Submitted for your approval: The Twilight Zone's inaugural season, all 36 episodes complete with Rod Serling's original promos for the following week's episode, not seen since their original broadcast. To discuss television's greatest anthology series whose title has become pop culture shorthand for the bizarre and supernatural is to immediately become like Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd in Twilight Zone: The Movie; a can-you-top-this recall of famous shocks and favorite twists. Several essential episodes hail from this season, among them, "Time Enough at Last" starring Burgess Meredith as a bespectacled bookworm who is the lone survivor of an atomic blast; "The After-Hours" starring Anne Francis as a department store shopper haunted by mannequins; and the profoundly disturbing "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," in which fear and prejudice turns neighbor against neighbor (and, by the by, whose alien observers inspired Kang and Kodos on The Simpsons).

Rod Serling's Social Intellect Is So Endearing

When purchasing a DVD on any of the "Twilight Zone" episodes, I think it is safe to say that in the majority of cases the buyer knows those stories by heart. The main concern is one of quality. How does the picture measure up? In this case I have never seen better transfers. The images are excellent. They are sharp, clear and maintain consistent contrast.
Rod Serling was a man of great literary and social intellect, somewhat ignored because of the genre he worked within and was famous for. "The Twilight Zone" frequently bordered on the edges of science fiction if not immersed in it. Society's values being what they are, science fiction has never been thoroughly embraced by conventional thought as a legitimate literary or cinematic art form. That is society's loss and Serling's heartbreak. However, "The Twilight Zone" still endures.
I still enjoy hearing Bernard Herrmann's opening theme. It brings back many memories. I love "Walking Distance" with Serling's prose, Herrmann's score and Gig Young's endearing performance. It gives me a feeling I can't describe. My heart goes out to "Walking Distance" like no other episode. It's part of my life.

This is not the correct item ASIN: B00068NVMK it is supposed to have the book ,The Twilight Zone Companion and it does NOT. :(

This set is suppsoed to come with the softcover book, The Twilight Zone companion and it does NOT.

I am usually very happy with my purchases from Amazon and the customer service is the BEST! :), but this is a BIG MISTAKE Amazon! Why are you selling the WRONG item? I ordered this a FEW times and EVERY time there is NO BOOK!

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I enjoyed watching the Twilight Zones many collections of stories. Some seem campy such as Roddy McDowell; People are alike All Over. With todays space shuttles technology all those rockets launches seem antiquated. We all ready sent people into space but the only one that seems relavent to today is Where Is Everybody?

Some episodes do retain some of the horror quality that I remember as a child Long Live Walter Jamison is still sends shivers up my spine; glad to see it again.

The only problem I have with some of these episodes is that they deal with social problems like bias; Judgement Night had a Nazi realism which was quite disturbing; and the Monsters are Due on Maple Street seems like they took a cue from todays papers. I thought that being in the Twilight Zone these human discrepencies didn't exist; that people from other planets didn't have these frailtys.