Twilight Zone-Season 1 - Anybody Get This?

[KLM]

I just saw this and wasn't aware it came out today (12/29/04). It looks great and may be worth a trip to Best Buy. Here's what David Lambert had to say about it....

Twilight Zone, The - Image announces 'Definitive' Season 1 Release of Original Show

The complete first season of Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking 1959 Twilight Zone series, exploring the fantastic and the frightening. This "Definitive Edition" is a 6-DVD set featuring what Image is describing as "Stunning Brand-New Transfers". These are remastered from new high-definition film transfers using the original camera negatives and magnetic soundtracks. 900 minutes will run you a price of $119.99 SRP. The release date is scheduled for December 28, 2004.

Episodes include: Where Is Everybody?, One for the Angels, Mr. Denton on Doomsday, 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, and A World of His Own.

There are many extras on this set as well:

Audio Commentaries by Earl Holliman, Martin Landau, Rod Taylor, Martin Milner, Kevin McCarthy, Ted Post and William Self
Vintage Audio Recollections with Burgess Meredith, Douglas Heyes, Richard L. Bare, Buck Houghton, Anne Francis and Richard Matheson
Rod Serling Audio Lectures from Sherwood Oaks College
Isolated Music Scores featuring the legendary Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith and more
Rod Serling Promos for "Next Week's" Show
Original Unaired Pilot Version of "Where is Everybody?" with Rod Serling's Network Pitch
Rare Rod Serling Blooper

The audio format is in the orginal English Mono, with no other language options we're sorry to say. Screen format is Full Frame of course, in black and white.

[KLM]

By the way, forget Best Buy, Amazon has the set for $83.99 vs $119 at Best Buy. Barnes and Noble is selling it for $85.99 and I have a coupon (in-store only) for another 15% off.

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to Barnes and Noble I go........

[Ryan]

The first - and best - season of the 'Zone, though subsequent seasons weren' too shabby either. Just couldn't get used to videotape and didn't like some of the hour-long clunkers and some of season five.

I might part with my "Collection 1" set for this.

[guy incognito]

Isolated Music Scores featuring the legendary Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith and more


:goodie: :goodie: :goodie:

[Mister Kite]

I ordered this a couple of days ago from Coconuts.com (http://shop.coconuts.com/product.aspx?sku=40699733&loc=41159) for $69.99. If you use the coupon code, FIRSTPURCHASE, it will ring up for $62.99 with free budget shipping. With tax, I paid a little over $66. From what I have seen, this is far and away the best price for this box set anywhere. Also, Image has not been promoting it, but apparently, the first run of this set also includes a copy of the Marc Scott Zicree book, The Twilight Zone Companion. It is a fun read and an excellent resource and normally sells for $16-$18 on its own. If you are a TZ fan, jump on this Coconuts deal while the getting is good! Happy New Year!

[Todd Fredericks]

I ordered this a couple of days ago from Coconuts.com (http://shop.coconuts.com/product.aspx?sku=40699733&loc=41159) for $69.99. If you use the coupon code, FIRSTPURCHASE, it will ring up for $62.99 with free budget shipping. With tax, I paid a little over $66. From what I have seen, this is far and away the best price for this box set anywhere. Also, Image has not been promoting it, but apparently, the first run of this set also includes a copy of the Marc Scott Zicree book, The Twilight Zone Companion. It is a fun read and an excellent resource and normally sells for $16-$18 on its own. If you are a TZ fan, jump on this Coconuts deal while the getting is good! Happy New Year!

I did the same deal. I can't wait for my box to get here.... :)

[Mister Kite]

I just found this on the TV Shows on DVD.com (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=2639) Web site. It looks like the enclosed Twilight Zone Companion is a NEW REVISED THIRD EDITION heretofore not available anywhere. This set just keeps getting better and better... and I don't even have it yet! :D

[Grant]

:goodie: :goodie: :goodie: :goodie: :goodie: :goodie: :goodie:

[Ryan]

Very interested in any isolated Herrmann original scores - especially "Walking Distance."

[KLM]

Wow, Gary, thanks for the heads up. I just ordered from Coconuts as well instead of Barnes and Noble and saved a few bucks (which of course I need for all the "Post Holiday" spending I've been doing for myself.

[Todd Fredericks]

(which of course I need for all the "Post Holiday" spending I've been doing for myself.

Tell me about it, I've been spending too much in the last few days. Even last night I stopped at Virgin and picked up several $10 DVD's. It's madness...... :)

[CHARLOOTZ]

Mister Kite: Thanks for the tip! My order is in! (just adding to my own credit card hell for the month of January..!)

[pjaizz]

I ordered this a couple of days ago from Coconuts.com (http://shop.coconuts.com/product.aspx?sku=40699733&loc=41159) for $69.99. If you use the coupon code, FIRSTPURCHASE, it will ring up for $62.99 with free budget shipping. With tax, I paid a little over $66. From what I have seen, this is far and away the best price for this box set anywhere. Also, Image has not been promoting it, but apparently, the first run of this set also includes a copy of the Marc Scott Zicree book, The Twilight Zone Companion. It is a fun read and an excellent resource and normally sells for $16-$18 on its own. If you are a TZ fan, jump on this Coconuts deal while the getting is good! Happy New Year!

Manomanomanoman...I've been holding off buying more TZ since I bought the 3 laser disc packages, but it might be time to take the plunge...now!

Thanks MK!

[Larry Geller]

Just ordered 2 copies from Coconuts. Thanks, Mister Kite, for this info!

[btomarra]

Got this yesterday. I'll check it out this evening and give my comments or MHO's. Looking forward to watching it now!

[rmos]

Just ordered it, too ... thanks, Mr. Kite.
My credit cards are smoking this month ... (so much stuff to buy, so little money!)

[btomarra]

Well,

Watched just the first episode "Where Is Everybody?" Now some may have different judgments of this, but IMHO it is topnotch. The picture is sharp! I mean sharp! You can see the tetxture in Earl Holliman's shirt, the hair on his arms, the texture in the curb in the street. The audio is also excellent. You have the audio of Rod Serling announcing the next episode, an original public service clip at the end. Nice 460+ page compendium.

You need to get this. For me I'll stop at season three: To Serve Man is on it. Gotta have that one.

:righton: :righton: :goodie: :goodie:

[fyrfytrhoges]

i agree, going so far as to say its awesome, the public service announcements about the red cross and the rod serling intros to the next episodes are a nice touch. im really looking forward to digging into this one this holiday weekend. although most of you bargain hunters would probably skewer me, i paid msrp, 119.99. ouch!!!!

[Mister Kite]

although most of you bargain hunters would probably skewer me, i paid msrp, 119.99. ouch!!!! Hey, sometimes you have to do what you have to do. :righton: Myself, I have been staying away from stores all week. I know if I found it setting on a shelf somewhere, I would not be able to walk out without buying it! :D

Seriously, I am glad so many of you were able to take advantage of the great Coconuts deal. I have no idea how much longer they will keep this price, though. Usually, most etailers raise their price on the disc's release date. I can't wait for my set to arrive!

[thxdave]

This is GREAT news! I taped almost all of the episodes back in the 80's, bought them again on laserdisk, then bought scattered episodes on DVD when they first came out....here I go again. No matter. When you watch something like these shows and compare them to what's out there now, you just have to wonder if we'll ever see writing like this again on TV. I'll be very interested to hear how detailed the audio commentaries will be and I'm prepared to get a tear in my eye when I watch "Walking Distance" once again.

[stereoptic]

...I'm prepared to get a tear in my eye when I watch "Walking Distance" once again.

Geez, you got me all misty eyed just thinking about the carousel scene :cry:

[thxdave]

For me, it was the scene when his father realizes that he really IS talking to his grown son and tries to convince him that he needs to return to his own time or life. I loved the sound of the voice of the actor who played his father. Then again, the scene where he first confronts both of his parents at the front door of his old house is pretty powerful, too. Jeez, this box will be fun! ;)

[hamburgerpimp]

I just ordered a set from Coconuts.com (thanks Gary. :righton: ) You know, this is actually my first dvd purchase, despite the fact that I've owned a player for years...

[guy incognito]

You need to get this. For me I'll stop at season three

Ah, but then you'll miss out on "He's Alive" and "No Time Like The Past".

[hamburgerpimp]

Ah, but then you'll miss out on "He's Alive" and "No Time Like The Past".
As well as one of my all-time favorites- Stopover In A Quiet Town.