Submitted for your approval: The Twilight Zone's inaugural season, all 36 episodes complete with Rod Serling's original promos for the following week's episode, not seen since their original broadcast. To discuss television's greatest anthology series whose title has become pop culture shorthand for the bizarre and supernatural is to immediately become like Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd in Twilight Zone: The Movie; a can-you-top-this recall of famous shocks and favorite twists. Several essential episodes hail from this season, among them, "Time Enough at Last" starring Burgess Meredith as a bespectacled bookworm who is the lone survivor of an atomic blast; "The After-Hours" starring Anne Francis as a department store shopper haunted by mannequins; and the profoundly disturbing "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," in which fear and prejudice turns neighbor against neighbor (and, by the by, whose alien observers inspired Kang and Kodos on The Simpsons).

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Next Stop: The Twaddle Zone

Let's stop this Rod-Serling-Is-God hokum right now. I remember sitting in a revival theater a few years ago watching the original "Planet Of The Apes." As the apes were exchanging dull, pompous speeches, all I could think was: "This sounds like a bad episode of the Twilight Zone." Sure enough, as the credits rolled, the screenwriter was revealed to be Rod Serling. I want to know how this hack ever came to be regarded as the greatest writer of television's Golden Age. I can barely sit through one of his introductions with all that purple language and pseudo-lawyer phraseology. (Someone at CBS should have burned his thesaurus.) All that puffed-up language and pedantic delivery was only to conceal the triteness of his GREAT INSIGHTS into the human condition. Give me Alfred Hitchcock instead, who knew TV is hack work and had fun with "Alfred Hitchock Presents." Serling, on the other hand, was forever saving humanity from itself on the MGM lot. Most of Serling's scripts could have been produced by any half-bright freshman in a creative writing class. Okay, once in a while he hit paydirt, like the gambling yarn "The Fever"; but even Serling admitted that two-thirds of his material was junk. The best thing about the first few seasons of TZ was the show clocked at a merciful half hour, which saved the actors from making long-winded speeches as in the fourth season when it stretched to a full hour. Serling's mediocrity was saved by greater talents than his own, namely the scoring of Bernard Hermann, some good scripts by Jerry Sohl, Charles Beaumont and George Clayton Johnson, the inspired acting of up-and-comers, and some interesting film-noirish direction. Even worse would be Serling's follow-up series in the late '60s, Night Gallery, which proved that the great auteur had lost none of his pomposity and bad writing with the passage of time.

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The Twilight Zone brings back fond memories of my youth when I
faithfuly watched the program every Friday night. I have always
been fascinated with going back in time or a different era from
the present. If you enjoy the same I recommend the Twilight Zone
as only Rod Serling can present it. I am planning to purchase the
whole series. John Vandelden.
P.S. Amazon was very efficient in expiditing my order. Thanks.