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Twilight Zone Radio Dramas: Collection 3 (Twilight Zone)
Stacy Keach Manufacturer: Falcon Picture Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: 1591711274 |
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The Twilight Zone: Radio Dramas: It's a Good Life / Dead Man's Shoes / the Thirty-fathom Grave / the After Hours (The Twilight Zone Collection)
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: 1591711282 |
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Time Enough at Last starring Tim Kazurinsky; A Passage for Trumpet starring Mike Starr; I Shot an Arrow Into the Air starring Chelcie Ross; The Brain Center at Whipple's starring Stan Freberg; The Grave starring Michael Rooker; The Hitch-Hiker starring Kate Jackson; Mr. Denton on Doomsday starring Adam Baldwin; Sounds and Silences starring Richard Kind; The Odyssey of Flight 33 starring Daniel J. Travanti; The Changing of the Guard starring Orson BeanCustomer Reviews:
Not too bad..........2003-07-07
"The Passersby" - starring Morgan Brittany (supermodel and she also appeared as Katherine Wentworth on "Dallas", as well as tons of staple shows from the sixties). Morgan does a credible job here. She gives it a good effort and it pays off. Her Southern accent is sweet and convincing. Where this one falls down is the use of a bland supporting cast. The role of The Seargent was masterfully played by James Gregory in the original but the person playing it here clearly doesn't have much.
Stacy Keach, for some reason, pops in to play Abraham Lincoln at the end before delivering the closing narration. The casting of Keach as host still remains a mystery to me...give me Rod Serling any day.
"The Rip Van Winkle Caper" - starring Tim Kazurinsky.
Kazurinsky gives the main character, Mr. Farwell, an English accent, which is a nice touch. Also laudable are some great sound effects and the addition of a train heist (which is only referred to in the original).
"Four O'Clock" - starring Stan Freberg. Freberg has a good time playing the part, much as Theodore Bikel did in the original.
However, the story itself was one of Serling's paler attempts.
In fact, it was adapted from a short story that itself is rather brief and unimaginative.
"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" - starring Frank John Hughes. You have to listen closely for Hughes' part...there are four other male neighbors who are equally vocal in the Maple Street skurmish. The supporting cast are very good...perhaps better than the actors in the original version. Just my opinion, but I always felt that the TV version was a little too pretentious, much like "The Shelter". Good sound effects here as well, especially at the end where the 'monsters' make their appearance.
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The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Cassette Collection 1
Rod Serling Manufacturer: Falcon Picture Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette Similar Items:
ASIN: 159171057X |
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Experience one of television's greatest science-fiction series, The Twilight Zone - fully dramatized for AUDIO! The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas feature a full cast, music and sound effects and today's biggest celebrities in modern radio dramatizations by Dennis Etchison of creator Rod Serling's classic scripts. Hosted by Stacy Keach, The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas will keep you glued to the edge of your seat whether listening in your home or while driving in your car. This collection features 4 stereo recordings."A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" Starring Jim Caviezel. The year is 1847. A wagon train has made the cross-country trek from Ohio to the deserts of Arizona and beyond - all the way into another century.
"The Lateness of the Hour" Starring Jane Seymour and James Keach. A young woman lives a life of comfort and easy, thanks to her father's robot servants. The problem is, she may also be a prisoner in her own perfect home.
"A Kind of Stopwatch" Starring Lou Diamond Phillips. The world's most talkative bore gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him. But when he misuses it, a wonderful conversation piece becomes a real party killer.
"Mr. Dingle, the Strong" Starring Tim Kazurinsky. A mild-mannered vacuum cleaner salesman is given the strength of three hundred men in a scientific experiment conducted by two Martians.
Customer Reviews:
New Versions of Great Stories.......2007-02-11
Into The Twilight Zone...Anywhere !.......2006-03-16
A great new twist on a classic!!.......2006-01-23
Beware of advertisements in these recordings.......2005-12-27
Amazing sound experience!.......2004-12-17
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The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Cassette Collection 2
Rod Serling Manufacturer: Falcon Picture Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette Similar Items:
ASIN: 1591710596 |
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Experience one of television's greatest science-fiction series, The Twilight Zone - fully dramatized for AUDIO! The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas feature a full cast, music and sound effects and today's biggest celebrities in modern radio dramatizations by Dennis Etchison of creator Rod Serling's classic scripts. Hosted by Stacy Keach, The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas will keep you glued to the edge of your seat whether listening in your home or while driving in your car. This collection features 4 stereo recordings."The Thirty-Fathom Grave" Starring Blair Underwood. When a Naval destroyer picks up a signal from a ship that sank twenty years ago, a crewman is haunted by a strange memory buried at the bottom of the sea.
"The Man In the Bottle" Starring Ed Begley, Jr. What if a genie granted your heart's desire? Is it possible to wish your way to happiness - or is the hidden price more than anyone can pay?
"The After Hours" Starring Kim Fields. A young woman goes gift shopping in a department store and is trapped on the ninth floor when the store closes - even though no such floor exist.
"Night of the Meek" Starring Chris McDonald. Every year Corwin plays Santa Claus for the kids in a department store. But this time there may be more presents in Santa's bag than even he can imagine.
Customer Reviews:
twilight zone radio dramas vol.2.......2007-01-05
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The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas CD Collection 1
Rod Serling Manufacturer: Falcon Picture Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items: ASIN: 1591710588 |
Book Description
Experience one of television's greatest science-fiction series, The Twilight Zone - fully dramatized for AUDIO! The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas feature a full cast, music and sound effects and today's biggest celebrities in modern radio dramatizations by Dennis Etchison of creator Rod Serling's classic scripts. Hosted by Stacy Keach, The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas will keep you glued to the edge of your seat whether listening in your home or while driving in your car. This collection features 4 stereo recordings."A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" Starring Jim Caviezel. The year is 1847. A wagon train has made the cross-country trek from Ohio to the deserts of Arizona and beyond - all the way into another century.
"The Lateness of the Hour" Starring Jane Seymour and James Keach. A young woman lives a life of comfort and easy, thanks to her father's robot servants. The problem is, she may also be a prisoner in her own perfect home.
"A Kind of Stopwatch" Starring Lou Diamond Phillips. The world's most talkative bore gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him. But when he misuses it, a wonderful conversation piece becomes a real party killer.
"Mr. Dingle, the Strong" Starring Tim Kazurinsky. A mild-mannered vacuum cleaner salesman is given the strength of three hundred men in a scientific experiment conducted by two Martians.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent collection, well acted. Serling was a genius........2004-03-15
"The Ads Kill It".......2004-01-19
A Complete Waste.......2003-03-15
This is, unfortunately, another example of an
over-commercialised, slapdash attempt to revive
and sequelize a classic masterwork....sort of like
taking Shakespeare and cutting out all the middle-English
so everyone on the planet can understand it in "plain"
English. Bad example...and call me a mindless dolt
for using it. But that's exactly what's happening
with these Twilight Zone radio dramas.
The producers hooked Dennis Etchison, an excellent
writer, to expand and water-down the great old stories
of Rod Serling (and yes, the stories of Richard Matheson,
Chuck Beaumont, and other writers are going to be
adapted for radio as well, sans a few segments
that don't work well on radio including Matheson's
near-silent "The Invaders" and Serling's highly visual
"Eye of the Beholder"). Sadly, it is all too apparent
that Etchison knows, deep down, that the work of
the old writers can't be topped. For a show like
"The Twilight Zone", whose domain was almost like
a world parallel to our own, with the entire universe
as its breeding ground,
to take its stories and bring them back to the mundane and the reality-grounded
as radio programs is pointless. These first two sets
really come off as no more than bland recitations of
old stories that fans know inside and out from the
original TV versions.
The actors for the first series of eight dramas
include Jim Caviezel, Lou Diamond Phillips, Tim
Kazurinsky, Jane Seymour, James Keach, Blair Underwood,
Kim Fields, Chris MacDonald, and Ed Begley Jr.
Of these, only Jane Seymour does a credible job
as star of Serling's episode "The Lateness of the Hour"
(which originally starred the late Inger Stevens).
Tim Kazurinsky and Lou Diamond Phillips do earn
their paychecks with fairly humorous performances
in episodes "Mr. Dingle the Strong" (originally
starring Burgess Meredith) and "A Kind of Stopwatch",
respectively. The rest of the actors quite obviously
have no clue as to what they were doing, reciting
all their lines as if read directly from a cue card
(which in fact is probably what they did!)
In the role of ersatz-Rod Serling, the narrator,
Stacy Keach pretty much mails in his performance.
His readings of the intro/closings are but
lacking the gripping sincerity and meaning that
Rod always imparted to each and every narration.
Further hampering the dramas is the inclusion
of sponsor commercials, which pop up several
times. The CD versions are all one continuous
42-minute track with no option of fast-forwarding
through the commercials unless done manually.
In short, this new radio series does not yet offer
anything that the original series didn't. The
days of good ol' radio are gone, never to return.
But there are many more of these dramas still yet to
be released. Collections 3 and 4 have already
been released and do offer some nice sound
effects and a fabulous performance by Morgan
Brittany in episode "The Passersby". So perhaps
there's hope. Brittany is the first actor who
appeared in the TV series, to star in these dramas,
and more celebrities are reportedly going to
appear in future installments. Stay tuned...but
keep the volume on low until the producers come
full circle and prove their worthiness to carry
Rod Serling's gauntlet.
You have to give these guys an "E" for effort!.......2003-01-23
The next story, "The Lateness of the Hour," is ruined by a too-long explanation of the "daughter" being a robot at the end. Does it take that much explanation for today's "dumbed-down" society? I hope not.
But the next two shows blew me out of the water. Lou Diamond Phillips is superb in "A Kind of Stopwatch." His over-the-top performance is one of the greatest I've ever heard in any radio drama. Then "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" followed and it was wonderful, too.
Another plus is the original Twilight Zone soundtrack music which is used and other pains that are taken to maintain the flavor of the original classic TV series. I would suggest buying one collection and seeing if you like it before buying the second.
This is not everyone's cup of tea, but the people who put these dramas together did the best they could and it's well worth a listen.
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The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas CD Collection 2
Rod Serling Manufacturer: Falcon Picture Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: 159171060X |
Book Description
Experience one of television's greatest science-fiction series, The Twilight Zone - fully dramatized for AUDIO! The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas feature a full cast, music and sound effects and today's biggest celebrities in modern radio dramatizations by Dennis Etchison of creator Rod Serling's classic scripts. Hosted by Stacy Keach, The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas will keep you glued to the edge of your seat whether listening in your home or while driving in your car. This collection features 4 stereo recordings."The Thirty-Fathom Grave" Starring Blair Underwood. When a Naval destroyer picks up a signal from a ship that sank twenty years ago, a crewman is haunted by a strange memory buried at the bottom of the sea.
"The Man In the Bottle" Starring Ed Begley, Jr. What if a genie granted your heart's desire? Is it possible to wish your way to happiness - or is the hidden price more than anyone can pay?
"The After Hours" Starring Kim Fields. A young woman goes gift shopping in a department store and is trapped on the ninth floor when the store closes - even though no such floor exist.
"Night of the Meek" Starring Chris McDonald. Every year Corwin plays Santa Claus for the kids in a department store. But this time there may be more presents in Santa's bag than even he can imagine.
Customer Reviews:
A Complete Waste.......2003-03-15
This is, unfortunately, another example of an
over-commercialised, slapdash attempt to sequelize a classic masterwork. If the effort is an attempt to make "Twilight
Zone" accessible to the younger generation, there's no need...you can go pop in a tape or DVD and watch the original
episodes. But this seems to be a case of taking Shakespeare
and cutting out all the middle English, in attempt to make the plays more universal.
The producers hooked Dennis Etchison, an otherwise superlative
writer, to "expand" the great old stories
of Rod Serling (and yes, the stories of Richard Matheson,
Chuck Beaumont, and other writers are going to be
adapted for radio as well, sans a few segments
that don't work well on radio including Matheson's
near-silent "The Invaders" and Serling's highly visual
"Eye of the Beholder"). Sadly, it is all too apparent
that Etchison knows, deep down, that the work of
the old writers can't be topped. For a show like
"The Twilight Zone", whose domain was almost like
a world parallel to our own, with the entire universe
as its breeding ground,
to take its stories and bring them back to the mundane and the reality-grounded
as radio programs is pointless. These first two sets
really come off as no more than bland recitations of
old stories that fans know inside and out from the
original TV versions.
The actors for the first series of eight dramas
include Jim Caviezel, Lou Diamond Phillips, Tim
Kazurinsky, Jane Seymour, James Keach, Blair Underwood,
Kim Fields, Chris MacDonald, and Ed Begley Jr.
Of these, only Jane Seymour does a credible job
as star of Serling's episode "The Lateness of the Hour"
(which originally starred the late Inger Stevens).
Tim Kazurinsky and Lou Diamond Phillips do earn
their paychecks with fairly humorous performances
in episodes "Mr. Dingle the Strong" (originally
starring Burgess Meredith) and "A Kind of Stopwatch",
respectively. The rest of the actors quite obviously
have no clue as to what they were doing, reciting
all their lines as if read directly from a cue card
(which in fact is probably what they did!)
In the role of ersatz-Rod Serling, the narrator,
Stacy Keach pretty much mails in his performance.
His readings of the intro/closings are but
lacking the gripping sincerity and meaning that
Rod always imparted to each and every narration.
Further hampering the dramas is the inclusion
of sponsor commercials, which pop up several
times. The CD versions are all one continuous
42-minute track with no option of fast-forwarding
through the commercials unless done manually.
In short, this new radio series does not yet offer
anything that the original series didn't. The
days of good ol' radio are gone, never to return.
But there are many more of these dramas still yet to
be released. Collections 3 and 4 have already
been released and do offer some nice sound
effects and a fabulous performance by Morgan
Brittany in episode "The Passersby". So perhaps
there's hope. Brittany is the first actor who
appeared in the TV series, to star in these dramas,
and more celebrities are reportedly going to
appear in future installments. Stay tuned...but
keep the volume on low until the producers come
full circle and prove their worthiness to carry
Rod Serling's gauntlet.
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The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Collection (Twilight Zone Radio Dramas)
Rod Serling Manufacturer: Falcon Picture Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 1591710618 |
Book Description
Experience one of television's greatest science-fiction series, The Twilight Zone® - fully dramatized for AUDIO! The Twilight Zone® Radio Dramas feature a full cast, music and sound effects and today's biggest celebrities in modern radio dramatizations by Dennis Etchison of creator Rod Serling's classic scripts. Hosted by Stacy Keach, The Twilight Zone® Radio Dramas will keep you glued to the edge of your seat whether listening in your home or while driving in your car. This collection features 4 stereo recordings."I Am the Night - Color Me Black" Starring John Ratzenberger. On the day an unpopular idealist is to be hanged for killing a racist bully, the townsfolk are mystified to see the morning sky is pitch black.
"A Stop At Willoughby" Starring Chelcie Ross. While commuting on a train, an ad executive dreams away his job pressures and finds himself back in time to the peaceful old fashioned town of Willoughby.
"Cavender Is Coming" Starring Andrea Evans. Klutzy-but-lovable Agnes Grep is "rescued" from poverty by Cavender, a guardian angel who will earn his wings if he can improve her life in a substantial way.
"Escape Clause" Starring Mike Starr. Hypochondriac Walter Bedeker sells his soul for immortality and indestructibility, only to find out that life might not be worth living if the thrill is gone.
Customer Reviews:
In defence of the radio version.......2003-06-26
In the above mentioned review it makes it very clear that it is better to watch the Twilight Zone than to experience the audio only version. I disagree on several counts:
1. I prefer to listen than watch as it exercises my imagination and lets me create my own version of the images rather than have them force fed to me (all be it superbly done in the original TV version).
2. The Twilight Zone stories are ideal for audio only. Indeed, it is amazing that an audio only version has never released before as I can think of few TV shows that were more suitable for radio.
3. Sometimes a visual medium is not on option. For example if you are traveling down the freeway at 60mph you can enjoy these episodes of the Twilight Zone whereas to be watching it as you drive is neither practical nor recommended.
I found this series of the Twilight Zone to be highly entertaining and enjoyable. I did not find the acting to be below-par and felt that the producers had done an excellent job of being true to the original scripts whilst at the same time making it appropriate for a non-visual medium.
My only criticism would be the inclusion of the commercials. I felt this was intrusive and, to a small degree, made it that bit harder to lose yourself completely in the story. Other than that I think they are very enjoyable indeed.
Go watch the damn originals!.......2003-06-07
"I Am the Night, Color Me Black" - in the original version starring Michael Constantine, Ivan Dixon, Terry Becker, George Lindsey, and Paul Fix, the actors make a rather mediocre story about a bunch of small-town rednecks who get their jollies by watching a man being hung. In the radio version, it sounds like the actors are all reading off of idiot cards. John "Cliff Claven" Ratzenberger sounds like he's bored to death and counting the minutes until he gets his paycheck.
"Escape Clause" - David Wayne is PERFECT in the original by Serling. Not the most imaginative of stories, and not the most Twilight Zone-ish, but Wayne makes the story ten times better than it is. In the radio version, Mike Starr puts us all to sleep.
"A Stop of Willoughby" - One of the best of the original series, and one of Rod Serling's best...it was a story about Rod himself, wanting to escape the pressures of the world. The radio version has some good sound effects for the sequences on the train, and the added bonus that Gart Williams (the main character) meets a girl onboard, one who's much better for him than his shrewish current wife.
"Cavender is Coming" - the original version with Carol Burnett was a mistake...Serling at his very worst. The radio version tries to [improve it], and it doesn't work. Movie theaters don't have usherettes anymore. The guardian angel gimmick works in "It's a Wonderful Life" and a select small number of other films.
Hopefully future series' will be better. I heard that some actors from the original series have done some of the in-production dramas...let's hope they do them some justice...
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The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Collection 10
various authors Manufacturer: Blackstone Audio Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: 1433206323 |
Product Description
Collection 10 Includes:"Where Is Everybody?"--starring John Schneider, "The Chaser"--starring Stephen Tobolowsky, "Midnight Sun"--starring Kim Fields, "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain"--starring Adam West, and "Walking Distance"--starring Chelcie Ross.
The Twilight ZoneTM Radio Dramas will keep you glued to the edge of your seat, whether listening in your home or while driving in your car. Each tale unites classic stories and musical scores with contemporary sound effects and readings by a distinguished lineup of guest stars.
Adapted from original scripts written for the television show created by Rod Serling that aired from 1959 to 1965, these radio dramas were contemporized and expanded to accommodate a radio format. Serling's widow, Carol Serling, praised the radio adaptations, calling them "truly astounding."
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The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Collection 11
Various Authors Manufacturer: Blackstone Audio Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: 1433206331 |
Product Description
Collection 11 Includes:"Back There"--starring Jim Caviezel, "You Drive"--starring John Heard, "Queen of the Nile"--starring Kate Jackson, "Printer's Devil"--starring Bobby Slayton, and "The Silence"--starring Chris McDonald.
The Twilight Zone⢠Radio Dramas will keep you glued to the edge of your seat, whether listening in your home or while driving in your car. Each tale unites classic stories and musical scores with contemporary sound effects and readings by a distinguished lineup of guest stars.
Adapted from original scripts written for the television show created by Rod Serling that aired from 1959 to 1965, these radio dramas were contemporized and expanded to accommodate a radio format. Serling's widow, Carol Serling, praised the radio adaptations, calling them "truly astounding."
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Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Collection 6 (Twilight Zone Radio Dramas)
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audio Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: 1591711304 Release Date: 2007-05-01 |
Product Description
Adapted for audio from original scripts written for the television show created by Rod Serling that aired in the 1960s, these radio dramas feature music and sound effects and a distinguished lineup of guest stars. Serling's widow, Carol Serling, praised the radio adaptations, calling them "truly astounding." Collection 6 Nightmare At 20,000 Feet--starring John Schneider A newly released mental patient is the only one able to see a gremlin ripping up the wing of his airliner. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up--starring Richard Kind On the night of a UFO sighting, seven people at a diner claim to be of Earth, though one of them is not. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim--starring Jim Caviezel A 19th-century western settler, desperately searching for water for his sick son, takes a walk that inexplicably leads him into the next century. The Man in the Bottle--starring Ed Begley, Jr. An impoverished pawnbroker is granted four wishes by a genie in a bottle. He thinks his dreams are about to come true--but are they? Escape Clause--starring Mike Starr A man makes a pact with the devil for immortality, and then finds he doesn't get a kick out of living anymore.Books:
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