The fourth disc of 4th season of The Twilight Zone has three more episodes.
No Time Like The Past March 7 1963
Written by Rod Serling and directed by Justus Addiss. Dana Andrews is a physicist who builds a time machine and goes back in time to try to kill Hitler, stop the bombing of Hiroshima and the sinking of the Lusitania. He wants to save the people of the world but his plans don't work out. He decides that he will go live in a small town in 1881. That doesn't go so well and he comes back to face the present. Kind of a pointless waste of a time machine when there are dinosaurs to hunt. Just kidding, that's part of the point of the show, you can't change the past and if you try bad things could happen to you. I thought it wasn't too bad a story but it dragged for me, especially after he gets to the old town. I thought it could be better as a half hour story. There's a TZ Radio Drama of the episode and an isolated score for the extras.
The Parallel March 14 1963
Written by Rod Serling and directed by Alan Crosland Jr. Steve Forrest is an astronaut who goes into orbit and comes back changed. He remembers things differently, like he didn't have a picket fence around his house, he's a major not a colonel, and Kennedy isn't the President. His daughter is scared of him. The military is skeptical but even they can't explain why his space capsule isn't the one he left in. He figures that he was in some sort of parallel universe. Things work out in the end and it was an ok story that almost filled up the hour time slot. The extras are a video interview with actor Paul Comi who had a smallish part in the episode and parts in a couple of other episodes. He speaks fondly about working on the show. There's a TZ radio dramas with Lou Diamond Phillips.
I Dream Of Genie March 21 1963
Written by John Furia Jr and directed by Robert Gist. Howard Morris is a schlub in an office. He has a crush on the boss's secretary but she doesn't have any interest in him. He thinks he might get the head account job but the flashy guy in the office has that wrapped up. Howard bought the secretary a present for her birthday, an antique lamp, but the flashy guy in the office beats him to the secretary with a sexy nightgown. He goes home to his dog and rubs the lamp to clean it up a bit. Jack Albertson is the genie in the lamp. He offers one wish and Howard has three fantasies to see what might be the best wish. First one he's married to the secretary but she's a movie star and he can't keep her. The second one is wealth but that got boring for him. The last thought is for power, he's the president, just as alien's invade. His final wish is a good one. Him and his dog are happy now. I enjoyed this more than the other two stories. I like the light hearted episodes more than the serious ones. There's a nice video interview with writer John Furia and in isolated score by Fred Steiner.
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