Review of 45 Minutes from Home

This episode is a little "Death of a Salesman"-ish in that it chronicles the travails of a good man with bad luck who makes horrible choices. I won't recount the plot again here as some other reviewers seem to confuse the idea of providing an opinionated review with providing a beat for beat synopsis of an episodes entire events. But suffice it to say that after seeing lead William Windom in many parts including (But of course not limited to) "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" (Where he played a JFK like President), his personal favorite of all his performances the "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery, and MY personal favorite from him "The Doomsday Machine" from the original Star Trek, take it from me if you haven't seen him in much that he is ALWAYS interesting to watch. He makes this episode like Janice Rule made the previous one. Like someone once said, at least 50% of a successful piece of entertainment (Be it episodic television like this or features) is great casting it looks like Quinn Martin and company understood that all too well.