The Twilight Zone – Season 1

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• Moe Charles says:

  August 2, 2010 at 8:56 pm

  Let’s stop this Rod-Serling-Is-God hokum right now. I remember sitting in a revival theater a few years ago watching the original “Planet Of The Apes.” As the apes were exchanging dull, pompous speeches, all I could think was: “This sounds like a bad episode of the Twilight Zone.” Sure enough, as the credits rolled, the screenwriter was revealed to be Rod Serling. I want to know how this hack ever came to be regarded as the greatest writer of television’s Golden Age. I can barely sit through one of his introductions with all that purple language and pseudo-lawyer phraseology. (Someone at CBS should have burned his thesaurus.) All that puffed-up language and pedantic delivery was only to conceal the triteness of his GREAT INSIGHTS into the human condition. Give me Alfred Hitchcock instead, who knew TV is hack work and had fun with “Alfred Hitchock Presents.” Serling, on the other hand, was forever saving humanity from itself on the MGM lot. Most of Serling’s scripts could have been produced by any half-bright freshman in a creative writing class. Okay, once in a while he hit paydirt, like the gambling yarn “The Fever”; but even Serling admitted that two-thirds of his material was junk. The best thing about the first few seasons of TZ was the show clocked at a merciful half hour, which saved the actors from making long-winded speeches as in the fourth season when it stretched to a full hour. Serling’s mediocrity was saved by greater talents than his own, namely the scoring of Bernard Hermann, some good scripts by Jerry Sohl, Charles Beaumont and George Clayton Johnson, the inspired acting of up-and-comers, and some interesting film-noirish direction. Even worse would be Serling’s follow-up series in the late ’60s, Night Gallery, which proved that the great auteur had lost none of his pomposity and bad writing with the passage of time.
  Rating: 1 / 5
• the mook says:

  August 2, 2010 at 11:07 pm

  PEOPLE ARE FINALLY GETTING UPSET SEEING ITEMS RERELEASED?!?!?!?!?HAVING TO BUY ITEM TWICE/THRICE?!?!?!?!?RESORTING TO EBAY TO RECOOP MONEY TO BUY REISSUE??!?!?!?ONLY TO REVISIT EBAY 7 MONTHS FROM NOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?PEOPLE ARE GETTING WISE?!?!?!?!?!?
  Rating: 5 / 5
• Thomas S. Redway lll says:

  August 3, 2010 at 1:37 am

  i bought this its good but not truly complete, where is THE TIME ELEMENT , EPISODE ????????????????????????????????????????
  Rating: 3 / 5
• Chris Howell says:

  August 3, 2010 at 4:37 am

  It’s very difficult to justify the premium pricing on this product versus other DVD TV series. Apparently there are enough wealthy or financially irresponsible TZ junkies to support it. The ‘extras’ aren’t worth it. I’ll just continue to record the shows from TV.
  Rating: 1 / 5
• Movie Addict says:

  August 3, 2010 at 6:50 am

  I enjoyed watching the Twilight Zones many collections of stories. Some seem campy such as Roddy McDowell; People are alike All Over. With todays space shuttles technology all those rockets launches seem antiquated. We all ready sent people into space but the only one that seems relavent to today is Where Is Everybody?

  Some episodes do retain some of the horror quality that I remember as a child Long Live Walter Jamison is still sends shivers up my spine; glad to see it again.

  The only problem I have with some of these episodes is that they deal with social problems like bias; Judgement Night had a Nazi realism which was quite disturbing; and the Monsters are Due on Maple Street seems like they took a cue from todays papers. I thought that being in the Twilight Zone these human discrepencies didn’t exist; that people from other planets didn’t have these frailtys.

  Rating: 3 / 5