Twilight Zone: The Complete Fourth Season

"The Twilight Zone: The Complete Fourth Season" Gives Fans the Only Hour Long Episodes
Some people never take old sayings to heart until it's too late. While in the midst of watching the fourth season of "The Twilight Zone," the proverb "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" came to mind. The perfect 30-minute format of the show was stretched to an hour to fill in the time another show left open. "Stretched" is exactly how this season of the classic television show feels.

Don't get me wrong. "The Twilight Zone's" fourth season is still quality television. The stories are entertaining and still have the great twists audiences expect from the show. The extended running time just leaves viewers with a sense that a bit of fluff had to be added to each episode. Rod Serling said it best when asked about the extended time slot.

"Ours is the perfect half-hour show... If we went to an hour, we'd have to fleshen our stories, soap opera style. Viewers could watch fifteen minutes without knowing whether they were in a 'Twilight Zone' or 'Desilu Playhouse,'" Serling...

TWILIGHT ZONE's "Controversial" Fourth Season Gets The 'Episodes Only' Release Fans Deserve
While it's still open to debate, I prefer to argue that there probably is no other program that influenced so many early television producers and stars as THE TWILIGHT ZONE. It's constantly cited as the inspiration behind so many people - cast and crew - who got into the business. Its singular theme music even today evokes exactly the kind of magical, mystical quality it did back in its heyday. And the acting performances for a television anthology program simply set the standard for what was possible on the device so many dubbed `the boob tube' in TV's infancy.

RLJ Entertainment has once again done the admirable by stripping away all of the bluster that sometimes accompanies a set's special features, and they've released another "episodes only" installment, this time bringing ZONE's fourth season front and center for audiences to experience and re-experience again.

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