Here's New Info on Classic Twilight Zone re-release (1 Viewer)

Today's USA Today has a nice article on the Twilight Zone re-releases (all incarnations)

The classic series will be remastered to hi-def and come out in season sets starting 12/28 and cotinuing in 2005. Each box will retail for $120 (higher than the current boxes). Image will package these with special features and commentaries. More info can be found via the link.

Steve

Shame about the price, but I'm glad I didn't get the current releases. I;ve been wanting to get these forever, since the first VHS started coming out, and always held off, waiting for an ideal set. this looks like the one!

Higher price? How does the episode count compare with the old sets?

1. 1- 1 2 Oct 59 Where is Everybody?
2. 1- 2 9 Oct 59 One for the Angels
3. 1- 3 16 Oct 59 Mr. Denton on Doomsday
4. 1- 4 23 Oct 59 The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
5. 1- 5 30 Oct 59 Walking Distance
6. 1- 6 6 Nov 59 Escape Clause
7. 1- 7 13 Nov 59 The Lonely
8. 1- 8 20 Nov 59 Time Enough at Last
9. 1- 9 27 Nov 59 Perchance to Dream
10. 1-10 4 Dec 59 Judgment Night
11. 1-11 11 Dec 59 And When the Sky Was Opened
12. 1-12 25 Dec 59 What You Need
13. 1-13 1 Jan 60 The Four of Us are Dying
14. 1-14 8 Jan 60 Third From the Sun
15. 1-15 15 Jan 60 I Shot an Arrow into the Air
16. 1-16 22 Jan 60 The Hitch-Hiker
17. 1-17 29 Jan 60 The Fever
18. 1-18 5 Feb 60 The Last Flight
19. 1-19 12 Feb 60 The Purple Testament
20. 1-20 19 Feb 60 Elegy
21. 1-21 26 Feb 60 Mirror Image
22. 1-22 4 Mar 60 The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
23. 1-23 11 Mar 60 A World of Difference
24. 1-24 18 Mar 60 Long Live Walter Jameson
25. 1-25 25 Mar 60 People Are Alike All Over
26. 1-26 1 Apr 60 Execution
27. 1-27 8 Apr 60 The Big Tall Wish
28. 1-28 15 Apr 60 A Nice Place to Visit
29. 1-29 29 Apr 60 Nightmare as a Child
30. 1-30 6 May 60 A Stop at Willoughby
31. 1-31 13 May 60 The Chaser
32. 1-32 20 May 60 A Passage for Trumpet
33. 1-33 3 Jun 60 Mr. Bevis
34. 1-34 10 Jun 60 The After Hours
35. 1-35 17 Jun 60 The Mighty Casey
36. 1-36 1 Jul 60 A World of His Own

I'm assuming these were all half hour episodes.

And how many were on the previous sets? (Sorry, not that familiar with them.)

Here is a better link. I have one of the sets I picked up real cheap. I'll gladly get the whole show in season sets since it will be remastered and have plenty of extras.

$120?!!!

No way am I paying that much. That's awful.

-Dave

Hey Image, You suck! Blood Sucking Scumbags.
Didn't you make enough money the first time around when the DVD's were $24.95 LIST!!! Then the repackaged Boxes? Pox on them.

Before everyone rips Image to shreds on this, please don't overlook the fact that they've remastered all the episodes and added bonus features such as commentaries. Those had to come at a cost.

Assuming a pre-order discount of 30%, this series can probably be had for under $90 a set. If the remastering and special features aren't must haves, you can still order the original boxes. They all under $60 each at DDD with the 20% sale.

Steve

Wow! What a bargain, another $500+. I fail to see the advantage.

This is sad, indeed. I sold my original 5 sets on E-bay after hearing of these sets. I love the original Twilight Zone. I hope I can find these sets at a good price. I think they should go for about $60.00 per season. If they are more I will have a hard time picking them up as I'm not rich.

--Edward

I highly doubt anyone will pay 120 bucks for these. If retail is indeed $119.99 (which is unlikely, probably preliminary, if anything) it would sell for about $83 over at Amazon, and with STL that all comes down to $75. Not very cheap but doable.

Yes, but this series has already generated quite a bit of revenue, and will continue to do so. This is gouging, pure and simple.

-Dave

Well here's another TV series that I love that I won't be able to afford. I can see tons of these just sitting on the shelves. I mean, seriously, are there that many Twilight Zone fans out there willing to pay this kind of money?

Image Entertainment should set retail price at no more than $89.95 per season if they expect this release to sell well.

That is all.

--Edward

As with anything, if you love it... you'll pay. I'm a HUGE Twilight Zone fan, and have often lamented the sub-par transfers on the existing DVDs (the earlier volumes in particular, which were mastered from videotapes for God's sake!). Remastered in high-def? I'm absolutely there. This is my all-time favorite TV series, so cost is NOT a factor if they're done right.

Robert: yes, all of season one's episodes were half an hour in length. In fact, only season four featured hour-long episodes.

Remastered in high-def? I'm absolutely there. This is my all-time favorite TV series, so cost is NOT a factor if they're done right

YES, and they know it. They put a link to our wallets and will suck us dry as long as we let them. For all of us who took the FIRST plunge, they should have a special rate..We're talking 43 DVDS!!!! I could justify 2 complete releases, but three!? If anything, they should have listed them a $39.99 which is a great rate for TV Shows on DVD. My Favorite Martian on Rhino is doing such.

No sale. I recently got all the existing boxed sets, and except for my annoyance over two of the videotaped episodes being presented as kinescopes ("Static" and "Twenty-Two") I'm reasonably satisfied with what I've got and am not about to shell out more money again.

TWILIGHT ZONE: SEASON ONE sounds like a good package. I just hope it also includes the DESILU PLAYHOUSE episode, "The Time Element", which was scripted by Serling and was the unofficial pilot to THE TWILIGHT ZONE. William Bendix repeatedly dreams that he travels back in time to Hawaii on Dec. 7th, 1941, with the knowledge of what is about to happen.

The episode still exists in fine shape; TV LAND ran it a few times several years ago on its MUSEUM OF RADIO & TELEVISION SHOWCASE program.

I wonder if Image's Television division is going to become the Criterion Collection of the classic TV on DVD world. Very high quality, but you have to pay for it.

I actually may wait for the probably inevitable best-of collection for this series, as not all episodes of this show are classics and Image is including extras for the best-ofs of their other somewhat expensive series, "The Dick Van Dyke Show".