By: HP

HP — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:34:56 +0000

There’s no big honkin’ box set? 43 is an awful lot of DVD cases. I wish they would put classic stuff like this out in archive editions, like they do for old (pre-LP) music. A nice chronological box set with production info would be nice. I picked up The Night Gallery season 1 on DVD. Hadn’t seen ‘em since I was seven years old. 1) Universal needs better QA on their disks. Lot’s of skipping and jitter. 2) I’ve recently read some histories of The Grand Guignol of Paris. Apart from the fake blood, Night Gallery would seem to be a faithful adaptation of the Grand Guignol formula to TV, right down to the occasional incomprehensibility. 3) Apparently Serling didn’t think much of the show. And the scripts he wrote for the show have some of the most unnatural lines of dialog I’ve ever heard on TV. You can see the actors take a deep breath before attempting a Serlingesque compound/complex sentence with multiple coordinating and subordinating clauses. Didya ever see the “3rd Rock from the Sun” episode where Shatner guest-starred as the Big Giant Head? They go to pick him up at the airport, and he’s gibbering about a monster on the wing. Lithgow says, “Wow! The same thing happened to me!”

By: paul

paul — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:03:27 +0000

Lithgow was in the movie version, if memory serves, Shatner in the original.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:31:15 +0000

It was Shatner. My wife got me volume 2 along with several others for Christmas. Both quite good.

By: asg

asg — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:56:57 +0000

I thought it was John Lithgow who was in the gremlin-on-the-plane-wing episode, not Shatner.

By: Joe O

Joe O — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:13:30 +0000

Amazon thinks Ida Lupino directed a lot more Twilight Zone episodes than IMDB does. The hitch-hiker still rules though.

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