This is the first of two re-workings of the original Twilight Zone series created by Rod Serling. There will be mild spoilers ahead:This was a reasonably good attempt to bring back the old Twilight Zone series. Alan Brennert served as the executive story consultant, at various points both Harlan Ellison and George RR Martin were significantly involved in the show, some excellent stories were used as the starting point for scripts, including The Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny, Nightcrawlers by Robert R. McCammon, Shatterday and Paladin of the Lost Hour by Harlan Ellison, A Saucer of Loneliness by Theodore Sturgeon and The Star by Arthur C. Clarke, among others, while original scripts were done by Brennert, Martin, Ray Bradbury, David Gerrold and others. The talent was there, the first season was reasonably strong and there was much to like about the show. The show lasted two seasons on CBS and had a third in syndication. So what went wrong?For one thing, there was no Rod Serling. The shows were, frankly, all over the map. There was no real unifying vision to set just what a "Twilight Zone" story was. For another, 1985 was not 1959. The show had an all too familiar feel to it, so the novelty wore off quickly. There were more options for the audience. When the first series was on, there was no cable TV, there were no VCRs and most people had only three channels from which to choose.Finally, it stood in the rather long shadow of the original, from which it could not escape. The series more or less holds up even today, but there are more misfires in the 1985 version than there were in the 1959 version.This is available on DVD and is worth revisiting if you enjoyed it when it was on. Recommended.

The New Twilight zone 1985,Dec.Pam Dawber episode"But can she type?",After the hostess say's,"A secretary!,at my party",(this is where the scene was CUT) The hostess says,"Here's someone you Must meet!"Then she is introduced to a male Rock star who flirts with her and tells her he has never meet a secretary,and when he is saying goodbye,He kiss's her on the Lips,(This was my favorite scene because it made you wish it was you there talking cool with her),it Leaves her wondering why he treated her as if she were so important?.then she walks to the bar in a daze and meets "J. Frakes" (comander Riker). This good scene "Is Not on any DVD collection"

There's no way the original 35mm negatives for this 1980s incarnation of the TZ were scrapped, perhaps lost, perhaps destroyed by mistake or accident, but highly unlikely. Like TZ, Star Trek: TNG was also converted to 3/4 inch videotape and was edited,dubbed, FX all edited on tape. Now the blue-ray remaster looks amazing with great contrast and saturation. I hope CBS can do the same one day with The Twilight Zone of the 1980s and upgrade it to blue-ray. This series of the 1980s is quite good with very competent acting, a lot of the writers had written for the original series and many science fiction writers also contributed such as Harlan Elison.

Rod Serling would have been so thrilled about what came out from the 80's version of "Dead Woman's Shoes" which picked up from where Rod ended. Helen Mirren contributed to most of it. This episode was used to prove how much a woman could change after getting a new pair of shoes. Her grooming was dramatically a lot more notorious than what it was before she tried them on. This version had more dimensions that the first one didn't have, such as two different appearances paired w/personalities for the same woman. Viewers couldn't tell that Helen Mirren was the same woman before and after getting her new outfit. Helen Mirren looked so much different from the time that she was at the thrift store an the time that she was walking down the stairs. The bathroom scene was the transition