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The Twilight Zone - Volume 23
Warner Vision/Warner Vision . R4 . B&W . 100 mins . PG . PAL

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My on going travel with this series sees us take a look at a set of stories which cover possession, retribution and time, all with the nasty results we've come to expect. Sure, they're not the best of the series, but they do share a slow haunting feeling which makes for a satisfying late night in front of the television.

Long Live Walter Jameson (Ep 24)
Walter Jameson’s history class is enjoyed by the students who say it’s almost like he was at the events he discusses. His close friend and father of his girlfriend (bizarre enough in itself) is a bit suspicious of him and sets about discovering who he really is.

Dead Man’s Shoes (Ep 83)
Just as you cant keep a good man down, in the Twilight Zone you cant keep a gangster dead. The spirit of a fresh dead mobster is so determined to get revenge on his killers that his spirit possesses his shoes. Yes. I said his shoes. When a hobo finds his dumped body and steals the nice looking shoes, the possessed shoes take over the hobo and goes about the dirty business of retribution.

You Drive (Ep 134)
It's been a hard day at the office and Oliver just isn’t concentrating on his way home. A split second, and a slippery road from rain is all it takes and he has accidentally killed a young boy in a sudden hit and run accident. Scared, he leaves the scene, hoping no-one will ever discover it was him, but he doesn’t count on his own “car with a conscience” to haunt the truth out of him.

The Long Morrow (Ep 135)
Douglas Stansfield has just fallen is in love. Unfortunately, he’s also an astronaut who’s just about to spend 40 years in suspended animation on an expedition to another planet. 40 years is a long time by yourself, especially when you know the one you love will have aged 40 years by the time you return, while you haven’t aged a day. As we know love can make you do strange things, but this is the Zone, not Ramsey Street, so love doesn’t always work out right in the end.

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Across 24 volumes, there has been remarkably little variation in the quality of the transfer, and this continues here. Again, the fullframe episodes (all shot on film for this set) are good quality with a good detailed black and white picture, with the usual peppering of film artefacts (a few more than usual, but still easily acceptable). The all important dialogue is always perfectly clear and free from distortion, and stays clear when layered with the score or effects.

The extra features on the dvd consist of a selection of text based screens for your reading pleasure. They contain a Rod Serling Biography, Season By Season Commentary, History Of The Twilight Zone and Reviews of the individual episodes on the disc. It’s not a particularly extensive package, but there’s some good (if a tad brief) info, with the reviews being quite interesting and a must read from disc to disc for some background on each episode contained on the dvd.


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  •   And I quote...
    "Possession, retribution and time take a whirl in The Twilight Zone with nasty results."
    - Vince Carrozza
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