Customer Reviews

The Twilight Zone, Vol. 42

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The Bard*** 1/2 First of all I'd never heard of this ep outside of this dvd. I generally do NOT like the comedy Zones for when I watch the Zone I prefer serious Sci-Fi but all has been saved here with a tremendous performance of "Shakespeare". He is quite funny and ironic. The star of this ep is almost as endearing and about the first 5 min. of this ep you will hate it ... but let Serling do his magic and you too will see the magic of the Bard. The ending is silly though and adds little to the script ... I thought a nice touch would have been had he conjured up Serling himself! ... and the producers would have acted as though they'd never heard of him!

The Fear*** : This ep started out smashingly put alas was ruined by a terrible ending. An obvious 5 season ep. The two leads, in fact the only two people seen in this ep are actually very good actors, so good in fact they acount for all of the three stars because the story wasn't much either.

The Bewitchin Pool**** : I bought this dvd for this ep and was a bit let down (I thought this would be a 5 ringer). I marvel at why the beginning of the ep they actually show you the end! Aunt T is great the kids are good too, I watched this one several times in my youth and have since loved it. A surprisingly endearing ep which has a few too many overdubs with the voice work but in the end spins a story that I imagine is a dream of many, the simple life.

I have a whole stack of episodes from this series.I wouldn't say every episode is brilliant,but some realy leave you thinking.Here is a good selection from the series.Makes me wonder at times where they got the ideas for these episodes.There is nothing quite like it on Tv these days,they rely too much on special effects rather than a good script and fine acting.The twists and turns to each episode keep you interested.

I bought this vol. 42 because i am a collector of this series and the beautiful women on this dvd the girl in the EP. "The Fear" is hot nice see through pants very round but and the girl in the Ep. "The Bewitching Pool" is hot as well lol I don't know I'm just a guy thought but anyway... This is a really good twilight zone and its a very interesting, suspense episodes of rod serling's briliant mind and its a great deal fro the seller MovieMars he sells all the twilight zones but most of mine from him and the other Episode is an houre one and its called "The bard" its kinda a funny episode but weird and strange at the same time!

Now own all but one in the series. Family movie night can be a Twilight Zone marathon enjoyed by all.

On volume 42, there are only two enjoyable stories. One takes us into the life of would-be writer Julius(Jack Weston), who manages to summon the ghost of Shakespeare. When I first read the review on the back of the volume, I thought this was going to be a scary episode, but was instead a very funny, very witty comedy! In the supporting cast are John Williams as Shakespeare, John McGiver as the arrogant(and funny) sponsor and Burt Reynolds as a Marlon Brando-like actor. That's because he's parodying Marlon Brando... and he does a terrific job of it. Next up to bat is the freaky "The Fear", about a State Trooper(Mark Richman) and a woman(Hazel Court) who find signs of an extraterrestrial on the woman's property. I liked Mark's performance the best, but Hazel also shines in her role. The twist is very... twist-y, so I won't give it away! The final episode, "The Bewitchin' Pool" is terrible, more suited to a show like Barney! Like a skit for Barney! The worst part about this is they used someone else's voice for Mary Badham, June Foray, who has a voice like a doll(no wonder she voiced Chatty Cathy). If they had ended Zone with "The Fear" instead of this, the series could've lived, but they had to end it with a kiddie story, which, obviously, many viewers didn't enjoy. Rod, why didn't you end it with "The Fear"? Why?????