What You Need
Episode 12, December 25, 1959
A lowlife crook latches on to an old man who seems to be able to see the future, but as we should all know by now, in The Twilight Zone the future isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Serling doesn't have many nice things to say about him in his intro "You're looking at Mr Fred Renard, who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of a national debt. This is a sour man. A friendless man, a lonely man, a grasping, compulsive, nervous man. This is a man who has lived 36 undistinguished, meaningless, pointless, failure-laden years..." Stop it Mr Serling, STOP IT! I'M SORRYYY I TELLS YA! I'll CHANGE!

What's In The Box
Episode 144, March 13, 1964
A cab driver with a guilty conscience starts freaking out when his television starts revealing his little secret. Maybe he shouldn't have been so rude to the television repair man...

The Mirror
Episode 71, October 20, 1961
A man who becomes dictator is warned that a mirror in his office will show him his would-be assassins. He dismisses this warning, but soon the mirror begins to reveal his fate. When will these people ever learn? Fools!

The Old Man In The Cave
Episode 127, November 8, 1963
After a war has decimated mankind, a group living isolated in a remote town rely on the advice of an unseen old man in a cave for their survival. But they start to question this advice when a group of troublemakers arrive in town and ask them "What old man? What cave? What the hell are you on? Prove it to me, go on, I dares ya!"

Yep, still looking good. As usual, with some minor variation in the quality of the picture from show to show, you can still generally expect a fairly good reproduction of the various sets and natural locations. Good example is the bar top in What You Need, showing the many scuff marks and nicks quite well for a quick shot. The tonal balance looks very good across the episodes on this dvd, with some good black detail revealed. Ignore the minor flaws on the print, it actually adds to the character if you ask me.

As you should know well by now, the audio for the series is presented in Dolby Digital mono, and with the exception of the slight hiss and minor distortion (that exists to some degree on all the dvds reviewed so far) the shows sounds just fine on whatever equipment you care to listen with, with clear dialogue and plenty of atmosphere confined to the centre channel.

The extra features on the dvd consist of a selection of text based screens. They contain a Rod Serling Biography, Season By Season Commentary, History Of The Twilight Zone and Reviews of the individual episodes on the disc. Sure, it’s not a comprehensive package, but there’s some good (but brief) reading, and the reviews are quite interesting.

Serling puts away the rocketships, monsters and fancypants gizmos on this dvd, and instead focuses on the general state of human failings, with a little political observation thrown in for good measure. The stories are about people and what they do to themselves, not so much what The Twilight Zone does to them. The quality is consistent with the released series so far, making it easy to recommend you pick this up next time you're out shopping.

Let's see...bread, toothbrush and a Twilight Zone dvd, yep, got everything I need, how about you?