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The Twilight Zone: The Complete '80s Series

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone: The Complete '80s Series

Image (Sep 27, 1986)
TV Series | Drama | Science Fiction | Television
USA | English | Color | 07:54
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
014381001051
| 13 discs
Region 1

This show is based on Rod Serling's classic TV anthology show, The Twilight Zone. Redoing some episodes and doing new ones 20 years laters after the originals, these are made in color and in one-hour episodes. Most of the episodes contained two or three stories, and were broken up in half hour episodes for syndication. CBS cancelled the show in its second season, but it was picked up by a Canadian producer and aired in syndication in a half-hour format.

The show contains mostly ironic or special situations with a twist at the end, which show the human nature, coupled with science fiction, horror or fantasy. Some of the show's writers are well known: Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Sidney Sheldon and J. Michael Straczynski. The opening and closing music was done by The Grateful Dead.


Cast View all

Charles Aidman Narrator
Lisa Jane Persky Sandra (segment The Once and Future King)
James Whitmore Jr. Ira Richman (segment The Girl I Married)
Geoff Witcher Anchorman (segment A Saucer of Loneliness)
Ellen Albertini Dow Old Woman (segment The Storyteller)
John Dennis Johnston Charlie (segment The Junction)
Jeffrey Tambor Milton (segment The World Next Door)
Christopher McDonald Delivery Man (segment Aqua Vita)
Robert Knepper Alonzo (segment Joy Ride)
Tom Skerritt Alex Mattingly (segment What Are Friends For?)
Jon Gries Nick Gatlin (segment Shelter Skelter)
Joan Allen Sally Dobbs (segment Shelter Skelter)
Ned Bellamy Man (segment The After Hours)
Joe Mantegna Harry Dobbs (segment Shelter Skelter)
Lukas Haas Mike (segment What Are Friends For?)
Cliff De Young Jeff McDowell
Roberts Blossom Mordecai Hawkline (segment Song of the Younger World)
Andrew Robinson Mr. Williams (segment Private Channel)
Raye Birk Time-Traveller (segment Lost and Found)
George Wendt Barney Schlesinger (segment The World Next Door)
Fred Savage Jeff Mattingly (segment What Are Friends For?)
Mimi Kennedy Christie Copperfield (segment Aqua Vita)
Randy Hall Fireman (segment Joy Ride)
Akosua Busia Jennifer Templeton (segment Lost and Found)
Alex Daniels Host (segment Private Channel)

Episodes View details

1 The Once and Future King/A Saucer of Loneliness 60 min | Sep 27, 1986

"The Once and Future King": Elvis impersonator Gary Pitkin finds himself transported back to Elvis' time after a car accident. "A Saucer of Loneliness": Shy, lonely Margaret receives a private message from a flying saucer.

2 What Are Friends For?/Aqua Vita 60 min | Oct 04, 1986

Alex Mattingly wonders whether his son Jeff's new friend Mike is real or imaginary. / Television newscaster Christie Copperfield discovers a fountain of youth in the form of bottled water and takes a liking to it, but then the price rises.

3 The Storyteller/Nightsong | Oct 11, 1986

The Storyteller: Adolescent Micah Frost keeps his great-great-great-grandfather alive by making up serialized stories that continue night after night. Nightsong: Disc jockey Andrea Fields plays an obscure record made by her lost lover Simon Locke, who mysteriously reappears after a long absence.

4 The After Hours/Lost and Found/The World Next Door | Oct 18, 1986

The After Hours: Marsha Cole detects shadowy figures and mysterious voices around her during a trip to a local shopping mall. Lost and Found: College student Jennifer Templeton finds out why her possessions have been vanishing. The World Next Door: Would-be inventor Barney Schlessinger is bored with his life until he meets another inventor in a parallel world.

5 The Toys of Caliban | Dec 04, 1986

Elderly Ernie Ross and his wife Mary live in fear of their son Toby, who has the magical ability to turn any imagined item into reality.

6 The Convict's Piano | Dec 11, 1986

Ricky Frost has been wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison, but his musical talent might see him free if he continues to play a certain piano.

7 The Road Less Travelled 30 min | Dec 18, 1986

Vietnam-era draft dodger Jeff McDowell sees something familiar about a wheelchair-bound man who has appeared in his house unexpectedly.

8 The Card/The Junction | Feb 21, 1987

"The Card": Severe penalties await shopper Linda Wolfe when she fails to pay her credit card bills on time. "The Junction": John Parker and Ray Dobson are trapped inside the local mine. But when one is rescued, the other disappears.

9 Joy Ride/Shelter Skelter/Private Channel | May 21, 1987

"Joy Ride": The joy ride that two couples take in a stolen car is disrupted by the car's deceased owner, who isn't done with the car yet. "Shelter Skelter": Two men race to a private fallout shelter at the onset of a nuclear blast. For months, they battle cabin fever and loneliness until one decides to venture out of the shelter and faces a horrific landscape of destruction and darkness - yet everything is not as it may seem. "Private Channel": An accident turns an obnoxious young man's radio headset into a receiver of other people's thoughts.

10 Time and Teresa Golowitz/Voices in the Earth 60 min | Jul 10, 1987

"Time and Teresa Golowitz": Offered any wish by the Devil at his death, a musician travels back in time to make love to a girl as he regretted not doing before, but then learns one of the guests committed suicide that night. "Voices in the Earth": Professor Donald Knowles travels back to Earth with other members of an expedition, and is deeply affected by the Earthlings of centuries earlier.

11 Song of the Younger World/The Girl I Married | Jul 17, 1987

Song of the Younger World: In the early 20th century, reform school inmate Tanner Smith tempts fate by falling in love with puritanical Warden Mordecai Hawkline's daughter Amy. The Girl I Maried: Middle-aged corporate lawyer Ira Richman misses young Valerie, the girl he married twenty years ago and is surprised to see her materialize.