Twilight Zone Vol 39 Rating: Release Date: 12 December, 2000 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Twilight Zone Orson Bean

Twilight Zone Vol 39 Reviews

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a must for all how collect the best. everyone will enjoy these shows.

Contains the finest Twilight Zone episode by far...
"On Thursday, We Leave for Home" is in my opinion the finest Twilight Zone episode ever made--it is a full hour-long episode. This is a deeply moving story of hardship, rescue, and delusion. The story is brutally simple (no spoilers here). A group of American space colonists left Earth thirty years earlier in order to escape war, and start a new life. But their new planet is harsh and hostile, and does not provide an adequate home for humanity. They wish to go home, but have been cut off from Earth. Many of them can barely remember Earth, and some have never seen it at all. Finally, they are contacted by an American spaceship that is coming to transport all who wish to leave back to Earth.

Their planet is so harsh that there seems no question but that they will all return home. But their leader is afflicted with as bad a case of delusions of grandeur as can be imagined. He has ruled the colony with a heavy hand for thirty years and his word has been unquestioned law. And of course, when someone has ruled a group of people with unquestioned power, that person loses respect for those over whom he wields that power. This sets the stage for a powerful and deeply moving story which makes this the finest Twilight Zone episode of them all. I had been looking for this episode for years--I first saw it as a young lad back in the early 1960s, and yes, it was just as powerful in 2006 as it was back then. Don't miss this episode; it is outstanding.

The other two episodes on this disk are not bad, but "On Thursday We Leave For Home" is the reason to keep and treasure this outstanding value. Enjoy.

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