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Summary: Your Hunt For a GREAT TZ Disc has just ended ...
Review: I try to give a tidbit about what I think about the packaging with each of my reviews. The episode navigation for the whole series is painfully slow. Sometimes I think I'd be better off watching a whole disc at once ... nah, I'd rather savor this series. Careful taking a disc out for the first time! These things tend to be seated in the case FIRMLY! OK ...Execution***1/2 : I'd never seen this ep before buying this set. It showcases a very convincing performance by Gilligans "The Professor" and by Joe Caswell (Al Sami). The ending surprised me a bit and thats a good thing. The Hunt***** : I suppose there comes a time when our personnal favorites win out over TRUE perfection. I had read a review of this ep once and the writer thought it was "eh". That surprised me. There is no real climax here but the loving hand applied by the two leads in the cast are very endearing to me. I bought this disc for this ep alone, and wasn't let down by my memory of it. "Salvador Ross"*** 1/2 : Some may say Twilight Zone is all about great writing, I don't agree. The acting performanace by the lead here is tremendous even though the story by the time this ep was made was old hat. I had also, never seen this ep either before this disc, I'm learning that there are many gems out there yet undiscovered. No. 12 Looks Just Like You***** : This has always been one of my faves. I have it in the TZ laserdisc box set and have viewed it MANY times. Perhaps a bit idealistic, but the dialogue written here is some of the best EVER in TZ. In a word ... buy/this.
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Summary: Your fate is always inevitable in "The Twilight Zone"
Review: Trying to avoid an unhappy ending is the unifying quest of the main characters in the quartet of episodes found on Volume 25 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series. "Execution," written by Rod Serling and based on an unpublished story by George Clayton Johnson, features Albert Salmi as Joe Caswell, about to be hanged for shooting a man in the back. Just before the noose tightens, Caswell disappears and then reappears in the laboratory of Professor Manion (Russell Johnson), picked at random by the scientist's time machine. Of course, escaping your fate is not that easy in the Zone. One of my all-time favorite character actors, Arthur Hunnicut, plays hillbilly Hyder Simpson in "The Hunt," a gem written by Earl Hamner, Jr. When his hound dog Rip dives into the water after a raccoon, Hyder follows him in, but only the raccoon emerges. The next morning it takes a while for Hyder to figure out he and Rip is dead. Eventually Hyder and Rip ends up at a gate. Fellah there 'splains hits the entrance to Heaven, but dogs ain't allowed. Hyder takes exception to that dang fool nonsense. "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross," written by Jerry McNeely and based on the short story by Henry Slesar, has Don Gordon in the title role as an unpleasant whose romantic overtures are spurned by Leah Maitland (Gail Kobe). Ross then discovers that he can make some interesting trades: first a broken arm for a cold, and then 46 years of his life for a million bucks and a nice apartment. Ross buys back his youth a few years at a time from a bunch of young men, but Leah still refuses him. She wants a man with compassion, like her father. So Ross buys it from him for $100,000. "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You," written by John Tomerlin and based on Charles Beaumont's short story "The Beautiful People," tells of a future where at the age of 19 everyone voluntarily undergoes the Transformation, which makes them beautiful, but identical to everyone else. But Marilyn Cuberle (Collin Wilcox), rejects the notion of conformity and wants to avoid the treatment. Playing all the adults in the episode are Richard Long and supermodel Suzy Parker. This is an above average collection of Zone episodes, with a couple of personal favorites.
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Summary: Your fate is always inevitable in "The Twilight Zone"
Review: Trying to avoid an unhappy ending is the unifying quest of the main characters in the quartet of episodes found on Volume 25 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series. "Execution," written by Rod Serling and based on an unpublished story by George Clayton Johnson, features Albert Salmi as Joe Caswell, about to be hanged for shooting a man in the back. Just before the noose tightens, Caswell disappears and then reappears in the laboratory of Professor Manion (Russell Johnson), picked at random by the scientist's time machine. Of course, escaping your fate is not that easy in the Zone. One of my all-time favorite character actors, Arthur Hunnicut, plays hillbilly Hyder Simpson in "The Hunt," a gem written by Earl Hamner, Jr. When his hound dog Rip dives into the water after a raccoon, Hyder follows him in, but only the raccoon emerges. The next morning it takes a while for Hyder to figure out he and Rip is dead. Eventually Hyder and Rip ends up at a gate. Fellah there 'splains hits the entrance to Heaven, but dogs ain't allowed. Hyder takes exception to that dang fool nonsense. "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross," written by Jerry McNeely and based on the short story by Henry Slesar, has Don Gordon in the title role as an unpleasant whose romantic overtures are spurned by Leah Maitland (Gail Kobe). Ross then discovers that he can make some interesting trades: first a broken arm for a cold, and then 46 years of his life for a million bucks and a nice apartment. Ross buys back his youth a few years at a time from a bunch of young men, but Leah still refuses him. She wants a man with compassion, like her father. So Ross buys it from him for $100,000. "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You," written by John Tomerlin and based on Charles Beaumont's short story "The Beautiful People," tells of a future where at the age of 19 everyone voluntarily undergoes the Transformation, which makes them beautiful, but identical to everyone else. But Marilyn Cuberle (Collin Wilcox), rejects the notion of conformity and wants to avoid the treatment. Playing all the adults in the episode are Richard Long and supermodel Suzy Parker. This is an above average collection of Zone episodes, with a couple of personal favorites.
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