The Twilight Zone - The Complete Definitive Collection (DVD, 2006, 28-Disc Set)

The collection includes all the Twilight Zone episodes ever recorded. Also included are interviews with Rod Serling, the producers, and others involved in the production of the series.

The DVDs come beautifully packaged in a case which includes sleeve notes for each individual season and short plot summaries.

You will find many episodes that you likely have never seen on TV before (one episode involving a young man slipping a love potion into his date's drink -- can you say completely politically incorrect now?). Some of the 1960s special effects will also have you rolling on the floor laughing, but that is certainly part of the charm of this entire collection.

A few things to be aware of: The DVDs are dual-layer. Most of the DVD players sold prior to 2005 are not able to play dual layer, so you may have to spend another $100 to buy a DVD player that can handle dual layer discs.

If you are a fan of the series, you will certainly want to add this to your collection. The engineering of the disc menus is outstanding. There are also additional materials such as individual musical scores and Twilight Zone Magazine PDF files which can be accessed by playing the disc in your computer (again, your computer's DVD player will need to be current enough to play dual-layer discs).

The Twilight Zone was and still is one of the most thought provoking television series ever produced. It still appeals to both young and old alike, even after the decades that have passed from it's original appearance on network television. Every Thursday nite, multitude's of American's made popcorn at home and got ready for another great show and were never disappointed, although we never could forsee the ending of the show and there was always a moral or influence that we could not deny.
This series will be popular generations from now. I bought The Twilight Zone Complete Definitive Collection 2006 D.V.D. series. Why ? because I saw many of the original shows when they first aired and their conclusions of human nature and the strange roads we all take, are still true today in a world of computers, internet and ipods. I rate this collection of 251 shows as Excellent!.

I grew up on 1960s television and the spooky Twilight Zone shows were my absolute favor. This is the complete collection of every episode over the five seasons it was on CBS. A must for every lover of that genre of TV shows. You are better off buying the complete, definitive edition rather than buying one season at a time. Some episodes I remember watching as a kid, some it seems like I am watching them for the first time. ALL of them are great! A real tribute to Rod Serling's genius.

For a Twilight Zone fan this collection has it all in 28 CDs that fit into 5 VHS-size booklets (one for each season) in a decorative box. A leaflet in each season's case gives a synopsis of each episode as well as a thumbnail picture, date, & names of leading actors. At the end of most episodes we see Rod Serling telling us about the "following week's" episode. The bonus features are great if you enjoy watching Rod Serling. There are a couple of annoying things: each time an episode ends we must find our way back to the main menu to choose the next episode, and that involves scrolling down several times and then to the right once; and the episodes could have been edited better so that we didn't have to see certain advertisements repeated at the end of each. All-in-all, this is an excellent collection that I would recommend for any fan - no more having to watch those Twilight Zone marathons on TV hoping to see an unfamiliar episode in between all the modern, time-wasting commercials. I was surprised at how many episodes I had never seen!

If you have ever seen a Twilight Zone episode or if you like M Night Shymalan work you will love this collection. In Seinfeld, they once joked that this is the show in which you think something is happening but then it turns out to be something completely different...well that's a pretty accurate description of these masterpieces. I would recommend this collection to anyone..whether it is based on the nostalgia of black and white tv, the unbelievable amounts of stars that appear in episodes (Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, Leonard Nimoy, Jack Klugman, William Shatner, Ida Lupino, Johnathan Winters, Burgess Merideth, Dean Stockwell, Charles Bronson....and the list goes on and on.), or the incredible depth of human experiences which is exposed in some stories or the sheer ironic delight of other stories. The Twilight Zone spoke out, although cleverly hidden in their tales, about racism, bigotry, violence, mob mentality, and what it is to truly be human. My only dissapointment with this collection would be that there is no subtitles available on this edition, but otherwise every single episode is there along with commercials of the time at the end of each episode (such as Rod Serling doing a commerical for ciggarettes). The special features are wonderful as well. If you enjoy this work by Rod Serling, check out his movie "Patterns" it is wonderful movie about corporate life. Can't recommend this highly enough. This is callback to when a television show could evoke real thought and true delight without being vulgar or graphic to keep your attention.