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The Twilight Zone: Season One [Blu-ray]
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July 29, 2010 /
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All 36 episodes of the first season of Rod Serling’s classic, groundbreaking series, now presented in pristine high definition for the first time ever!
Loaded with new and exclusive bonus features not available anywhere else including extremely rare, never-before-released unofficial pilot “The Time Element” written by Rod Serling and hosted by Desi Arnaz – the episode that started a cultural phenomenon – presented in glorious high definition!
All new 1080p high-definition transfers have been created from the original camera negatives, as well as uncompressed PCM audio, remastered from the original magnetic soundtracks. Season One Episodes: Where Is Everybody?, One for the Angels, Mr. Denton on Doomsday, The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine, Walking Distance, Escape Clause, The Lonely, Time Enough at Last, Perchance to Dream, Judgment Night, And When the Sky Was Opened, What You Need, The Four of Us Are Dying, Third from the Sun, I Shot an Arrow into the Air, The Hitch-Hiker, The Fever, The Last Flight, The Purple Testament, Elegy, Mirror Image, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, A World of Difference, Long Live Walter Jameson, People Are Alike All Over, Execution, The Big Tall Wish, A Nice Place to Visit, Nightmare as a Child, A Stop at Willoughby, The Chaser, A Passage for Trumpet, Mr. Bevis, The After Hours, The Mighty Casey, A World of His Own. Season 1 included such stars as Anne Francis, Burgess Meredith (eventual veteran of numerous TZ episodes), Ida Lupino, Jack Klugman, Richard Conte, Gig Young, Nehemiah Persoff, Sebastian Cabot, Claude Akins, Earl Holliman, Roddy McDowall, Kevin McCarthy, Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Vera Miles and Ron Howard, all featured in classic episodes. Before the season had even finished, it was hailed by the critics, named by Daily Variety as “the best that has ever been accomplished in half-hour filmed television,” a new phrase had entered the pop-culture lexicon and its success and impact is still felt today – fifty-one years after its debut.
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Review by C. James Cook for The Twilight Zone: Season One [Blu-ray]
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Image Entertainment has revealed the release details for The Twilight Zone: Season 1, slated for Blu-ray release on September 14. This edition has been mastered from new 1080p film transfers using the original camera negatives and magnetic soundtracks (rather than recycling the HD masters they already had on hand from the 2004 Definitive DVD Collection). Special features will include all the content from the Definitive Collection, plus new commentaries, interviews, isolated scores and more.
Full special features include:
* Audio commentaries:
o Actors Earl Holliman, Martin Landau, Rod Taylor, Martin Milner, Kevin McCarthy, and CBS executive William Self
o 19 new audio commentaries, featuring The Twilight Zone Companion author Marc Scott Zicree, author and film historian Gary Gerani (Fantastic Television), author and music historian Steven C. Smith (A Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann), music historians John Morgan and William T. Stromberg, writer/producer David Simkins (Lois & Clark, Dark Angel), writer Mark Fergus (Children of Men, Iron Man), actor William Reynolds and director Ted Post (new)
* Extremely rare, never-before-released unofficial Twilight Zone pilot, “The Time Element,” written by Rod Serling and hosted by Desi Arnaz (new, in HD)
* Vintage audio recollections with actors Burgess Meredith and Anne Francis, directors Douglas Heyes and Richard L. Bare, producer Buck Houghton and writer Richard Matheson
* Rod Serling audio lectures from Sherwood Oaks College
* Rod Serling promos for “Next Week’s” Show
* Original Unaired Pilot Version of “Where is Everybody?” with Rod Serling’s Network Pitch
* Footage of the Emmy Award wins for the series
* Interviews with actors Dana Dillaway, Suzanne Lloyd, Beverly Garland and Ron Masak (new)
* Tales of Tomorrow episode “What You Need” (new)
* Vintage audio interview with director of photography George T. Clemens (new)
* 1977 syndication promos for “A Stop at Willoughby” and “The After Hours” (new)
* 18 radio dramas (new)
* 34 isolated music scores featuring Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith and others (new)
Review by Terry Richard for The Twilight Zone: Season One [Blu-ray]
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“The Twilight Zone” hits Blue-ray shelves September 14, 2010 making this series one of the very few late fifties/early sixties TV shows to make a home for itself in this wonderful and innovative home format. All 36 episodes, along with the original pilot, have been remastered from their original studio masters in high definition which retains their 1.33:1 aspect ratio which is how “The Twilight Zone” was first shown. All episodes are in glorious black and white and fill five dics.
“The Twilight Zone” made its debut on the CBS television network the night of October 2, 1959 and TV would never be the same. Although it took awhile before this anthology series about somewhat distorted individuals in distorted situations found its audience, critics loved it garnering creator Rod Serling an Emmy for his writing.
There will be a slew of special features made especially for this blu-ray release; among them are the extremely rare and never-seen-before pilot episode entitled “The Time Element” written by Rod Serling and hosted by none other than Desi Arnaz; 19 audio commentaries; 18 radio scores; interviews with people like Beverly Garland and others who worked on “The Twilight Zone”; and much more. The DVD bonuses will also be featured on this release which include the unaired pilot “Where Is Everybody?”.
The following is a list of all season one episodes along with guest stars and original air dates:
1. “Where Is Everybody?” (Guest Star Earl Holliman), Oct. 2, 1959
2. “One For The Angels” (Ed Wynn), Oct, 9, 1959
3. “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (Dan Duryea), Oct. 16, 1959
4. “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (Ida Lupino), Oct. 23, 1959
5. “Walking Distance (Gig Young), Oct. 30, 1959
6. “Escape Clause” (David Wayne), Nov. 6, 1959
7. “The Lonely” (Jack Warden), Nov. 13, 1959
8. “Time Enough At Last” (Burgess Meredith), Nov. 20, 1959
9. “Perchance to Dream” (Richard Conte), Nov. 27, 1959
10. “Judgement Night” (Nehemiah Persoff), Dec. 4, 1959
11. “And When the Sky Was Opened”, Dec. 11, 1959
12. “What You Need” (Ernest Truex), Dec. 25, 1959
13. “The Four of Us Are Dying” (Harry Townes), Jan. 1, 1960
14. “Third From The Sun”, Jan. 8, 1960
15. “I Shot an Arrow Into The Air”, Jan. 15, 1960
16. “The Hirch-Hiker” (Inger Stevens), Jan. 22, 1960
17. “The Fever”, Jan. 29, 1960
18. “The Last Flight”, Feb. 5, 1960
19. “The Purple Testament”, Feb. 12, 1960
20. “Elegy”, Feb. 19, 1960
21. “Mirror Image” (Vera Miles), Feb. 26, 1960
22. “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, March 4, 1960
23. “A World of Difference” (Howard Duff), March 11, 1960
24. “Long Live Walter Jameson”(Kevin McCarthy), March 18, 1960
25. “People Are Alike All Over” (Roddy McDowall), March 25, 1950
26. “Execution” (Albert Salmi), April 1, 1960
27. “The Big Tall Wish” (Ivan Dixon), April 8, 1960
28. “A Nice Place To Visit” (Larry Bryden), April 15, 1960
29. “Nightmare as a Child” (Janice Rule), April 29, 1960
30. “A Stop At Willoughby” (James Daly), May 6, 1960
31. “The Chaser”, May 13, 1960
32. “A Passage For Trumpet” (Jack Klugman), May 20, 1960
33. “Mr. Beavis” (Orson Bean), June 3, 1960
34. “The After Hours” (Anne Francis), June 10, 1960
35. “The Mighty Casey” (Jack Warden), June 17, 1960
36. “A World Of His Own” (Keenan Wynn), July 1, 1960
The pilot “The Time Element” was originally broadcast on November 24, 1958.
Review by Mauro Cecala for The Twilight Zone: Season One [Blu-ray]
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To the poster who is complaining about price, considering there are 36 30 min. episodes I think this is good value. Also the fact that “this edition has been mastered from new 1080p film transfers using the original camera negatives and magnetic soundtracks (rather than recycling the HD masters they already had on hand from the 2004 Definitive DVD Collection”. 36 30 min. episodes equates to 18 hours of entertainment. Divide that by 2 hours(average time per film) and you end up with 9 “films”. Multiply that figure by the average cost per Bluray and it returns quite favorably. Each to their own in the end I know. My own complaint is that rather ridiculous cover art not befitting this brilliant TV program.
Review by Lenny S. for The Twilight Zone: Season One [Blu-ray]
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Too Expensive!. I would say that the official TZ DVD release is good enough ..if not great. Put your $ into the Boris Karloff THRILLER DVD series to be released Aug. 31, 2010. Now that’s $ well spent.
Review by Jerome Twaddle for The Twilight Zone: Season One [Blu-ray]
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This set is sure to please any Twilight Zone Fiend! I’ve never seen The pilot-”The Time Element” & I am very happy to see this available for the first time. I will have this the very first day of release! I hope they get all the openings on each episode right this time around, The DVD season set was almost perfect, except the episodes: “Mr. Denton On Doomsday” & “A Passage For Trumpet”, They had each others openings. But I believe this set is going to be right, after all they are going to be from the original camera negitives…so, that takes care of every episode being original!