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The Twilight Zone Season 5 on Blu-ray Enters Our Dimension on August 30!

If you haven’t seen The Twilight Zone on Blu-ray yet, you are missing out!  Four seasons have been released (my review for the fourth season will be posted soon) and the fifth season will arrive on August 30, 2011!  All 36 episodes of the fifth and final season of Rod Serling’s classic, groundbreaking series, now presented in pristine high-definition for the first time ever, along with hours of new and exclusive and previously unreleased bonus features! This season has a ton of famous episodes with a lot of big stars as well. Take a look at what the fifth season set offers!

This season’s cast includes : Bill Mumy, George Takei, Gladys Cooper, Jack Klugman, Jackie Cooper, James Coburn, Lee Marvin, Martin Landau, Mickey Rooney, Patrick O’Neal, Rod Serling, Shelley Fabares, Telly Savalas, and William Shatner.

• In Praise of Pip
• Steel
• Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
• A Kind of a Stopwatch
• The Last Night of a Jockey
• Living Doll
• The Old Man in the Cave
• Uncle Simon
• Probe 7 Over and Out
• The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
• Ninety Years Without Slumbering
• Ring-A-Ding Girl
• You Drive
• The Long Morrow
• The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
• Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
• Black Leather Jackets
• Night Call
• From Agnes, with Love
• Spur of the Moment
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• Queen of the Nile, What’s in the Box
• The Masks
• I Am the Night Color Me Black
• Sounds and Silences, Caesar and Me
• The Jeopardy Room
• Stopover in a Quiet Town
• The Encounter
• Mr. Garrity and the Graves
• The Brain Center at Whipple’s
• Come Wander with Me
• The Fear
• The Bewitchin’ Pool

Exclusive Extras:

• 20 New Audio Commentaries, featuring The Twilight Zone Companion author Marc Scott Zicree, author/film historian Gary Gerani (Fantastic Television), Twilight Zone directors Ted Post, Richard Donner and Robert Butler, writer Earl Hamner, actors George Takei and Peter Mark Richman, author/historian Martin Grams, Jr. (The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic), authors/historians Jim Benson and Scott Skelton (Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: An After Hours Tour), author Bill Warren (Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties), writer Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Coraline), writer/director Michael Nankin (Battlestar Galactica, CSI) and radio host George Noory (Coast to Coast AM).
• Conversations with Rod Serling
• Vintage Audio Interview with director of photography George T. Clemens
• 22 Radio Dramas featuring Louis Gossett, Jr., Adam Baldwin, Peter Mark Richman, Beverly Garland, Adam West, Bill Erwin, Luke Perry, Mariette Hartley, Ed Begley, Jr., Kate Jackson, Mike Starr, Stan Freberg, Jason Alexander, Jane Seymour, James Keach and Karen Black
• Audio Commentaries by Bill Mumy (In Praise of Pip), Mickey Rooney (The Last Night of a Jockey), June Foray (Living Doll), Mariette Hartley (The Long Morrow), Marc Scott Zicree (Number 12 Looks Just Like You), Alan Sues (The Masks) and Martin Landau (The Jeopardy Room)
• Video Interviews with Richard Matheson, George Clayton Johnson, Earl Hamner, Bill Mumy, June Foray, Carolyn Kearney, Michael Forest, Nancy Malone and Terry Becker
• Isolated Music Scores featuring the legendary Bernard Herrmann, Van Cleave and Rene Garriguenc
• The Mike Wallace Interview (September 1959)
• Netherlands Sales Pitch
• Excerpt from Rod Serling’s Sherwood Oaks Experimental College Lecture
• Alfred Hitchcock Promo
• Rare George Clayton Johnson Home Movies
• Rod Serling Promos for “Next Week’s” Show
• Twilight Zone Season 5 Billboards
• And much more!

Season 5 of  The Twilight Zone now is now available to pre-order!