The Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection

From 1959 to 1964, American viewers thrilled to the bizarre tales presented by The Twilight Zone. Now, thanks to The Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection, you can own every one of the show’s 156 episodes. That’s over 4,524 minutes of viewing for those of you keeping track, and it’s all presented on 28 DVD discs.

Created by Rod Serling (who also wrote or co-wrote 92 episodes), The Twilight Zone featured numerous future stars such as Robert Redford and Burt Reynolds, and the quality of storytelling was on a level all its own. The cigarette-puffing Serling introducing each episode is still an iconic image in television, and the show’s legacy continues to grow as subsequent generations discover it through TV re-runs or DVD collections such as this.

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In addition to all 156 episodes of the series, you also get the following items:

• Rod Serling Promos
• Audio lectures from Rod Serling
• Audio commentary from many of the episode’s stars (including Leonard Nimoy, Martin Landau, and Cliff Robertson)
• Vintage audio recordings
• Video interviews
• Talk show appearances featuring Rod Serling
• Digital transfers from original camera negatives and magnetic tracks
• Bio-documentary on Rod Serling
• The unaired pilot for The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection – The Episodes

Here’s a breakdown of all the episodes you’ll get when you purchase this wonderful collection of sci-fi and horror:

The Twilight Zone: Season 1

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• “Where is Everybody?“ – In the debut episode of the series, Earl Holliman plays a man who finds himself in a deserted town. While he can’t shake the feeling that he’s being watched, he tries to figure out his identity and location.
• “One for the Angels” – A salesman makes a deal with Death to continue living until he makes a great sale. But will a little girl lose her life in the process?
• “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” – A mysterious stranger gives an alcoholic gunfighter a second chance at greatness.
• “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine“ – Obsessed with the past, an aging film star locks herself in her screenings and reflects on her glory days.
• “Walking Distance” – On a visit to his hometown, an executive suddenly find himself transported into the past. There, he meets his parents and a younger version of himself.
• “Escape Clause” – A rotten hypochondriac sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for immortality.
• “The Lonely“ – Jack Warden stars as a murderer stranded on an asteroid who receives a special gift from the captain of a supply ship.
• “Time Enough at Last” – Burgess Meredith stars as bookworm who yearns for more time to read his precious works of literature. When doomsday occurs, he finally gets his chance.
• “’Perchance to Dream“ – A man with a heart condition is afraid that he’ll die if he falls asleep.
• “Judgment Night” – In 1942, a German soldier suddenly finds himself on the deck of a British ship with no idea of how he got there.
• “And When the Sky Was Opened“ – After returning to Earth, the crew of an experimental spaceship begin to disappear one by one.
• “What You Need“ – A salesman is blessed with the ability to sell people exactly what they need.
• “The Four of Us Are Dying” – A con man has the ability to change his face to look like anyone else.
• “Third from the Sun” – As nuclear war looms, a man and his friend steal a spaceship and take their families to an unknown world.
• “I Shot an Arrow Into the Air” – The first manned space mission goes awry when the crew crashes on what they believe to be an undiscovered asteroid.
• “The Hitchhiker” – After dealing with a blowout, a woman keeps encountering the same hitchhiker over and over.
• “The Fever” – After his wife wins a trip to Las Vegas, a man who dislikes gambling becomes addicted to a very special slot machine.
• “The Last Flight“ – A pilot from World War I flies through a strange cloud and winds up in 1960.
• “The Purple Testament’- An officer is cursed with the ability to look at his men and see who’s about to die.
• “Elegy” – A trio of astronauts land on an asteroid where the inhabitants seem frozen in place.
• “Mirror Image” – While at a bus station, a woman sees her exact double. She becomes convinced that the doppelganger intends to take her place.
• “The Monsters are Due on Maple St.“ – Fearing an alien invasion, the residents of Maple Street fall prey to rioting and rabid paranoia.
• “A World of Difference” – A normal businessman discovers that his life is nothing more than a role in a movie.
• “Long Live Walter Jameson” – Kevin McCarthy stars as a history teacher with an uncanny understanding of the past.
• “People Are Alike All Over” – Roddy McDowall is an astronaut on a mission to Mars who discovers that people on other worlds aren’t really that different.
• “Execution” – In the year 1880, a man faces hanging for fatally shooting another man. Then he suddenly finds himself in the future.
• “The Big Tall Wish” – Thanks to the wish of a child, a past-his-prime boxer gets a second chance.
• “A Nice Place to Visit” – After being killed in a shootout with the cops, a criminal thinks he’s ended up in Heaven.
• “Nightmare as a Child” – A teacher who’s blocked out the memories of her mother’s murder comes home to find a strange girl on her front steps.
• “A Stop at Willoughby” – Fed up with the fast-paced business world, an advertising executive longs to get off a train at the tranquil town of Willoughby.
• “The Chaser” – Desperate to win the love of a woman, a man resorts to using a love potion.
• “A Passage for Trumpet” – Jack Klugman stars as down-on-his-luck trumpet player who gets a second chance after attempting suicide.
• “Mr. Bevis” – A man prone to accidents gets a little help from his guardian angel.
• “The After Hours” – After falling asleep in a department store, a woman makes a startling revelation about herself.
• “The Mighty Casey” – A losing baseball team resorts to letting a robot take over at pitcher. Jack Warden stars.
• “A World of His Own” – Keenan Wynn stars as a playwright with the power to create anything he talks about on his recording device.

The Twilight Zone: Season Two

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• “King Nine Will Not Return” – After a WWII bomber crashes in the desert, its captain must figure out where his crew disappeared to.
• “The Man in the Bottle” – A pawnbroker finds a genie in a bottle and is granted four wishes.
• “Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room” – While waiting for his boss, a small-time gangster is tormented by his own reflection.
• “A Thing About Machines” – A writer who hates machines begins to suspect that they’re plotting against him.
• “The Howling Man” – While traveling in Europe, a man encounters a religious cult that’s trapped the Devil. John Carradine co-stars.
• “The Eye of the Beholder” – Wanting to look like everyone else, a woman who finds herself hideous undergoes one final surgery.
• “Nick of Time” – William Shatner stars as a newlywed who becomes obsessed with a fortune-telling machine that predicts events with uncanny accuracy.
• “The Lateness of the Hour’“ – A woman becomes increasingly worried by her parents reliance on life-like robots.
• “The Trouble with Temptation” – A Broadway performer longing for his glory days and his late wife finds himself transported into the past.
• “A Most Unusual Camera” – A pair of thieves discover a camera that allow pictures to be taken of the future.
• “Night of the Meek” – Art Carney stars as an unemployed Santa who finds a magic bag that allows him to create presents.
• “Dust” – As a man prepares to be hung for the death of a girl, a peddler sells his family a bag of magic dust.
• “Back There” – A man travels into the past to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
• “The Whole Truth” – A deceptive used car salesman winds up with a vehicle that compels him to tell the truth.
• “The Invaders” – When space aliens land in her attic, an old woman (Agnes Moorehead) fights back.
• “A Penny for Your Thoughts” – Dick York stars as a banker who suddenly gains the ability to read thoughts thanks to the flip of a coin.
• “Twenty-Two” – A stripper recovering in a hospital is haunted by visions of a nurse leading her to the morgue.
• “The Odyssey of Flight 33” – After being blown off course, a airplane finds itself a billion years in the past.
• “Mr. Dingle, the Strong” – Thanks to a pair of Martians, a vacuum-cleaner salesman gains superhuman strength.
• “Static” – An old man begins to hear radio broadcasts from his youth. But only he can hear them.
• “The Prime Mover” – A man discover his businessman partner (Buddy Ebsen) has telekinetic powers. They head to Vegas.
• “Long Distance Call” – A boy uses a toy phone to talk to his dead grandmother.
• “A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” – Cliff Robertson is a settler in 1847 who winds up transported into the future.
• “The Rip Van Winkle Caper” – After stealing a million dollars in gold, thieves put themselves in suspended animation for a century.
• “The Silence“ – A man is offered $500,000 if he can keep quiet for a whole year.
• “Shadow Play“ – Dennis Weaver stars as a man facing execution. As the time approaches, he desperately tries to convince his executioners that it‘s all a nightmare.
• “The Mind and the Matter” – Thanks to a special book, a man is able to use mental powers to change the world to his liking.
• “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up” – After stopping at a diner, a bus picks up an extra passenger. Meanwhile, cops follow tracks leading from a UFO.
• “The Obsolete Man’“ – In a future where books have been banned by the totalitarian state, a librarian (Burgess Meredith) faces execution for the crime of being obsolete.

The Twilight Zone: Season Three

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• “Two“ – Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery star as the only survivors of a nuclear holocaust.
• “The Arrival” – After a plane lands, it’s discovered that everyone on board has vanished.
• “The Shelter” – Facing an nuclear war, friends and neighbors turn on one another over admittance to a bomb shelter.
• “The Passerby” – As soldiers pass by, a woman sits on her porch and waits for her husband to return from the Civil War.
• “A Game of Pool” – Jack Klugman stars as a hotshot pool player who challenges a deceased legend (Jonathan Winters) to find out who’s really the best.
• “The Mirror” – Peter Falk is a revolutionary who sees enemies everywhere he looks…even in the mirror.
• “The Grave” – On a dare, an Old West gunfighter (Lee Marvin) visit’s the grave of his enemy.
• “It’s a Good Life” – A young boy with mental powers (Billy Mumy) holds a town hostage.
• “Deaths-Head Revisited” – After returning to a concentration camp following WWII, a former member of the S.S. runs into someone unexpected.
• “The Midnight Sun” – As the Earth’s orbit sends it into the Sun, a woman tries to survive.
• “Still Valley” – In order to save his side from annihilation, a Confederate soldier makes a deal with Satan.
• “The Jungle” A worker in Africa continually denies that he’s been cursed.
• “Once Upon a Time” – Buster Keaton is a janitor in the 1890s who finds a time-travel helmet and heads into the future.
• “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” – With no knowledge of who they are or how they got there, a soldier, clown, bagpiper, ballerina, and hobo are trapped in a large cylinder.
• “A Quality of Mercy” – Dean Stockwell stars as newly-arrived officer who orders his men to attack sickly Japanese soldiers hiding in nearby caves.
• “Nothing in the Dark” – When a wounded police officer (Robert Redford) turns up at her door, a woman refuses to let him in for fear that he’s the Grim Reaper in disguise.
• “One More Pallbearer” – A wealthy old man offers use of his bomb shelter to three people who’ve wronged him in the past.
• “Dead Man’s Shoes” – When a vagrant puts on the shoes of a dead gangster, he’s taken over by the spirit of the criminal.
• “The Hunt” – A man out hunting with his dog finds himself at the gates of Heaven. Unfortunately, dogs are not allowed.
• “Showdown with Rance McGrew” – A cowboy from a TV show finds himself transported to the Old West and challenged by Jesse James.
• “Kick the Can” – A man at a nursing home discovers the secret to becoming young again.
• “A Piano in the House” – Thanks to a magical piano, a critic is able to expose the inner character of his party guests.
• “The Last Rights of Jeff Myrtlebank” – James Best plays a man who comes back to life during his funeral.
• “To Serve Man” – An alien race lands on Earth and promises to serve mankind. Great twist ending.
• “The Fugitive” – An alien fugitive befriends a group of children while hiding on Earth.
• “Little Girl Lost” – After an one-dimensional doorway appears in her room, a young girl crawls inside.
• “Person or Persons Unknown” – After waking up in bed, a man finds that his life never happened.
• “The Little People” – An astronaut discovers a tiny civilization after stopping for repairs on a planet. He sets himself up as a god.
• “Four O’Clock” – A madman intends to shrink his enemies at exactly four o’clock.
• “Hocus-Pocus and Frisby” – Andy Devine is a chronic liar who encounters visitors from another world.
• “The Trade-Ins” – People can be put in young bodies in the future, but an elderly couple can only afford to have the process done for one of them.
• “The Gift” – A stranded alien gives a special present to a little boy.
• “The Dummy” – Cliff Robertson is a ventriloquist who becomes convinced his dummy is alive.
• “Young Man’s Fancy” – A newlywed man simply cannot let go of memories from his childhood.
• “I Sing the Body Electric” – A widower raises his children with the help of a robotic grandmother.
• “Cavender Is Coming” – Carol Burnett stars as a poor woman assisted by her guardian angel.
• “The Changing of the Guard” – Forced to retire from teaching after 51 years, a professor (Donald Pleasence) is visited by the ghosts of former students.

The Twilight Zone: Season Four

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• “In His Image“ – A man begins to hear voices in his head and notices that his hometown has become unrecognizable.
• “The Thirty Fathom Grave” – In 1963, a sunken WWII submarine is found making noises on the ocean floor.
• “Valley of the Shadow“ – A man is trapped in a bizarre town where the residents can reverse the flow of time.
• “He’s Alive” – Dennis Hopper is a Nazi leader who gets inspiration from a most unlikely source.
• “Mute” – Ann Jillian is a 12-year-old mute telepath who loses her parents in a fire.
• “Death Ship” – A trio of astronauts find what appears to be their wrecked ship and their own corpses.
• “Jess-Belle” – A woman asks for help from a witch to win the love of a man. Starring Anne Francis.
• “Miniature“ – Robert Duvall is a shy, unmarried man who discovers a living doll inside an antique dollhouse.
• “Printer’s Devil“ – The Devil (Burgess Meredith) provides some unwanted help to the owner of a failing newspaper.
• “No Time Like the Past” – With the help of a time machine, a man travels back to change horrible events in human history.
• “The Parallel” – An astronaut blacks out and finds himself on a parallel Earth.
• “I Dream of Genie” – A man finds a genie, but he only gets one wish.
• “The New Exhibit” – When his workplace closes down, a wax museum employee brings home the sculptures of five famous killers.
• “Of Late I Think of Cliffordville“ – An aging man makes a deal with the Devil (Julie Newmar) to start over.
• “The Incredible World of Horace Ford” – Pat Hingle is a toy designer who gets a chance to go back to the days of his youth.
• “On Thursday We Leave for Home” – James Whitmore is the leader of a group of survivors from a spaceship crash. When a rescue comes after many years, he struggles to keep control.
• “Passage on the Lady Anne” – A couple with marital problems end up on an old ship with a group of elderly passengers.
• “The Bard” – A scriptwriter’s career takes off after he uses magic to summon the spirit of William Shakespeare.

The Twilight Zone: Season Five

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• “In Praise of Pip” – An alcoholic (Jack Klugman) gets a second chance to be a better father.
• “Steel” – When his robotic fighter breaks down, a human boxing manager (Lee Marvin) steps into the ring to take on an artificial opponent.
• “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” – William Shatner contends with a gremlin on this wing of his airplane during a severe storm.
• “A Kind of Stopwatch“ – A man winds up with a magical stopwatch that can stop time.
• “The Last Night of a Jockey” – Mickey Rooney stars as a jockey who’s banned from horseracing and receives a visit from someone claiming to be his ego.
• “Living Doll” – Telly Savalas is a father who’s displeased with his daughter’s talking doll. The doll doesn’t like him either, and it tells him so.
• “The Old Man in the Cave“ – Following a nuclear war, the survivors of a town are assisted by a mysterious source.
• “Uncle Simon” – A woman commits murder to gain her inheritance, but the will has one bizarre stipulation.
• “Probe 7, Over and Out” – An astronaut crashes on a planet that initially seems deserted. Wrong.
• “The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms” – While on maneuvers near the site of Little Bighorn, a tank crew begins to see strange things.
• “A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain” – An elderly man takes a youth serum in order to keep up with his younger wife.
• “Ninety Years Without Slumbering” – If his grandfather clock stops, a man believes he will die.
• “Ring-a-Ding Girl” – A movie star’s hometown fan club sends her a magic ring.
• “You Drive“ – After striking a boy and fleeing the scene, a man is forced into confessing by his car.
• “The Long Morrow“ – While on a 40-year mission alone, a space explorer makes a radical decision.
• “The Self-Improvement of Salvador Ross” – Looking to improve himself through a series of trades, a man uses magic to win the love of a girl.
• “Number 12 Looks Just Like You“ – In the future, everyone is required to undergo a process that makes them young and immune to disease. One woman refuses.
• “Black Leather Jackets” – Aliens pose as leather-clad bikers.
• “Night Call“ – Whenever she‘s alone, an elderly woman begins receiving disturbing phone calls.
• “From Agnes–With Love” – When a supercomputer falls in love with him, a technician has his world turned upside down.
• “Spur of the Moment” – A mysterious figure on horseback terrorizes a young woman.
• “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – After escaping the hangman’s noose, a Confederate spy heads home to his wife.
• “Queen of the Nile” – A movie star stays young through most unnatural means.
• “What’s in the Box“ – After being repaired, a man‘s TV starts showing his past, present, and future.
• “The Masks“ – During his last days alive, a dying man throws a party and uses magical masks to allow his guests to see their true selves.
• “I Am the Night–Color Me Black” – On the execution day of a wrongly accused man, the sun does not rise.
• “Sounds and Silences“ – A man who loves noise begins going crazy when his wife leaves him.
• “Caesar and Me“ – Jackie Cooper is a ventriloquist who takes up a life of crime on the advice of his dummy.
• “The Jeopardy Room” – Martin Landau is a KGB agent who’s trying to defect. Trapped in a room with a bomb and a gun pointing at his head, he has only three hours to escape.
• “Stopover in a Quiet Town” – After leaving a party, a couple wake up in a deserted town.
• “The Encounter” – When a WWII veteran (Neville Brand) shows his trophy samurai sword to a Japanese-American man (George Takei), the latter becomes inhabited by the spirit of a long-dead soldier.
• “Mr. Garrity and the Graves” – A traveling peddler comes to an Old West town and offers to raise the dead.
• “The Brain Center at Whipple’s” – The owner of a manufacturing plant callously replaces his employees with machines.
• “Come Wander With Me” – A singer heads to a small town in search of authentic folk songs to record.
• “The Fear“ – A mysterious creature terrorizes a socialite and a sheriff at an isolated cabin.
• “The Bewitchin’ Pool” – Two kids use a swimming pool to escape their unhappy lives and enter a magical land.

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