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As a lover of John Newland's work, I was very eager for the release of this DVD. What a shock I received when I popped it in the player. The sound is terrible, the prints used are worse. And -- biggest sin -- each episode is in the same butchered, 22-minute state we get on commercial TV! Do not waste your money on this disk!
You'd really have to love the show to buy this disc!
I looked forward to receiving this disc and was greatly dissapointed! The material used was sliced, chopped-up 16mm prints. The picture is dark and the sound is low. ONE STEP BEYOND was a great show and you'll enjoy seeing the shows again but the poor quality video will take away from that.
Okay, so some of the prints aren't the best in world, but so what? It's "One Step Beyond" and we are finally getting to see more than a scattered episode here and there on DVD. VCI Entertainment did an excellent job of putting this DVD package together and I love the spooky DVD "landscape" created by VCI between the episodes. It's not just your average cheapie compliation of "here's the episodes with no money spent to set the mood." "Ordeal on Locust Street" is worth the price of admission alone, and John Newlands deadpan intos and outros run a close second to Rod Serling's. Sure, "One Step Beyond" has always been considered to be the poor man's "Twilight Zone," but that's part of it's charm. It's like a night of cheap thrills at a 1950's drive-in. I just hope VCI... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John Newland DVD Release Date: Released the 29 July 2003 Usually ships within 7 to 13 days
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This disc is a nice look into the state of Sci-Fi television in the 50's. It contains six episodes-three each of FLASH GORDON and ONE STEP BEYOND. FLASH GORDON turns out to be fairly typical of 50's Sci-Fi, reused special effects (including the use of the same zoom into a planet mock-up to describe several different planets). There are some nice rocketship designs, though the one for Flash's ship is reused once or twice. Steve Holland plays an appropriate Gordon, down to the voice and physique. Very campy, and very fun for it! ONE STEP BEYOND is a nicely done predecessor to OUTER LIMITS and TWILIGHT ZONE. The stories on this DVD deal mainly with psychic phenomena, and are engaging. The episodes included aren't listed by name on the box, but the main gist of them follows: FLASH... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Wallace Worsley Jr. - Gunther von Fritsch DVD Release Date: Released the 20 August 2002 Usually ships within 4 to 5 days
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Despite forced changes in executive and creative personnel, plummeting ratings and the constant threat of cancellation, the truncated second season of The Outer Limits (1964-65) yielded some of the series' finest episodes. While The Twilight Zone was fading fast on CBS, the bean-counters at ABC used focus groups and ratings statistics to enforce their previous mandate for a "monster of the week" format for their flagging science-fiction series, and after a few promising episodes early in the season, Outer Limits settled into a regrettable routine of reduced budgets and rubber-suit creatures that wouldn't pass inspection at a drunken Halloween party. A former network executive with minimal creative input, Perry Mason producer Ben Brady struggled to keep the... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Watching old episodes of "One Step Beyond" takes me back
to childhood, Saturday afternoons and the spooky unknown. This
was dead-pan serious television for us kids in the 60's and early 70's and we found every episode not only thought-provoking, but literally hair-raising... Ah, the innocence of youth.......
ANYWAY.....I digress.....
Delta Entertainment does a good job with the packaging and formatting of their 12 DVD set as well as the best possible transferring of available 16mm prints.
My only issue ? Delta uses old syndication prints that were cut, spliced, recut and respliced as commercials were inserted and removed over and over. As anyone who ever worked in a television station editing film knows, frames are lost with every commercial insertion and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): John Newland DVD Release Date: Released the 24 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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