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(More customer reviews)The four episodes collected on Volume 23 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series do not share a similar theme, although two deal with the supernatural search for justice while the other pair feature the problem having too much time can cause love. So you can see two pairs of episodes from the celebrated television anthology series created by Rod Serling without stretching too far.
Episode 24, "Long Live Walter Jameson" (Written by Charles Beaumont, First aired March 18, 1960) features the familiar face of Kevin McCarthy ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers") in the title role. Jameson bought the gift of immortality two thousand years ago from an alchemist and has seen all of his wives, children and friends grow old and die over and over again. Now he wants it all to be over. This first season episode features some nice special effects work with makeup as Jameson ages rapidly at the end.
Episode 83, "Dead Man's Shoes (Written by Beaumont and OCee Ritch, First aired January 19, 1962), begins with Nate Bledsoe (Warren Stevens) putting on a pair of expensive shoes taken from a murdered gangsters. The dead man's spirit takes over Bledsoe's body and tracks down his killer, refusing to be denied vengeance. Rather straight forward this is an average "Zone" at best. However, if you were watching the second version of "The Twilight Zone" in 1985, you might have caught the remake of this episode as "Dead Woman's Shoes."
Episode 134, "You Drive" (Written by Earl C. Hamner, Jr., First aired January 3, 1964) tells of Oliver Pope (Edward Andrews), who kills someone in a hit-and-run accident and then discovers that his car will not let him forget what he has done. A nice little chiller from the man who created "The Waltons," who usually wrote the kindler, gentler episodes of the "Zone." The result is what you would call an average episode.
Episode 135, "The Long Morrow" (Written by Rod Serling, First aired January 10, 1964) features a fine performance from Robert Lansing as Commander Douglas Stansfield. Before leaving for deep space Stansfield meets Sandra Horn (Mariette Hartley). The two fall in love, but Stansfield's mission will take 30 years, during most of which he will be kept in suspended animation. After he leaves, Sandra has herself put into hibernation. But you know the course of true love never runs smooth in the Zone. You can see the O. Henry ending coming, but still a nice episode. No classics this time around, but certainly a solid collection of "Zone" episodes none the less.
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This volume includes: "Long Live Walter Jameson" (Episode 24, March 18, 1960)--Kevin McCarthy is Professor Walter Jameson, an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it. Little can his students imagine...
"Dead Man's Shoes" (Episode 83, January 19, 1962)--A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on earth to seek revenge against his killer.
"You Drive" (Episode 134, January 3, 1964)--Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope (Edward Andrews) accidentally hits a boy on a bike, killing him. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.
"The Long Morrow" (Episode 135, January 10, 1964)--Commander Douglas Stansfield (Robert Lansing) and Sandra Horn (Mariette Hartley) fall in love shortly before Stansfield launches into space to begin 40 years in suspended animation. As they dream of being together, their fates take an ironic turn...
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