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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
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Alvin Ganzer, Richard Donner, Robert Florey, William F. Claxton, Don Medford, Jus Addiss, Ron Winston, Perry Lafferty, Ted Post, Lamont Johnson |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 02 October, 1959 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Image Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Box set, Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie, TV Shows, Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 6 |
| UPC: | 014381243925 |
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What the hell? Im so glad I paid THAT much money for discs that arent even compatible with my dvd player. So now if i even want to watch them, Ill have to go out and buy a dvd player thats compatible with the damn DISCS!
the time element ????????????????????????
i bought this its good but not truly complete, where is THE TIME ELEMENT , EPISODE ????????????????????????????????????????
Next Stop: The Twaddle Zone
Let's stop this Rod-Serling-Is-God hokum right now. I remember sitting in a revival theater a few years ago watching the original "Planet Of The Apes." As the apes were exchanging dull, pompous speeches, all I could think was: "This sounds like a bad episode of the Twilight Zone." Sure enough, as the credits rolled, the screenwriter was revealed to be Rod Serling. I want to know how this hack ever came to be regarded as the greatest writer of television's Golden Age. I can barely sit through one of his introductions with all that purple language and pseudo-lawyer phraseology. (Someone at CBS should have burned his thesaurus.) All that puffed-up language and pedantic delivery was only to conceal the triteness of his GREAT INSIGHTS into the human condition. Give me Alfred Hitchcock instead, who knew TV is hack work and had fun with "Alfred Hitchock Presents." Serling, on the other hand, was forever saving humanity from itself on the MGM lot. Most of Serling's scripts could have been produced by any half-bright freshman in a creative writing class. Okay, once in a while he hit paydirt, like the gambling yarn "The Fever"; but even Serling admitted that two-thirds of his material was junk. The best thing about the first few seasons of TZ was the show clocked at a merciful half hour, which saved the actors from making long-winded speeches as in the fourth season when it stretched to a full hour. Serling's mediocrity was saved by greater talents than his own, namely the scoring of Bernard Hermann, some good scripts by Jerry Sohl, Charles Beaumont and George Clayton Johnson, the inspired acting of up-and-comers, and some interesting film-noirish direction. Even worse would be Serling's follow-up series in the late '60s, Night Gallery, which proved that the great auteur had lost none of his pomposity and bad writing with the passage of time.