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The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (The Definitive Edition)

starring: Rod Serling, Steve Cochran, Ernest Truex, Read Morgan, Arlene Martel
directed by: Allen Reisner, Alvin Ganzer, Anton Leader, David Orrick McDearmon, Don Medford

: The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (The Definitive Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381243925
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 28, 2004
Running Time: 930 minutes
Sales Rank: 5023
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 02, 1959



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The complete first season of Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking series exploring the fantastic and the frightening.

Amazon.com:
Submitted for your approval: 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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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Doesn't Get Any Better
Even if you have the series on VHS or previous DVD releases, the picture and sound quality is SUPERB. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Simply Amazing!
I'm a huge fan of Twilight Zone ,so for me watching those amazing, very often creepy stories is really ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Twilight Zone rocks
I spent over $800 on the VHS videos from Columbia House two decades ago. I spent less than $140 for the ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - ... 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 ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 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 ... Read More

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