Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

In The Twilight Zone episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" (Season 4, Episode 14), ruthless, 75-year-old tycoon William Feathersmith is bored with his wealth and misses the thrill of amassing a fortune. Desperate to relive his glory days, he makes a deal with a devilish travel agent named Miss Devlin to return to his hometown of Cliffordville in 1910. He keeps all his modern memories, planning to use his knowledge of the future—such as stock trends and oil locations—to build a second fortune from scratch.

However, Feathersmith's scheme backfires:

• The land he buys for its massive oil deposits is useless because the technology required to drill that deep won't be invented until 1937.
• His attempts to "invent" future tech fail because he on ...