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Format: Region 0, PAL
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There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. And it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.
This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call THE TWILIGHT ZONE.
Those were the first words that echoed when The Twilight Zone first aired in 1959. Its episodes featured stories of the bizarre and unexplained, blended with humour and often with an unexpected twist to the tale. Created by the legendary Rod Serling, its eclectic mix of fantasy and sci-fi has helped to define it as one of television’s most original and celebrated series.
Released digitally remastered for the first time in the UK, this 6 disc set contains all 36 episodes from the first season as well as special features:
Disc 1:
Episodes:
Where Is Everybody?
One For The Angels
Mr Denton On Doomsday
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Walking Distance
Escape Clause
The Lonely
Extra Features:
Where is Everybody: isolated music score
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine: isolated music score
Walking Distance: isolated music score; Rod Serling audio lecture
The Lonely: isolated music score
Disc 2:
Episodes
Time Enough at Last
Perchance to Dream
Judgement Night
And When The Sky Was Opened
What You Need
The Four of Us Are Dying
Third From The Sun
I Shot An Arrow Into The Air
Extra Features
Time Enough at Last: audio interview with Burgess Meredith
Perchance to Dream: isolated music score
And When The Sky Was Opened: isolated music score; Rod Serling audio lecture; audio interview with Douglas Heyes
What You Need: isolated music score
The Four of Us Are Dying: isolated music score
Third From The Sun: isolated music score; audio interview with Richard L Bare
Disc 3:
Episodes:
The Hitch-Hiker
The Fever
The Last Flight
The Purple Testament
Elegy
Mirror Image
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
Extra Features:
The Hitch-Hiker: isolated music score
The Purple Testament: isolated music score
Elegy: isolated music score
Mirror Image: isolated music score
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street: isolated music score
Disc 4:
Episodes:
A World Of Difference
Long Live Walter Jameson
People Are Alike All Over
Execution
The Big Tall Wish
A Nice Place To Visit
Nightmare As A Child
Extra Features:
A World Of Difference: isolated music score
Long Live Walter Jameson: audio commentary
The Big Tall Wish: isolated music score
A Nice Place To Visit: isolated music score
Nightmare As A Child: isolated music score
Disc 5:
Episodes:
A Stop At Willoughby
The Chaser
A Passage For Trumpet
Mr Bevis
The After Hours
The Mighty Casey
A World Of His Own
Extra features:
A Stop At Willoughby: audio interview with Buck Houghton
The Chaser: isolated music score; audio interview with Buck Houghton
A Passage For Trumpet: isolated music score
The After Hours: audio interview with Anne Francis and Douglas Heyes
The Mighty Casey: Rod Serling audio lecture; gallery of rare photographs
A World Of His Own: audio interview with Richard Matheson
Disc 6:
All extra features:
Original plot version of ‘Where Is Everybody?’ This unaired episode is presented in its uncut version and includes the original narration by Westbrook Van Voorhis, which was later replaced by Rod Serling for the 2 October 1959 broadcast. The episode is introduced by Rod Serling in a filmed sales pitch to network sponsors.
Also includes alternative opening sequence narration and alternative closing sequence narration.
Liar’s Club (1970’s game show) in colour. Hosted by Rod Serling
Rod Serling Blooper to camera
Emmy Awards: clips from the Emmy Awards ceremony featuring wins for The Twilight Zone in the writing and cinematography categories.
Original Twilight Zone Billboards: animated advertising.
Photo Gallery: Behind the scenes stills from the first season.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
By B. KIRKHAM
Format:DVD
This is surely one of the greatest television shows ever created. In 1959, Rod Serling began The Twilight Zone and took millions of viewers on a journey into the land of imagination, and never has a television show excited the imagination like this.
The first series is the show's finest and sees some superb and powerful episodes, such as the touching and emotional 'Walking Distance' in which a man returns to the days of his childhood, the humourous 'Escape Clause', in which a hypochondriac makes a deal with the devil, the gloomy and unnerving 'Judgment Night', and the masterpiece of encroaching fear that is 'And When The Sky Was Opened.'
The amazing thing about the Twilight Zone was its ability to play with mood and instill different emotions, such as the truly creepy 'The Hitch-Hiker', in which a woman travelling cross-country is confronted time and again by the same ominous figure on the roadside. 'Time Enough at Last' is a classically ironic episode showing Serling's writing at its best. Charles Beaumont's 'Perchance To Dream' is fabulous, as is Richard Matheson's intriguing 'The Last Flight'. The clever trickery of the stylish 'The Four of us Are Dying' shows just how far ahead of the times the show was.
Powerful episodes such as 'The Purple Testament' and 'The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street' are balanced with the fun 'A World of Difference' and 'The Fever', the truly terrifying 'Mirror Image' and 'The After Hours' are together with such sentimental episodes as 'A Stop At Willoughby' and 'A Passage For Trumpet'. Superb stuff.
At last The Twilight Zone comes to DVD properly - remastered and with Special Features, this sublime series finally gets the release it deserves. The Twilight Zone is timeless, clever, fun, evocative, thought-provoking, terrifying, funny, gloomy and touching. A true tribute to the genius of Rod Serling.
The first series is the show's finest and sees some superb and powerful episodes, such as the touching and emotional 'Walking Distance' in which a man returns to the days of his childhood, the humourous 'Escape Clause', in which a hypochondriac makes a deal with the devil, the gloomy and unnerving 'Judgment Night', and the masterpiece of encroaching fear that is 'And When The Sky Was Opened.'
The amazing thing about the Twilight Zone was its ability to play with mood and instill different emotions, such as the truly creepy 'The Hitch-Hiker', in which a woman travelling cross-country is confronted time and again by the same ominous figure on the roadside. 'Time Enough at Last' is a classically ironic episode showing Serling's writing at its best. Charles Beaumont's 'Perchance To Dream' is fabulous, as is Richard Matheson's intriguing 'The Last Flight'. The clever trickery of the stylish 'The Four of us Are Dying' shows just how far ahead of the times the show was.
Powerful episodes such as 'The Purple Testament' and 'The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street' are balanced with the fun 'A World of Difference' and 'The Fever', the truly terrifying 'Mirror Image' and 'The After Hours' are together with such sentimental episodes as 'A Stop At Willoughby' and 'A Passage For Trumpet'. Superb stuff.
At last The Twilight Zone comes to DVD properly - remastered and with Special Features, this sublime series finally gets the release it deserves. The Twilight Zone is timeless, clever, fun, evocative, thought-provoking, terrifying, funny, gloomy and touching. A true tribute to the genius of Rod Serling.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a classic and incredibly excellent, television series. It truly is a fabulous example of how a TV series should be made. This first black and white series was created over fifty years ago in 1959 and it is slightly dated, but it is also a master class of a production. The series is still entertaining today.
The Twilight Zone was a labour of love for one man, Rod Serling.
An Emmy award winning playwright, Serling not only created and produced the series, he also wrote most of the stories. He also appeared on screen as host and narrator. He created an original idea of half hour stories each with a curious and sometimes shocking twist of a conclusion. The stories offer a mixture of reality and illusion. There are intriguing ideas and concepts. Some offer a moral message. Some are subtle human parables. Some are spooky. The fact that the show was made in black and white should not put you off because in a way the black and white format helps to give it a spooky or sinister edge.
Each episode is long enough at half an hour to gain your interest and yet not over long that it becomes a chore to watch.
The production is outstanding for its time. There are very little special effects but it does not need them. The production stands up without them. This show is a classic example of just how far ahead the Americans were in terms of production values. Their experience of TV programme making shines through. Admittedly it was financially hard for British TV companies to produce a programme of this standard, and admittedly there were excellent British programmes in their own right. But there were far more American shows of this standard by 1959.
The production is tight with some large studio sets both indoors and outdoors. There are frequent scene changes and no time wasting.
Each episode begins with the same narration introduction by Serling. He says, "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. And it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.
This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone"
There is a host of stars of the era including Roddy McDowall and Buster Meredith. There are some excellent stories and the whole series is very enjoyable. There are plenty of episodes to work through and I highly recommend this complete DVD set of the first series of a classic show.
The Twilight Zone was a labour of love for one man, Rod Serling.
An Emmy award winning playwright, Serling not only created and produced the series, he also wrote most of the stories. He also appeared on screen as host and narrator. He created an original idea of half hour stories each with a curious and sometimes shocking twist of a conclusion. The stories offer a mixture of reality and illusion. There are intriguing ideas and concepts. Some offer a moral message. Some are subtle human parables. Some are spooky. The fact that the show was made in black and white should not put you off because in a way the black and white format helps to give it a spooky or sinister edge.
Each episode is long enough at half an hour to gain your interest and yet not over long that it becomes a chore to watch.
The production is outstanding for its time. There are very little special effects but it does not need them. The production stands up without them. This show is a classic example of just how far ahead the Americans were in terms of production values. Their experience of TV programme making shines through. Admittedly it was financially hard for British TV companies to produce a programme of this standard, and admittedly there were excellent British programmes in their own right. But there were far more American shows of this standard by 1959.
The production is tight with some large studio sets both indoors and outdoors. There are frequent scene changes and no time wasting.
Each episode begins with the same narration introduction by Serling. He says, "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. And it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.
This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone"
There is a host of stars of the era including Roddy McDowall and Buster Meredith. There are some excellent stories and the whole series is very enjoyable. There are plenty of episodes to work through and I highly recommend this complete DVD set of the first series of a classic show.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Looking these old shows you realize how our world has changed. In a time with limited technical resources, talent and imagination were the most important.
Those short stories hook you from the beginning without CGI or any kind of visual effects. Just good tales well explained. Even the need to work in Black & White is well exploited adding a kind of surreal ambient that becomes more an advantage than a limitation.
Those short stories hook you from the beginning without CGI or any kind of visual effects. Just good tales well explained. Even the need to work in Black & White is well exploited adding a kind of surreal ambient that becomes more an advantage than a limitation.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
perfect condition
I wanted to see the fantastic series of the twilight zone so I decided to purchase the first season I was not disappointed.
Published 2 months ago by James Hansen
2.0 out of 5 stars
2 of the discs didn't even play...not impressed
rubbish...2 discs would not even play in the mac or the vaio laptop...2 attempts in 2 different pc's and nothing!!
Published 3 months ago by MyLittleAngel
5.0 out of 5 stars
Into the twilight zone
I found the DVD brilliant & amazing a great item a classic pease of TV and what inspires me to write
Published 3 months ago by David Serling
5.0 out of 5 stars
the 3 star reviewer does tz no justice even thow it means ok. its way...
u get plenty hrs enjoyment here. at bargain price. i just need 1 and 2 now. ive complete sets. of original series. amust
Published 4 months ago by tango
3.0 out of 5 stars
Give it a try
I came across this series via what is now for me a familiar route. I look up TV programmes and films that interest me, follow the suggestions of Amazon and other reviewers for... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Malgo
5.0 out of 5 stars
The original thought provoker
I remember being a very young girl and staying up late (past two am) to catch re-runs of this when television only had four (count it, people, FOUR!) channels. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Dismal Angel
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Twilight Zone
cant understand why season one is all region and the other seasons are region 2 when i bought season one it did not play properly on my sony dvd player so be aware when buying... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Julian Marsh
5.0 out of 5 stars
a zone alone
what a series,forget flashy effects,just sit back relax and let your mind wander.
and when i say wander i mean to the darkness of your soul as well as to the heights of your... Read more
and when i say wander i mean to the darkness of your soul as well as to the heights of your... Read more
Published 22 months ago by moonshine
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good - but not without faults
A unique series that at last has made it into the UK completely remastered. On the plus side there are more good episodes than you usually find in a box set of a tv series;... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Peter J. Chambers
5.0 out of 5 stars
Packaging Concerns
For The Twilight Zone - Season 1 I give 5 stars, for the packaging I give 1 star. I spotted this re-released DVD set in a shop today and noticed that the discs were rattling around... Read more
Published on 14 May 2011 by T. Turner
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