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The Twilight Zone - Volume 28
Warner Vision/Warner Vision . R4 . COLOR . 100 mins . PG . PAL

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The Whole Truth (Ep 50)
Have you ever met a salesperson who isn’t full of it? I certainly haven’t, and I’ve worked with a lot in my time. Well, it’s nice to know they have them in The Twilight Zone, too. This particular shonky bastard is a used car salesman (the worst kind of salesman there is), and he just loves to embellish the truth to get a sale from gullible young couples. However, when opportunity knocks for him to buy an old jalopy from a man desperate to sell for a bargain price, he doesn’t figure on it being haunted. But this isn’t your everyday run of the mill haunted jalopy. This one makes the liar have to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, which should make selling cars a tad difficult.

Mute (1 hour) (Ep 107)
For years scientists have tried to improve upon human beings in one way or another. Not satisfied that we’re fine just the way we are with genetic flaws, body odour and hair in awkward places, the eggheads amongst us keep trying to develop the ability to communicate exclusively through mental telepathy, thus rendering spoken communication obsolete. From just such a project taking place in small town in America is a young girl recently orphaned when a fire kills her parents. Nothing is known of this family other than the parents wished to keep the girl out of school and she appears to be a mute. The town’s sheriff and his wife take her in as the sheriff tries to contact possible relatives overseas. Concerned that she can’t speak, what they can’t comprehend is that the girl has evolved beyond the need for the spoken word. But they are determined that she will become just like any other child, regardless of the cost to her sanity and her ability.

Queen of the Nile (Ep 143)
Those pesky newspaper columnists! Don’t they ever know when enough’s enough? Even the rich and famous deserve some privacy (and yes, that includes cheating sleazebag footballers). But this columnist doesn’t think so. When he meets with famous actress Pamela Morris, he thinks the fact she doesn’t look any older than she did 24 years earlier in her movie Queen of the Nile is just a teensy bit suspicious, and with words of warning from her mother he digs a little deeper and discovers the secret to her “ageless beauty” isn't Palmolive soap.

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I love reviewing the Twilight Zone dvds. I think I’ve said it previously that you can always rely on a good transfer with the quality of the original shows being the only real variable. Well it’s the same deal here, with yet another good audio and video showing from all episodes on this disc. Even from the show shot on video instead of film you get a good quality image that makes it a little more bearable than usual. The all fullframe black and white pictures look great for the all the passing years, with balanced tones, plenty of detail and a clarity about as good as you’ll see for a television show over 40 years old. The good news flows onto the audio, which is in a hiss free mono, pleasantly free from sibilance and distortion, with the centre channel relaying dialogue that is easy on your ears.

The extra features on the dvd consist of a selection of text based screens. They contain a Rod Serling Biography, Season By Season Commentary, History Of The Twilight Zone and Episode Reviews of the shows on the disc. Sure, it’s not a comprehensive package, but there’s some good (but brief) reading, and the episode reviews are always interesting.


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