middle of a 1960s traffic-filled street. Almost hit by a car, Mulligan loses his time helmet when the protruding arm of a car driver snags the helmet off his head. Running after the car, Mulligan retrieves the helmet but just then a kid on a skateboard picks up the helmet and skates away. Mulligan again retrieves the helmet but discovers it broken. Suddenly, a  Good Samaritan directs Mulligan to a fix-it shop. Where the helmet gets repaired, however, the Good Samaritan steals it and tries to travel back in time without Mulligan. Thinking quickly, Mulligan jumps into the time wake created by the helmet, and both he and the Good Samaritan return to the past. While Mulligan was glad to be back home, the man from the 1960s complained about the lack of modern conveniences like TV dinners, electric blankets or girls in bikinis. To shut the man up and get some peace and quiet, Mulligan placed the time helmet on the man's head and sent him back to the future. Moral: The grass isn't always greener...in the Twilight Zone. TRIVIA NOTE: The time helmet looked like a football helmet with a series of thin iron shafts rising vertically from each side. On the side of the helmet was a dial that tracked the time periods from the 1890s to the 1960s. When activated, the tips of the helmet's iron spikes began to smoke, sizzle and spark. The length of each time trip was limited to 30 minutes. 

"I know, I'll make a time travel drink. Okay let's see here. A few watches, a little sundial, a little thyme, okay, cover of Time magazine, hmm, a couple of stones from Stonehenge. Okay here we go. Oop jeeze, I almost forgot the essential ingredient, a precious lock of Michael J. Fox's hair.  Dee dee de...[blends in blender] Okay. Let's give this a shot...Mmm mm mm. Delicious. Could use a little more banana. Next time. Okay well, a little time travel music please...and away we go."
	--Chris Peterson, Get A Life

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