"Actor: Rod Taylor"

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 18 | DVD | (23/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. --Mark Walker

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 24 | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  People Are Alike All Over - Episode 25 When a space expedition crashes on Mars passenger Sam Conrad (Roddy McDowall) is terrified when he encounters Martians. To his initial relief they are human extremely friendly an apparently just like us... Valley of the Shadow - Episode 105 Philip Redfield (Ed Nelson) finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things. He is determined to escape and share the town's secrets with the outside world. Black Leather Jackets - Episode 138 Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbours could never imagine just how dangerous these men are. One bit of advice: don't drink the water...

• The Time Machine (Deluxe Box) | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  In 1960 producer-director George Pal's The Time Machine reshaped HG Wells' thoughtful, ironic novel into a two-fisted action movie, but one that still appeals to children and adults immensely and deserves its classic status. Wells' themes of biological and social evolution are played down, but there is a surprisingly melancholy thread as Rod Taylor's Time Traveller keeps stopping off at future wars to find that human stupidity still persists. In the first week of 1900 a group of fussy Victorians gather in Taylor's chintzy, overstuffed parlour to hear him tell of his expedition to the future, where the world is divided between the surface-dwelling, childish, beautiful Eloi and the hideous, underground, cannibal Morlocks. Wells intended both factions to seem degenerate, the logical final evolution of the class system, but Pal has Taylor pull a Captain Kirk and side with the Eloi and teach them to fight against their oppressors. The time travel sequence remains a tour de force, with a shop window mannequin demonstrating a parade of fashions as the years fly by in seconds and charming but still-effective stop-motion effects. The future is a wonderfully coloured landscape with properly gruesome cave-dwelling monsters and a winning Eloi heroine in Yvette Mimieux. It may not be totally Wells, but it's a treat. On the DVD: The Time Machine arrives on disc in a lovely widescreen print which makes the film seem new all over again. The featurette "Time Machine: The Journey Back" combines some mild behind-the-scenes stuff about the film (and its star prop) with a moving mini-sequel reuniting stars Rod Taylor and Alan Young in a scene that actually addresses a plot point skipped over in the original. --Kim Newman

• The Hitchcock Collection | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £159.99

  This Alfred Hitchcock Collection DVD box set contains 17 Hitchcock films, from 1940's Foreign Correspondent to 1976's Family Plot. Please refer to the links below to read our reviews for each title: Foreign Correspondent (1940), Mr & Mrs Smith (1941), Suspicion (1941), Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972), Family Plot (1976)

• Various Artists - Experience Hendrix | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-6.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Experience Hendrix presents unforgettable highlights from two star-studded tribute concerts to Jimi Hendrix hailed by critics and fans alike as the greatest guitarist of all time. Filmed in San Diego and at the Paramount Theatre in Hendrix's hometown of Seattle these special never-before-released performances feature legendary blues giants Buddy Guy and Hubert Sumlin coming together with Paul Rodgers former Rolling Stones lead guitarist Mick Taylor and the newest generation of guitar heroes including Kenny Wayne Shepherd Robert Randolph Pearl Jam's Mike McCready Kid Rock's Kenny Olson and Vernon Reid to celebrate Jimi's legacy. Joining forces with these great artists are Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox from the Jimi Hendrix Experience as well as Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon from Double Trouble the powerful rhythm section who served the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. In his brief four-year reign as a superstar Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and roaring distortion. His frequent hurricane blasts of noise and dazzling showmanship - he could and would play behind his back and with his teeth and set his guitar on fire - has sometimes obscured his considerable gifts as a songwriter singer and master of a gamut of blues R&B and rock styles. Tracklist: 1. Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Double Trouble - Come On Voodoo Chile and I Don't Live Today 2. Indigenous - Hear My Train A-Comin' 3. Living Colour - Power of Soul and Crosstown Traffic 4. Eric Gales - Purple Haze 5. Hubert Samlin Jimmy D.Lane & Double Trouble - Bleeding Heart and Killing Floor 6. Mitch Mitchell Billy Cox & Andy Aledort - Freedom 7. Paul Rodgers Mitch Mitchell Billy Cox Andy Aledort & Kenny Olson - Stone Free 8. Buddy Guy Andy Aledort & Double Trouble - Hoochie Koochie Man 9. Buddy Guy Hubert Sumlin Andy Aledort & Double Trouble - Five Long Years 10. The Ensemble - Voodoo Child 11. Robert Randolph & Double Trouble - Purple Haze 12. Mick Taylor & Indigenous - Red House 13. Eric Gales Billy Cox & Buddy Miles - Foxey Lady

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 21 | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mirror Image - Eps.21: When Millicent Barnes (Vera Miles) Soies her exact double at a bus station she becomes convinced that the double is trying to take her place in the world. Fellow passenger Paul Grinstead (Martin Milner) thinks she's crazy...at first. Dust - Eps. 48: A man is about to be hanged for drunkenly running over a little girl in a decaying town. But when the gir's anguished father (Vladimir Sokoloff) flings 'magic dust' into the air a change comes over the squalid village. Five Characters in Search of an Exit - Eps. 79 A clown a hobo a ballet dancer a bagpipe player and an army major are trapped together in an enormous cylander. They don't know who they are or how they got there. But when the major tries to escape they finally learn the truth. Ninety Years Without Slumbering - Eps. 132 Sam Forstmann (Ed Wynn) believes that he will die if his grandfather clock stops. When the clock does begin to wind down Sam must face his deepest fear.

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 23 | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Long Live Walter Jameson - Episode 24: Kevin McCarthy is Professor Walter Jameson an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it. Little can his students imagine... Dead Man's Shoes - Episode 83: A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer. You Drive - Episode 134: Driving home one rainy evening Oliver Pope (Edward Andrews) accidentally hits a boy on a bike killing him. Pope flees the scene determined to hide his guilt but his car has other ideas. The Long Morrow - Episode 135: Commander Douglas Stansfield (Robert Lansing) and Sandra Horn (Mariette Hartley) fall in love shortly before Stansfield launches into space to begin 40 years in suspended animation. As they dream of being together their fates take an ironic turn...

• Lion King | DVD | (28/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.22