With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all most half of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with us? The Twilight Zone (Episode #27): “The Big Tall Wish” (airdate 4/8/60) The Plot: A washed up boxer manages a surprising comeback thanks to the wish of a child, but his inability to believe in magic threatens to take the victory away. The Goods: Bolie Jackson’s (Ivan Dixon) not a man who’s ever really had ‘best’ days, but his better ones are clearly behind him. He’s a boxer who never made it big and is now well past his prime. Bolie can see his history in the ring, and in life in general, in the scars on his face, and while he knows tonight’s fight is a long shot he’s not about to turn down the opportunity. A neighborhood boy named Henry (Steven Perry) tells him he’ll be making a big, tall wish that Bolie wins the match, and when the child’s mom tells Bolie that’s the biggest wish of all the tired boxer shakes his head in sadness. Little boys with their heads full up with dreams. When do they find out… that there ain’t any magic. When does somebody push their face down on the sidewalk and say to them ‘Hey little boy, it’s concrete, that’s what the world is made out of, concrete.’ When do they find out that you