Stars: Lee Marvin, Jonathan Winters, Gig Young, Jack Klugman

Summary: This DVD contains four remarkable episodes of the classic television series:<BR><BR>Steel Episode 122 - October 4, 1963<BR>In the future, boxing is a sport reserved only for androids. This leads penniless manager Steel Kelly (Lee Marvin) into the ring disguised as his own broken-down robot!<BR><BR>A Game Of Pool Episode 70 - October 13, 1961<BR>Pool player Jesse (Jack Klugman), is allowed to realize the dream of a showdown with the legendary (and dead) Fats Brown (Jonathan Winters).The stakes: his life.<BR><BR>Walking Distance Episode 5 - October 30, 1959<BR>Frazzled executive Martin Sloan (Gig Young) discovers that you can't go home again when he steps back in time and meets his mom, his dad - and himself!<BR><BR>Kick the Can Episode 86 - February 9, 1962<BR>After playing a simple child's game, an old man at Sunnyvale Rest Home, along with the other residents, are rewarded with rejuvenating powers!

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In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras.

Volume 3 contains another selection of four episodes from across the series. "Steel" (episode 122) stars Lee Marvin in a futuristic Richard Matheson story concerning a penniless boxing manager who is forced into the ring when his robot boxer breaks down. Matheson is concerned to illustrate the lengths to which people are forced to go when desperate, but his moral is undermined a little by setting the story in the far future of 1974; Marvin, however, is a magnetic presence. In the tense and tautly written "A Game of Pool" (episode 70), Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy) is a boastful pool player who challenges champion "Fats" Brown (Jonathan Winters) to a match in which the stakes are his life. "Walking Distance" is a slice of wistful, semi-autobiographical nostalgia from Serling in which a burned-out media exec returns to the town of his childhood (watch out for a very young Ron Howard as one of the kids). Bernard Herrmann's masterful score for this episode was composed not long after his music for Hitchcock's Vertigo, and has a similar tragi-romantic streak. Finally, "Kick the Can" (episode 86) is the story of the residents of a retirement home who discover (or rediscover) Peter Pan's secret for staying permanently young: it's easy to see why Steven Spielberg decided to adapt this episode for the 1983 movie.

On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker

Aspect Ratio:	Full Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Biographies, History Of The Twilight Zone, Reviews, Cast Information, Commentary, Digitally Remastered
Subtitles:	English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
Year:	1959
Release Date:	May 29, 2000
Runtime:	100 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	I X 8983 C U U K D
Keywords:	Twilight, General, Zone, Fiction, Science, Horror, Vol, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult