Brand new factory sealed dvd set of the first season collects all 24 episodes on several disc'. Commercial free, full screen, which is great for old school TVs as the image will fill your square frame.
Beware of other sets being offered that are imports with a region code most machines will not read. This is the official U.S. release which is Out Of Print (OOP) and no longer being manufactured.
Most were half-hour stories with commercials, here without they are about 24 minutes each. One or more is in Black & White for artistic reasons. The case says over 10 hours of entertainment! They featured big name stars and directors.
Executive producer Steven Spielberg made a deal with NBC-TV that they couldn't cancel his expensive anthology series (1985-87) even if the ratings were bad. And they were, thanks to producer Kathleen Kennedy who is currently ruining "Star Wars", if you can call it that, over at Disney.
Some of the highlights of this debut season:
MISSION: A special one-hour long war story (would have been with commercials) directed by Spielberg has an aspiring cartoonist who uses his imagination to get them out of a predicament. Also features Keifer Sutherland and Casey Siemaszko.
AMAZING FALSWORTH: directed by Peter Hyams, features Gregory Hines as a psychic/magician and Richard Masur co-stars. The magician discovers the identity of a serial killer who turns his focus on him.
FINE TUNING: directed by Bob Balaban, includes Mathew Laborteaux, Milton Berle and Angelo Rossito. High school science project allows communication with aliens that want to meet their favorite '50s stars.
MR. MAGIC: was directed by Donald Petrie and stars Sid Caesar as an aging magician with a magical deck of cards that has lost its powers.
NO DAY at the BEACH: is a WWII story directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and is about a GI who is rebuked by his fellow soldiers and ends up being a war hero. Co-stars Charlie Sheen.
MIRROR, MIRROR: directed by Martin Scorsese (his fans should watch this) has a horror novelist (Sam Waterson) who doesn't believe in the supernatural, is soon haunted by a phantom with a misshapened face (Tim Robbins) that shows up in any reflective surface he looks at.
Can't list everything but here are some of the directors of other episodes you will want to check out. Steven Spielberg, Burt Reynolds, Bob Clark ('Murder By Decree', 'Christmas Story'), Clint Eastwood, Joe Dante ('Gremlins', 'Howling'), and Paul Bartel.