The Ray Bradbury Theater - Complete Series (65 Episodes) | William Shatner, Jeff Goldblum

The Ray Bradbury Theater - Complete Series (65 Episodes) | William Shatner, Jeff Goldblum | Ray Bradbury is my hero.

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	The Ray Bradbury Theater - Complete Series (65 Episodes) William Shatner, Jeff Goldblum Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, 2005 average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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Featuring 65 Episodes! Entranced by magicians, comic strips, and science-fiction magazines, Ray Bradbury began "educating" himself at the Los Angeles Library three to five times a week. By twenty-seven years of age he "graduated," having written over several million words. In his early twenties, he supported himself by selling newspapers on street corners and writing for radio programs such as Suspense, Escape, CBS Radio Playhouse, and X Minus One. Bradbury has now written over one thousand short stories--400 of which have been published in such magazines as The New Yorker, The New Republican, The Saturday Evening Post, Amazing Stories, Colliers, Dime Detective and McCall's. He has also written for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. And now, showcased in this 5 DVD set are some of Ray Bradbury's finest works.

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Great Series....Good Price

We watched the first disk as a loaner in an RV park and decided we had to have the entire series. The ending on many of the episodes are left somewhat to your imagination. We truely enjoy them.

Ray Bradbury is my hero.

Ok I'm a Ray Bradbury fan so get ready for a good positive review of this material. I dunno what it is there's just something about Ray. I like his style. I guess his stories or some of the acting and era these shows were filmed in aren't going to be to everyone's liking or suit their tastes but something about them for me goes along with Ray Bradbury's taste and style. Each episode starts with him walking into his "junkroom" of ideas where he keeps all these little odds and ends. All these objects inspire him and each one becomes a story in and of itself so that gives you an idea of this man's capacity to imagine and dream up things. The performances in my opinion, compliment the stories. Some of the ideas come from his real life experiences and he sets up some episodes by telling you this story and then showing you how it inspired him. So you really get to see the act of writing or how his brain works which I think is pretty cool. It doesn't always make sense and so that's another realistic and mystical factor of his work. I think it's worth it if you're interested. Just buy it already!!! ;)

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Great stories, horrible picture quality

This is a nice collection of the Ray Bradbury series that was on cable TV some years back. I had missed most of them, so it is nice to get them all in one package. However, the video transfer to DVD is about the worst I've ever seen. The box says "digitally mastered", but since DVDs are digital, EVERY DVD is mastered digitally! It looks as though they used old VHS tapes as the masters, then digitized them at very low bit rates. Lost of pixelation, especially in motion scenes. In addition, there was obviously no attempt at color control during the mastering process, as things can range from oversaturated to washed out from one scene to the next. I guess this is to be expected when they put 28 hours on 5 discs (5.6 hours per disc), when a movie is usually around 2 hours per disc.

That being said, it is nice to have all of these stories that haven't been done elsewhere. A couple (The Long Rain, and The Veldt) were both previously done by different actors/directors in the movie " The Illustrated Man". As with any series, some episodes are better than others, but they give you a great insight into the creativity of Ray Bradbury.

So, I'd give 5 stars for content, and 1 star for quality, averaging to 2.5. I'd buy it again, but be prepared for the poor transfer.

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fun for the price but terrible audio and video quality

The problem is that, yes, these are DVD's but the "source" for both the audio and video were VHS tapes. Its not even a good transfer so you see not just a fuzzy picture but lots of blurring when anything is moving fast across the screen. The audio is too low and sometimes a little out of sync too. Just be warned that you buy this only if you REALLY want to see these episodes again.

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