I didn't catch a single episdoe of the new TWILIGHT ZONE hosted by Forrest Whitaker. Now that it is out on DVD and I have a chance to rent it, I am wondering if it is worth getting. Were they original episodes or remakes of the older ones? Thanks in advance!

It was better than I expected; but of course no where near as good as the original.

There were certainly some episodes that were really bad, a few that were quite good, with being just OK.

They did a sequel to the "It's a Good Life" episode that brought back Cloris Leachman and Billy Mumy, and remakes of "Eye of the Beholder" and "The Monsters/Maple Street", but I think the rest of them were new stories.

I didn't watch this much on UPN, but I did see them in HD on the INHD Network when the reran them last year.

I found them uniformly awful (although not as bad as Fox's NIGHT VISIONS anthology show, or whatever that was called) and stopped watching at about the 6th or 7th week....so some good ones could have come up. I kept waiting for Whittaker to turn to the camera at the end of the episode and say (in best Serling monotone) "Whew...wasn't that a stinker?"

The 90's TZ blew like the North Wind at Christmastime - don't even waste your time with those.

Instead, go for the 'Definitive Editions' of the original Serling shows, or for the 80's resurgence of the show. Both shows have solid episodes that stand the test of time.

The 80s TZ was almost totally awful, I agree (and so was the recent version). There were a handful of episodes that are worth a look.

Maybe someone else remembers more about one from the 80s that I found pretty good: a guy wakes up one day and realizes that somehow the English language has shifted around, so that people are using words to mean different things, like "dinosaur" now means "toast" or something. It's pretty humorous, and thought-provoking in that TZ sort of way.

The 80s episode you are thinking of is "Wordplay", with Robert Klein, and it's on the first season set.

Some of the 80's episodes were pretty damn good..."Helter Shelter" and "Nightcrawlers" come immediately to mind.