Expect the weird

By Mike Larmon

Have $400 laying around your room somewhere? Are you a big fan of the original episodes of “The Twilight Zone”? If you nodded your head “yes” to both of those questions, then there is a DVD box set coming out that might interest you.

-On Dec. 2, a limited edition DVD box set of the entire “Twilight Zone” television series was released. This box set includes all 156 episodes of the popular television show on 44 discs, along with five extra discs of bonus material. Each of the only 2,500 box sets released are numbered.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the largest DVD collection ever released. Aside from that, this is the first time the series has been remastered in sequential order in a collector’s set. Episodes appear in the set in the exact order they premiered on television, from the show’s debut in Oct. 1958 to its cancellation in June 1964.

The show, hosted and created by Rod Serling, starred a wide variety of now famous actors including Robert Redford, Dennis Hopper and Burt Reynolds. Amazingly, almost the entire cast of the original “Star Trek” has starred in various “Twilight Zone” episodes. Aside from hosting and creating the show, Serling also wrote the majority of the scripts for the episodes. The show featured all original music by Bernard Herrmann.

Included in the bonus material is “Inside the Twilight Zone,” with information on Rod Serling, a history of the series, reviews of each episode, cast information and a season-by-season commentary.

Also, there are two episodes that never before have been included in the smaller “Twilight Zone” boxed sets, “Eye of the Beholder” (episode 42) and “An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge” (episode 142).

For information, or to order the box set, visit www.anotheruniverse.com.