The Twilight Zone - Season 2 (1959)

Mike Wallace and Jack Benny

I spent over $800 on the VHS videos from Columbia House two decades ago. I spent less than $140 for the complete DVD set and discovered more treasures, rare filmed interviews, bonus extras and high-quality transfers that are far superior to what I have been watching the past 20 years.

The retail price keep lowering over the months but by now it's beyond affordable. I recommend you grab this season box set today. While the Mike Wallace interview clip has been released commercially previous, the Jack Benny clip is very funny.

I also suggest you buy "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic" because the 800 plus page book is a P-E-R-F-E-C-T companion to the DVD box set. Before or after you watch an episode, you can use the book to uncover the in-jokes, bloopers and trivia that make viewing these episodes fun. Watching the shows is one thing, knowing the behind-the-scenes stuff is even more fun. Both are available on Amazon. September 24, 2008

Enojying the classics

I've been fascinated by The Twilight Zone series since I was about 7 years old. I'm 41 now. Starting last year, I bit the bullet and decided to start getting the series on DVD. Just purchased Season 2 and while there are great episodes in each season, I have to say that a heavy concentration of my favorites are here. "Shadow Play" and "The Obsolete Man" are among the best works ever made for TV in my view. However, even the "lame" episodes in this season are fun to watch.

This is a must for any Twilight Zone fan. And if you don't know the show, this season is perhaps the best one to start with.

My only complaint -- and this is just a manufacturing defect, is that there were two "Disc 4's" in my set. Fortunately, it was just a mislabeling. The "other" disc 4 was actually disc 5, so everything was fine. I just had to write a 5 on the mislabeled disc and I'm good to go.

Thanks to all of the talented writers, directors, actors, composers, camera operators and all of the others responsible for making Twilight Zone a timeless and enjoyable piece of art. May 13, 2007

Twilight Zone season 2 - DVD quality lacking

I have found for whatever reason, the quality of the DVDs for this season are not as good as the other seasons. I have all 5 seasons on DVD, and only season 2 seems to have jumping horizontal lines and occasional wash out of picture in at least 4-5 different episodes. This is peculiar since I also have all episodes on VHS tape as well, and NO episodes have this tracking issue on VHS. I bought the DVDs in hope of replacing the VHS copies, but the VHS copies of season 2 are visibly much better quality than the DVD. It seems in the transference of the episodes for this season onto DVD was poorly done. I have noted this on not one, not two, but three different versions of the season 2 collection. They all seem to happen in the same episodes as well. One episode in particular that I have found one of the worst is "The Lateness of the Hour", which incidently happens to be one of my favorite episodes. It also doesn't seem to be isolated to one disk, I have witnessed it on at least one episode on each disk. Has anyone else come across this in season 2? I'm wondering if all season 2 collections are hosed or if I have come across a streak of bad copies. April 10, 2007

ANOTHER GREAT SEASON

I received this DVD set for Christmas and I really liked it. I enjoyed so many of the episodes on this set. I enjoyed the first season too but I enjoyed some of these even more. A lot of great actors and stories in this season. ANOTHER GREAT SERIES OF TWILIGHT ZONE. SIMPLY THE BEST. A RECOMMENDATION to ANY TWILIGHT ZONE FAN. Well worth the money. January 16, 2007

Excellent Series

First time i saw this show was in 1983,and they showed it late at night.
I was amazed at this series,which seemed to realy make you think.....what if?You watch an episode with all its twists and turns and at the end you would be suprized by a fascinating ending.
I couldnt wait each week for each episode,and i then found out some of my friends were also watching it.I remember we just sat around talking one day about the episode To Serve Man.We just couldnt get over how well that particular episode was made.
The show ran for about a year then,but i didnt see it again till i started buying the episodes on DVD.That was in 2002.Its great they are putting out alot of series out on DVD nowdays so we dont have to wait such lenghts of time till we see them again.
Now this series was filmed in black and white,but i realy think that it adds to the mystique of the atmosphere surrounding each episode.
If you purchase this season then you cant go wrong with this masterpeice work from Rod Serling.
You cant go wrong with any season of this series!!! January 7, 2007

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