The Twilight Zone: Vol. 1

So much of what we see on the classic TZ episodes has been redone to death these days. These are some of the ORIGINAL stories from a classic age of sci-fi suspense. This volumes includes three of the classic, iconic episodes. Kind of a hodge-podge mix of good stories on this disc. Probably the weakest in the collection, but still worth watching. Recommended.

From my teens this is one of the series that I more fondly remember. As a sci-fi fan I was attracted by "The Twilight Zone" proposal. At that time I wasn't able to see more than a score of episodes, but they remain in my memory with extraordinary persistence.
Thanks to the technological marvel of DVD I'm able to see these amazing stories again and find them as magical & thought provoking as 45 years ago.
As the structure of the episodes are mostly bounded to a surprise ending or to the argument in a very short span of time, usually 25 minutes each, I'll focus my review more on outstanding features than on the topic of the episode in order not to spoil the pleasure of the viewer.

Disk 1 contains only three chapters but wow! Two of them are extraordinary.

1) The Invaders - An emblematic episode, only one character, a lone woman in an isolate house receives the unexpected visit of a tiny "flying saucer" with two small aliens.
She doesn't utter a word and all the tension is focused in her mute wild chase of the aliens.
Agnes Moorhead, best known by her role as Endora the Witch Mother of "Bewitched", gives an extraordinary performance.
Cinematography in charge of George Clemens deserves a special mention. He won Emmy Award 1961 and nominations for the same honor 1962 & 1963 all due to several episodes of this series.
Qualification: 10.

2) The Night of the Meek - This is a rather conventional Christmas episode, nevertheless it manages to touch viewer's emotional chord.
Qualification: 7.

3) Nothing in the Dark - An old lady is entrenched in her basement apartment in order to avoid Mr. Death visit. However there are people trying to make her leave her bunker as those buildings are going to be demolished.
Gladys Cooper impersonates entrenched Wanda with authority but surprise, surprise her acting partner is... Robert Redford! Very young, very charismatic & very proficient.
Qualification: 10.

This DVD format has two great advantages: it has a very good price and allows buyers to choose their favorite chapters without needing to buy the whole series.
Reviewed by Max Yofre.

Twilight Zone was one of those programs that people talked about fpr days at the office. It was a show I never missed, and now I can see them all again. I was afraid they wouldn't hold up well, that my recollection of them was about to be destroyed. But, no.

Art Carney is excellent as a besotted and disillusioned Santa. The theme is a little preachy and the snow looks more like soap flakes than winter precipitation. This is probably the least of the 3 episodes on the disk, but it's still pretty good. Art Carney's performance alone is worthwhile.

Agnes Moorhead is the only real character in the second episode, a lonely woman in a remote farmhouse. A spaceship crashes into her attic and she has to fight the tiny aliens with the primitive weapons at hand. The spacemen shoot her and raise blisters on her skin. She doesn't have a single word of dialogue, just moans and grunts, and it doesn't matter. This is a real classic, one that never left my mind in almost fifty years.

In the third episode, a boyish Robert Redford plays a wounded cop who falls at the doorway of a condemned building. The only occupant is an old woman who is afraid of letting Death in and suspects the wounded cop of being Death. The story is not one of the best of the series, but it is better than some.

TV never got better than Rod Serling's Twilight Zone. What more can one say?

The DVD arrived faster then I thought, and it came in perfect condition. The only dissapointment that I had was that the DVD only had 3 episodes on it. In any case that's 3 hours of Twilight Zone, and it was a great price too.

A forerunner of American genius in broadcasting,Twilight Zone has got to be a favorite of young and old alike using quality story lines ind acting to replace over zealous effects many are plagued with today.Although quite pleased with content I am very disappointed there were no mention as to the skimpy nature,(only 3 episodes on disk)when I anticipated season one(entirely) not critics choice of best of season.I did however learn from its included bio when my favorite was shown,it was season 3 "Little Girl Lost" and I learned that Robert Redford wrote parts of the first episode of Star Trek.Neat.