Each episode promises to let you travel to another dimension of sight and sound with a cast that included the likes of Art Carney, Burgess Meredith, Cliff Robertson, Dennis Hopper, Bill Bixby, Leonard Nimoy, Burt Reynolds, Don Rickles, Jack Klugman, Robert Redford, Lee Marvin, Martin Landau, Telly Savalas, William Shatner and of course, Rod Serling himself. The box set includes all five seasons and 156 episodes of Rod Serling’s inspired creation. The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series is the latest DVD release from Image Entertainment and makes it out just in time for the holiday season. Now, there are a few marathons that run throughout the year, but they are still infrequent enough that many fans are eager to own their own copies of the iconic series. When I was younger, that same local TV station would also run a Thanksgiving Day marathon, to which I would be glued, waiting until the absolute last minute to eat with my family. I’m sure the main points of my childhood experience with The Twilight Zone aren’t terribly unique and since the series was originally ran between 19, there are probably millions with similar stories. Each day with my sandwich, I would ingest a couple of morsels of Rod Serling’s lessons in morality. It was always at noon that one of the local stations played two Twilight Zone episodes back to back.
In those days, there were no 24-hour cartoon networks, so during the week, for the hours I would normally be in school, there was little on television to interest me. With not much of a yard, there was little for a kid to do throughout the three-month break except watch TV. As a latchkey kid in Southern California during the 1980s, The Twilight Zone was constant part of my summertime television watching.
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