The Twilight Zone: Vol. 23

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Summary: Could be better, but TZ is and will always be a cult-tv show
Review: I wonder and I keep wondering why there is no order in this collection. It could have been season by season, or according to the episode numbers, to the air dates or even conceptual (horror, time travel, extraterrestrials, etc). In this DVD, you can find a little bit of everything (different seasons and subjects). First we have an episode from season one ("Long Live Walter Jameson), which is -by far- the best episode found here: a history expert is actually an immortal being. From the third season we have "Dead Man's Shoes", gangster's shoes actually, with a terrible curse. Both of these shows were written by Charles Beaumont. After that we get two episodes from the fifth and final season, "You Drive", a highly probable inspiration for Stephen King's Christine or "The Car", and "The Long Morrow" -the only story here written by creator Rod Serling- with a space sci-fi plot... The extra features in the DVD are cool

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Summary: Love and Justice in "The Twilight Zone"
Review: The four episodes collected on Volume 23 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series do not share a similar theme, although two deal with the supernatural search for justice while the other pair feature the problem having too much time can cause love. Kevin McCarthy has the title role in "Long Live Walter Jameson," written by Charles Beaumont. Jameson bought the gift of immortality two thousand years ago from an alchemist and has seen all of his wives, children and friends grow old and die over and over again. Now he wants it all to be over. This first season episode features some nice special effects work with makeup as Jameson ages rapidly at the end. In "Dead Man's Shoes," written by by Beaumont and OCee Ritch, Nate Bledsoe (Warren Stevens) puts on a pair of expensive shoes taken from a murdered gangster. The dead man's spirit takes over Bledsoe's body and tracks down his killer, refusing to be denied vengeance. "You Drive," written by Earl Hamner, Jr., tells of Oliver Pope (Edward Andrews), who kills someone in a hit-and-run accident and then discovers that his car will not let him forget what he has done. A nice little chiller from the man who created "The Waltons." Serling's "The Long Morrow" features a fine performance from Robert Lansing as Commander Douglas Stansfield. Before leaving for deep space Stansfield meets Sandra Horn (Mariette Hartley). The two fall in love, but Stansfield's mission will take 30 years, during most of which he will be kept in suspended animation. After he leaves, Sandra has herself put into hibernation. But you know the course of true love never runs smooth in the Zone. No classics this time around, but certainly a solid collection of Zone episodes none the less.

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Summary: Love and Justice in "The Twilight Zone"
Review: The four episodes collected on Volume 23 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series do not share a similar theme, although two deal with the supernatural search for justice while the other pair feature the problem having too much time can cause love. Kevin McCarthy has the title role in "Long Live Walter Jameson," written by Charles Beaumont. Jameson bought the gift of immortality two thousand years ago from an alchemist and has seen all of his wives, children and friends grow old and die over and over again. Now he wants it all to be over. This first season episode features some nice special effects work with makeup as Jameson ages rapidly at the end. In "Dead Man's Shoes," written by by Beaumont and OCee Ritch, Nate Bledsoe (Warren Stevens) puts on a pair of expensive shoes taken from a murdered gangster. The dead man's spirit takes over Bledsoe's body and tracks down his killer, refusing to be denied vengeance. "You Drive," written by Earl Hamner, Jr., tells of Oliver Pope (Edward Andrews), who kills someone in a hit-and-run accident and then discovers that his car will not let him forget what he has done. A nice little chiller from the man who created "The Waltons." Serling's "The Long Morrow" features a fine performance from Robert Lansing as Commander Douglas Stansfield. Before leaving for deep space Stansfield meets Sandra Horn (Mariette Hartley). The two fall in love, but Stansfield's mission will take 30 years, during most of which he will be kept in suspended animation. After he leaves, Sandra has herself put into hibernation. But you know the course of true love never runs smooth in the Zone. No classics this time around, but certainly a solid collection of Zone episodes none the less.

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Summary: Long Live Walter Jameson - One of the best in the series!
Review: The original Twilight Zone is my all-time favorite TV series, ahead of Seinfeld and the original Star Trek. And this volume contains one of my Top 5 TZ episodes of all time (Long Live Walter Jameson).

Long Live Walter Jameson - Absolutely first rate and fascinating story of a 2000 year-old man (brilliantly played by Kevin McCarthy of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers) with amazing special effects for a show produced in the 1960's.

Dead Man's Shoes - Interesting story with a solid performances.

You Drive - An average TZ episode with a nice morality twist.

The Long Morrow - Touching love story with an ironic ending.