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Summary: Save the Best for Last!
Review: ALL ABOARD, Twilight Zone Zannies! THIS IS IT (as someone who has seen them ALL three times over) . . . The ONE Twilight Zone DVD with the most value, resale value, and bang for your buck!!! Excellent for the budget minded, cheapskates, or downright frugal (who tape most events but complain about the quality because they didn't bother with Monster cables)! It doesn't include the first or second "best" episodes (you will have to purchase volumes 11 and 26 for that!), but each selection is definitely (and amazingly) in the "ALL TIME TOP TEN"! Indeed, Volume 2 is the humdinger, superstar, Sean Connery as James Bond of them all!!! Each box in the collection comes with welcome words such as "Four remarkable episodes" which provides the purchaser a (in this case, false) sense of security that he or she has brought home the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. Unfortunately, more in the tradition of the Wizard of Oz himself ("a good man but a very bad wizard"), many in this collection have munchkin-like value since the episodes are put together with rhyme or reason more difficult to ascertain than Dorothy's elusive rainbow! "Time Enough to Last" features Burgess Meredith as a funny but tragic bookworm and dreamer. It is probably the weakest episode but it still makes the likes of Professor Klump look like a mainstream idiot! "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" appears to be a commentary on how certain lower class (thinking) people in our society always need a scapegoat. Therefore, the show (as in real life) results in some chilling possibilities of what happens next. "The Odyssey of Flight 33" reflects creator Rod Serling's first rate, wild imagination! A jet airliner confronts a tail wind with such velocity that it moves into another time barrier! In this script, the "unbelievable" becomes completely believable! "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" has a couple of shocking scenes that will have you contemplating the "what if" question for the remainder of your time on earth. If you are watching in DVD, this is actually the third in the sequence of four episodes. But I recommend watching it last for a truer sense of the "Grand Finale".
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Summary: Great Shows, but ...
Review: As a LONGTIME fan of the Twilight Zone, I like almost all of the episodes, especially Time Enough at Last. However, it really ticks me off that the episodes are not released in season order as done with many other series. There is no excuse for not doing so, and in not including supplementary material at the relatively high price point. Apparently we Twilight Zone fans are suckers.
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Summary: Your Next Stop is¿
Review: Besides the TV Plays that you will buy this for, there are some DVD goodies (extras.):
Special "Inside the Twilight Zone" Section Written by Marc Scott Zicree
Biographical info on Rod Sterling
History of the Twilight Zone
Cast information
A season-by Season commentary
They claim to be digitally re-mastered yet there are still a few glitches and snow.
Episode 8 "Time Enough at Last" November 20, 1960Henry Bemis (Burgess Meredith) has a healthy interest in reading; he is surrounded by people that underestimate its worth. He is conspired against by the bank president and even his wife. He works in a bank and spends his afternoons in the vault catching up on his reading. I will say no more as you and Mr. Bemis are about to enter the Twilight Zone. Burgess Meredith will be found in several of the Twilight Zone episodes and again as the narrator of the 1983 Twilight Zone movie. Episode 22 "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" March 4, 1960 The typical neighbors, like Claude Atkins and Jack Weston, are out doing neighbor things like mowing their lawn. They stop to hear a weird sound and see a strange light. It is assumed to be a weird meteor. All of a sudden the power goes out and nothing works no phones, no cars, nothing. This is the last moment before the real monsters came out. Episode 123 "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" October 11, 1963 Mr. Wilson (William Shatner) is a salesman that is recovering from a nervous breakdown he had in an airplane. He is on his way down in a propeller commuter plane. You know something is amiss with him as he realizes he is next to the emergency window, over the wing. Of course his psychiatrist, Dr. Martin, would not let him fly home unless he was well. In the middle of an electrical storm, he looks out the window and I will say no more as you are about to enter the darkest part of the Twilight Zone. This episode will be included in the 1983 movie with John Lithgow playing Mr. Wilson. Episode 54 "The Odyssey of Flight 33" February 24, 1961 An international Jet flight, Global 33, is heading for Idawiled airport. On the way they get a sensation of great speed and go through some unknown barrier. Captain Farver (John Anderson) looses all external electronic guidance. He goes down for a closer look. I will not say anything more as you have now entered the Twilight Zone. I wonder if we have a current remake, would Global 33 lose global positioning.
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Summary: The Twilight Zone on DVD
Review: Episode 2 of the twilight zone series has some of the best episodes ever. "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" and "Nightmare at 20,000 feet" are classics. This is one of the best DVDs of all time! I recommend for all Twilight Zone fans.
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Summary: four classics
Review: From the golden years of T.V. we get four classics. William ( Priceline ) Shatner gets high and has a BAD trip. Bigotry and paranoia overtake reason and wrecks a neighborhood. Airplane passengers hit a timeshockwave and see the age of dinosaurs. In these episodes we see how people get into trouble when they fail to use Simple Logic.
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Summary: I Liked It Okay But It Was Kind of Boring
Review: I took time out from playing vidio games to watch this DVD that I saw laying in the family room. There's one show called Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. The scary parts are not all that scary, and a lot of it doesn't have nearly enough action. I didn't understand the show about the bookworm but I mostly hate school anyway. One show showed an airplane. It wasin another time zone. It didn't land there but it went there. It was okay but not enough special effects to keep my attention. My favorite show here was about the monsters on Maple Street. There was a lot of good shooting, and some blood.
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Summary: This is definitely the BEST volume in the DVD collection
Review: No matter how many DVDs they put out with episodes of "The Twilight Zone," they cannot put out one with better episodes that Volume 2. "Time Enougth at Last" is THE quintessential Zone episode, adapted by Rod Serling from Lynn Venable's short story. Burgess Meredith, in what was surely his most recognizable role, plays Henry Bemis, a mild-mannered, myopic bank teller who only wants to read, but can never get away from this shrewish wife and demanding boss. But then Henry has the fortune of being in the bank vault reading a book when the world is destroyed by a nuclear war. Directed by John Brahm, no "Twilight Zone" episode ever backed a more unforgettable ending. "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" finds neighbors turning on each other as unexplained events fuel their fear that human-looking aliens have infiltrated Maple Street (filed on MGM's "Andy Hardy" street). Claude Atkins and Jack Weston head a strong cast in this classic written by Rod Serling and directed by Ron Winston. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" stars William Shatner as poor Bob Wilson, who has left a sanatorium only to take a plane flight where a gremlin keeps trying to sabotage the engine. Written by Richard Matheson, who wrote the original short story, "Nightmare" was directed by Richard Donner, who went on to be a film director of some note. "The Odyssey of Flight 33" is the only sub-classic episode on this disc. The story by Serling, directed by Justus Addiss, is of a plane that picks up a freak tail wind that sends it back in time. John Anderson as Captain Farver leads the excellent cast that makes this rather far-fetched idea utterly believable.
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Summary: This is definitely the BEST volume in the DVD collection
Review: No matter how many DVDs they put out with episodes of "The Twilight Zone," they cannot put out one with better episodes that Volume 2. "Time Enougth at Last" is THE quintessential Zone episode, adapted by Rod Serling from Lynn Venable's short story. Burgess Meredith, in what was surely his most recognizable role, plays Henry Bemis, a mild-mannered, myopic bank teller who only wants to read, but can never get away from this shrewish wife and demanding boss. But then Henry has the fortune of being in the bank vault reading a book when the world is destroyed by a nuclear war. Directed by John Brahm, no "Twilight Zone" episode ever backed a more unforgettable ending. "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" finds neighbors turning on each other as unexplained events fuel their fear that human-looking aliens have infiltrated Maple Street (filed on MGM's "Andy Hardy" street). Claude Atkins and Jack Weston head a strong cast in this classic written by Rod Serling and directed by Ron Winston. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" stars William Shatner as poor Bob Wilson, who has left a sanatorium only to take a plane flight where a gremlin keeps trying to sabotage the engine. Written by Richard Matheson, who wrote the original short story, "Nightmare" was directed by Richard Donner, who went on to be a film director of some note. "The Odyssey of Flight 33" is the only sub-classic episode on this disc. The story by Serling, directed by Justus Addiss, is of a plane that picks up a freak tail wind that sends it back in time. John Anderson as Captain Farver leads the excellent cast that makes this rather far-fetched idea utterly believable.
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Summary: As Twilight Falls.
Review: THE TWILIGHT ZONE VOL. 2 includes four episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, three of which are quintessential episodes of the series. "Time Enough at Last" stars Burgess Meredith as bookworm, Henry Bemis, who works at a bank. He's constantly hounded by his wife at home and by his bosses at work. All he really wants to do is spend his life reading. While in one of the underground bank vaults, a nuclear holocaust happens and Henry discovers that he's the only man to have survived the disaster. Henry wanders into a library and thinks he's in Heaven. But our ideas of Heaven often turn out to be more like Hell. "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" revolves around a supposed alien invasion that causes the quiet residents of Maple Street to begin turning on each other and their own humanity. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is an episode that has been rehashed and parodied on countless other shows. "Nightmare" stars William Shatner as, Bob Wilson, a salesman who has just been released from the sanitarium because of a nervous breakdown. Bob is looking forward to a relaxing flight home, despite his anxiety about flying and the turbulant thunderstorm the plane flies into. Unfortunately for Bob, he just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and sees a gremlin trying to sabotage the planes engine. What's a former nut-case to do? The final episode on the disc is "The Odyssey of Flight 33". "Flight 33" isn't quite as memorable as the other three episodes, but it does have its moments. It revolves around a basic passenger jet that gets a boost from a quantum jet stream, pushing it through history. Overall, this is an excellent collection of THE TWILIGHT ZONE episodes that any serious fan or serious writer or filmmaker would probably be interested in owning.
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Summary: THE BEST TWILIGHT ZONE DVD
Review: THEY REALLY PUT THE BEST SHOWS ON THIS TWILIGHT ZONE DVD. ALMOST ALL OF THEM WERE EITHER WRITTEN BY ROD SERLING AND RICHARD MATHESON.THE ODYSSEY OF FLIGHT 33 IS A STRAIGHT FORWARD SCIENCE FICTION TALE WITH A SURPRISE ENDING. NIGHTMARE AT 30,000 FEET STARS A PRE-STAR TREK WILLIAM SHATNER AND WAS DIRECTED BY RICHARD DONNER. THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MABLE STREET WAS ROD'S MOST POWERFUL AND MOVING STATEMENT ON THE DANGERS OF BIGOTRY AND HATE, AND TIME ENOUGH AT LAST IS A SAD/TRAGIC TALE OF ONE MAN WHO FINALLY HAS ALL THE TIME HE WANTS TO READ BOOKS UNTIL FATE DECIDES OTHER WISE. THESE ARE ALL AMONG THE BEST STORIES THE TWILIGHT ZONE HAD TO OFFER.
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