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91 of 93 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The land of imagination, 3 Nov 2006
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.
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This amazing programme is as timeless as infinity, 5 Jun 2007
Although I have always heard of it (most people probably have) and seen some episodes from the 80's colour version aswell as the most recent version, I have only got round to watching this amazing original version for the first time ever in the correct order since I bought this DVD boxset. I had only previously seen a few clips of episodes at random years ago on someone elses sky T.V., I think it was on the sci-fi channel. Anyway this programme may be a long time before I existed, but I have said this before and I will say it again, when a programme is this good, it really doesn't matter to me how old or new it is. It has to be at the very least, some of the most imaginative story tellying I have ever seen. Whether they are creepy, funny, strange or however you want to describe them, they are all just as imaginative as each other and there is plenty of variety (36 to be exact on this first season), for example there is one episode involving a man who has an obsession with reading things (even something as simple as this, how many programmes today would even think of such a lead character) and an extremely cruel twist of fate at the end. Rod Serling had such a distinctive voice (very relaxing) which only adds to my enjoyment of this programme, I also really love the way he introduces each story and particularly his unique way in which he puts words together.
So if like me you like enjoyable stories with the imagination that most modern programmmes can only dream about and want to watch something that is as timeless as infinity then you won't find anything better than this.
One last thing for anybody that might be interested, this boxset includes a few extras for example, footage of Rod Serling picking up some awards and about fifteen minutes of footage from some game show called The Liars Club with Rod Serling as host, personally I have never heard of it but I am sure that some of you older and wiser people will have.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Eye Catchingly Original, 4 Jun 2008
You just don't see the end comming sometimes, even though you do, because it's an occult.
I think the way how it was written and shot and also cast, is what makes this really fun to watch, if you're in to that sort of thing.
This DVD has some really great extra features from the career of Rod Serling.
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