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Review Aviva International / Twilight Zone, The - Vol. 9 [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Buddy Ebsen
  • Bill Mumy
  • William Shatner
  • Shelley Berman
Release date: 2000-10-09
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.99

Review Twilight Zone, The - Vol. 9 [1963] / 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. 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, a season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. -Mark Walker.

Actors & Directors
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Alan Bromly
  • ELizabeth Sladen
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Doctor Who - The Time Warrior [1973] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who: The Five Doctors [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Troughton
  • Peter Moffatt
  • Tom Baker
  • Richard Hurndall
  • Peter Davison
  • John Nathan-Turner
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Pennant Roberts
Release date: 2007-07-02
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.00

Review Doctor Who: The Five Doctors [1983] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Nouveaux Pictures / La Jetee [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Jacques Ledoux
  • Hélène Chatelain
  • André Heinrich
  • Chris Marker
  • Davos Hanich
  • Jean Négroni
Release date: 1997-10-13
Run time: 26 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £18.20

Review La Jetee [1966] / Nouveaux Pictures:

A man from a post-apocalyptic future is chosen to return to the past in order help save humanity because he's haunted by a vivid memory from his childhood of a murder at an airport. If that sounds familiar, you've either already seen Chris Marker's exquisite "photo-roman" or Terry Gilliam's loose remake of it, (Twelve Monkeys. ) Good as Gilliam's film is, it's no substitute for La Jetée, which is the sort of cinematic experimental oddity that wraps around the imagination like a vine and, once seen, can never be forgotten. A mere 25 minutes long, the "film"-really a series of still photographs run together apart from one startling moment of movement-begins in Paris before a vaguely described war drives humanity underground "to rule over a kingdom of rats". Sent back in time to the present (or rather to the film's 1962 present) by nothing more high-tech than an injection, the hero (Davos Hanich) finds the woman (Hél&eagrave;ne Chatelain) whose face he's remembered all his life since a murder at Paris' Orly airport. They grab a modest measure of happiness in their romance, conducted around Paris' museums and public gardens. A sly allusion to Hitchcock's Vertigo underlines the film's key theme: the near-mystical power of memory and the way an image can form the basis of an obsession, hence the film's use of ominous black-and-white stills, like scraps from disorganised family album. Muted and melancholy, La Jetée also sports one of the all-time great cinematic twists. -Leslie Felperin.

Review Image Entertainment / The Twilight Zone: Season 3 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-06-28
Run time: 960 min.
Creator: Rod Serling
Price: £32.08

Review The Twilight Zone: Season 3 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2001-03-19
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.95

Review Thunderbirds - Episodes 17 And 18 [1965] / ITV DVD:


Review Alpha Video / Frozen Alive [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joachim Hansen
  • Delphi Lawrence
  • Mark Stevens
  • Marianne Koch
  • Bernard Knowles
  • Wolfgang Lukschy
Release date: 2003-11-18
Run time: 77 min.
Price: £2.35

Review Frozen Alive [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Series 1 Vol.3 [UMD Mini for PSP] [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Shaun Dingwall
  • Brian Grant
  • Billie Piper
  • Albert Valentine
  • Joe Ahearne
  • Luke Perry
  • Christopher Eccleston
  • James Hawes
Release date: 2005-12-26
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £15.00

Review Doctor Who - Series 1 Vol.3 [UMD Mini for PSP] [2005] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.1 - The Cage / Where No Man Has Gone Before / The Corbomite Manoeuver [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • William Shatner
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • Sally Kellerman
  • Gary Lockwood
  • James Goldstone
  • George Takei
Release date: 1996-06-24
Run time: 160 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £14.98

Review Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.1 - The Cage / Where No Man Has Gone Before / The Corbomite Manoeuver [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Made in 1964, the original pilot episode of Star Trek, "The Cage", was rejected by NBC executives because it was just "too cerebral": with well-developed characters, groundbreaking (for the time) special effects and a screen play that spoke eloquently of its creator's compassionate, liberal humanism, science fiction of this quality had simply never been seen on the small screen before. Jeffrey Hunter's stoical Captain Pike is at the helm of the Starship Enterprise, Leonard Nimoy's Spock has the ears but not the familiar reserved demeanour; and Majel Barrett's Number One is a remarkably frosty female lead. The "cerebral" story is reminiscent of Forbidden Planet, as a group of super-intelligent aliens manipulate Pike for their own mysterious ends. But instead of simply dropping Gene Roddenberry's ambitious idea, in an unprecedented move the network requested he make a second pilot. Jeffrey Hunter stepped down from the captain's chair in favour of William Shatner for "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in 1966 and, well, everyone knows the rest. "The Cage" did not quite disappear, however, as it was cannily recycled in the two-part episode "The Menagerie". This is where it all began. -Mark Walker.

Review Warner Home Video / Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Bernard Cribbins
  • Ray Brooks (II)
  • Gordon Flemyng
  • Peter Cushing
  • Andrew Keir
  • Roberta Tovey
Release date: 1996-05-13
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99

Review Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. [1966] / Warner Home Video:


Review Alpha Video / Phantom Planet (B&W) [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • William Marshall (II)
  • Coleen Gray
  • Anthony Dexter
  • Richard Weber
  • Dean Fredericks
  • Francis X. Bushman
Release date: 2002-11-19
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £2.01

Review Phantom Planet (B&W) [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review MGM / It! The Terror from Beyond Space [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Shirley Patterson
  • Edward L. Cahn
  • Kim Spalding
  • Marshall Thompson
  • Dabbs Greer
  • Ann Doran
Release date: 2001-08-28
Run time: 69 min.
Price: £6.62

Review It! The Terror from Beyond Space [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Universal Studios / Fahrenheit 451 [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Cox
  • Julie Christie
  • Gillian Aldam
  • Michael Balfour
  • Ann Bell
Release date: 2003-04-01
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Bernard Herrmann
Price: £4.43

Review Fahrenheit 451 [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with petrol and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfield wakens an instinct towards reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned-they give people too many ideas. ) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. Fahrenheit 451 received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. Its deliberately listless manner has always been a problem, although that is part of its point; the lack of reading has made people dry and empty. [+]
If the movie is a bit stiff (Truffaut did not speak English well and never tried another project in English), it nevertheless is full of intriguing touches, and the ending is lyrical and haunting. -Robert Horton, Amazon. com.

Review Alpha Video / Night Fright [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Thurman
  • Dorothy Davis
  • James A. Sullivan
  • John Agar
  • Ralph Baker Jr.
  • Carol Gilley
Release date: 2003-11-18
Run time: 66 min.
Price: £2.52

Review Night Fright [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms/Them! (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Cecil Kellaway
  • Paul Hubschmid
  • Kenneth Tobey
  • Paula Raymond
  • Gordon Douglas
  • Donald Woods
  • Eugène Lourié
Release date: 2006-08-22
Run time: 171 min.
Price: £4.87

Review The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms/Them! (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Price: £20.00

Review THUNDERBIRDS SUPERMARIONATION COLLECTION ( VOL 1-8) 8 Disc BoxSet:

VOLUME 1. Episodes. Trapped in the Sky, Pit of Peril, The Perils of Penelope, Terror in new York city VOLUME 2. Episodes. Edge of impact, Day of desaster, 30 Minutes After Noon, Desperate intruder. VOLUME 3. Episodes. End of The Road, The Uninvited, sun Probe, Operation Crash-Dive. VOLUME 4. Episodes. [+]
vault of Death, The Mighty Atom, City of fire, The Imposters. VOLUME 5. Episodes. The Man from MI. 5, Cry Wolf, Danger at Open Deep, Move and Your Dead, VOLUME 6. Episodes. The Duchess Assignment, brink of Desaster, Attack of The Alligators, Martian Invasion. VOLUME 7. Episodes. The Cham Cham, Security Hazard, Atlantic Inferno, Path of Destruction. VOLUME 8. Episodes. Alias Mr, Hackenbacker, Lord Parker's 'Oliday, Ricochet, Give or Tack A Million.

Review Origin Arts / The Yesterday Machine [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Thurman
  • Russ Marker
  • Jack Herman
  • James Britton
  • Ann Pellegrino
  • Tim Holt
Release date: 2007-03-20
Run time: 80 min.
Price: £5.72

Review The Yesterday Machine [1963] / Origin Arts:


Review Warner Home Video / The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eugène Lourié
  • Kenneth Tobey
  • Cecil Kellaway
  • Donald Woods
  • Paul Hubschmid
  • Paula Raymond
Release date: 2003-10-21
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £3.83

Review The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Doctor Who And The Daleks [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Roberta Tovey
  • Peter Cushing
  • Gordon Flemyng
  • Jennie Linden
  • Roy Castle
Release date: 1996-02-26
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.99

Review Doctor Who And The Daleks [1965] / Warner Home Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - K9 And Company [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • John Black
Release date: 1995-08-07
Run time: 49 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Doctor Who - K9 And Company [1981] / 2 Entertain Video:


Models & Brands:
Twilight Zone, The - Vol. 9 [1963], Doctor Who - The Time Warrior [1973], Doctor Who: The Five Doctors [1983], La Jetee [1966], The Twilight Zone: Season 3 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Thunderbirds - Episodes 17 And 18 [1965], Frozen Alive [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who - Series 1 Vol.3 [UMD Mini for PSP] [2005], Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.1 - The Cage / Where No Man Has Gone Before / The Corbomite Manoeuver [1969], Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. [1966], Phantom Planet (B&W) [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), It! The Terror from Beyond Space [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fahrenheit 451 [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Night Fright [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms/Them! (REGION 1) (NTSC), THUNDERBIRDS SUPERMARIONATION COLLECTION ( VOL 1-8) 8 Disc BoxSet, The Yesterday Machine [1963], The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who And The Daleks [1965], Doctor Who - K9 And Company [1981]

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