Giveaway: Season 1 of The Twilight Zone on Blu-ray

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Techland has teamed up with Image Entertainment for an epic giveaway from the fifth dimension. The first season of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone will be released next Tuesday (9/14) on Blu-ray and we have a box set to give away to one lucky reader. If that weren’t enough, our chums at Entertainment Earth have thrown in Gremlin and Jason Foster action figures. But fret not; if you don’t win the grand prize, we still have a Talky Tina bobblehead as a runner up prize.

For a chance to win this kick-ass prize tell us which episode(s) were the scariest, funniest and weirdest or, alternatively, assemble your top 5 episodes into a marathon.

We’ll close the contest on Monday (9/13) at 9PM ET. A winner will be drawn on Tuesday (9/14) and the prizes will be sent out that day.

Big ups to Image Entertainment and Entertainment Earth for the goodies.

A press release with all the extras in the Blu-ray boxset and what not are included after the jump.

Chatsworth, CA – In 1959, a ground-breaking television series premiered – investigating the futuristic, the telepathic, the cryptic, and the metaphysical: The Twilight Zone. Every week, Rod Serling’s masterwork of “fear noir” took viewers from the safety of their living rooms on amazing journeys of fantasy and imagination. On September 14th, Image Entertainment will release the complete first season of The Twilight Zone, fully remastered for Blu-ray(TM).

All new 1080p high-definition transfers have been created from the original camera negatives, as well as uncompressed PCM audio, remastered from the original magnetic soundtracks. In addition, the set includes new and exclusive bonus features not available anywhere else, including the rarely seen, never-before-released unofficial pilot “The Time Element,” written by Rod Serling and hosted by Desi Arnaz – the episode that started a cultural phenomenon – presented in glorious high definition!

Also included are 19 new audio commentaries, 34 isolated music scores, 18 radio dramas, new and archival cast/crew and scholar interviews, a “Tales of Tomorrow” episode of “What You Need,” the original unaired pilot version of “Where Is Everybody?” along with Rod Serling’s network pitch, Rod Serling’s audio lectures from Sherwood Oaks College, syndication promos, sponsor billboards, alternate opening and closing narrations, clips from the Emmy® Awards ceremony featuring wins for the series in Writing and Cinematography categories, and more! The 5-disc Blu-ray set has an SRP of $99.98, with pre-book on August 17th.

In The Twilight Zone: Season 1 you’ll see the debut of this seminal anthology which introduced the strange, the terrifying and the inexplicable to 1950’s mainstream America. Esteemed writers such as Emmy®-winner Rod Serling and fantasy/science fiction legends Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont and George Clayton Johnson contributed teleplays that explored that murky nether region between fantasy and reality, between ironic destiny and poetic justice, between “the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.”

The Twilight Zone: Season 1 included such stars as Anne Francis, Burgess Meredith (eventual veteran of numerous TZ episodes), Ida Lupino, Jack Klugman, Richard Conte, Gig Young, Nehemiah Persoff, Sebastian Cabot, Claude Akins, Earl Holliman, Roddy McDowall, Kevin McCarthy, Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Vera Miles and Ron Howard, all featured in classic episodes. Before the season had even finished, it was hailed by the critics, named by Daily Variety as “the best that has ever been accomplished in half-hour filmed television,” a new phrase had entered the pop-culture lexicon and its success and impact is still felt today – fifty-one years after its debut.

Season One Episodes

Where Is Everybody?
One for the Angels
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine
Walking Distance
Escape Clause
The Lonely
Time Enough at Last
Perchance to Dream
Judgment Night
And When the Sky Was Opened
What You Need
The Four of Us Are Dying
Third from the Sun
I Shot an Arrow into the Air
The Hitch-Hiker
The Fever
The Last Flight
The Purple Testament
Elegy
Mirror Image
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
A World of Difference
Long Live Walter Jameson
People Are Alike All Over
Execution
The Big Tall Wish
A Nice Place to Visit
Nightmare as a Child
A Stop at Willoughby
The Chaser
A Passage for Trumpet
Mr. Bevis
The After Hours
The Mighty Casey
A World of His Own.

Exclusive Blu-ray Bonus Features:
• Extremely rare, never-before-released unofficial Twilight Zone pilot, “The Time Element,” written by Rod Serling and hosted by Desi Arnaz – presented in glorious high definition!
• 19 New Audio Commentaries, featuring The Twilight Zone Companion author Marc Scott Zicree, author and film historian Gary Gerani (Fantastic Television), author and music historian Steven C. Smith (A Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann), music historians John Morgan and William T. Stromberg, writer/producer David Simkins (Lois & Clark, Dark Angel), writer Mark Fergus (Children of Men, Iron Man), actor William Reynolds and director Ted Post.
• Interviews with actors Dana Dillaway, Suzanne Lloyd, Beverly Garland and Ron Masak.
• “Tales of Tomorrow” episode “What You Need.”
• Vintage audio interview with Director of Photography George T. Clemens.
• 1977 syndication promos for “A Stop at Willoughby” and “The After Hours.”
• 18 Radio Dramas
• 34 Isolated Music Scores featuring the legendary Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith and others!

Also includes:
• Audio Commentaries by actors Earl Holliman, Martin Landau, Rod Taylor, Martin Milner, Kevin McCarthy, and CBS executive William Self.
• Vintage Audio Recollections with actors Burgess Meredith and Anne Francis, directors Douglas Heyes and Richard L. Bare, producer Buck Houghton and writer Richard Matheson.
• Rod Serling Audio Lectures from Sherwood Oaks College.
• Rod Serling Promos for “Next Week’s” Show.
• Original Unaired Pilot Version of “Where is Everybody?” with Rod Serling’s Network Pitch.
• Footage of the Emmy Award wins for the series.

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