Twilight Zone Marathon 2022

[Lizuka #BLM]

Schedule's out and for some reason a bunch of these are starting at weird times, I guess to try to fit more episodes in. Also a bizarrely high amount of season 4 this year.

Friday, December 31, 2021

2:00am – The Parallel
3:00am – Where is Everybody?
3:30am – One For the Angels
4:00am – Mr. Denton on Doomsday
4:30am – The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
5:00am – The Incredible World of Horace Ford
6:00am – Judgment Night
6:30am – The Purple Testament
7:00am – Elegy
7:30am – Nightmare As a Child
8:00am – Valley of the Shadow
8:50am – The Chaser
9:15am – A World of His Own
9:40am – King Nine Will Not Return
10:05am – Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
10:55am – A Thing About Machines
11:20am – The Trouble With Templeton
11:45am – Back There
12:10pm – Mr. Dingle, the Strong
12:35am – The Rip Van Winkle Caper
1:00pm – The Mind and the Matter
1:25pm – The Arrival
1:50pm – The Passersby
2:15pm – A Quality of Mercy
2:40pm – Nothing in the Dark
3:05pm – The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
3:30pm – The Trade-Ins
3:55pm – Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
4:20pm – Young Man’s Fancy
4:45pm – Cavender Is Coming
5:10pm – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
5:35pm – The New Exhibit
6:25pm – A Kind of Stopwatch
6:50pm – The Last Night of a Jockey
7:15pm – Living Doll
7:40pm – Time Enough at Last
8:05pm – Perchance to Dream
8:30pm – The Hitch-Hiker
8:55pm – The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
9:20pm – A World of Difference
9:45pm – Night of the Meek
10:10pm – The Odyssey of Flight 33
10:35pm – Long Distance Call
11:00pm – Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
11:25pm – The Shelter
11:50pm – The Fugitive

Saturday, January 1, 2022

12:15am – Person or Persons Unknown
12:40am – The Masks
1:05am – Jess-Belle
1:55am – Ring-a-Ding Girl
2:20am – On Thursday We Leave For Home
3:10am – A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
3:35am – You Drive
4:00am – The Self-Improvement of Salvatore Ross
4:30am – Spur of the Moment
5:00am – What’s in the Box?
5:30am – The Brain Center at Whipple’s
6:00am – Mute
7:00am – Passage on the Lady Anne
8:00am – And When the Sky Was Opened
8:30am – Third From the Sun
9:00am – People Are Alike All Over
9:30am – Mr. Bevis
10:00am – The After Hours
10:30am – The Mighty Casey
11:00am – Twenty-Two
11:30am – Static
12:00pm – The Mirror
12:25pm – Once Upon a Time
12:50pm – The Hunt
1:15pm – The Bard
2:05pm – Showdown With Rance McGrew
2:30pm – The Gift
2:55pm – The Little People
3:20pm – The Changing of the Guard
3:45pm – In Praise of Pip
4:10pm – The Old Man in the Cave
4:35pm – Number 12 Looks Just Like You
5:00pm – The Long Morrow
5:25pm – Probe 7 Over and Out
5:50pm – The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
6:15pm – From Agnes With Love
6:40pm – I Am the Night – Color Me Black
7:05pm – Sounds and Silences
7:30pm – Caesar and Me
7:55pm – A Nice Place to Visit
8:20pm – A Stop at Willoughby
8:45pm – The Howling Man
9:10pm – Eye of the Beholder
9:35pm – Dust
10:00pm – The Invaders
10:30pm – The Obsolete Man
11:00pm – Midnight Sun
11:30pm – Five Characters in Search of an Exit

Sunday, January 2, 2022

12:00am – To Serve Man
12:30am – The Dummy
1:00am – I Sing the Body Electric
1:30am – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
2:00am – The Jeopardy Room
2:30am – The Encounter
3:00am – Mr. Garrity and the Graves
3:30am – The Bewitchin’ Pool
4:00am – The Thirty-Fathom Grave
5:00am – He’s Alive

[greyfmdan]

Not meaning to steal anyone’s thunder, but… if you have Decades network in your area, they’re also running a competing marathon Friday through all day Sunday (with a brief break Saturday morning for E/I programming).

Decades has actually been my go-to TZ marathon the last couple years. They tend to edit less than Syfy. Plus Decades still runs the July 4th TZ marathons. They do tend to put sprinkle a few more obscure episodes in prime slots than Syfy does, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing if you want the chance to see some less familiar episodes.

www.decades.com/schedule/ (You’ll have to set the calendar for the desired date.)

[Lizuka #BLM]

Dec 24, 2021 12:15:24 GMT -5 greyfmdan said:

Not meaning to steal anyone’s thunder, but… if you have Decades network in your area, they’re also running a competing marathon Friday through all day Sunday (with a brief break Saturday morning for E/I programming).

Decades has actually been my go-to TZ marathon the last couple years. They tend to edit less than Syfy. Plus Decades still runs the July 4th TZ marathons. They do tend to put sprinkle a few more obscure episodes in prime slots than Syfy does, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing if you want the chance to see some less familiar episodes.

www.decades.com/schedule/ (You’ll have to set the calendar for the desired date.)

Something I did at least once during a period in which I didn't have cable was I followed along with the schedule Syfy was using while watching them on Netflix, with the occasional cycle out of weaker ones. Made for a pretty fun way to do it.

[Big BosskMan]

No Death's Head Revisited, one of my favorites, particularly the closing monologue.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Dec 24, 2021 19:16:12 GMT -5 Big BosskMan said:

No Death's Head Revisited, one of my favorites, particularly the closing monologue.

That is a really big one to leave out, especially when you have crap like What's in the Box, The Bewitchin' Pool, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and Cavender is Coming in there.

[Big BosskMan]

The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank was on Syfy this morning early as part of their random TZ airings before the daily infomercial runs start.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Dec 24, 2021 19:24:34 GMT -5 Big BosskMan said:

The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank was on Syfy this morning early as part of their random TZ airings before the daily infomercial runs start.

That's an episode where it doesn't really have much of a broader point to make, it's very predictable, and it's rather dumb but I still find it pretty charming.

[greyfmdan]

On a related Twilight Zone note… Pluto TV has just added 60 classic episodes from seasons 1 & 2 to its On Demand section.

pluto.tv/en/search/details/series/the-twilight-zone/season/1

[Duke Cameron]

Always good to see The After Hours and The Dummy make the list.

[A Platypus Rave]

Dec 24, 2021 19:20:49 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Dec 24, 2021 19:16:12 GMT -5 Big BosskMan said:

No Death's Head Revisited, one of my favorites, particularly the closing monologue.

That is a really big one to leave out, especially when you have crap like What's in the Box, The Bewitchin' Pool, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and Cavender is Coming in there.

While I agree with you on Cavender and Bewitchin pool

(don't remember what's in the box at all... so probably that too)

but how dare you besmirch Owl Creek!

I can only assume they feel obligated to show Bewitchin' pool because it's the last episode...

[Lizuka #BLM]

Dec 28, 2021 3:35:29 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Dec 24, 2021 19:20:49 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

That is a really big one to leave out, especially when you have crap like What's in the Box, The Bewitchin' Pool, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and Cavender is Coming in there.

While I agree with you on Cavender and Bewitchin pool

(don't remember what's in the box at all... so probably that too)

but how dare you besmirch Owl Creek!

I can only assume they feel obligated to show Bewitchin' pool because it's the last episode...

Admittedly I probably should see it again before casting stones but I remember finding it really boring. One of the episodes I've not seen a lot of though, might've just been the one time. Either way it's still by far the best of the ones I mentioned there, shouldn't have included it in with them regardless really.

What's in the Box is basically a story of Winnie the Pooh fixing an old couple's TV, then the husband starts seeing footage of himself killing his wife and being executed for it, then they miserably bitch and moan at each other for 20 minutes. Just a deeply unpleasant episode where everyone involved is just kind of the worst. It might be my flat out least favorite one, there is just nothing to enjoy about it.

[Lizuka #BLM]

I don't know why every single time they're sure to include Nightmare as a Child in these things. Just an ungodly annoying episode and for a half hour one it's extremely meandering.

[greyfmdan]

Nightmare As a Child seems to always be one that I have to look up because I can’t remember it by title. 😆 Personally I liked the episode. Though it might be partly because I have a personal weakness for teachers.

I didn’t mind What’s In the Box myself, though I get why it wouldn’t appeal to everyone. Carping spouses seem to be a recurring theme on this show, though it’s usually one-sided.

Cavendar is Coming is an interesting piece of TV history, as Rod Sterling’s attempt to launch a sitcom. Doesn’t make for a particularly good Twilight Zone episode, though.

[Lizuka #BLM]

I have a really hard time taking this back and forth scene in The New Exhibit seriously when the two of them are over and over and over referring to each other as Martin and Mr. Ferguson. It's like I'm having an extended screaming match with myself.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I haven’t seen every episode but I hate Eye of the Beholder. I knew the twist as soon as opening narration and then it was sitting there waiting for it.

[Lizuka #BLM]

At this point I find it kind of impossible to disassociate Last Night of a Jockey from its infamous commentary.

[Lizuka #BLM]

I'm kind of surprised The Fugitive still gets play because it's creepy as all hell.

[JoDaNa1281]

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Dec 31, 2021 18:55:24 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

At this point I find it kind of impossible to disassociate Last Night of a Jockey from its infamous commentary.

Perhaps you should be watching sexier things?

[bob]

I'm watching this now

one of these days I will get the entire series on DVD