|
The Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection | 
| Actor: Burgess Meredith
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $299.99
Buy New: $131.71
as of 9/10/2010 07:39 CDT details
You Save: $168.28 (56%)
New (36) Used (4) from $131.71
Seller: overman2000
Rating:  295 reviews
Sales Rank: 884
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 28
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 4524 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 4.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 014381247428
UPC: 014381247428
EAN: 0014381247428
ASIN: B000H5U5EE
Theatrical Release Date: 1959
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| |
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
All five seasons of the program hosted by Rod Serling featuring tales of the unexpected.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 295
 Packaging could have been alot better September 8, 2010
Michael A. Jordan Sr. (El Paso, TX)
I have watched The Twilight Zone for well over 30 years now, ever since I was a teenager and continue to enjoy the series today. I was very pleased to receive this box set for my birthday after years of trying to gather some of my favorite shows by buying individual dvd's along the years. The only downfall to this box set is the way it is packaged, usually 5-6 discs within a plastic container that will obviously break over time. I was also not impressed that each inidividual season container merely comes with a very cheap paper synopsis of the shows the set contains. Would it have been so hard to either print the shows on the disc itself or include a more sturdy, bound booklet so that you could quickly access that season's contents? Other than that, the navigation is ok, but could have been better. The show's speak for themselves, as most of them are still enjoyable today.
Classic September 6, 2010
Petronius (Canada)
I purchased this just over two weeks ago and am completely happy with it.
The packaging is sturdy and well organized. The discs are slightly overlapped in their cases but this is a minor inconvenience for me.
Most importantly the video is very good. Crisp with great contrast with the black and white images. The sound is equal to the video and everything I've heard so far is easily heard.
The stories are....well,They're Twilight Zone. Amazing and fun to watch. This series completely changed the way television was watched. It had great writing, acting but with humor as well as comments on social and or controversial topics.
I am thoroughly satisfied with this set. I bought it from the U.S. but I am from Canada. The set cost me 50% less?!?!
what the hey is with that?
A MUST HAVE for any true TZ fan! September 6, 2010
Mark Myword
I had grown up watching The Twilight Zone. I recall the commercials for its first season airing on TV with all the hoopla about the coming decade (the 60's)--most of all I recall the omnipresent Mr. Serling standing off center (camera pan left or right), with a cigarette dangling from his first two fingers as he narrates a brief intro, promo, or closing. I watched many of the reruns from time to time on the Sci-Fi (sorry, can't get into the lame syfy moniker) channel. Problem was, you always missed some of the ones you remembered the best. I know the one with Keenan Wynn that I thought was called "The Pitch" (actually it was "One for the Angels") was as clear in my memory as if I were a nine year old watching it air for the first time, back in my old homestead. Yet I never got to see it again and was delighted that it was among the first in season 1 of this set (actually it was the SECOND TZ episode to air). The Twilight Zone was one of those very special shows that left an indelible mark on your memory. I was an imaginative child to begin with, and sci-fi/fantasy were among my favorite genre. This made Twilight Zone an absolute "must" every Friday night! What I especially like is that you have them ALL! How can any TZ fan not be impressed with that? And wonder of wonders, the specials are incredible!
1.) Each disc has a sub menu for each episode (usually the scene menu) which includes Mr. Serling's promo for the next week's show AND a link to "specials" which run the gamut from isolated scores, where you can watch in a muted episode and hear the haunting score behind it. The imagination runs WILD.
2.) Among the specials, you also get interviews with many of the stars who were featured on the episodes, including Burgess Meredith discussing "Time Enough At Last", while the episode plays in the background. The list of stars, writers, producers, is very impressive and too lengthy to list here--suffice it to say, you'll love hearing their own views of the shows they were a part of. Even Mr. Serling graces us with lectures he gives to students with his unique self-deprecating humor while looking back at special episodes.
3.) The old CBS logo appears after each show, and you get promos from other shows like Danny Thomas and Wanted Dead or Alive-- even an occassional PSA about things like "take your family to church or synagogue this week" (imagine THAT in today's PC world!) there are others--but THAT one struck me as special-- takes you right back to those better times!
For me, this is a welcome retreat back to a better time. Yes, I know we need to live in the present, and concern ourselves with the future--nobody better, and I do that; but once or twice a week, I cherish the opportunity to put in one of these discs and relive a time in my life when things were just less chaotic, and more filled with childlike fancy. Perhaps I'm a tad like the actress who, watching her old films wished to retreat back to her glory days as a star of celluloid (so many of the TZ episodes focused on the desire to recapture the past; remembere "Kick the Can"? --perhaps one day my own children will come into my house and see a rerun of "Walking Distance" and see me playing the role of Martin, walking back into the time of his childhood. Anyone who knows about the episode "Next Stop Willoughby" will understand why I'm not quite ready for THAT one! Bottom line, it's a GREAT collection, with GREAT specials you'll LOVE if you are a real TZ fan, and that I am!
The only drawback, if one could call it that, was the packaging. The discs slide open inside a book-like package and sit on plastic spools in dual-stacks offset somewhat. This makes for an awkward effort to dislodge the discs, some of which are a bit loose--others of which are very tight, and on one particular instance I was frightfully worried I might break DVD which resisted my every effort to dislodge it. If I ever have another episode like that, I'll just transfer them into a set of easy access DVD packages--problem solved, and the money saved over buying them in the season-by-season packages is still astounding. You can NOT do better than this set if you love the Twilight Zone, and want to learn more about those wonderful episodes imprinted permanently in your memory! Quite frankly, one of the two or three BEST TV series--EVER! -- At a price you won't beat... ANYWHERE!
 5 or 6 discs on season 3?? It says 6 on the individual season 3 box but only 5 on the The Complete Definitive Collection box September 1, 2010
Johan Nilsson (Stockholm, Sweden)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If I buy the "The Complete Definitive Collection" box then I want everything. But if you look at the picture of "The Complete Definitive Collection" box you see that season 3 has only 5 discs. And if you look at the individual season 3 box you see that it says 6 discs!!! What's going on here?
Good Amazon Purchase! August 27, 2010
MB
The CDs arrived in good shape, well packed and received earlier than I anticipated. An A++
Showing reviews 1-5 of 295
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
