Product Details

• Actors: Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts, Vaughn Taylor, James Turley
• Writers: Rod Serling
• Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 3, 2001
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305302316
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,741 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Twilight Zone: Vol. 7" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Episodes: "Perchance to Dream" (Ep. 9, November 27, 1959) - A man (Richard Conte) is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die. His pursuer? A mysterious vixen he meets in his dreams! The first non-Rod Serling script of the series. "The Hitch-Hiker" (Ep. 16, January 22, 1960) - Alone on a cross-country trip, Nan Adams (Inger Stevens) has a blowout. Surviving the incident, she gets back on the road--only to see the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks! "King Nine Will Not Return" (Ep. 37, September 20, 1960) - WWII Captain James Embry (Robert Cummings) finds himself next to a crashed plane in a vast desert. Where is his crew? And why are futuristic jet planes flying overhead? "Shadow Play" (Ep. 62, May 5, 1961) - Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man (Dennis Weaver) tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real. Will they ever listen?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Four of the best Twilight Zone episodes, September 5, 2000

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keviny01 - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight Zone: Vol. 7 (DVD)

Image is releasing these original Twilight Zone episodes NOT in the order of the original broadcast date (which I would've preferred), but rather in a way so that each volume contains episodes that have roughly similar themes. The result is often that the best episodes, mostly the earlier ones in the series' 5-season run, are scattered among different volumes.

Volume 7, however, is one of the better ones, since 3 of the 4 episodes selected are among the best in the series: "The Hitchhiker", "Perchance to Dream", "Shadow Play". The weakest of the 4 in my opinion is "King Nine will not Return" but many people like it and think it's one of the best also. All 4 episodes are about hallucinations or dreams that doom the protagonist.

Picture and sound qualities are superb throughout. The DVD also include extra material such as episode descriptions, biographical notes, and trivias.

It is hard to find TV stations that show TZ episodes these days, and even when they do, they sometimes don't show all the episodes (especially the 1-hour ones), and episodes are almost always edited for time. The TZ episodes on these volumes are uncut and uninterrupted; and for TZ fans they definitely worth collecting.

Programs like The Twilight Zone are a dead genre. Today's viewers aren't likely to watch a sci-fi show without expecting special effects and action scenes. TZ had no flashy effects and rapid actions, only IDEAS that provoke our thoughts and stimulate our imaginations.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The Hitch-Hiker" Wins First Prize On This DVD!, November 23, 2004

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David Von Pein (Mooresville, Indiana; USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight Zone: Vol. 7 (DVD)

This 7th volume of "The Twilight Zone" series of DVDs issued by Image Entertainment, Inc., is a first-rate installment. Two of these four half-hour "TZ" episodes are a couple of the best in the Rod Serling TV series, IMHO. Those two episodes being: "The Hitch-Hiker", starring the lovely Inger Stevens, and "Shadow Play" with Dennis Weaver.

The other two programs on the disc are "Perchance To Dream" and "King Nine Will Not Return". Both earn an "OK" rating by yours truly, but fall short of the quality of the other two programs on the DVD.

Video quality is excellent on all of these Image Twilight Zone discs, with very good audio quality as well. Video is displayed in the standard TV ratio of 1.33:1; while the audio is in 2.0 Dolby Digital Mono.

The 1960 tension-filled TZ classic episode, "The Hitch-Hiker", stars 25-year-old Swedish beauty Inger Stevens, who tragically committed suicide at age 35 in April 1970. Inger plays "Nan Adams", who is driving alone across the country and keeps seeing the same shabbily-dressed hitch-hiker along the roadside. She can't seem to shake him. He's always there, no matter how fast she drives to elude him. It's an absorbing and effectively-told tale of one woman's growing fear and apprehension. The hitch-hiker's final line of dialogue caps off the episode in fine fashion. One of THE best "Zones" ever made.

Ironically, "The Hitch-Hiker" in many ways mirrors the plot of the 1971 Steven Spielberg TV-movie, "Duel", which starred Dennis Weaver, who just happens to be the star of the other top-notch episode on this TZ DVD.

"Shadow Play", as noted, is my other fave on this platter. It is "Zone" episode #62, airing in May of 1961. Dennis Weaver portrays the tortured death-row prisoner "Adam Grant". It's not physical torture that Mr. Grant is forced to endure, but rather a mental agony, stemming from his own horror-filled dreams of being put to death -- over and over again. This is yet another excellent TZ script, and Weaver is simply outstanding in his role here as a man who cannot escape his persistent nightmare.

Chalk up Volume 7 as another winner in the Image Entertainment series of "Twilight Zone" Digital Discs.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great DVD, January 20, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Twilight Zone: Vol. 7 (DVD)

Perchance to Dream- Good episode, it got a little tedious at some parts though. (***)

Hitch Hiker- Great episode! Very good ending. (****)

King Nine will not Return- I liked it. A lot of people seem to not. (***)

Shadow Play- Good episode. Made you think. (***)