Editorial Review:Description:The complete first season of Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking series exploring the fantastic and the frightening.
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The Twilight Zone's inaugural season, all 36 episodes complete with Rod Serling's original promos for the following week's episode, not seen since their original broadcast. To discuss television's greatest anthology series whose title has become pop culture shorthand for the bizarre and supernatural is to immediately become like Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd in
Twilight Zone: The Movie; a can-you-top-this recall of famous shocks and favorite twists. Several essential episodes hail from this season, among them, 'Time Enough at Last' starring Burgess Meredith as a bespectacled bookworm who is the lone survivor of an atomic blast; 'The After-Hours' starring Anne Francis as a department store shopper haunted by mannequins; and the profoundly disturbing 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,' in which fear and prejudice turns neighbor against neighbor (and, by the by, whose alien observers inspired Kang and Kodos on
The Simpsons).
From an unsettlingly persistent hitchhiker to a malevolent slot machine,
The Twilight Zone's first season did plumb 'the pit of man's fears.' One forgets how moving the series could be. Three of this season's most memorable and enduring episodes are the poignant and primal 'stop-the-world-I-want-to-get-off fantasies, 'Walking Distance,' 'A Stop at Willougby' and 'The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine,' in which desperate characters seek refuge in a simpler past. Serling's few stabs at comedy ('Mr. Bevis,' 'The Mighty Casey') have not aged well, but the series finale, 'A World of His Own,' starring Keenan Wynn as a playwright whose fictional characters come to life, has a brilliant capper. The episodes are more deliberately paced than one might remember. Less patient younger viewers might be anxious to get to the payoffs, but once they settle into the rhythm, they will savor the literate writing and the performances by such veteran actors as Ed Wynn, Everett Sloan, and Ida Lupino, and newcomers such as Jack Klugman. The extras, including the unaired version of the pilot episode, 'Where is Everybody?', audio commentaries and recollections, and a Serling college lecture, truly take this six-disc set to another dimension.
--Donald Liebenson
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Doesn't Get Any Better
Even if you have the series on VHS or previous DVD releases, the picture and sound quality is SUPERB. The transfers are perfect. The extras make it worth the purchase. It even contains a disc with one classic TZ comic book from the 1960s and 1970s in PDF format so you can read a classic issue on your computer.
One small note: I definately agree with other reviewers. THE TWILIGHT ZONE: UNLOCKING THE DOOR TO A TELEVISION CLASSIC by Martin Grams is 800 plus pages includes "everything" about the classic series and is a wonderful companion with the DVDs. The book details Serling's writing career on radio, early television and Twilight Zone is well researched and highly detailed. Exclusive interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes trivia will floor you. What you do is watch an episode and then read up on it in the book and you'll discover a wealth of trivia that makes this worthy of appreciation. Both the DVD set and the book is on Amazon.com. Do yourself the favor and get both. You'll thank me for it.
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Simply Amazing!
I'm a huge fan of Twilight Zone ,so for me watching those amazing, very often creepy stories is really SOMETHING!
If you're fan of horror,science-fiction or if you're simply an person who is open to ...well,different type of things like aliens,ghosts or if You just sensitive -then You will definetily LOVE this!This is pure genius,amazing!
Great atmosphere,music,stories which make you actually think about things that are not that obvious,stories which says -WHAT IF?
I LOVE IT!
10000000000000 stars!Five is not enough!:)
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Twilight Zone rocks
I spent over $800 on the VHS videos from Columbia House two decades ago. I spent less than $140 for the complete DVD set and discovered more treasures, rare filmed interviews, bonus extras and high-quality transfers that are far superior to what I have been watching the past 20 years.
The retail price keep lowering over the months but by now it's beyond affordable. I recommend you grab this season box set today.
I also suggest you buy "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic" because the 800 plus page book is a P-E-R-F-E-C-T companion to the DVD box set. Before or after you watch an episode, you can use the book to uncover the in-jokes, bloopers and trivia that make viewing these episodes fun. Watching the shows is one thing, knowing the behind-the-scenes stuff is even more fun. Both are available on Amazon.
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... In the "Zone"...
I've very little to add to any of the previous reviews. I just wanted to put it out there that anyone that may have been holding off buying any TZ DVD collection can stop waiting. Nevermind the superb A/V transfers from the masters, the bonus features are above and beyond anything any fan could hope to find. Commentaries from a who's who of the great actors that have graced the show, the fantastic music scores, the Rod Serling goodies,... they all make this set far and away the best DVD set to date, not only of the "Zone", but of almost any television show box set I've ever seen. Don't hesitate to get this set, you'll be glad you did!
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CLASSIC AMERICAN TELEVISION
I have been a fan of Rod Serling's THE TWILIGHT ZONE longer than I can remember and the show's first season is one of my main reasons. My favorite episode of all is 'WALKING DISTANCE' because it is evocative of everything great about this classic series; it has great writing, exceptional acting, definative directing and a wonderful atmosphere.
If there was ever a reason to watch The Twilight Zone, the first season is ceratinly it.