OT: Don't forget to watch the Syfy TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHON

[bac2therac]

its back

Thursday, December 31, 2020

6:00am – Where Is Everybody?

6:30am – One For the Angels

7:00am – Mr. Denton On Doomsday

7:30am – The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

8:00am – Walking Distance

8:25am – Escape Clause

8:50am – The Lonely

9:15am – Judgment Night

9:40am – And When the Sky Was Opened

10:05am – What You Need

10:30am – The Four of Us Are Dying

10:55am – Third From the Sun

11:20am – I Shot An Arrow Into the Air

11:45am – The Fever

12:10pm – The Last Flight

12:35pm – The Purple Testament

1:00pm – Elegy

1:25pm – Mirror Image

1:50pm – Long Live Walter Jameson

2:15pm – People Are Alike All Over

2:40pm – Execution

3:05pm – The Big Tall Wish

3:30pm – Nightmare As a Child

3:55pm – The Chaser

4:20pm – A Passage for Trumpet

4:45pm – Mr. Bevis

5:10pm – The After Hours

5:35pm – The Mighty Casey

6:00pm – A World of His Own

6:25pm – King Nine Will Not Return

6:50pm – Time Enough At Last

7:15pm – Perchance to Dream

7:40pm – The Hitch-hiker

8:05pm – The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

8:30pm – A World of Difference

8:55pm – A Nice Place to Visit

9:20pm – A Stop at Willoughby

9:45pm – The Howling Man

10:10pm – Eye of the Beholder

10:35pm – Night of the Meek

11:00pm – Dust

11:25pm – The Invaders

11:50pm – The Man in the Bottle

Friday, January 1, 2021

12:15am – Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

12:40am – A Thing About Machines

1:05am – Nick of Time

1:30am – The Lateness of the Hour

1:55am – The Trouble With Templeton

2:20am – Once Upon a Time

2:45am – A Quality of Mercy

3:10am – The Hunt

3:35am – Kick the Can

4:00am – A Piano in the House

4:30am – The Little People

5:00am – The Trade-Ins

5:30am – A Kind of Stopwatch

6:00am – A Most Unusual Camera

6:30am – Back There

7:00am – The Whole Truth

7:30am – A Penny For Your Thoughts

8:00am – Twenty-Two

8:30am – The Odyssey of Flight 33

9:00am – Mr. Dingle, The Strong

9:30am – Static

10:00am – The Prime Mover

10:30am – A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

11:00am – The Rip Van Winkle Caper

11:30am – The Silence

12:00pm – Shadow Play

12:30pm – The Mind and the Matter

1:00pm – Two

1:30pm – The Arrival

2:00pm – The Shelter

2:30pm – The Passersby

3:00pm – The Mirror

3:30pm – The Grave

4:00pm – It’s a Good Life

4:30pm – Deaths-Head Revisited

5:00pm – Still Valley

5:30pm – The Jungle

6:00pm – Long Distance Call

6:30pm – Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

7:00pm – The Obsolete Man

7:30pm – A Game of Pool

8:00pm – The Midnight Sun

8:30pm – Five Characters in Search of an Exit

9:00pm – To Serve Man

9:30pm – The Dummy

10:00pm – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

10:30pm – Living Doll

11:00pm – The Masks

11:30pm – Jess-Belle

Saturday, January 2, 2021

12:30am – What’s in the Box?

1:00am – I Am the Night – Color Me Black

1:30am – Sounds and Silences

2:00am – Caesar and Me

2:30am – The Jeopardy Room

3:00am – The Encounter

3:30am – Mr. Garrity and the Graves

4:00am – The Brain Center at Whipple’s

4:30am – Come Wander With Me

5:00am – The Fear

5:30am – The Bewitchin’ Pool

 

[e5fdny]

“To Serve Man” scared me as a kid.

And I feel like we lived “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” this year.

 

[RULoyal]

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet still gives me the creeps.

 

[Doctor Worm]

They're running shows in 25 minute windows tomorrow! Those are going to be heavily edited. The uninterrupted running time of a standard TZ episode is 25 minutes. They were produced in an era when a 30 minute TV window consisted of 25 minutes of content and 5 minutes of commercials. Today the ratio is more like 22 to 8. So even in a 30 minute window the episodes are cut by 3 minutes. In a 25 minute window... yuch!

Also interesting is that they are showing one (why only one!) of the rarely seen full-hour episodes. That is the hauntingly beautiful "Jess-Belle" Saturday at 11:30 PM.

On the subject of the hour episodes: while the official start of the marathon is 6:00 AM tomorrow, Syfy is providing a bonus appetizer from 2:00 AM to 4:00 AM - two hour long episodes! I urge you to DVR the 2:00 episode, the rarely seen "Printer's Devil", featuring the great Burgess Meredith as a delightfully wicked Satan. Meredith has better-known TZ roles (Time Enough at Last, The Obsolete Man), but IMO this is his best.

If you have Netflix you can get the half-hour episodes (Seasons 1-3 and 5) whenever you want. But they don't have the rights to Season 4, which are the hour episodes.

 

[Goku]

Which one had the old man who was terrorized by the monster that kept saying “treat or trick”? Scared the crap out of me as a kid

Also which is the one that has the man alone in space and he grows attached to his robot companion and then the robot is shot to death and he is dragged off the planet?

 

[ashokan]

I watched "King 9 Will Not Return" last month. I liked it as a kid but it was kind of annoying to watch now. So much overacting with invasive music that beats you up. Older things get harder to watch because the music can be so in your face. Some actor show a look of confusion and a volley of abstract violin and horn music beats you up

 

[Doctor Worm]

Which one had the old man who was terrorized by the monster that kept saying “treat or trick”? Scared the crap out of me as a kid

Also which is the one that has the man alone in space and he grows attached to his robot companion and then the robot is shot to death and he is dragged off the planet?

The second one is "The Lonely". Not sure of the first.

 

[RUhasarrived]

The series was on at the perfect time for me,between the ages of 9-13.I saw most of the episodes when they were first on,missing only when Harrison had a home game.One such instance was for "The Eye Of The Beholder",when I was watching Harrison defeat Immaculate Conception,a long defunct school.

I picked up a DVD copy of the series from the CBS' masters a few years ago on E-Bay.The episodes have Serling's "Next week's" comments.

It may be a glitch in my memory,but I believe Channel 2,re-ran some of the first season's episodes late Saturday nights in 59-60.

 

[bac2therac]

ANTHONY!

 

[zappaa]

Loved Zone re-runs as a kid and Alfred Hitchcock.
Graduated to the Outer Limits and Night Gallery.
One Step Beyond...meh

 

[bac2therac]

The good ones are on tonight for sure

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

The good ones are on tonight for sure

A lot of them are applicable to today's times.

Obsolete Man

 

[Doctor Worm]

The good ones are on tonight for sure

I would say the best known, most popular ones are on tonight. But there are a lot of hidden gems which IMO are every bit as good.

 

[zappaa]

Darin Stevens (Dick York) seeing his death in the mirror

 

[Postman_1]

Talky Tina is creepy.

 

[MulletCork]

Need a MST 3000 marathon

 

[Doctor Worm]

Talky Tina is creepy.

Those of us of a certain age, and who had sisters, remember a doll called Chatty Cathy. It was Rod Serling's model for Talky Tina. In fact he hired the same voice talent to do the doll's voice. Chatty Cathy loved everyone and wouldn't hurt a fly. Talky Tina, not so much.

 

[zappaa]

Talking Tina was scary, but Telly was worse.