Twilight Zone Season 4 Blu Ray
Epitome Entertainment | 1963 | Season 4 | 935 min | Rated TV-PG | May 17, 2011
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The Twilight Zone: Season iv
(Idiot box) (1963)
The consummate fourth flavour of Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking serial exploring the fantastic and the frightening.
For more than well-nigh The Twilight Zone: Season 4 and the The Twilight Zone: Season 4 Blu-ray release, see the The Twilight Zone: Season 4 Blu-ray Review published by Casey Broadwater on May five, 2011 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of v.
Directors: John Brahm
, Douglas Heyes, Buzz Kulik, Lamont Johnson, Richard L. Bare, James Sheldon
Writers: Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Earl Hamner Jr., George Clayton Johnson, Frederick Louis Fob
Starring: Jack Klugman, William Shatner, Robert Redford, William Windom, Cliff Robertson, Burgess Meredith
Producer: Rod Serling
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The Twilight Zone: Season 4 Blu-ray Review
Yet another dimension of sight and sound on Blu-ray.
Reviewed past Casey Broadwater, May 5, 2011
Socially conscientious sci-fi. Fable-similar fantasy. Morality tale horror and suspense predicated on the fears and cultural concerns of America in the 1960s. The Twilight Zone wasn't merely a TV program; it was and is a crash grade in sociology, taught by creator Rod Serling, whose ideas about progress, technology, materialism, and human nature set the prove apart from other now-forgotten relics of television's aureate historic period. With its influence felt in Twin Peaks and The X-Files, Lost and Fringe, The Twilight Zone might as well be listed in the dictionary as an example of "seminal," and it holds up today as a prove that's both shocking and smart. Over the past few months, Image Entertainment has re- released the beginning three seasons of the series in cute, comprehensive Blu-ray editions, and this new 5-disc flavour four fix is just as stunning, with pristine high definition transfers of the prove'due south original 35mm negatives, lossless audio, and hours of bonus materials. The first two seasons are the best, but season 4 has its share of thought-provoking, occasionally terrifying episodes. If yous're a retro Television receiver fan, sci-fi enthusiast, or all-around aficionado of the foreign, The Twilight Zone belongs on your Blu-ray shelf.
"You unlock this door with the central of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've crossed over into�The Twilight Zone."
By the end of The Twilight Zone'due south 3rd season, yous might say that creator, showrunner, producer, narrator, and lead writer Rod Serling was increasingly decumbent to misplacing his figurative central of imagination. Later personally writing sixty-nine of the show's i hundred and two episodes to date, Serling was inevitably running short on fresh ideas, and many of his season three episodes were basically loose thematic remakes of his best work from the beginning ii seasons. I imagine he was both disappointed and relieved when CBS dropped The Twilight Zone from its fall 1962 line-up subsequently the show was late finding a new sponsor. It was replaced�somewhat ironically�by a show called Fair Exchange, an hour-long sitcom that, past mid-season, had failed to notice a substantial audition, prompting network execs to rethink their Twilight Zone strategy. Serling, now educational activity at Antioch College, was notified that his show would render in January of 1963, albeit with a major revision: to fit the vacant timeslot left by the cancelled Fair Commutation, the normally half-hour Twilight Zone would accept to go to an hour-long format. Serling wasn't pleased. "Ours is the perfect half-hour show," he said. "If we went to an hour, we'd have to fleshen our stories, lather opera style. Viewers could lookout man fifteen minutes without knowing whether they were in a Twilight Zone or Desilu Playhouse." He had a indicate. Previous seasons relied on short story-way narratives with quick hooks and snappy, O. Henry-esque twist endings. Going to an hour would crave a significant expansion of each episode's mid section, and�at the gamble of a cheesy rhyme�a show that'south billed equally a thriller shouldn't have whatsoever filler.
Nevertheless, season 4�on the whole�is arguably a stronger collection of stories than season 3, which had unabridged episodes of fluff. Certain, there are a few flavour four shows that languish during a saggy second act�"The Thirty-Fathom Grave" and "Passage on the Lady Anne" come to mind, both nautically-themed, incidentally�but there are several episodes here that rival annihilation from seasons 1 and two. Serling wisely cut dorsum on his input, contributing only seven screenplays�yet more than any other writer�while frequent collaborator Charles Beaumont picked up some of the slack, despite suffering with the starting time stages of both Alzheimer's and Pick's affliction. Beaumont'southward episodes are some of the most memorable of the season. His opener, "In His Image," is a slow-burning mystery about an out-of-command android who, after realizing that he isn't homo, confronts his identical maker. In "Miniature," a young Robert Duvall plays a socially stunted xxx-twelvemonth-old virgin who falls in love with the tiny inhabitant of a museum dollhouse, and prolific thespian Burgess Meredith makes his fourth and concluding Twilight Zone appearance in "Printer'southward Devil" every bit a typesetter and journalist of Faustian disposition. These are all sharply written and make expert employ of the show'southward new hour-long format. Beaumont also gets credit for the scariest episode of the season, "The New Exhibit," which follows the descent into madness of a man who keeps wax figures of history'due south most notorious series killers in his basement. In that location are ii big "BOO" moments hither that, if you're in the correct frame of mind, have the potential to give you lot involuntary palpitations.
Although I Am Legend author Richard Matheson but delivered 2 teleplays this flavour, they're two of the best. "Mute" asks a provocative question: Would a speechless-but-telepathic orphan exist better off in life if she abandoned her gift and became "exactly like everybody else," as her oppressive schoolteacher demands? Meliorate still is "Death Ship," which explores themes of control and credence when three astronauts�1 played by Jack Klugman�land on a remote planet, just to detect a crashed duplicate of their ship, with their own dead, doppelganger bodies inside. This is a haunting, almost surreal episode, and it features moody cinematography and a bang-up special effects shot of the spacecraft touching down on the surface of the planet. Like the greatest Twilight Zone stories, information technology uses a fantastical situation to demonstrate the weaknesses of human beliefs.
Of form, for Rod Serling, the evidence was a means to side-brim Goggle box censors, using scientific discipline fiction and fantasy�genres for kids, supposedly�to discuss otherwise unbroachable topics similar racism, Cold War paranoia, and uncertainty in the merits of and then-called progress. While Serling'south episodes in season four are an undeniably mixed pocketbook, they serve to summarize his thematic preoccupations. "He's Alive" stars Dennis Hopper as a neo-Nazi firebrand who receives inspiration from the shadowy ghost of Hitler, and using this fix-up, Serling somehow manages to make us experience sympathy for an unrepentant racist and illuminate the combination of misguided acrimony and poor logic that comprise his hateful ideology. While America was rushing headlong into the space race, Serling also seemed unconvinced that technology would solve flesh's problems. He penned numerous episodes about infinite travel gone awry, and although "The Parallel" is one of the lesser ones�it'south about an astronaut who discovers a portal to an alternate universe�it does have a few creepy moments. (It reminds me of a predecessor to the "Deep Throat" episode of The X-Files, which deals with a test pilot who no longer seems to be himself.)
Inevitably, this distrust in engineering science and the worship of progress manifests itself in episodes about the longing to go back to simpler times, like "Of Late I Think of Cliffordsville," and "No Time Like the By," in which ane of the characters�a time traveler�describes the mod world as a "cesspool, a septic tank," run by "scientifically advanced monkeys." This is the near quintessentially "Serling" episode of the flavor, using time travel to express the writer'southward sometimes misanthropic cultural criticisms. An interesting counter to this, all the same, is his episode "On Thursday Nosotros Leave for Dwelling house," about a group of humans who have been stranded on a barren planet for 30 years. When rescue finally arrives, the leader of the castaways�aware that he'south nearly to lose his god-like power�tries to proceed his people from boarding the spaceship that will take them back by telling them that "there is violence on the Earth! In that location are hatreds! And jealousy!" The helm of the rescue craft responds that the World "isn't a place of all beauty. Nosotros may nonetheless have wars. And there even so remains prejudice. And I suppose as long as men walk, there'll be angry men, jealous men, unforgiving men. Simply it has one affair that you lot don't have. 1 thing. Information technology lets every human be his ain master." This might as well be Serling's own admission that while our earth may non be perfect, and although the survival of our species is often endangered by our collective poor decisions, nosotros at least have a choice, and wherever at that place is pick at that place is ever the possibility of hope and change for the ameliorate.
The Twilight Zone: Season four Blu-ray, Video Quality
If you've been post-obit our reviews for seasons one, 2, and three, y'all'll observe nil significantly different about the picture quality for flavor four, and that's a good thing. It would be virtually impossible to meliorate on the fantastic work Epitome Entertainment has washed with these Blu-ray season sets. Quite simply, afterward fuzzy analog TV broadcasts, blurry VHS tapes, and good-but-not-great DVD releases, this is The Twilight Zone as you lot've never seen it before. Using original 35mm negatives, all-new 1080p/AVC-encoded transfers have been struck for each hr-long episode�framed in the standard 1.33:ane Television receiver aspect ratio�and the results are unanimously gorgeous. As I mentioned in the previous reviews, I'm not sure if the source materials were near-pristine to begin with, or if these new masters required extensive restoration work, simply regardless, the prints display no damage whatsoever and no substantial droppings aside from a few scattered white specks. (They're also untouched past DNR. The grain structure is rich and stable.) Flavour four displays the aforementioned level of exemplary clarity as its predecessors, revealing details that you lot've probably never noticed earlier. This is a somewhat negative example, just the loftier definition image is so crisp that it makes the crumbling make-up in "Of Tardily I Think of Cliffordsville" look ridiculous. The bear witness's producers probably never expected that information technology would ever be watched at home at nearly total analog film resolution. The textures of the actors' faces, the fibers of Rod Serling's herringbone suits, the details of the props�everything is refined and clear, without showing any signs of edge enhancement. Just as importantly, inky blanks, bright just not overblown whites, and a smooth slope of a grayness tones come together for an image with real depth and presence. I'1000 impressed anew every fourth dimension I popular one of these discs in my Blu-ray role player.
The Twilight Zone: Season iv Blu-ray, Audio Quality
Continuing the custom established in the previous iii seasons, there are two audio options for each episode of flavour four, both sourced from the original magnetic soundtracks. Each episode defaults to a newly restored and remastered Linear PCM 2.0 mix that has been digitally cleaned up and optimized. The results are solid; the dialogue is perfectly reproduced, the diverse audio effects are make clean and even dynamically punchy on occasion, and the scores�where the audio actually shows its muscle�sound wonderful. For comparison, you can also select the original, unmastered audio, which is a bit murkier, with slightly muffled dialogue at times and a low record hiss that can exist fabricated out if you lot listen advisedly. The remastered mixes are preferable in my opinion, but it's commendable that Image thought to include the untouched audio every bit well. Each episode also includes white, easy-to-read English SDH subtitles, which are aligned with the lower left corner of picture.
The Twilight Zone: Flavor 4 Blu-ray, Special Features and Extras
Once more, Image has delivered a comprehensive packet of supplements, anchored past fifteen commentary tracks--thirteen of them specifically deputed for this Blu-ray set--from The Twilight Zone Companion writer Marc Scott Zicree, TV/Picture show historian Gary Gerani, and a variety of other guests, including Twilight Zone writer Earl Hamner, Logan's Run writer William F. Nolan, Fringe and Battlestar Galactica writer/producer Joseph Dougherty, and more. Y'all'll also notice vintage audio recollections, video interviews, sponsor billboards, isolated scores for all eighteen episodes�presented in Dolby Digital two.0�and some bonus ephemera on the fifth disc. Do annotation that the previews for "Next Calendar week's Bear witness" are automatically tagged to the stop of each episode. Hither's a full breakdown of everything that'due south featured:
#103 In His Paradigm
- Commentary by Marc Scott Zicree
- Zicree Interview: Herbert Hirschman, 1978 (52:11)
- Isolated Score
- Sponser Billboards (00:17)
#104 The Xxx Fathom Grave
- Commentary by Gary Gerani and Marc Scott Zicree
- Isolated Score
- Sponsor Billboard
- Radio Drama starring Blair Underwood (44:14)
#105 Valley of the Shadow
- Interview with Morgan Brittany (SD, 7:24): Former kid actor Morgan Brittany talks about her experiences on The Twilight Zone.
- Isolated Score
- Sponsor Billboard
#106 He'south Alive
- Rod Serling Blooper (SD, 00:12): Serling hilariously fudges his opening narration.
- Isolated Score
- Sponsor Billboards
#107 Mute
- Isolated Score by Fred Steiner
- Sponsor Billboards
#108 Death Ship
- Commentary by Marc Scott Zicree
- Zicree Interview: Ross Martin (52:04)
- Isolated Score
- Sponsor Billboards
#109 Jess-Belle
- Interview with Anne Francis (SD, viii:11)
- Commentary past Earl Hamner and Marc Scott Zicree
- Zicree Interview: Earl Hamner, Buzz Kulik, Anne Francis (52:11)
- Isolated Score by Van Cleave
- Sponsor Billboards
#110 Miniature
- Commentary by William Windom
- Commentary by William F. Nolan and Marc Scott Zicree
- Isolated Score by Fred Steiner
- Sponsor Billboards
#111 Printer'southward Devil
- Commentary by Bill Warren and Marc Scott Zicree
- Zicree Interview: Burgess Meredith
- Isolated Score
- Sponsor Billboards
#112 No Time Similar The Past
- Isolated Score
- Sponsor Billboards
- Radio Drama starring Jason Alexander
#113 The Parallel
- Video Interview with Paul Comi (SD, 8:26)
- Commentary by Marc Scott Zicree
- Isolated Score
- Sponsor Billboards
- Radio Drama starring Lou Diamond Phillips
#114 I Dream of Genie
- Interview with John Furia, Jr. (SD, 9:sixteen)
- Isolated Score past Fred Steiner
- Sponsor Billboards
#115 The New Showroom
- Commentary by Beak Warren and Marc Scott Zicree
- Commentary by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson
- Isolated Score
- Sponsor Billboards
#116 Of Belatedly I Think of Cliffordsville
- Isolated Score
- Sponsor Billboards
- Radio Drama starring H.Thousand. Wynant
#117 The Incredible World of Horace Ford
- Commentary by Jeff Vlaming and Marc Scott Zicree
- Zicree Interview: Pat Hingle
- Isolated Score
- Radio Drama starring Mike Starr
#118 On Thursday We Get out for Home
- Commentary by Joseph Dougherty and Marc Scott Zicree
- Commentary past Scott Skelton and Jim Benson
- Isolated Score
- Sponsor Billboards
- Radio Drama starring Barry Bostwick
#119 Passage on the Lady Anne
- Isolated Score by Rene Garriguenc
- Sponsor Billboard
#120 The Bard
- Commentary by Bill Warren and Marc Scott Zicree
- Isolated Score by Fred Steiner
- Sponsor Billboards
- Radio Drama starring John Ratzenberger
Boosted Bonus Features
- Saturday Dark Live Clip (SD, 4:34): A vintage SNL clip aping the manner of the Twilight Zone, featuring Dan Akroyd as Rod Serling.
- Genesee Beer Commercial (SD, 00:33): Rod Serling pitches Genesee.
- The Famous Writers School Promo (SD, v:54): A promo for Serling'southward correspondence school for immature writers.
- Zicree Interview: George T. Clemens, Office 4 (SD, 29:57): The fourth role of a massive interview with cinematographer George T. Clemens. The other parts can be institute in the Blu-ray sets for the previous seasons.
The Twilight Zone: Flavour 4 Blu-ray, Overall Score and Recommendation
It's elementary: If you love The Twilight Zone, you lot'll want to ain all of these season sets. Image Amusement has done a terrific job bringing the serial to Blu-ray, with superb high definition transfers, remastered audio, and newly deputed audio commentaries past several Twilight Zone experts and enthusiasts. Season four's hr-long stories may not be as snappy and incisive equally the best one-half-hour shows from the offset 2 seasons, but in that location are more than a few classic episodes hither, including the brilliant "Death Ship." Look out for season five in August! Highly recommended.
The Twilight Zone: Other Seasons
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