The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (The Definitive Edition)
by Allen Reisner, Alvin Ganzer, Anton Leader, David Orrick McDearmon, Don Medford
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Actor: Don Gordon, Harry Townes, Phillip Pine, Rod Serling, Ross MartinDirector: Allen Reisner, Alvin Ganzer, Anton Leader, David Orrick McDearmon, Don Medford
Brand: SERLING,ROD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, Box set, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 930 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Reviews of The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (The Definitive Edition)
DVD Review: Great, Well-Thought Out Compilation of "The Twilight Zone"! Worth The Price!
Summary: 4 Stars
"The Twilight Zone-Season 1 (The Definitive Edition)" is an ungainly title but it does describe what you get inside the dvd box. The episodes are on flawless prints and there are many extras that I, a film, tv, and "Twilight Zone" buff would want to see in such a compilation, such as interviews with some of the actors superimposed over the episodes they appeared in, for example. Those interviews truly add to the appreciation and uniqueness of the series. There are also the lead-in commercials to other top shows of the period, such as "The Danny Thomas Show". That makes for a fine re-creation of what it was like to watch "The Twilight Zone" when it was first run. I wish there had been more interviews of other personnel working on the series. There's an "extra" I could've done without: an episode of "The Liars Club" that Rod Serling hosted in the early 1970's, but nothing's perfect, and it doesn't detract from the high value one gets from purchasing this dvd.DVD Review: not the Twilight Zone it was to become
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased this first season hoping for a fun nostalgic Halloween viewing with friends, and it turned out that Rod Serling was just warming up here. The classic music was not a part of the episodes that we watched, and the (four?) episodes- out of many, it's really a lot of episodes- were all about alone-ness. After seeing these few, I wonder if Serling was in a reflective, perhaps depressed time of his life. They may have been ground-breaking at the time, but they aren't the mind twisters that I recall from late night television. Maybe season 2 is better?DVD Review: You've just entered the Twilight Zone
Summary: 5 Stars
Submitted for your approval: a classic series about fantastic tales, stretching beyond the imagination and goes beyond the years they were broadcast. A series we simply know most formally as, 'The Twilight Zone.' Though the series itself was first broadcast in 1959, I didn't officially become a TZ Visitor until about 30 years later. Originally watching these programs in syndication, I enjoyed watching these tales, which in consideration, were far better than the offerings we were given along the lines of sci-fi, horror and suspense of the Seventies and Eighties.
Without this wondrous dimension, we'd never have the existence of other anthology series. But I digress, the Twilight Zone Definitive Edition is aptly well-named, as this offering brings back the best of the series' offering.
Season One offers many of the classic tales we've made into identifiable icons for the series: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, Time Enough at Last, The After Hours and Walking Distance (some which have now been recently made into graphic novels).
The interesting items about these tales, they maintain a timeless appeal to us. Besides being remastered from the negative, these episodes also contain 'And now, Mr. Serling,' in which Rod provides a trailer for the next show, as well as classic adverts for other programs and ads at the time. My only discern is, it seems the episodes cannot be played continuously as with most collections. However, at the writing of this review, I suspect the later volumes bring up this option.
Nonetheless, the Definitive Edition brings back the episodes the way they were meant to be viewed, uncut and unedited, with the stories intact. Remarkably, with those just visiting, or long-time tourists, The Twilight Zone Definitive Collection is the best product for those who loved the program and desire classic tales of beyond.
There's the signpost up ahead, your next stop: The Twilight Zone Definitive Edition Season 1.
DVD Review: One of the best Sci-fi tv shows
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best sci-fi shows of all time.
There are no flashy CGI special effects. It has something better. Something that is practically unheard of in tv today. Good, fun, and thought provoking stories.
DVD Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently bought this when it was on sale for $27.99 and I can say I have been thoroughly enjoying reliving these old episodes. True you can watch them online for free, but it's much nicer to be able to pull them off the shelf and just sit back and relax. The commentaries and other rare footage are an excellent addition that add a lot to the set. Anyone who loves "The Twilight Zone" will want this set.
Description of The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (The Definitive Edition)
The complete first season of Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking series exploring the fantastic and the frightening.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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