The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series [DVD]

I'm actually old enough to remember when this show was first aired in the UK in the early 60s. I loved it. This blu-ray box set, however, was bought for my 20-something daughter who is, like me, a sci-fi/fantasy nut and had been reading about The Twilight Zone online. We've been watching it with my 20-something son and all three of us are enjoying it.The writing, often by show creator, Rod Serling, still comes across as wittier and more intelligent than most TV shows before or since. There's a good mix of straight sci-fi and fantasy, most stories falling into the latter category. One of the remarkable things about the show is the way it tackles subjects most shows avoided, like prejudice, Communist paranoia and nuclear war. Way ahead of its time. On the subject of prejudice, the use of black actors also seems well ahead of its time.Then there's the added fun of spotting early guest appearances by future mega-stars like Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Ron Howard, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Warren Oates, Robert Redford and Burt Reynolds, to name but a few. Loads of familiar faces from other 60s TV shows pop up too, including most of the casts of Star Trek and Batman. Even our very own Patrick McNee (John Steed in The Avengers) shows up. Some great old-timers are in evidence too, most poignantly, the legendary Buster Keaton, in a gorgeously-produced episode that allows him to relive a little of his silent screen super-stardom.Nostalgia abounds, but this show is much more than a nostalgia trip and a lot of quality acting. As said, it has tight, engaging story-telling from Serling and his fellow writers, including Richard Matheson. More than that, the black-and-white cinematography is really excellent, with sharp contrast and the picture quality crystal clear, amazingly so for a show of this vintage. Kudos to the clean-up team. The restored sound also comes across as clearly as any present-day production. There are lots of interesting extras too, including masses of cast and crew interviews, commentary tracks and much more.All in all this box set is an absolute treat for anyone who likes classic sci-fi and fantasy. The only thing that feels oddly old-fashioned about it is that, when Rod Serling, who introduces each story, returns at the end to do his trailer for next week's episode, he sometimes goes into a cigarette commercial. At the time, of course, this was perfectly fine, but looked at now, it comes across as just plain weird!

One of the most best science fiction TV shows of all times with fantastic classic stories from horror, comedy, thrilling, exciting, joyful, romantic. This truly piece of art classic is one that everybody should see in their life time I suggest it very well.

You just keep figuring, keeps you thinking, it's Magic, did I have had something like that in life too? I recognize this, Feast of recognition, I know this, coming home,warm welcome, and continuing, Magic and The Craft,Witchcraft ,Wicca,Pagan and such,It Didn' t Die, People want ye to forget and to think it's fantasy ,something I never bought, they with their science or religions of Christiandom the way they celebrate it in The Netherlands, as where I live, and got born(unfortunatually not a good house in The UK. And a happy life there,It does exist and luckily these series are here to not make anyone forget.Those being there in the cosmos like angels ,god's and goddesses, or make you think if Aliens ALF really exist, and life on March...Really actuality, Wishes do exist, the power of the mind ,unfinished business, that what he can' t touch or see with the bare eye, what Dutch Christiandom people hate and I Love, (it's not my religion, their Protestain being, or Catholic,Rhoom Catholic,Christian,Gereformeerd or any like that,EU Satanism ,actually believing pure in science, and I do not come from Jesus Christ or am anything like being of him, as these Dutch try to torture me with and bully me with.-HM. Queen Annique of Scotland--Annique- van der Burgh*-

Looking forward to seeing the dvd not seen for a while

Fantastic collection, husband is going to love it

If, like me, you remember it being on TV and you like 1950s/1960s America then buy it. Don't think it's all about aliens and the future. It isn't. It's more about "What if this happened.."You may, as I do, finish watching an episode and thinking "Where have I seen that actor/actress before?"

I used to watch this in the late '70s when i was about 9 years old and then again about 20 years later. The 2 shows that really stuck with me all these years are Shadow Play and Five Characters in Search of an Exit and it was great watching them again.I've just finished watching series 3 and i am now looking forward to series 4.I know when i have finally watched every episode, i will go back to series 1, episode 1 and start all over again.I highly recommend this box set of 156 episodes of some of the greatest television ever made.Rod Serling, the man behind the show, was a true genius. He wrote the majority of the shows, with some help from the likes of Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont and other writers.I can't recommend this highly enough.Arrived on time and in great condition by Amazon.

Box arrived on schedule Am currently on 4th Season. First 3 seasons all shows are roughly 23 mins long with lots of familiar faces who went on to bigger and better things. Some of the stories stories I remember seeing and are just as thought provoking now as they were then. Seasons 1 - 3 have about 35 stories each, season 4 has switched to a 55 minute format and I anticipate the same standard of story telling the first one was not too bad the second looks quite good from the trailer about a sunken WW2 sub that divers here knocking coming from inside some 20 years after it was sunk the tune says it all da dad dad da da dad dad da gave me goosepimples back then can't beat it for nostalgia and value.