The Twilight Zone Marathon 2022-23

[Lizuka #BLM]

Kind of an odd marathon this year, starting a bit later than it typically does but running much longer into the 2nd. Also some pretty notable episodes in weird spots, like that Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is in the middle of the first morning for some reason while ones like Living Doll and Five Characters in Search of an Exit are in the dead of night. At least Monsters Are Due on Maple Street still has a primetime slot, always one I look forward to.

Another strange choice, they're sliding in some episodes from the 2019 revival in the primetime hours on the 1st. Not... entirely sure why they're feeling the need to do that but sure, whatever. Does anyone even remember that show beyond just hating the kid president episode? ... Which is one of the ones they're airing.

Either way very much ready to strap in for this one. Last year my Internet went out early on the 1st and was out for like three days so I missed a significant chunk of it and found it rather annoying. Though at least as a result I ended up going to see No Way Home I guess?

All times Eastern.

December 31st:
5 AM - A Nice Place to Visit
5:30 AM - The Chaser
6 AM - The Bard
7 AM - The Long Morrow
7:30 AM - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
8 AM - The Trade-Ins
8:30 AM - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
9 AM - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
9:30 AM - A Kind of Stopwatch
10 AM - I Am the Night - Color Me Black
10:30 AM - The Changing Of The Guard
11 AM - The Odyssey of Flight 33
11:30 AM - The Shelter
12 PM - Passage on the Lady Anne
1 PM - The Masks
1:30 PM - The Mighty Casey
2 PM - King Nine Will Not Return
2:30 PM - Eye of the Beholder
3 PM - Dust
3:30 PM - The Fugitive
4 PM - A Penny For Your Thoughts
4:30 PM - The New Exhibit
5:30 PM - Showdown With Rance McGraw
6 PM - Kick the Can
6:30 PM - To Serve Man
7 PM - Back There
7:30 PM - Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
8 PM - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
8:30 PM - Stopover in a Quiet Town
9 PM - Elegy
9:30 PM - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
10 PM - Still Valley
10:30 PM - The Jungle
11 PM - A Man in the Bottle
11:30 PM - Nick of Time

January 1st:
12 AM - Long Distance Call
12:30 AM - The Mind and the Matter
1 AM - Probe 7 Over and Out
1:30 AM - Five Characters in Search of an Exit
2 AM - Nothing in the Dark
2:30 AM - Little Girl Lost
3 AM - The Incredible World of Horace Ford
4 AM - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
4:30 AM - What's In The Box
5 AM - Sounds And Silences
5:30 AM - The Encounter
6 AM - Walking Distance
6:30 AM - Static
7 AM - The Obsolete Man
7:30 AM - Cavender is Coming
8 AM - Mute
9 AM - Escape Clause
9:30 AM - The Lonely
10 AM - Long Live Walter Jameson
10:30 AM - Mr. Bevis
11 AM - The After Hours
11:30 PM - A World of His Own
12 AM - From Agnes With Love
12:30 PM - Queen of the Nile
1 PM - Come Wander With Me
1:30 PM - The Fear
2 PM - Death Ship
3 PM - The Little People
3:30 PM - The Dummy
4 PM - The Last Night of a Jockey
4:30 PM - The Old Man in the Cave
5 PM - Night Call
5:30 PM - You Drive
6 PM - Black Leather Jackets
6:30 PM - A Piano in the House
7 PM - Person or Persons Unknown
7:30 PM - The Gift
8 PM - Meet in the Middle (2019)
9 PM - The Wunderkind (2019)
10 PM - The Who of You (2019)
11 PM - Living Doll
11:30 PM - Uncle Simon

January 2nd:
12 AM - The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
12:30 AM - The Howling Man
1 AM - Twenty-Two
1:30 AM - The Mirror
2 AM - The Hunt
2:30 AM - No Time Like The Past
3:30 AM - The Bewitchin' Pool
4 AM - Mr. Dingle, The Strong
4:30 AM - The Midnight Sun
5 AM - Ring-a-Ding Girl
5:30 AM - Spur of the Moment
6 AM - The Four Of Us Are Dying
6:30 AM - Third From the Sun
7 AM - I Shot An Arrow Into the Air
7:30 AM - The Thirty Fathom Grave
8:30 AM - The Lateness of the Hour
9 AM - A Most Unusual Camera
9:30 AM - Night Of The Meek
10 AM - Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up
10:30 AM - The Fever
11 AM - The Last Flight
11:30 AM - The Purple Testament
12 PM - Printer's Devil
1 PM - Once Upon a Time
1:30 PM - One More Pallbearer
2 PM - Dead Man's Shoes
2:30 PM - The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
3 PM - Where is Everybody
3:30 PM - The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
4 PM - Jess-Belle
5 PM - A Stop at Willoughby
5:30 PM - Time Enough at Last
6 PM - Perchance to Dream
6:30 PM - Judgment Night
7 PM - And When the Sky Was Opened
7:30 PM - What You Need
8 PM - A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
8:30 PM - Caesar and Me
9 PM - The Brain Center at Mr. Whipple's
9:30 PM - A Hundred Years Over the Rim
10 PM - The Grave
10:30 PM - Death's Head Revisited
11 PM - Mirror Image
11:30 PM - A World of Difference

January 3rd:
12 AM - People Are Alike All Over
12:30 AM - The Big Tall Wish
1 AM - In His Image
2 AM - The Whole Truth
2:30 AM - The Invaders
3 AM - The Silence
3:30 AM - I Sing the Body Electric

Presumably will also run for a few hours on the 3rd but Syfy's schedule doesn't go that far yet.

[Ultimo Gallos]

SCI FI channel started this back in what the mid 90s? Back then I loved it cause I didnt own every episode. Over the past decade I haven't watched since I own every episode of the original run and now the 80s revival.

Happy they still do it.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Dec 19, 2022 21:12:02 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Kind of an odd marathon this year, starting a bit later than it typically does but running much longer into the 2nd. Also some pretty notable episodes in weird spots, like that Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is in the middle of the first morning for some reason while ones like Living Doll and Five Characters in Search of an Exit are in the dead of night. At least Monsters Are Due on Maple Street still has a primetime slot, always one I look forward to.

Another strange choice, they're sliding in some episodes from the 2019 revival in the primetime hours on the 1st. Not... entirely sure why they're feeling the need to do that but sure, whatever. Does anyone even remember that show beyond just hating the kid president episode? ... Which is one of the ones they're airing.

Either way very much ready to strap in for this one. Last year my Internet went out early on the 1st and was out for like three days so I missed a significant chunk of it and found it rather annoying. Though at least as a result I ended up going to see No Way Home I guess?

All times Eastern.

December 31st:
5 AM - A Nice Place to Visit
5:30 AM - The Chaser
6 AM - The Bard
7 AM - The Long Morrow
7:30 AM - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
8 AM - The Trade-Ins
8:30 AM - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
9 AM - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
9:30 AM - A Kind of Stopwatch
10 AM - I Am the Night - Color Me Black
10:30 AM - The Changing Of The Guard
11 AM - The Odyssey of Flight 33
11:30 AM - The Shelter
12 PM - Passage on the Lady Anne
1 PM - The Masks
1:30 PM - The Mighty Casey
2 PM - King Nine Will Not Return
2:30 PM - Eye of the Beholder
3 PM - Dust
3:30 PM - The Fugitive
4 PM - A Penny For Your Thoughts
4:30 PM - The New Exhibit
5:30 PM - Showdown With Rance McGraw
6 PM - Kick the Can
6:30 PM - To Serve Man
7 PM - Back There
7:30 PM - Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
8 PM - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
8:30 PM - Stopover in a Quiet Town
9 PM - Elegy
9:30 PM - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
10 PM - Still Valley
10:30 PM - The Jungle
11 PM - A Man in the Bottle
11:30 PM - Nick of Time

January 1st:
12 AM - Long Distance Call
12:30 AM - The Mind and the Matter
1 AM - Probe 7 Over and Out
1:30 AM - Five Characters in Search of an Exit
2 AM - Nothing in the Dark
2:30 AM - Little Girl Lost
3 AM - The Incredible World of Horace Ford
4 AM - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
4:30 AM - What's In The Box
5 AM - Sounds And Silences
5:30 AM - The Encounter
6 AM - Walking Distance
6:30 AM - Static
7 AM - The Obsolete Man
7:30 AM - Cavender is Coming
8 AM - Mute
9 AM - Escape Clause
9:30 AM - The Lonely
10 AM - Long Live Walter Jameson
10:30 AM - Mr. Bevis
11 AM - The After Hours
11:30 PM - A World of His Own
12 AM - From Agnes With Love
12:30 PM - Queen of the Nile
1 PM - Come Wander With Me
1:30 PM - The Fear
2 PM - Death Ship
3 PM - The Little People
3:30 PM - The Dummy
4 PM - The Last Night of a Jockey
4:30 PM - The Old Man in the Cave
5 PM - Night Call
5:30 PM - You Drive
6 PM - Black Leather Jackets
6:30 PM - A Piano in the House
7 PM - Person or Persons Unknown
7:30 PM - The Gift
8 PM - Meet in the Middle (2019)
9 PM - The Underkind (2019)
10 PM - The Who of You (2019)
11 PM - Living Doll
11:30 PM - Uncle Simon

January 2nd:
12 AM - The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
12:30 AM - The Howling Man
1 AM - Twenty-Two
1:30 AM - The Mirror
2 AM - The Hunt
2:30 AM - No Time Like The Past
3:30 AM - The Bewitchin' Pool
4 AM - Mr. Dingle, The Strong
4:30 AM - The Midnight Sun
5 AM - Ring-a-Ding Girl
5:30 AM - Spur of the Moment
6 AM - The Four Of Us Are Dying
6:30 AM - Third From the Sun
7 AM - I Shot An Arrow Into the Air
7:30 AM - The Thirty Fathom Grave
8:30 AM - The Lateness of the Hour
9 AM - A Most Unusual Camera
9:30 AM - Night Of The Meek
10 AM - Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up
10:30 AM - The Fever
11 AM - The Last Flight
11:30 AM - The Purple Testament
12 PM - Printer's Devil
1 PM - Once Upon a Time
1:30 PM - One More Pallbearer
2 PM - Dead Man's Shoes
2:30 PM - The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
3 PM - Where is Everybody
3:30 PM - The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
4 PM - Jess-Belle
5 PM - A Stop at Willoughby
5:30 PM - Time Enough at Last
6 PM - Perchance to Dream
6:30 PM - Judgment Night
7 PM - And When the Sky Was Opened
7:30 PM - What You Need
8 PM - A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
8:30 PM - Caesar and Me
9 PM - The Brain Center at Mr. Whipple's
9:30 PM - A Hundred Years Over the Rim
10 PM - The Grave
10:30 PM - Death's Head Revisited
11 PM - Mirror Image
11:30 PM - A World of Difference

Presumably will also run for a few hours on the 3rd but Syfy's schedule doesn't go that far yet.

I have the whole original series on DVD, plus I don't live in the US.

As far as the recent reboot is concerned, I really only found the Nightmare at 20,000 Feet and another episode I can't recall to be any good. I got to the ending well before they were done. It's why I hate, hate, hate Eye of the Beholder. I saw the episode title and within 20 seconds knew the twist and just waited on it. When you get to the end way before they're done telling story, it sucks..

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

Hey, is that the Twilight Zone you're watching? Ohh, this is a good one.

[Big BosskMan]

Some of my favorites in the lineup.

Mr. Garrity and the Graves
I Am the Night - Color Me Black
Showdown With Rance McGraw
Kick the Can
Stopover in a Quiet Town
The Jungle
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
Mute
Escape Clause
Mr. Bevis
Queen of the Nile
Black Leather Jackets
The Howling Man
Mr. Dingle, The Strong
Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up
The Purple Testament
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
A Stop at Willoughby
Time Enough at Last
Death's Head Revisited


My all time favorite opening and closing narration is from Death's Head Revisited.

[bob]

I'm not watching this year because I bought the entire original run of series on DVD earlier this year

but this an excellent selection of epsiodes

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

The only outright great episode I've seen from the 2019 version is Replay.

[fg]

Doesn’t Decades channel do one as well? I remember in 2019, Decades channel had a mini marathon Mon-Fri some of which competed against SyFy channel’s marathon.

FYI: WPIX in NY started this marathon for a few years before starting the traditional Honeymooners marathon in 1995.

[Milkman Norm]

Dec 21, 2022 4:27:34 GMT -5 Non Banjoble Tokens said:

Hey, is that the Twilight Zone you're watching? Ohh, this is a good one.

Frank's TV Guide!

[Duke Cameron]

I own most of the seasons on dvd, but I still like watching the marathon because it feels like it’s kind of become a tradition for me.

Glad to see that my three favorite episodes, (The After Hours, The Dummy and Night Call) are all airing on the same day.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Went ahead and edited in the last few playing on the 3rd. They're playing a good bit more on the 4th but it's not continuous at that point so not really worth including.

[greyfmdan]

Dec 22, 2022 20:44:03 GMT -5 fg said:

Doesn’t Decades channel do one as well? I remember in 2019, Decades channel had a mini marathon Mon-Fri some of which competed against SyFy channel’s marathon.

Yes, on Saturday & Sunday.

The Decades marathon has actually become my go-to TZ in recent years, since they edit less and tend to put lesser known episodes in more watchable slots. And often the Decades marathon goes longer, though that’s not the case this year.

—

I imagine Pluto TV will also be doing some kind of New Year’s TZ marathon. I realize Pluto only has the first two seasons right now, but rumor has it that more episodes are coming very soon.

[Talent Name]

I got paramount so I may just watch it there cable was starting to get too much

[Lizuka #BLM]

For some reason despite having Paramount I kind of prefer to do this stuff on TV, so I'm getting this endless roulette of ads for WWE, Barmageddon, some true crime show, and the Night Court revival (which, incidentally, looks absolutely terrible). Guess good to know NBC only being able to run ads for itself isn't just a Peacock thing.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I watched “You May Also Like”, the “sequel” episode to To Serve Man. Great message and would have been decent had it been half as long and they cut a couple of the lame ass jokes.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

“Oh f*** now I’m Hitler!!!!”

[Lizuka #BLM]

These ad breaks really, REALLY want me to watch America's Got Talent. Which was never going to happen even before I got subjected to the nonsense statement that is, "It's the best of the best versus the best," 80 times an hour.

[mystermystery]

As if to confirm their assumed status as a streaming service, TUBI currently has the one season 2002 revival of the Twilight Zone, hosted by Forrest Whittaker, available for streaming.

This seemed the place to share such information.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Jan 1, 2023 18:33:07 GMT -5 mystermystery said:

As if to confirm their assumed status as a streaming service, TUBI currently has the one season 2002 revival of the Twilight Zone, hosted by Forrest Whittaker, available for streaming.

This seemed the place to share such information.

I've been a little curious about looking into it and the 80s show (seen some of the latter, none of the 2002 one) so appreciate the heads up.

[Lizuka #BLM]

I'd never actually gotten around to watching the 2019 show but having it on now I really don't like the way this show is shot. It just seems to jump from camera angle to camera angle constantly, everything feels really overly frantic. And the whole thing just kind of looks cheaply filmed like it was shot on a cellphone, it's really annoying to watch and I'm not sure I can even finish this episode, much less the two more they're playing after it.

Also way the f*** too many closeups on mouths which is something that just always irritates me.