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Twilight Zone, The - Companion Book verified to be packed in with Season 1 release
Posted by David Lambert
12/28/2004
Good morning! With today's release of 1959's The Twilight Zone - Season 1: The Definitive Edition, we have something resembling an answer to the question about the $20 price difference we mentioned last time between the SRP of the 1st and 2nd seasons. Here's an extract of the text from our last news item:
...where the 1st season is priced at $119.99 SRP (and still is; we checked), the newly announced 2nd season will go for $20 cheaper at a list price of $99.99 for a very similar release. No explanation for the difference in price was made available.
One of our readers, Case Gaines, wrote in to tell us what seems to be the difference. You might recall that our first word about these new season sets from Image came from a radio interview with Marc Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion. Apparently a copy of Zicree's book is being enclosed with this set, according to our reader:
The reason why the first season is an extra $20 is because it comes with (Marc Scott) Zicree's book, "The Twilight Zone Companion". I, myself, have the latest edition of this book, but the one with the DVD collection seems to be an updated (third) edition. One can assume that season two is less because it will not any sort of book and the consequent seasons will be $99.99 also.
Case isn't the first one of our readers to mention this, but turns out to be the first one to verify that this book is indeed in the box! It's been talked about on the internet, but Image never verified that this book was for-certain going to be packaged into this release. Now we finally know, on release date, and are pleased to pass it on to our readers. We're told, though, that the package is designed so that future print runs of this DVD might not have the book; we don't know how limited it is, so fans won't want to tarry.
It's also worth mentioning that you can buy the 2nd edition of the same book from Amazon for just $10.85; click this link to go to the listing. So that opens up some other options as well...but keep in mind that the pack-in copy of the book is a new updated version.
Thanks to Case for e-mailing us with the confirmation, and the well-written description.
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Twilight Zone, The - There's your DVD set up ahead: time to re-enter The Twilight Zone
Posted by David Lambert
12/10/2004
This past August, TVShowsOnDVD gave you the release schedule for all 5 season sets of the original 1959 version of The Twilight Zone. Fans who've kept up with that list know that March 29th is the release date for The Twilight Zone - Season 2: The Definitive Edition. Now distributor Image Entertainment has announced the complete details of that 6-DVD set. Here's a copy-and-paste of their information:
The Complete Second Season of Rod Serling's Classic, Groundbreaking Series Exploring the Fantastic and the Frghtening. Spectacular New Digital Restorations Featuring Unsurpassed Video and Audio Clarity!
Episodes include: King Nine Will Not Return; The Man in the Bottle; Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room; A Thing About Machines; The Howling Man; Eye of the Beholder; Nick of Time; The Lateness of the Hour; The Trouble with Templeton; A Most Unusual Camera; The Night of the Meek; Dust; Back There; The Whole Truth; The Invaders; A Penny for Your Thoughts; Twenty-Two; The Odyssey of Flight 33; Mr. Dingle, the Strong; Static; The Prime Mover; Long Distance Call; A Hundred Yards Over the Rim; The Rip Van Winkle Caper; The Silence; Shadow Play; The Mind and the Matter; Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?; The Obsolete Man.
Stunning Brand-New Transfers! Remastered from new high-definition film transfers using the original camera negatives and magnetic soundtracks; Audio Commentaries by Donna Douglas, Don Rickles, William Idelson, Bill Mumy, Cliff Robertson, Dennis Weaver and Shelley Berman; Vintage Audio Recollections with Buzz Kulik, Douglas Heyes, Maxine Stuart, George Clayton Johnson, Robert Serling and Elliot Silverstein; Isolated Music Scores featuring the legendary Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Fred Steiner and more; Twilight Zone Radio Shows; Rod Serling Promos for "Next Week's" Show; Rare Serling appearances: The Mike Wallace Interview, Tell It to Groucho and The Jack Benny Show; Complete script for Twenty-Two with Serling's handwritten notes (DVD-ROM feature); Complete script for Twenty-Two with Serling's handwritten notes (DVD-ROM feature) and More!
As you can see from Image's final paragraph, this item is packed with special features! So is the 1st season box set, which ships in a couple of weeks (Dec. 28th), but where the 1st season is priced at $119.99 SRP (and still is; we checked), the newly announced 2nd season will go for $20 cheaper at a list price of $99.99 for a very similar release. No explanation for the difference in price was made available.
Specs are the same as well, as you would expect: audio is the orginal English Mono. Video is Full Frame in the original black and white. Running time is around 900 minutes. Here's a look at the cover for this compilation:
The Twilight Zone
