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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781591710585 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged ISBN: 1591710588 Label: Falcon Picture Group Manufacturer: Falcon Picture Group Number Of Items: 4 Publication Date: August 26, 2002 Publisher: Falcon Picture Group Studio: Falcon Picture Group Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Experience one of televisions 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 todays biggest celebrities in modern radio dramatizations by Dennis Etchison of creator Rod Serlings 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 fathers 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 worlds 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent collection, well acted. Serling was a genius.This collection (the first of four) radio dramas, based on scripts by the late master of the strange, Rod Serling, presents four explorations of the dimension known as "The Twilight Zone". Narrated by Stacy Keach, who gives a certain eerie presentation as the narrator (though not in the same league as Mr. Serling, still eerie). The four stories presented are well acted, by James Keach, Jane Seymour, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Tim Kazurinsky. The "commercials" are kept to a minimum, which is good. ... Read More Rating: - "The Ads Kill It"The stories are done well enough but the frequent, repetative commercials just kill the experience of the audio tapes. I turely resented having to sit through them and, as much as I love the Twilight Zione, I will not buy any more from this series beause of them. Rating:  - A Complete WasteWhen word got out that "The Twilight Zone" would make its move to radio with Stacy Keach filling in for Rod Serling as host, the response was generally on the order of, 'Uh, how can you go from TV back to radio? And why Twilight Zone to make the regression?' Well, the producers of the series obviously saw no problem with it...they pay CBS their fees, get the product on the shelves, and collect the cash from the sales. This is, unfortunately, another example ... Read More Rating:  - You have to give these guys an "E" for effort!Okay, So I was all geared to be disappointed with this whole package. And, unfortunately, the producers picked the weakest of the four stories to begin the set. The actor in "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" sounds like he just walked out of some ivy league acting school and not like a hardened pioneer who has been wandering through the desert for months on end. 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 ... Read More 
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