OT: Don't Forget to Watch the Twilight Zone Marathon

[bac2therac]

A New Years Tradition

on Syfy (113 episodes) and there is also a shorter one on the Hereos & Icon Channel (68 episodes)...check your local listings


SYFY

Tuesday, December 31, 2024


3:00am – The Chaser
3:30am – The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
4:00am – King Nine Will Not Return
4:40am – The Man in the Bottle
5:00am – A Kind of Stopwatch
5:30am – Steel
6:00am – Black Leather Jackets
6:30am – Stopover in a Quiet Town
7:00am – Twenty-Two
7:30am – What’s in the Box
8:00am – Mr. Dingle, the Strong
8:30am – The Prime Mover
9:00am – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
9:30am – The Last Night of a Jockey
9:55am – The Mind and the Matter
10:20am – The Obsolete Man
10:45am – The Passersby
11:10am – The Mirror
11:35pm – The Grave
12:00pm – I Am The Night—Color Me Black
12:25pm – The Midnight Sun
12:50pm – The Jungle
1:15pm – Number 12 Looks Just Like You
1:40pm – Dead Man’s Shoes
2:05pm – Two
2:30pm – Showdown With Rance McGrew
2:55pm – Kick the Can
3:20pm – A Piano in the House
3:45pm – Four O’Clock
4:10pm – The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
4:35pm – Little Girl Lost
5:00pm – Person or Persons Unknown
5:25pm – The Gift
5:50pm – The Trade-Ins
6:15pm – Hocus Pocus & Frisby
6:40pm – The Masks
7:05pm – The Dummy
7:30pm – The After Hours
7:55pm – Time Enough at Last
8:20pm – Eye of the Beholder
8:45pm – Nick of Time
9:10pm – Execution
9:35pm – The Long Morrow
10:00pm – The Last Flight
10:25pm – The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
10:50pm – Ninety Years Without Slumbering
11:15pm – Static
11:40pm – Spur of the Moment

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

12:05am – The Trouble with Templeton
12:30am – Back There
12:55am – The Odyssey of Flight 33
1:20am – A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
1:45am – The Rip Van Winkle Caper
2:10am – Once Upon a Time
2:35am – Walking Distance
3:00am – Sounds and Silences
3:25am – I Sing the Body Electric
3:50am – The Jeopardy Room
4:15am – The Encounter
4:40am – Ring-A-Ding Girl
5:05am – The Fear
5:30am – The Bewitchin’ Pool
6:00am – Mr. Denton on Doomsday
6:30am – Judgment Night
7:00am – What You Need
7:30am – The Fever
8:00am – A World of Difference
8:30am – The Big Tall Wish
9:00am – A Passage for Trumpet
9:30am – The Mighty Casey
9:55am – A World of His Own
10:20am – A Thing About Machines
10:45am – The Howling Man
11:10am – Dust
11:35am – Shadow Play
12:00pm – The Arrival
12:25pm – The Shelter
12:50pm – Deaths-Head Revisited
1:15pm – Still Valley
1:40pm – A Quality of Mercy
2:05pm – Nothing in the Dark
2:30pm – One More Pallbearer
2:55pm – The Hunt
3:20pm – The Fugitive
3:45pm – The Little People
4:10pm – Young Man’s Fancy
4:35pm – Cavender is Coming
5:00pm – In Praise of Pip
5:25pm – To Serve Man
5:50pm – The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
6:15pm – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
6:40pm – The Invaders
7:05pm – Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
7:30pm – Five Characters in Search of An Exit
7:55pm – A Game of Pool
8:20pm – Living Doll
8:45pm – It’s a Good Life
9:10pm – Where is Everybody?
9:35pm – Mirror Image
10:00pm – The Four of Us are Dying
10:25pm – Perchance to Dream
10:50pm – The Hitch-Hiker
11:15pm – A Nice Place to Visit
11:40pm – A Stop at Willoughby

Thursday, January 2, 2025

12:05am – Long-Distance Call
12:30am – The Old Man in the Cave
12:55am – Escape Clause
1:20am – And When the Sky Was Opened
1:45am – Third From The Sun
2:10am – The Whole Truth
2:35am – A Penny for Your Thoughts
3:00am – The Silence
3:30am – Uncle Simon

 

[blueoyster]

Thanks Bac! Can always count on you to help me plan out my yearly episode watching!!

 

[Sweet Peas Corner]

My favorite time of year. Maybe Anthony can wish the basketball program into the cornfield.

 

[zappaa]

Andy Devine in Hocus Pocus.
Has evolved as one of my favorite episodes

 

[Doctor Worm]

Yuck. They are squeezing most of them into 25 minute windows. So unless this is commercial free, which I very much doubt, that means the episodes are going to be severely edited. Expect plot holes.

 

[bac2therac]

Yuck. They are squeezing most of them into 25 minute windows. So unless this is commercial free, which I very much doubt, that means the episodes are going to be severely edited. Expect plot holes.

yes....i think Heroes and Icon Channel marathon will have less edits

 

[NealPageNJ]

A New Years Tradition

on Syfy (113 episodes) and there is also a shorter one on the Hereos & Icon Channel (68 episodes)...check your local listings


SYFY

Tuesday, December 31, 2024


3:00am – The Chaser
3:30am – The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
4:00am – King Nine Will Not Return
4:40am – The Man in the Bottle
5:00am – A Kind of Stopwatch
5:30am – Steel
6:00am – Black Leather Jackets
6:30am – Stopover in a Quiet Town
7:00am – Twenty-Two
7:30am – What’s in the Box
8:00am – Mr. Dingle, the Strong
8:30am – The Prime Mover
9:00am – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
9:30am – The Last Night of a Jockey
9:55am – The Mind and the Matter
10:20am – The Obsolete Man
10:45am – The Passersby
11:10am – The Mirror
11:35pm – The Grave
12:00pm – I Am The Night—Color Me Black
12:25pm – The Midnight Sun
12:50pm – The Jungle
1:15pm – Number 12 Looks Just Like You
1:40pm – Dead Man’s Shoes
2:05pm – Two
2:30pm – Showdown With Rance McGrew
2:55pm – Kick the Can
3:20pm – A Piano in the House
3:45pm – Four O’Clock
4:10pm – The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
4:35pm – Little Girl Lost
5:00pm – Person or Persons Unknown
5:25pm – The Gift
5:50pm – The Trade-Ins
6:15pm – Hocus Pocus & Frisby
6:40pm – The Masks
7:05pm – The Dummy
7:30pm – The After Hours
7:55pm – Time Enough at Last
8:20pm – Eye of the Beholder
8:45pm – Nick of Time
9:10pm – Execution
9:35pm – The Long Morrow
10:00pm – The Last Flight
10:25pm – The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
10:50pm – Ninety Years Without Slumbering
11:15pm – Static
11:40pm – Spur of the Moment

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

12:05am – The Trouble with Templeton
12:30am – Back There
12:55am – The Odyssey of Flight 33
1:20am – A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
1:45am – The Rip Van Winkle Caper
2:10am – Once Upon a Time
2:35am – Walking Distance
3:00am – Sounds and Silences
3:25am – I Sing the Body Electric
3:50am – The Jeopardy Room
4:15am – The Encounter
4:40am – Ring-A-Ding Girl
5:05am – The Fear
5:30am – The Bewitchin’ Pool
6:00am – Mr. Denton on Doomsday
6:30am – Judgment Night
7:00am – What You Need
7:30am – The Fever
8:00am – A World of Difference
8:30am – The Big Tall Wish
9:00am – A Passage for Trumpet
9:30am – The Mighty Casey
9:55am – A World of His Own
10:20am – A Thing About Machines
10:45am – The Howling Man
11:10am – Dust
11:35am – Shadow Play
12:00pm – The Arrival
12:25pm – The Shelter
12:50pm – Deaths-Head Revisited
1:15pm – Still Valley
1:40pm – A Quality of Mercy
2:05pm – Nothing in the Dark
2:30pm – One More Pallbearer
2:55pm – The Hunt
3:20pm – The Fugitive
3:45pm – The Little People
4:10pm – Young Man’s Fancy
4:35pm – Cavender is Coming
5:00pm – In Praise of Pip
5:25pm – To Serve Man
5:50pm – The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
6:15pm – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
6:40pm – The Invaders
7:05pm – Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
7:30pm – Five Characters in Search of An Exit
7:55pm – A Game of Pool
8:20pm – Living Doll
8:45pm – It’s a Good Life
9:10pm – Where is Everybody?
9:35pm – Mirror Image
10:00pm – The Four of Us are Dying
10:25pm – Perchance to Dream
10:50pm – The Hitch-Hiker
11:15pm – A Nice Place to Visit
11:40pm – A Stop at Willoughby

Thursday, January 2, 2025

12:05am – Long-Distance Call
12:30am – The Old Man in the Cave
12:55am – Escape Clause
1:20am – And When the Sky Was Opened
1:45am – Third From The Sun
2:10am – The Whole Truth
2:35am – A Penny for Your Thoughts
3:00am – The Silence
3:30am – Uncle Simon

A fun tradition. Not trying to take away from your original post here. There is a free streaming service. I think it is either Pluto or Tubi or both where on can stream all episodes. I have recently started watching as many episodes and have been really enjoying it.

 

[RUhasarrived]

Spur of the Moment could have been a Top 20 episode had the director not given away too much in the beginning.

All of the episodes are available on Putlockers,redvido,and 4 muhdtv.

 

[Doctor Worm]

My favorite little-known episode has a prime viewing slot - 12:05AM on January 1, right after the ball drops. "The Trouble with Templeton." Watch the final scene of the female lead, Pippa Scott (who BTW is still with us). Watch her eyes, her facial expression, her body language. It is as fine a five second clip of wordless acting that you will ever see.

 

[e5fdny]

I submit we’ve actually lived “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” at some point over the last few years.

 

[Knight Shift]

Andy Devine in Hocus Pocus.
Has evolved as one of my favorite episodes

Any recommendations for someone who is curious, but never really "got" the Twilight Zone? Maybe the wrong way to look at it but was never really into Star Trek either. Is Twilight Zone Sci Fi? I'm more of a sitcom fan- Honeymooners, The Odd Couple, etc.

 

[AdventureHasAName]

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

5:25pm – To Serve Man
5:50pm – The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
6:15pm – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
6:40pm – The Invaders

Solid block of episodes

 

[zappaa]

Any recommendations for someone who is curious, but never really "got" the Twilight Zone? Maybe the wrong way to look at it but was never really into Star Trek either. Is Twilight Zone Sci Fi? I'm more of a sitcom fan- Honeymooners, The Odd Couple, etc.

If you never really “got” the Twilight Zone, it means one of two things.
You never watched it?
You didn’t like the episodes you saw?
Which is it?

 

[Knight Shift]

If you never really “got” the Twilight Zone, it means one of two things.
You never watched it?
You didn’t like the episodes you saw?
Which was it?

The latter. Watched a few episodes, and did not like them. Maybe the description in Wikipedia (if accurate) tells me it's not for me: "Each episode presents a standalone story in which characters find themselves dealing with often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described as entering "the Twilight Zone", often with a surprise ending and a moral. Although often considered predominantly science-fiction, the show's paranormal and Kafkaesque events leaned the show much closer to fantasy and horror (there are about twice as many fantasy episodes as science fiction)."

Enjoy--The Honeymooners marathon is on WPIX starting at 12:30 a.m. January 1 and runs through to 5 p.m. with a couple of news breaks. The Odd Couple starts at 9 p.m. tonight on WLNY 10/55 and runs through the afternoon on Janaury 1

 

[Doctor Worm]

Any recommendations for someone who is curious, but never really "got" the Twilight Zone? Maybe the wrong way to look at it but was never really into Star Trek either. Is Twilight Zone Sci Fi? I'm more of a sitcom fan- Honeymooners, The Odd Couple, etc.

Rod Serling himself addressed this question. He said Twilight Zone is a combination of science fiction and fantasy, which he viewed as very different. He said, "Science fiction makes the improbable, possible. Fantasy makes the impossible, probable."

I would say Twilight Zone is mostly fantasy. The large majority of episodes contain elements of the supernatural. One good one which does not, "The Monsters Are Due on Main Street", has already been mentioned in this thread.

 

[zappaa]

Many episodes illustrate man’s instincts to survive, lust for power, selfishness and materialism.
Irony is a strong component of TTZ

 

[Doctor Worm]

Any recommendations for someone who is curious, but never really "got" the Twilight Zone? Maybe the wrong way to look at it but was never really into Star Trek either. Is Twilight Zone Sci Fi? I'm more of a sitcom fan- Honeymooners, The Odd Couple, etc.

Perhaps you might want to sample a few of the Twilight Zone comedies? A few examples:

Mr. Dingle the Strong
Showdown with Rance McGrew
Hocus Pocus and Frisby
Once Upon a TIme
Cavender is Coming
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
Escape Clause
The Whole Truth

Granted these are dark comedies, but comedies nonetheless.

I'd start with Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

 

[bac2therac]

Any recommendations for someone who is curious, but never really "got" the Twilight Zone? Maybe the wrong way to look at it but was never really into Star Trek either. Is Twilight Zone Sci Fi? I'm more of a sitcom fan- Honeymooners, The Odd Couple, etc.

BLASPHEMY...try these

Eye of Beholder
Midnight Sun
Its A Good Life
To Serve Man
Nightmare at 20000 Feet
The Masks
The Invaders
Monsters are Due on Maple Street
The Dummy
Nothing in the Dark
I Sing the Body Electric

 

[RUhasarrived]

As one who saw the first episode first run as a 9 year old,watching the TZ isn't the same after Earl Holliman's passing last month.

 

[zappaa]

Art Carney in “The Night Of The Meek”
Will leave you happy you watched it

 

[zappaa]

“The Silence”
Is a wonderful tale about greed and social standing

Patrick O’Neil in “A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain”
Is a story about the quest to find youth with a great ironic twist

 

[blueoyster]

Damn....watching one now that I don't remember ever seeing...The Jungle! Wow!!

The key to enjoying and understanding Twilight Zone episodes is watching through from beginning to end. If not you miss subtle (or not) parts of a woven story and the irony or main point of the end of each story,

Two excellent episodes (already shown) to get a TZ introduction are The Obsolete Man and The Midnght Sun!

 

[zappaa]

Great irony

Damn....watching one now that I don't remember ever seeing...The Jungle! Wow!!

The key to enjoying and understanding Twilight Zone episodes is watching through from beginning to end. If not you miss subtle (or not) parts of a woven story and the irony or main point of the end of each story,

Two excellent episodes (already shown) to get a TZ introduction are The Obsolete Man and The Midnght Sun!

The Jungle!
Off the top of my head, it’s about a developer who displaced wild animals in Africa with his building.
Somehow those animals come back to his home and terrorize him.

 

[blueoyster]

Great irony

The Jungle!
Off the top of my head, it’s about a developer who displaced wild animals in Africa with his building.
Somehow those animals come back to his home and terrorize him.

Excellent recall. I won't give away the ending in case someone finds a way to watch it (until the very end, of course!). The developer builds a dam over sacred tribal lands, and is cursed by the tribal chief for doing so. The curse follows him bak home to NYC.

 

[Doctor Worm]

Damn....watching one now that I don't remember ever seeing...The Jungle! Wow!!

The key to enjoying and understanding Twilight Zone episodes is watching through from beginning to end. If not you miss subtle (or not) parts of a woven story and the irony or main point of the end of each story,

Two excellent episodes (already shown) to get a TZ introduction are The Obsolete Man and The Midnght Sun!

These two episodes provide an excellent TZ introduction, because they show two very different sides of Rod Serling.

The Obsolete Man is science fiction. There is no paranormal or supernatural activity - just a look into a possible totalitarian future. Serling could be very moralistic, and he hits you hard with the moral on this one.

The Midnight Sun is quite different. It is fantasy, and scary fantasy at that. The key events have no basis in science. There is no explanation and no moral. The only lesson is that mankind is powerless against the forces of the twilight zone.

 

[zappaa]

Obsolete Man!
No better TZ actor than Burgess Merridth

 

[bac2therac]

No change!

 

[blueoyster]

Obsolete Man!
No better TZ actor than Burgess Merridth

Agreed!! "It's not fair...I have time now..."

 

[phs73rc77gsm83]

Any recommendations for someone who is curious, but never really "got" the Twilight Zone? Maybe the wrong way to look at it but was never really into Star Trek either. Is Twilight Zone Sci Fi? I'm more of a sitcom fan- Honeymooners, The Odd Couple, etc.

I think you’d like Changing of the Guard, The Last Flight, Obsolete Man, Night of the Meek, Hokus Pokus Frisby, Pitch for Angles, and 500 Yards Over the Rim (not sure if that’s the actual title)

 

[Postman_1]

My name is Talky Tina and I’m gonna kill you

 

[Doctor Worm]

My name is Talky Tina and I’m gonna kill you

Fun fact about that one. Those of us of a certain age, especially those of us who had sisters of a certain age, remember the talking doll Chatty Cathy. Talky Tina was an obvious parody of Chatty Cathy.

Rod Serling hired the same voice actress who did the Chatty Cathy recordings, to voice the role of Talky Tina. Now that's attention to detail.

 

[bac2therac]

That collie dog!