The music of some of the episodes that I watched are featured in this excellent release. They include "Where Is Everybody?", "Walking Distance", "The Invaders", "I Sing the Body Electric", and "A Stop at Willoughby". (Unfortunately, the CD booklet includes spoiler photos of some of these episodes.) After watching a bunch of them, I was totally in the Black and White Twilight Zone mood and ready to listen to the music again. I found myself loving the moody music very much. To be honest, the music did not give me a strong impression the first time I listened to them. After all, they are music from a B&W TV show from the late 50s and early 60s. It's hard to find strong thematic materials in them. And the mediocre sound quality of the music does not help improving things.

The first Two CDs are the more enjoyable discs among the four. The first disc features music by Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann is famous of scoring Hitchcock's and fantasy films. So scoring for the Twilight Zone is no hard task for him. I have not heard enough of his film music, so I cannot judge if they are different than his film works. They are not thematically strong and sometimes very low key. However, they are very moody and are quite enjoyable if you can put yourself into a "Twilight Zone" mood. "Where is Everybody?" describes the scariness of loneliness very well. "The Outer Space Suite" has more bombastic moments and motifs. It is the most enjoyable portion of the Disc. "Walking Distance" is a relatively quieter and mellow suite. "The Hitchhiker" is a plain eerie track. Disc 2 is the best disc of all. Still at the early stage of his career, Goldsmith had already shown his talents in scoring eerie music. "Invader" is no doubt the highlight of the whole CD set. It is an episode that has absolutely no dialogue until the last minute. As a result it depends heavily on the back ground music. Goldsmith provided an exceptional score for the episode. If you like his score to Coma, and Planet of the Apes, this is a great piece of work that you cannot miss. The two unusually upbeat jazz themes and the suite for "Nervous Man In a $4.00 Room" are also very enjoyable. Disc 3 and 4 features works of other composers, including Leonard Rosenman and Franz Waxman. "I Sing The Body Electric" is a rarely warm hearted and happy episode. Consequently, its suite is the most mellow and charming of all.