The Twilight Zone Marathon 2020-2021

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Schedule's out. Do think some really good episodes got kind of slotted into not great spots, but they also shoved What's in the Box at the very end and Black Leather Jackets isn't included at all, so those are nice at least.

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

8:30am – Escape Clause

9:00am – The Lonely

9:30am – Judgment Night

10:00am – And When the Sky Was Opened

10:30am – What You Need

11:00am – The Four of Us Are Dying

11:30am – Third From the Sun

12:00pm – I Shot An Arrow Into the Air

12:30pm – The Fever

1:00pm – The Last Flight

1:30pm – The Purple Testament

2:00pm – Elegy

2:30pm – Mirror Image

3:00pm – Long Live Walter Jameson

3:30pm – People Are Alike All Over

4:00pm – Execution

4:30pm – The Big Tall Wish

5:00pm – Nightmare As a Child

5:30pm – The Chaser

6:00pm – Time Enough At Last

6:30pm – Perchance to Dream

7:00pm – The Hitch-hiker

7:30pm – The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

8:00pm – A World of Difference

8:30pm – A Nice Place to Visit

9:00pm – A Stop at Willoughby

9:30pm – The Howling Man

10:00pm – Eye of the Beholder

10:30pm – Night of the Meek

11:00pm – Dust

11:30pm – The Invaders

Friday, January 1, 2021

12:00am – A Passage for Trumpet

12:30am – Mr. Bevis

1:00am – The After Hours

1:30am – The Mighty Casey

2:00am – A World of His Own

2:30am – King Nine Will Not Return

3:00am – The Man in the Bottle

3:30am – Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

4:00am – A Thing About Machines

4:30am – Nick of Time

5:00am – The Lateness of the Hour

5:30am – The Trouble With Templeton

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

12:30am – 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

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The Obsolete Man (one of my favorites) tends to air at like 3am during these marathons, but I feel like in the last couple they've made sure it has a pretty prime time (ish) spot.....

y'know, 'cause it always tends to apply to the times...

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

From a brief glance it looks like they’re going on chronological order this year. Although unlike at least one marathon they’re not playing the complete series. Still about 2/3rds of it

[Big BosskMan]

I love A Stop At Willoughby as well as Death's Head Revisited (the epilogue of which is one of the greatest) along with The Howling Man.

[Duke Cameron]

They might as well have placed The Dummy and Living Doll back to back if they were just going to separate them by half an hour.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Bought the series on DVD a couple months back. Been picking and choosing episodes. Might have to do a complete watch through.

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Dec 18, 2020 19:22:18 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

They might as well have placed The Dummy and Living Doll back to back if they were just going to separate them by half an hour.

At least it's not The Dummy and Caesar & Me I guess.

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Reminder, starting up in the morning. Think some pretty good ones early in, in particular have a soft spot for One for the Angels and Walking Distance.

Wish they'd do another whole series run through some year. Know that'd take like four days and it'd probably be really inconvenient to schedule around, and I could always just watch it on Netflix (besides season 4 I guess, but not like that's a huge loss for the most part) but still.

[mattperiolat]

Dec 30, 2020 19:45:38 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Reminder, starting up in the morning. Think some pretty good ones early in, in particular have a soft spot for One for the Angels and Walking Distance.

Wish they'd do another whole series run through some year. Know that'd take like four days and it'd probably be really inconvenient to schedule around, and I could always just watch it on Netflix (besides season 4 I guess, but not like that's a huge loss for the most part) but still.

The headache is the hour long episode season. The episodes are so hit and miss (I do like Jess-Bell and On Tuesday, We Leave For Home) but in retrospect, really damaged the show. Half hour is enough time to weave the yarn. Longer and you feel the stretch of the premise. Besides that, trying to schedule that block plus the half hours is a tough mix. SyFy would be hard pressed to give up that big a time chunk too.

[MolotovMocktail]

I love Deaths Head Revisited, but surprised they put it on that early. It tends to be one that airs later at night, probably due to the dark subject matter.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street always gets a prime time slot for the marathons, and for a damn good reason. Best episode of television ever.

Dec 31, 2020 0:25:41 GMT -5 mattperiolat said:

Dec 30, 2020 19:45:38 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Reminder, starting up in the morning. Think some pretty good ones early in, in particular have a soft spot for One for the Angels and Walking Distance.

Wish they'd do another whole series run through some year. Know that'd take like four days and it'd probably be really inconvenient to schedule around, and I could always just watch it on Netflix (besides season 4 I guess, but not like that's a huge loss for the most part) but still.

The headache is the hour long episode season. The episodes are so hit and miss (I do like Jess-Bell and On Tuesday, We Leave For Home) but in retrospect, really damaged the show. Half hour is enough time to weave the yarn. Longer and you feel the stretch of the premise. Besides that, trying to schedule that block plus the half hours is a tough mix. SyFy would be hard pressed to give up that big a time chunk too.

Serling made no secret that he thought season 4 being an hour was a big mistake.

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I feel really split on And When the Sky Was Opened. The total helplessness and lack of any sort of explanation in the thing does make it pretty effectively a huge downer, but it also kind of just makes it feel like 20 minutes of wasting your time.

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Kind of wonder if there's an updated schedule anywhere. They've been playing them in that order but they've been fitting them into a smaller period of time so by this point they're about an hour ahead of schedule.

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Nightmare as a Child is easily one of my least favorite episodes. A large part of it's just the kid, the way she carries herself I just find really obnoxious, but even beyond that it's pretty much entirely plotless. It feels like it mostly just exists to save money.

[greyfmdan]

Dec 31, 2020 15:25:40 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Kind of wonder if there's an updated schedule anywhere. They've been playing them in that order but they've been fitting them into a smaller period of time so by this point they're about an hour ahead of schedule.

www.tvpassport.com/tv-listings/stations/syfy-eastern-feed/596/2020-12-31

They’re doing a staggered schedule today.

EDIT: Fixed the link to show 12/31. For some reason it was jumping to 1/1. Sorry about that.

[greyfmdan]

Dec 31, 2020 0:25:41 GMT -5 mattperiolat said:

Dec 30, 2020 19:45:38 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Reminder, starting up in the morning. Think some pretty good ones early in, in particular have a soft spot for One for the Angels and Walking Distance.

Wish they'd do another whole series run through some year. Know that'd take like four days and it'd probably be really inconvenient to schedule around, and I could always just watch it on Netflix (besides season 4 I guess, but not like that's a huge loss for the most part) but still.

The headache is the hour long episode season. The episodes are so hit and miss (I do like Jess-Bell and On Tuesday, We Leave For Home) but in retrospect, really damaged the show. Half hour is enough time to weave the yarn. Longer and you feel the stretch of the premise. Besides that, trying to schedule that block plus the half hours is a tough mix. SyFy would be hard pressed to give up that big a time chunk too.

I agree to an extent. As Jedi-El of Tomorrow mentioned, even Serling wasn’t the biggest fan of the hour episodes. (Side note: It’s said that Serling was opposed to making the show an hour, but it was what the network wanted—which sounds familiar.) And as I recall, Syfy ran all of those episodes between midnight & 2PM, so most of them were fairly buried.

The bigger problem, in my thinking, was that doing the series fully in order by necessity caused some less interesting episodes to get prime time slots, while some of the iconic eps were buried. (”The Hitchhiker” at 2:30 AM? “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” at 5:30 AM? Seriously??)

I have wondered, though, if they might some year repeat the stunt of running all episodes, just not necessarily in sequential order, where they’d have the flexibility to schedule the more highly regarded episodes in the prime slots. Decades Network, with its competing marathon that goes all the way through Sunday, almost does that (though I would nitpick some of their scheduling choices today).

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I really need to make a point of binging on some Burgess Meredith at some point. I've really only seen him in his Twilight Zone roles and Batman but he universally kills it.

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Looking over the remaining schedule a bit it's really weird that they're only doing one season 4 episode - you'd figure they'd either do several or do none. If you're going to include one Jess-Belle is a pretty good choice, definitely one of the better ones of the season, but it's odd.