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The Twilight Zone - Volume 20
Warner Vision/Warner Vision . R4 . B&W . 100 mins . PG . PAL

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Elegy
Episode 20, February 19, 1960
Low on fuel and lost in space, the three man crew of a rocket from Earth land on an asteroid. Surprised to find what looks to be Earth, they soon realize that everyone is frozen in time. Except for one person…

The Thirty-Fathom Grave
Episode 104, January 10, 1963
In this one hour episode which author Stephen King calls one of the better examples of the series, a navy ship detects a noise coming from the ocean floor. Discovering a sunken sub, they investigate the cause of the mysterious “hammering” sound. Meanwhile, onboard the ship a crewman is acting strange and somehow feels affected by the submarine.

A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain
Episode 131, December 13, 1963
Harmon Gordon is getting old and tired. His much more youthful wife resents him for it, she wants to party and stay out late, while he just wants to sit at home and relax. Desperate to please his wife, Harmon takes an experimental serum that he hopes will restore his youth. If I was Harmon, I’d divorce the troll and run off to Brazil to enjoy my final days. But, as usual, this is the Twilight Zone, and nobody ever seems to think straight here.

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I guess it’s hardly surprising to find that after the previous 19 volumes we get another good effort for this release. The blacks, whites and greys look quite nice, striking a good even picture with revealing blacks and detailed whites, and the reasonably crisp fullframe image doing the show and fans proud. The Dolby Digital mono audio continues to be very clear and these episodes are again mostly free from higher levels of distortion and hiss that plagued a few episodes in some previous volumes.

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.

On the strength alone of the well acted and written hour long episode, “The Thirty-Fathom Grave”, which contains some very eerie haunting moments indeed, this dvd was going to come highly recommended. This would still be the case even if the other episodes were much much weaker, but thankfully this isn’t an issue, with “Elegy”, a good episode that has a rocket control room laughingly consisting of two metal storage lockers and a small table, but then goes to great lengths to set up many scenes of numerous people frozen in time and “A Short Drink…” (the weaker of the three but still enjoyable)giving it ample support for an overall quality selection of viewing for fans of The Twilight Zone.


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