CBS Video has come out with Volume One of the short-lived 1985 Twilight Zone Revival, with the theme music tweaked by the Grateful Dead, and Harlan Ellison as creative consultant.
The stories are all good, but, as with all anthology series, you will find favorites among them. The best thing I can do is indicate some of my own favorites: Nightcrawlers, based on Robert McCammon's story of a Vietnam vet whose survivor guilt takes deadly physical form, thanks to exposure to something makes Agent Orange look like KoolAid; Paladin of the Lost Hour based on Ellison's story of another guilt-ridden Vietnam vet who gets help from Danny Kaye in his last role, guardian of a snippet of time that can determine when the universe ends, along with a revealing commentary by Ellison; Fritz Weaver is a chaplain aboard a spaceship in The Star, based on Arthur C. Clarke's tale of an expedition which discovers an advanced, peaceful civilization destroyed by a supernova seen at a particularly sensitive moment by Earth's citizens; a remake of Night of the Meek originally starring Art Carney that's better than I remembered from my original viewing; another Harlan Ellison entry called One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty, an autobiographical tale about a man going back to meet his father and himself as a child, made especially poignant by Ellison's commentary in which he talks about weeping backstage when a scene was being filmed; and dozens more stories.
The DVD set includes, as I aluded to, commenataries to a number of episodes by authors and filmakers.
Worth getting.
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