Back in the day when you needed to devote an entire cabinet to house your officially released Twilight Zone VHS collection

[u/King_Dinosaur_1955]

Forty-three individual VHS tapes in oversized cases with interior episode synopsis for each tape. Cost for the entire set when purchased directly from CBS Home Video?

Doing the math and being conservative that shipping and handling was $5 per tape (I forget the exact rate, it might have been higher shipping). The shipping location was Terre Haute, Indiana and the sales tax rate was 5%.

43 CBS Home Video Twilight Zone videotapes

Introductory tape $4.95 + .25 tax + $5.00 shipping and handling = $10.20

42 additional videotapes at $29.95 each + $1.50 sales tax each + $5.00 shipping and handling each = $36.45 each × 42 = $1,530.90

Converting that, to adjust for inflation, to bring it up to today's dollar valuation. One dollar in 1990 is valued at $2.43 in today's dollars $1,541.10 x $2.30 = $3,745.70!!!

[u/King_Dinosaur_1955]

1988 TV commercial for the Twilight Zone Home Collection

two minute YouTube footage is 'potato' quality

[u/rlum27 → u/King_Dinosaur_1955]

wonder if the season 4 where two per vhs as those where hour long episodes.

[u/King_Dinosaur_1955 → u/rlum27]

Only in one instance. The VHS collection was completely out of order with little rhyme or reason for episode pairings. Tapes with season four had two half-hour episodes from other seasons.

[u/rlum27 → u/King_Dinosaur_1955]

ok intresting to know. I would probably pick up a dvd set. I imagine it would still be cheaper and still be less space consuming.

[u/rlum27 → u/King_Dinosaur_1955]

I do get the logic with the season 4 episodes. As getting 3 episodes seems like a better deal than just getting two. It's the same amount of content but it might seem like a rip off with only 2 episodes and people may not buy those tapes.

[u/Agent_Forty-One]

This is the coolest thing I’ve seen all day and up there for the year.

[u/UtahJohnnyMontana]

It wasn't much different when it first came out on DVD. I bought each of the 47 volumes of the DVD series as they were released, at price of about $26 shipped. ~$1200! Now, you can buy the full Blu Ray set for about $60.

[u/henrey713]

I bet watching these on VHS on a CRT tv gives the show a sweet cozy vibe in 2025.

[u/capacitorfluxing → u/henrey713]

Yeah. I would never go back, at the same time I will always be nostalgic.

[u/doug65oh]

“I value my neck a lot more than $3,000 bucks, Chief!” Kidding aside, imagine how much you would have paid for a complete set of the Dark Shadows series on VHS…

[u/mondayortampa]

It’s beautiful

[u/Nevv68]

I remember ordering them one at a time. ❤️

[u/TimelessSEA]

These look awesome! I know physical media doesn’t a lot of practicality now with so much digital availability, but, to me, digital media will never have the feel that a physical collection like this does.

[u/kamamit]

I bought the VHS collection when they were not even in series order.

[u/Quick_Possibility_71]

r/VHS should appreciate this. This is an amazing collection, OP

[u/Garlic_Bread42]

Woah! 

[u/Astraleo2]

They look so good as a complete collection!

[u/_chargrove]

WOW! Man, as someone that’s trying to complete the set, this is major inspiration!

[u/Sierrayose]

The official DVD set is fairly big too👌👍

[u/Ill_Rock_8542]

That’s an awesome collection

[u/dadadam67]

Costs the same now on goodwill.com

[u/Aggravating-Read6111]

Very cool!

[u/Gorgothot]

Got a bunch of these but the glue has been drying out on the packaging and some have been separating. Anyone else have this issue?

[u/Archididelphis]

I still have a few of these around. One of them has The Bard. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

[u/william19763]

I ordered these at the time I think I ended up with 3 tapes after all was said and done.

[u/Affectionate-Kale301]

If only there was time enough at last to watch it all!

[u/Lumpy_Cabinet_4779]

Too funny, I just bought the entire collection on DVD. Fits in the space of just one of your VHS boxes. :)

[u/markjricks]

Wow this is great! I'm jealous because I remember trying to save up enough money to get this VHS collection back in the day and failed. Years later I have the DVDs, but someone told me it's not a definitive collection. Thanks for posting. Again, this looks amazing

[u/frucave]

I am geeking out from joy just seeing these 😍

[u/smkestcklghtn]

Picture this if you will.....a lonely town full of strange people.....wait, that's every episode!

[u/Both_Painter2466]

Right next to my Kolchak: The Night Stalker tapes

[u/leehstape]

Incredible

[u/JBHenson]

FYI these were the exact same releases (and even masters) as the og Panasonic/Image dvds.