10 Best Stephen King Cameos

10. Bus Driver - Golden Years

This 1991 miniseries tells us the story of an elderly janitor named Harlan Williams, who gets caught in an explosion at the top-secret laboratory he's working at. When he survives the blast he also finds, to his shock, that he is now aging backwards and that he now has agents hunting him down.

This sci-fi thriller, on paper, sounds like a bizarre mix of The Bourne Identity and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; something nobody would put past King attempting to write. It also sounds like an enjoyably tense adventure.

In practice, Golden Years is a cure for insomnia. With flat direction and obvious studio interference, it instead came off as a poor man's Twin Peaks, with little to none of King's creative energy about it.

But the best part of the series comes in the fifth episode, where Harlan gives his family a tearful goodbye at the bus stop. Only when the doors open do we see the man himself at the wheel, telling the character's to get a move on. He has a schedule to maintain don't you know?

There is some nice irony in Stephen King telling the character's to hurry up and it suceeds at livening the scene up with some enjoyable dark comedy. There's nothing like having Stephen King ruin a bittersweet moment and it makes for the series' only memorable scene.