Gaston Lagaffe and The Twilight Zone

Gaston Lagaffe
Created: André Franquin et Yvan Delporte
First appearance: Le Journal de Spirou no 985
Date: 28 February 1957
Publisher: Dupuis
Pays: France
Language: French

The Twilight Zone episode
Title: Mr: Bevis
Season: 1
Episode: 33
Directed by: William Asher
Written by: Rod Serling
Original air date: June 3, 1960
Cast:
Orson Bean as James B. W. Bevis
Henry Jones as J. Hardy Hempstead
Charles Lane as Mr. Peckinpaugh
Florence MacMichael as Margaret
William Schallert as Policeman
Vito Scotti as Tony, the Fruit Peddler
Horace McMahon as Bartender
Network: CBS
Country: USA
Language: English

Mr. Bevis loses his job, gets tickets on his car (which has tipped over) and gets evicted from his apartment, all in one day. Bevis then meets and gets assistance from his guardian angel, one J. Hardy Hempstead. Bevis gets to start the day over again, except now he is a success at work, his rent is paid and his personal transportation is now a sportscar (Austin-Healey) instead of Bevis’s previous jalopy, a soot-spewing 1924 Rickenbacker.