The Twilight Zone - Fan Favourites

This "Twilight Zone" tin box set certainly is missing some key episodes, but not a legitimate reason to rate this product one or two stars. The transfers are remastered and brilliant, there's nineteen good solid episodes in this five disc set, each disc is placed securely in a thin plastic cover with a Twilight Zone designed tin box. In all actuality what you're getting here is the first five volumes that were previously released in 2001, these episodes were not specially chosen as favorites, they're already classics. One problem is that most of you may probably own all five seasons, for those of you not wanting to spend the dollars for the high priced full collection, this set is perfect for a small glance of entering another dimension, even though it is missing "To Serve Man" a.k.a. "The Menu", "Eye Of The Beholder", - can be found on volumes 8 & 43 for three dollars plus shipping from an Amazon seller, including other episodes for each vol... maybe not all the fans favorites here, but you gotta love "The Invaders", Agnes Moorehead gives a stunningly, intense acting performance without saying one single word. (five stars to raise the rating up for this quality product) edit update 5/23/11: the price for this set recently sky rocketed here at Amazon, why? probably for the collectable tin box version, the newer cardboard packaging of the same title is now available at the reasonable original price.

It's both amazing and disappointing that this 2010 release is identical to The Twilight Zone: 40th Anniversary Gift Pack from roughly 10 years ago, with the exception of the special features. Of the 19 episodes, less than half are truly classic. If you check out the reviews of the 40th anniversary set, you'll see how many fan favorites are missing. Personally, I would have voted for these additions:
* To Serve Man
* Midnight Sun
* The Eye of the Beholder
* The Hitchhiker
* The Living Doll
* It's a Good Life

Hard to believe that in the past 10 years they couldn't put together a better collection.

This collection has some good choices like Terror at 20,000 feet, Time Enough At Last, and The Invaders. But there are some real dud episodes here too. And it is incomprehensible how they could put together a "Fan Favorite" collection and leave out the classic episode "To Serve Man". How about "Eye of the Beholder"? How about "Living Doll"? Five stars for The Twilight Zone as a series, but only three stars for this collection of some fan favorites and some obvious lesser episodes they are using to pad the collection out. I predict they are planning on bringing out soon another "Fan Favorite" collection with the rest of the real fan favorites and more lesser episodes so they can gouge more money from the fans. Disappointing.