Review, buy Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Mind Benders [1963], Thunderbirds [1965], Lost, Lonely and Vicious/Jacktown [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Twilight Zone, Vol. 15 [1963], The Twilight Zone, Vol. 35 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Twilight Zone - Vol. 3 [1959], The Twilight Zone, Vol. 31 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who - The War Machines [1966], Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space [1970], The Twilight Zone, Vol. 28 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Monster from a Prehistoric Planet [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Thunderbirds - Episodes 23 And 24 [1965], Doctor Who - The Cybermen - The Early Years [1963], Doctor Who - Cybermen (Limited Edition), Thunderbirds - Episodes 31 And 32 [1965], The Twilight Zone, Vol. 29 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Last Man on Earth [1964], The Twilight Zone, Vol. 30 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks, Unknown Island [1948] (NTSC)

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Mind Benders [1963]

The Mind Benders [1963] (Optimum Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Basil Dearden
John Clements
Mary Ure
Michael Bryant
Dirk Bogarde
Wendy Craig

Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £5.56

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Thunderbirds [1965] (ITV DVD)

Actors & Directors

Shane Rimmer
David Graham
Peter Dyneley
Ray Barrett
Christine Finn

Release date: 2000-11-13
Creator: Gerry Anderson
Price: £97.99

Review Thunderbirds [1965] / ITV DVD:

"Filmed in Videcolor [explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax] and Supermarionation"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies such as The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audiences' affections to their cool machines-the real stars of the show-while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company. ) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. In this box set: All 32 episodes on nine videos, plus "The Brains Behind Thunderbirds", an exclusive-to-video introduction to the series narrated by Brains himself. -Mark Walker.

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Review Image Entertainment / Lost, Lonely and Vicious/Jacktown [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Lost, Lonely and Vicious/Jacktown [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Image Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

William Martin
Patty McCormack
Joanna Douglas
Frank Myers
Richard Meade
John Anthony
Douglas Rutherford

Release date: 2002-06-18
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Norman Graham
Price: £13.99

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Review Image Entertainment / The Twilight Zone, Vol. 15 [1963]

The Twilight Zone, Vol. 15 [1963] (Image Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Robert McCord
Jack Klugman
Rod Serling
Vaughn Taylor
Jay Overholts

Release date: 2001-04-03
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.77

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Review Image Entertainment / The Twilight Zone, Vol. 35 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

The Twilight Zone, Vol. 35 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Image Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Vaughn Taylor
Jack Klugman
Robert McCord
Rod Serling
Jay Overholts

Release date: 2000-10-10
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.77

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Review Aviva International / The Twilight Zone - Vol. 3 [1959]

The Twilight Zone - Vol. 3 [1959] (Aviva International)

Actors & Directors

Lee Marvin
Gig Young
Jack Klugman
Jonathan Winters

Release date: 2000-05-29
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £15.99

Review The Twilight Zone - Vol. 3 [1959] / Aviva International:

In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. Volume 3 contains another selection of four episodes from across the series. "Steel" (episode 122) stars Lee Marvin in a futuristic Richard Matheson story concerning a penniless boxing manager who is forced into the ring when his robot boxer breaks down. Matheson is concerned to illustrate the lengths to which people are forced to go when desperate, but his moral is undermined a little by setting the story in the far future of 1974; Marvin, however, is a magnetic presence. In the tense and tautly written "A Game of Pool" (episode 70), Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy) is a boastful pool player who challenges champion "Fats" Brown (Jonathan Winters) to a match in which the stakes are his life. "Walking Distance" is a slice of wistful, semi-autobiographical nostalgia from Serling in which a burned-out media exec returns to the town of his childhood (watch out for a very young Ron Howard as one of the kids). Bernard Herrmann's masterful score for this episode was composed not long after his music for Hitchcock's Vertigo, and has a similar tragi-romantic streak. [+]

Finally, "Kick the Can" (episode 86) is the story of the residents of a retirement home who discover (or rediscover) Peter Pan's secret for staying permanently young: it's easy to see why Steven Spielberg decided to adapt this episode for the 1983 movie. On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. -Mark Walker.

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