The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (1985 - 1986)
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Movie Reviews of The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (1985 - 1986)
Movie Review: GREAT Follow-up to the Classic "Zone"!
Summary: 4 Stars
First--thanks to Alan Brennert for clarifying the technical limitations involved with bringing the series to DVD.
I found the sound & picture quality frustrating, as did some other reviewers. Hence, the 4 stars from me. But the show itself definitely merits top credentials as a 5-star collection.
Mr. Brennert sets the record straight, as we must remember it's been an incomprehensible 20 YEARS AGO when the series was filmed...that's pretty hard to swallow, considering I remember the first Friday night I saw my first episode. That night featured "Shatterday" with another piece, wrapped up with "Nightcrawlers". I was (and still am) astonished!
The stories throughout the set are compelling, the scripts are solid (mostly), the messages carry weight and they will impact your thoughts. Most of these espisodes are very provocative.
We have become spoiled with the clarity of today's films on DVD blowing us out of our living rooms with thunderous digital sound. So, we have to "gear-down" somewhat for an older presentation--but that's all right!
Enjoy the series at night with the lights out and see if you're not "Zoned-out" over this great compilation. And thank you, Alan Brennert for helping to craft such a stirring, intriquing, suspenseful continuation of Mr. Serling's masterpiece.
John McCommon
Movie Review: Still Great To Watch
Summary: 5 Stars
Unlike what others have said, I didn't have a real problem with the image quality of the DVDs. Yes, I'm a little spoiled by today's digital quality availability but I wouldn't let that stop me from viewing a truly good series and this DVD set fits that description. I watched these shows when I was in high school and it was so wonderful to experience them again, particularly my favorites "Her Pilgrim Soul" and "A Message From Charity". The added bonus of having the audio commentary for most of the episodes was especially fun. I learned not only of production "gossip" but also the stress of having to manage audience vs. network expectations. The viewing quality is still good; if you're a fan, don't deny yourself the enjoyment of this series!Movie Review: " The Twilight Zone: 1980's Style."
Summary: 4 Stars
Although the picture quality and some areas of audio are not the clearest that would be preferred, the fact that this show has finally come to dvd is a great thing in itself. Many of the shows are simply amazing in their ingenuity and presentation. The acting, photography and conveyed mood are consistantly great.This show is a great companion piece to the original Twilight Zone and fans as well as new viewers will be very capably entertained. Please bring on seasons 2 and 3! Enjoy this great anthology style series of 20 years ago with gusto.Movie Review: 2 for quality, 5 for show.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a terrific show definitely worth of release on DVD. But as many have said, the video quality is very bad. I think it is the worst that I have seen on any TV show on DVD. However, another post on here explains the reason behind the bad quality. I know that video doesn't hold up well (look at the original TZ episodes shot in video). But what I do not understand is that All in the Family was shot on video and although it doesn't look great, it looks and sounds much better than this show. Just curious about why that is. I can take the grain and the fuzz in the video, but the biggest problem I have is that there are these "flashes" that happen after some scene changes (noticed it in the 2nd story of the the first episode). It usually happens right after a scene change. I have no idea if this is on all of them, just my set, or if it is my DVD player.
The audio is also pretty bad. I can scarcely make out what is being said.
However, I am not whining about these problems. I would rather have this set and all of its problems than to not have it at all. I also appreciate the commentary tracks that are on here. So many TV shows are being released with no extras at all (like MacGyver).
Movie Review: Some Thoughts About This Set...
Summary: 5 Stars
As a long-time fan of the Twilight Zone, I have over the years recorded all three versions of the television show (not to mention owning the Laser Disc of the movie). With the recent release of the UPN version and the rather haphazard previous Image release of the original - this is the one version I never expected to be released on DVD. I am happy to say that it ROCKS!
As Alan Brennart (one of original producer/writers of the series) mentions, these DVDs are derived from the original CBS broadcast master tapes. I must admit, after pulling out my tapes, these DVDs look better today than when I recorded them in 1985-86. The DVD quality is consistent with comparable shows of the era. A few reviewers have mentioned that some episodes are mono and some in stereo. Well, if you look back at the time period, this was one of the first CBS shows broadcast in stereo at all. In fact, after scanning through the opening credits of my VHS tapes, it seems that CBS didn't even start running TZ in stereo until episode 20. That's when the superimposing of "Broadcast In STEREO - Where Available" over the opening credits began. It is entirely possible that the broadcast masters, from which this set is taken, wasn't completely in stereo to begin with. Those last five episodes on the set (and on my tapes) are in stereo so this makes logical sense.
In a time when we've all become accustomed to tv sound being primarily in stereo we sometimes forget that broadcasting stereo sound began in the mid-1980s.
Let's not quibble over the perceived lack of quality in the disc mastering (which is most probably due to the factors that have been mentioned). We should just enjoy this rather superior incarnation of one of our favorite television shows. For my money, just having the writer/director/producer commentaries makes this set worth owning!
Now, if they could just get "Twilight Zone - The Movie" out of it's limbo...