THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION
This Criterion Collection presents the best-possible restored versions of eight classic live televised dramas from TV’s Golden Age. This cream-of-the-crop compendium includes two of the absolute best, Paddy Chayefsky’s Marty from 1953 and Rod Serling’s Patterns from 1955 — a drama so prescient (it’s about corporate ruthlessness and the various victims and predators of big business), it could be revived today without changing a word. Also included are Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight and The Comedian, JP Miller’s Days of Wine and Roses, and live presentations of No Time for Sergeants, A Wind from the South, and Paul Newman in Bang the Drum Slowly. All at a ridiculously low price for such invaluable TV history. –DB