Some of my favorite episodes

I just got this DVD for Christmas and two out of the four are some of my favorite episodes!
I remember being scared watching "It's a Good Life". How could a little boy wish people into a cornfield? and "Nick of Time" was a favorite because...well, William Shatner (need I say more).
I wouldn't suggest TZ to younger kids now a days but for us older;) folks I'd say this disc a definitely worth buying.

About the original TZ series quality and Adam West

I hate in the ep Stopover In A Quiet Town when they are panning to Rod Serling you can see the studio background showing the house Bob and Millie Frazier are in is really a studio. They pan in a similar way in the ep about the old lady getting the strange phonecalls, too. Other than the eps are usually great (unless they're sappy like Kick The Can).About Adam West (Batman). Yes he was never on the original TZ and what a pity! He was perfect for the TZ. In one ep Caesar and Me, Stafford Repp (later Chief O'Hara on Batman with Adam West) was in it. There is a character in Caesar and Me named Jonathon WEST! Also the name in the title Caesar, a Dummy (like Caesar Romero who played the Joker on Batman!) and this Caesar tells jokes! Was the writer of Caesar and Me psychic? I believe so! If there are alternate universes I feel there Adam West was on The Twiight Zone!

A chilling metaphor for Ebay

Episode 73, "It's a Good Life," features Billy Mumy as a mind-reading six year old who can instantly disfigure or kill any person around him who doesn't think "happy thoughts." The episode drips with claustrophobic tension as the people of Peaksville, Ohio tiptoe through their daily activities striving to maintain a happy facade despite their terror. In the Peaksville known as Ebay buyers and sellers too try to think "happy thoughts." These happy thoughts make their way into the site as positive feedback drenched in hyperbole: "A+++++,! Super Mega Ultra Awesome! BEST BUYER ON EBAY!!!!!" But this positive feedback only obscures the fear of receiving potentially crippling retaliatory negative feedback. The fear of negative feedback is so strong that it spans Ebay: positive feedback is exaggerated, sellers bend over backwards to appease even unreasonable customers, buyers deliberate painstakingly before giving negative feedback for poorly described or never-received items. In many ways, Ebay's culture of happy thoughts seems to be ideal for a marketplace. But this classic Twilight Zone episode raises the question: does it matter whether positive attributes are derived from fear or the truth of one's character?

[See The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror II for a satire of this episode.]