The Twilight Zone: The Complete Third Season (1962) (DVD Review)
Directed By: Don Medford, Douglas Heyes, Richard L. Bare
Starring: Rod Serling, Bill Mumy, Carol Burnett, Cliff Robertson
Rated: UR/Region: 1/1:33/Number of disc: 5
Available from IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
All 37 episodes of the third season of Rod Serling’s classic, groundbreaking series. We get these shows on five discs and if you love the Twilight Zone and don’t already own the series in some form or fashion, this is a great set for you to get.
The third season of The Twilight Zone might have changed up the intro a bit, but it was still the same fun show we have grown to love over the years. Even if Rod Serling was a bit tapped out during the making of this season, the signs of wear and tiredness are far and few as we go through all 37 Episodes of this show that has become a legend to not just horror fans, but everyone. You might look at a set like this and be a little intimidated by the five discs, but once you start you will find that the time seems to fly by once you start watching.
This series might not be overall as strong as season two, but it is still extremely strong. “Nothing in the Dark”, “Person or Persons Unknown”, “A Game of Pool”, “I Sing the Body Electric”, and other iconic and legendary episodes are here for us to enjoy and enjoy them I’m sure you will with season three of The Twilight Zone. Great acting, great writing, and great twists are here for all and I enjoyed every moment of it. Episodes include..
01: Two – Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery play the sole survivors of a nuclear holocaust.
02: The Arrival – An airline official tests his theory that a newly arrived but totally empty plane is imaginary-with startling results.
03: The Shelter – A neighborhood panics when they believe they are under a nuclear attack and attempt to invade the only bomb shelter on the block.
04: The Passersby – A wounded Civil War soldier starts to believe that he and the people around him have already died.
05: A Game of Pool – A pool master returns from the dead to play one last game with an eager young hustler.
06: The Mirror – A dictator discovers a mirror that shows the faces of his assassins.
07: The Grave – A hired gunman defies a Western outlaw’s warning that if he ever came near his grave he’d reach up and snatch away his life. Stars Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Lee Van Cleef.
08: It’s a Good Life – A six-year-old boy holds a town in terror with his powers to change or destroy anyone or anything at will.
09: Deaths-Head Revisited – A former Nazi is tried by a jury of his own victims. .
10: The Midnight Sun – The inhabitants of Earth prepare to meet their doom as their planet heads toward the Sun.
11: Still Valley – A Confederate scout is given a magical book that could guarantee their victory.
12: The Jungle – A former prospector is haunted in Manhattan by an African jungle beast.
13: Once Upon a Time – A janitor puts on a helmet that takes him 72 years into the future. Stars Buster Keaton.
14: Five Characters in Search of an Exit – Five people – a ballet dancer, a major, a clown, tramp and a bagpipe player – find themselves trapped in a featureless enclosure.
15: A Quality of Mercy – A racist World War II soldier experiences the war in the body of a Japanese counterpart.
16: Nothing in the Dark – Gladys Cooper plays an elderly woman locks herself in an abandoned building in order to avoid “Mr. Death.” Robert Redford also stars.
17: One More Pallbearer – A rich man devices a scheme to get revenge on those who humiliated him earlier in life.
18: Dead Man’s Shoes – A man steals who steals the shoes of a murdered gangster finds himself living in the dead man’s footsteps.
19: The Hunt – A hunter and his faithful dog arrive at the gates of Heaven.
20: Showdown with Rance McGrew – A cowboy star is haunted by the ghost of Jesse James.
21: Kick the Can – A group of elderly people recapture their youth.
22: A Piano in the House – A strange piano allows the listener’s hidden character to be suddenly revealed.
23: The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank – When a young man steps out of his coffin at his own funeral the townsfolk grow to suspect that the devil has assumed the man’s body.
24: To Serve Man – Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine.
25: The Fugitive – A magical old man delights the local children with his power to change his appearance.
26: Little Girl Lost – A couple is awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their six-year-old daughter who has fallen through a mysterious door into another dimension.
27: Person or Persons Unknown – A man awakens one morning to find that no one recognizes him, not even his mother.
28: The Little People – A space traveler terrorizes the tiny inhabitants of a space station into accepting him as their God, but when another space ship arrives the tyrannical man discovers everything is relative.
29: Four O’Clock – To combat all that he considers evil, a cranky man decides to make every evil person two feet tall at exactly 4 p.m.
30: Hocus Pocus and Frisby – No one believes a local story-teller who claims that he was kidnapped by aliens.
31: The Trade-Ins – An elderly man has his mind transferred to a new body.
32: The Gift – A small village becomes fearful of a crashed space traveler.
33: The Dummy – A ventriloquist’s dummy takes on a life of its own.
34: Young Man’s Fancy – A young bride is not happy when her husband attempts to win back the days of his childhood.
35: I Sing the Body Electric – A widowed father buys his three young children an electronic grandmother.
36: Cavender Is Coming – Carol Burnet plays Agnes Grep who gets a visit from an apprentice angel trying to win his wings.
37: The Changing of the Guard – A teacher feels like his life is over when he is asked to retire.
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