The Twilight Zone - Collection 1
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List Price: $99.99
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Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Starring: Rod Serling, Jay Overholts, Vaughn Taylor, Robert McCord, Jack Klugman
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381459821
Format: Box set
Label: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 9
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-12-03
Running Time: 875
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1959-10-02
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Price is Right
Comment: Even though CBS released the "definitive" edition with even better picture and sound quality from the 35mm masters, and with extras, this set isn't bad for the price. In other words, you pay a few dollars more to get more, but if you are more interested in price then grab this box set.
One small note: I definately agree with other reviewers. THE TWILIGHT ZONE: UNLOCKING THE DOOR TO A TELEVISION CLASSIC by Martin Grams is 800 plus pages includes "everything" about the classic series and is a wonderful companion with the DVDs. The book details Serling's writing career on radio, early television and Twilight Zone is well researched and highly detailed. Exclusive interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes trivia will floor you. What you do is watch an episode and then read up on it in the book and you'll discover a wealth of trivia that makes this worthy of appreciation. Both the DVD set and the book is on Amazon.com so check it out (samples are available on Amazon's review page). Do yourself the favor and get both. You'll thank me for it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Four stars, not five
Comment: I spent over $800 on the VHS videos from Columbia House two decades ago. I spent less than $140 for the complete DVD set and discovered the value.
Sadly, while the quality and price is superb, the definitive set (also on Amazon) beats the quality and extras and price ten-fold.
However, the retail price keeps lowering over the months making this worthwhile if you don't want to spend the additional $5 bucks and get superior picture and sound quality and bonus extras.
I also suggest you buy "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic" because the 800 plus page book is a P-E-R-F-E-C-T companion to the DVD box set. Before or after you watch an episode, you can use the book to uncover the in-jokes, bloopers and trivia that make viewing these episodes fun. Regardless of whether you buy this set or the definitive box sets, watching the shows is one thing, knowing the behind-the-scenes stuff is even more fun. Both are available on Amazon.
Customer Rating:
Summary: WARNING: URGENT ALERT!
Comment: Do not purchase any of the NON-definitive edition twilight zone box sets. They are inferior products in comparison to the follow-up sets, which were reissued about 11 months after the fifth and final original collections.
The definitive editions are absolute must haves. Besides the additional content, the sound, video and navigational controls are much better. It is an absolute disgrace that this product is still being sold at such an outrageously high price. It is worth about $20 to $30.
Disclaimer:
I am writing with the bias of a ripped off consumer.
After spending close to $450 dollars on the original five sets, season one of the Definitives was released within a year after the last original was put on sale. I contacted the manufacturer about this flagrant disregard for consumers and received the usual 'blah blah blah...sorry, there's nothing we can do...." response.
If you can't afford the Definitive Editions, I recommend monitoring ebay where you can acquire the originals for a more reasonable price approaching fair market value.
Afterward: My complaints are not about the content; the product is a classic that will continue to entertain viewers for years to come, but repackaged and upgraded products should be discounted--like software programs--for people that have already invested in earlier editions.
Buy the Definitive editions. Do not buy these inferior outdated and overpriced inventory outcasts.
I rate this product: (-89 stars)
Customer Rating:
Summary: About time they made a collection
Comment: I will admit that I was not alive when this show was first aired but that doesn't mean I can't enhoy it as much as the next person. I do have a problem paying 90$ for it. If you are millitary go to the PX/BX/NEX and you can get it for 35$. At Wal-Mart it is 50. And to everyone giving it a bad review because it isn't a season set, you have to realize two things: 1, none of the episodes are interrelated and 2, before tv-ondvd got so big the only way you could by tv shows were in volumes
Customer Rating:
Summary: proably the most intelligent television show ever
Comment: In an era of rubber monsters,creature features and fears of a
soviet invasion,Rod Serling's Twilight Zone stands out as one
of the most intelligent things to have ever screened on T.V.
despite being widely criticised at the time by zealous t.v.
critics for it's sci-fi content it thoughtfully challenged a
lot of the social/political notions of the day(and some that sadly still need to be challenged today).
What was missed by the critics was that confronting issues of race etc in the late50s/early 60's was a highly risky manouevere particularly in the medium of Television.
Though this is not to say Rod Serling didn't enjoy the otherworldly element of the twilight zone which he used as a storytelling method.
I grew up in the 80's and though knew of the twilight zone through numerous pop culture references and the 80's incarnation of the show it wasn't untill the advent of DVD that I actively began to seek out the twilight zones of the 50's and what a fantastic find, for me it is the best television show ever mixing black comedy(Time enough at Last)social commentary(The monsters are due on Maple Street) and out and out sci-fi/horror fun(Nightmare at 10,000 feet).
If you don't own any Twilight Zone material the collection boxsets are really the way to go,if you buy the single dvds you'll usually find that you've become that addicted to them you'll wind up searching e-bay at 2am in the morning contemplating paying some exorbortant fee for a second hand copy you can't find anywhere!!
These boxsets are well presented and are more value for money than collecting the individual dvds, as being a perfectionist when it comes to collecting items i went through agony trying to obtain all 40 of them which i ran out of money trying to do(although i did wind up buying and keeping "Treasures of the twilight zone" and "More Treasures of the Twilight zone" which i do reccomend if you're nearing the completion of your Twilight Zone collection).
Rod Serling what a brilliant storyteller,truly a shakespeare in the golden age of Television,a shining beacon of intellectual hope in a sea of canned laughter and soap and ciggarette commercials.
DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND BUY THIS NOW!!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Price is Right
Comment: Even though CBS released the "definitive" edition with even better picture and sound quality from the 35mm masters, and with extras, this set isn't bad for the price. In other words, you pay a few dollars more to get more, but if you are more interested in price then grab this box set.
One small note: I definately agree with other reviewers. THE TWILIGHT ZONE: UNLOCKING THE DOOR TO A TELEVISION CLASSIC by Martin Grams is 800 plus pages includes "everything" about the classic series and is a wonderful companion with the DVDs. The book details Serling's writing career on radio, early television and Twilight Zone is well researched and highly detailed. Exclusive interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes trivia will floor you. What you do is watch an episode and then read up on it in the book and you'll discover a wealth of trivia that makes this worthy of appreciation. Both the DVD set and the book is on Amazon.com so check it out (samples are available on Amazon's review page). Do yourself the favor and get both. You'll thank me for it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Four stars, not five
Comment: I spent over $800 on the VHS videos from Columbia House two decades ago. I spent less than $140 for the complete DVD set and discovered the value.
Sadly, while the quality and price is superb, the definitive set (also on Amazon) beats the quality and extras and price ten-fold.
However, the retail price keeps lowering over the months making this worthwhile if you don't want to spend the additional $5 bucks and get superior picture and sound quality and bonus extras.
I also suggest you buy "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic" because the 800 plus page book is a P-E-R-F-E-C-T companion to the DVD box set. Before or after you watch an episode, you can use the book to uncover the in-jokes, bloopers and trivia that make viewing these episodes fun. Regardless of whether you buy this set or the definitive box sets, watching the shows is one thing, knowing the behind-the-scenes stuff is even more fun. Both are available on Amazon.
Customer Rating:
Summary: WARNING: URGENT ALERT!
Comment: Do not purchase any of the NON-definitive edition twilight zone box sets. They are inferior products in comparison to the follow-up sets, which were reissued about 11 months after the fifth and final original collections.
The definitive editions are absolute must haves. Besides the additional content, the sound, video and navigational controls are much better. It is an absolute disgrace that this product is still being sold at such an outrageously high price. It is worth about $20 to $30.
Disclaimer:
I am writing with the bias of a ripped off consumer.
After spending close to $450 dollars on the original five sets, season one of the Definitives was released within a year after the last original was put on sale. I contacted the manufacturer about this flagrant disregard for consumers and received the usual 'blah blah blah...sorry, there's nothing we can do...." response.
If you can't afford the Definitive Editions, I recommend monitoring ebay where you can acquire the originals for a more reasonable price approaching fair market value.
Afterward: My complaints are not about the content; the product is a classic that will continue to entertain viewers for years to come, but repackaged and upgraded products should be discounted--like software programs--for people that have already invested in earlier editions.
Buy the Definitive editions. Do not buy these inferior outdated and overpriced inventory outcasts.
I rate this product: (-89 stars)
Customer Rating:
Summary: About time they made a collection
Comment: I will admit that I was not alive when this show was first aired but that doesn't mean I can't enhoy it as much as the next person. I do have a problem paying 90$ for it. If you are millitary go to the PX/BX/NEX and you can get it for 35$. At Wal-Mart it is 50. And to everyone giving it a bad review because it isn't a season set, you have to realize two things: 1, none of the episodes are interrelated and 2, before tv-ondvd got so big the only way you could by tv shows were in volumes
Customer Rating:
Summary: proably the most intelligent television show ever
Comment: In an era of rubber monsters,creature features and fears of a
soviet invasion,Rod Serling's Twilight Zone stands out as one
of the most intelligent things to have ever screened on T.V.
despite being widely criticised at the time by zealous t.v.
critics for it's sci-fi content it thoughtfully challenged a
lot of the social/political notions of the day(and some that sadly still need to be challenged today).
What was missed by the critics was that confronting issues of race etc in the late50s/early 60's was a highly risky manouevere particularly in the medium of Television.
Though this is not to say Rod Serling didn't enjoy the otherworldly element of the twilight zone which he used as a storytelling method.
I grew up in the 80's and though knew of the twilight zone through numerous pop culture references and the 80's incarnation of the show it wasn't untill the advent of DVD that I actively began to seek out the twilight zones of the 50's and what a fantastic find, for me it is the best television show ever mixing black comedy(Time enough at Last)social commentary(The monsters are due on Maple Street) and out and out sci-fi/horror fun(Nightmare at 10,000 feet).
If you don't own any Twilight Zone material the collection boxsets are really the way to go,if you buy the single dvds you'll usually find that you've become that addicted to them you'll wind up searching e-bay at 2am in the morning contemplating paying some exorbortant fee for a second hand copy you can't find anywhere!!
These boxsets are well presented and are more value for money than collecting the individual dvds, as being a perfectionist when it comes to collecting items i went through agony trying to obtain all 40 of them which i ran out of money trying to do(although i did wind up buying and keeping "Treasures of the twilight zone" and "More Treasures of the Twilight zone" which i do reccomend if you're nearing the completion of your Twilight Zone collection).
Rod Serling what a brilliant storyteller,truly a shakespeare in the golden age of Television,a shining beacon of intellectual hope in a sea of canned laughter and soap and ciggarette commercials.
DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND BUY THIS NOW!!
Rod Serling's classic TV exploration of the uncanny, the unknown, and the unforgettable takes you beyond the deepest realms of imagination! Filled with twists, turns, and compelling characters, this legendary series has remained continuously on the air since its initial run and remains as fascinating, frightening, and thoroughly entertaining for viewers today. Each set contains nine DVDs; Collection #1 features Volumes 1-9, 35 episodes including such fan favorites as "Time Enough at Last," "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," "The Invaders" and "To Serve Man." So pull up a seat and brace yourself for a fantastic voyage into...The Twilight Zone!
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