The Twilight Zone - 40th Anniversary Gift Set

Actor: Twilight Zone
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD

List Price: ~~$69.99~~
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20 reviews
Sales Rank: 107397

Format: Box Set, Black & White, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 590 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

UPC: 014381962024
EAN: 0014381962024
ASIN: B00004STW5

Theatrical Release Date: 1959
Release Date: April 3, 2001
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Description
This massive 6-disc collection includes "The Twilight Zone, Volumes 1-5," featuring 19 classic episodes, plus "Rod Serling, Submitted for your Approval" (1998, 90 min.), a comprehensive and fascinating biography of the late Rod Serling, creator of "The Twilight Zone!" Episodes: "Night of the Meek" - A forlorn department store Santa has a surprisingly nice Christmas. "The Invaders" - An woman in an isolated house is stalked by tiny spacemen. "Nothing in the Dark" - An old woman believes a wounded policeman is really Death. "Time Enough at Last" - A nuclear war leaves a bookworm with time to read. "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" - The residents of a quiet street suspect an alien invasion. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" - A nervous man spots a gremlin on the wing of his plane. "The Odyssey of Flight 33" - A peculiar tailwind blows a plane off course--by a billion years. "Steel" - A penniless manager fights, disguised as his robot boxer. "A Game of Pool" - A pool player dreams of playing against the late great Fats Brown. "Walking Distance" - A frazzled executive steps back in time and meets--himself! "Kick the Can" - An old man discovers the secret to regaining youth. "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" - A man is given super strength by a Martian experimenter. "Two" - Two survivors from opposing sides of a nuclear war must start a new world. "A Passage for Trumpet" - After his suicide, an trumpeter is given a second chance. "The Four of Us are Dying" - A man with the ability to change his face devises a plan to elevate himself. "Long Distance Call" - Billy's toy telephone receives calls from his dead Grandma! "I Sing the Body Electric" - A young girl learns to accept her new grandmother--a robot! "The Lonely" - A convict jailed on an asteroid is given a female robot companion. "Probe 7, Over & Out" - The lone survivors of two annihilated planets must begin new lives.

Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars

Don't pay Ninty-nine bucks for this! January 28, 2005
Regolith4 (Virginia Beach, VA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

This set has no special intrinsic value; it is the first half of the TZ Volume 1 DVD Collection, which only goes for seventy bucks at most retail outlets; I say again, don't pay almost one-hundred bucks for 50% of what you can have at under seventy! Additionally, there is noting special about this set; the DVDs aren't even packaged per standard--they're in CD jewl cases, loosly packed in box...

3 out of 5 stars

Not intended for the serious collector January 28, 2003
E. Knowles (The Amazon)
28 out of 28 found this review helpful

If you are a serious collector -- or if you are shopping for a gift for a big fan of this show -- then you really should investigate the "Twilight Zone Collection" box sets.

The entire series is available in a total of 5 sets. This 40th Anniversary Gift Pack is not comprehensive enough for a serious collector. It contains exactly the same material as Vol 1-5 of "Collection 1," which goes beyond that, all the way to Vol 9.

1 out of 5 stars The Twilight Zone - 40th Anniversary - Major Disappointmen October 20, 2002
Robert F. Johnson (Rancho Mirage, CA United States)
30 out of 36 found this review helpful

I cant believe how cheaply they packaged this set. I have a twilight zone collection and each volume is packaged in a classy DVD cover. I was expecting 5 volumes that had the similar package.......WRONG......They have put these DVD's in a cheap plastic CD holder that is a totally different size and look than the rest of the collection. I would rather pay the difference and get the volumes individually. WHAT A CHEAP WAY TO PACKAGE THIS PRODUCT. ESPECIALLY WHEN MOST OF US BUY THEM TO COLLECT. TALK ABOUT DISAPPOINTMENT!

5 out of 5 stars ... September 13, 2002
Pete Doole
1 out of 27 found this review helpful

'Twilight Zone's Next Century ' Its A Great Book Better than the original Twilight Zone. Written and created by a ex-step son of James Serling's Rod Serling's 1st cousin. Michael J.Sudore Author Of Twilighjt Zone's Next Century.

Buy this book its a great novel. Some people think Sudore is a actual Blood relative of the Serling's because he looks like Rod and he has his imagination. Some people think he has powers because he come up with these stories from the top of his head.

A story out of his book is about the Witch who becoomes fat she eats a piece of pie, and she explodes into seven witches all seven inches tall all the same existance of the witch.

I don't want to spoil the book or tv stories of sudore's read it all, his stories are out of this world. and they are new.

5 out of 5 stars Good bargain for all that you get April 25, 2002
8 out of 10 found this review helpful

Getting five DVD's for this price is good no matter what they are, and if they are Twilight Zone episodes -- you better grab this deal right away! The gift set's contents include a variety of episodes, from sentimental to downright scary, all of which any Twilight Zone fan will enjoy seeing again and again. See the early work of Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, William Shatner and Lee Marvin -- when they were hotties! Rod Serling and the creators were way ahead of their time, and the "making of" documentary proves this. The only problem with the gift set is the strange packaging: you get the DVD's in double-disc cases, thrown into a box that looks like it was designed for more content.