Blu-Ray Review: Amazing Series Ends With ‘The Twilight Zone: Season 5’

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CHICAGO – HollywoodChicago.com has never heaped as much praise on one series of releases as the season sets for one of the best shows of all time — “The Twilight Zone”. Did you really think we would change our tune with the fifth and final season of this amazingly-influential program? Of course not. Complete your collection.

HollywoodChicago.com Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0

Airing from Fall 1963 to Spring 1964, the fifth season of “The Twilight Zone” was the last of this amazing show. You can now own all 156 episodes plus DAYS of special features in five of the best TV-on-Blu-ray sets that have ever been produced. And, while the fourth season was a bit of a dip in quality (the show couldn’t quite survive the stretch to an hour long), the fifth marked a return to form. Some of your favorite episodes in the history of “The Twilight Zone” are in this set. Notable episodes include “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” “Living Doll,” “Number 12 Looks Just Like You,” “Night Call,” “The Encounter,” and “The Fear.”

The Twilight Zone: Season 5 was released on Blu-ray on August 30, 2011
The Twilight Zone: Season 5 was released on Blu-ray on August 30, 2011
Photo credit: Image Entertainment

As for notable and current-and-future stars of this 36-episode season, you’ll be treated to Jack Klugman, Lee Marvin, William Shatner, Mickey Rooney, Telly Savalas, Martin Landau, and George Takei.

Each episode of season five of “The Twilight Zone” is presented in its standard 1.33:1 full frame format with an HD transfer that’s pitch-perfect for the show, allowing it to look great but not overly or incorrectly polished. Once again, “The Twilight Zone” looks just right, continuing the fact that these should be the model for what old programs look like in HD.

The special features are, once again, INSANE, with an impressive blend of previously-available material and new exclusives. There are TWENTY new audio commentaries featuring historians, authors, and even stars (Takei!). Other new material includes “Conversations with Rod Serling,” an audio interview, and 22 radio dramas of episodes from this season including stars like Adam Baldwin, Louis Gossett Jr., Luke Perry, Karen Black, Jason Alexander, and more.

The collection also features every piece of old bonus material, including promos, radio dramas, video interviews, and even a Mike Wallace interview.

The fourth season is my least favorite of “The Twilight Zone” program but this is STILL one of the best Blu-ray releases of 2011.

Special Features:
o 20 New Audio Commentaries
o Conversations with Rod Serling
o Vintage Audio Interview with director of photography George T. Clemens
o 22 Radio Dramas
o Audio Commentaries by Bill Mumy (In Praise Of Pip), Mickey Rooney (The Last Night Of A Jockey), June Foray (Living Doll), Mariette Hartley (The Long Morrow), Marc Scott Zicree (Number 12 Looks Just Like You), Alan Sues (The Masks) and Martin Landau (The Jeopardy Room)
o Video Interviews with Richard Matheson, George Clayton Johnson, Earl Hoamner, Bill Mumy, June Foray, Carolyn Kearney, Michael Forest, Nancy Malone and Terry Becker
o Isolated Music Scores featuring the legendary Bernard Herrmann, Van Cleave and Rene Garriguenc
o The Mike Wallace Interview (September 1959)
o Excerpt from Rod Serling’s Sherwood Oaks Experimental College Lecture
o Alfred Hitchcock Promo
o Rare George Clayton Johnson Home Movies
o Rod Serling Promos for “Next Week’s” Show

‘The Twilight Zone: Season 5’ was released by Image Entertainment on August 30th, 2011. It is not rated and runs 920 minutes.

HollywoodChicago.com content director Brian Tallerico

By BRIAN TALLERICO
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