Schedule For Syfy's Twilight Zone Marathon

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Unfortunately I don't presently have cable (getting Direct TV hooked up, just probably won't be on in time) but I plan to follow along with the marathon through Netflix and, for any season four stuff, probably can find them online somewhere or other else. At least for me this is just how I see the new year as being meant to be rung in, and I'm sure some others here like to use the occasion for the same thing.

I plan to watch all of them (which'll of course have me going past New Year's to do that), but some of them... Yeesh. I have a hard time picturing myself trying to sit down and watch Black Leather Jackets of my own free will.

Starting at 8 AM ET on December 31st, running until 6 AM January 2nd. There's an hour break after Two (so at 5 AM on the 1st), and I was wanting to separate the list anyway so there's a gap at that point.

The Old Man in the Cave
Caesar and Me
The Last Flight
The Little People
Third From the Sun
Long Live Walter Jameson
A Piano in the House
Perchance to Dream
A Most Unusual Camera
The Arrival
A Thing About Machines
And When the Sky Was Opened
I Shot An Arrow Into the Air
Nick of Time
Night of the Meek
Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
What's in the Box
Walking Distance
A Hundred Years Over the Rim
People Are Alike All Over
Prove 7 Over and Out
Stopover in a Quiet Town
A Game of Pool
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
The Dummy
The Invaders
To Serve Man
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
A Stop at Willoughby
The Hitch-hiker
Dead Man's Shoes
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
The Midnight Sun
The Obsolete Man
The After Hours
Night Call
The Lonely
King Nine Will Not Return
The Hunt
Mr. Denton On Doomsday
Uncle Simon
Two

I Dream of Genie
Jess-belle
The Purple Testament
Mr. Bevis
The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Ring-a-ding Girl
Little Girl Lost
Hocus-pocus and Frisby
Escape Clause
The Prime Movers
Mr. Dingle, the Strong
One For the Angels
The Silence
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Death's Head Revisited
It's a Good Life
A Nice Place to Visit
A Penny For Your Thoughts
Black Leather Jackets
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
The Odyssey of Flight 33
The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
A Kind of Stopwatch
The Bewitchin' Pool
Kick the Can
The Masks
I Sing the Body Electric
Living Doll
Time Enough at Last
Where is Everybody
The Howling Man
Eye of the Beholder
The Shelter
I Am the Night - Color Me Black
Long Distance Call
Judgement Night
Nightmare as a Child
The Grave
The Four of Us Are Dying
A World of His Own
In Praise of Pip
The Fever
The Last Rights of Jeff Myrtlebank
What You Need
The New Exhibit

[Sephiroth]

Watch it every year.

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They'd gotten a tad lazy with more recent marathons (not even as many of them anymore), but they're putting very good effort into this one.

And The Obsolete Man is there, so excellent.

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Dec 29, 2014 10:28:55 GMT -5 @knapp said:

They'd gotten a tad lazy with more recent marathons (not even as many of them anymore), but they're putting very good effort into this one.

And The Obsolete Man is there, so excellent.

Yeah, that one's always fun. The big appointment viewing one for me is Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.

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I always enjoy Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up. I'll DVR that and The Hitch-hiker, for sure. I haven't watched The Hitch-hiker since I was very young and it scared the beans out of me. I'm less scared now...I think.

I'm sure I'll throw some others on the DVR, as well.

[andrew8798]

Dec 30, 2014 14:45:19 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Dec 29, 2014 10:28:55 GMT -5 @knapp said:

They'd gotten a tad lazy with more recent marathons (not even as many of them anymore), but they're putting very good effort into this one.

And The Obsolete Man is there, so excellent.

Yeah, that one's always fun. The big appointment viewing one for me is Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.

One of my favorites

[tigermaskxxxvii]

Dec 29, 2014 10:28:55 GMT -5 @knapp said:

They'd gotten a tad lazy with more recent marathons (not even as many of them anymore), but they're putting very good effort into this one.

And The Obsolete Man is there, so excellent.

That one is my absolute favorite (and man, Burgess Meredith sure was in a lot of TZ episodes!). Unfortunately by my calculations I'll probably be out drinking when it's on. Oh well, there's still my other favorite "Death's Head Revisited" on at two in the afternoon New Year's Day.

Also, in honor of this New Year's Eve/Day tradition, here's Anthrax recreating the Nightmare at 20,000 Feet episode:

[Rican]

Easily my favorite part of New Year's

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

My favorite episode is on tomorrow but I will watch them until I grow tired of them. The Dummy is another one of my favorite ones

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

"Stopover in a Quiet Town"

This episode is fitting for today.

[Duke Delicious]

The Dummy from Caesar and Me is a jerk! I would have ripped his head off if he had sold me out like that.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”

Greatest Twilight Zone quote ever. And it's a great example of why Serling did a sci-fi show. Saying stuff like that at the time in a show with people, would have been hugely controversial and may have gotten the show canceled. Making it a sci-fi show and having monsters, aliens, and demons, allowed Serling to say stuff like that and make episodes like "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street".

Even the 2002 remake, while not as good as the original, was excellent, with a great performance from Andrew McCarthy as the lone voice of reason. And it ends with this narration, "It isn't enough for a sole voice of reason to exist. In this time of uncertainty we're so sure that villains lurk around every corner that we will create them ourselves if we can't find them. For while fear may keep us vigilant, it's also fear that tears us apart. A fear that sadly exists only too often outside the Twilight Zone."

I love this show, and Rod Serling was a f***ing television genius.

[MiLB Fan]

I was hoping to watch this on the SyFy app now that I no longer have SyFy as part of my cable package; no such luck. I'm sure it's a streaming/rights issue, but the live part of the app is pretty much useless until the marathon is over. If you launch the live stream, you just get a message that the program is not available and to check out other on-demand content.

[aliciafoxfan]

Such a great show. I hate that MeTV has put it on rest.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

One For the Angels is on right now, fantastic episode.

I always love how they present Death, he's not evil, there's no malevolence. Death is there to comfort people and let them know that their time is up.

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Jan 1, 2015 12:46:29 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

One For the Angels is on right now, fantastic episode.

I always love how they present Death, he's not evil, there's no malevolence. Death is there to comfort people and let them know that their time is up.

But thankfully not that his time is now. I could not-live without being AAed into the afterlife.

[A Platypus Rave]

You know I really don't like some of the episodes they always choose for this.

[James Fabiano]

Jan 1, 2015 12:46:29 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

One For the Angels is on right now, fantastic episode.

I always love how they present Death, he's not evil, there's no malevolence. Death is there to comfort people and let them know that their time is up.

And for logo enthusiasts, this is the one or two episodes on SyFy's prints that keep the Viacom "V of Doom"

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Jan 1, 2015 20:16:55 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

You know I really don't like some of the episodes they always choose for this.

Yeah, there are certain episodes the people at Syfy seem to just see as classics that really aren't at all. Also it's just weird if you're playing season four episodes to leave out He's Alive when it seems to be the only one from the season anyone really bothers remembering.

[Duke Delicious]

Care to elaborate on what episodes?