Televisioin Series- The Twilight Zone: Vol. 23 [USED DVD]

Label: Image Entertainment

Released 2000

An above-average edition in the Twilight Zone DVD collection, Volume 23 begins with "Long Live Walter Jameson," starring Kevin McCarthy as a Methuselah-like history teacher whose lessons are based on personal experience--but his secret of longevity is discovered with fateful results. McCarthy's climactic aging scene marked a milestone in TV makeup effects, and it's still dramatically effective. The same can't be said for "Dead Man's Shoes," a typical episode in which a Bowery bum (Warren Stevens) steals the shoes off the body of a murdered gangster, and instantly assumes the dead man's identity, thus assuming his role in a deadly cycle of fate. It was a good idea in 1962, but the pulpy plot and characters were hokey even then.