Syfy's Twilight Zone Marathon 2023-24

[Lizuka #BLM]

Schedule's been out for a few days and been meaning to make the thread on it. Some weird scheduling in this year's, especially putting Monsters Are Due On Maple Street in the middle of the day on the 30th instead of in a prime time slot. And for that matter two absolutely awful episodes like Black Leather Jackets and What's in the Box getting prime time slots on the 31st.

Saturday, December 30, 2023

8:00am – The Lonely
8:30am – Time Enough At Last
9:00am – Perchance to Dream
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 Hitch-Hiker
1:00pm – The Fever
1:30pm – The Last Flight
2:00pm – The Purple Testament
2:30pm – The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
3:00pm – A World of Difference
3:30pm – Long Live Walter Jameson
4:00pm – People Are Alike All Over
4:30pm – Big Tall Wish
5:00pm – A Nice Place to Visit
5:30pm – Nightmare as a Child
6:00pm – A Stop At Willoughby
6:30pm – A Passage For Trumpet
7:00pm – Mr. Bevis
7:30pm – The After Hours
8:00pm – The Mighty Casey
8:30pm – A World of His Own
9:00pm – King Nine Will Not Return
9:30pm – The Man in the Bottle
10:00pm – Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
10:30pm – A Thing About Machines
11:00pm – The Howling Man
11:30pm – Eye of the Beholder

Sunday, December 31, 2023

12:00am – Nick of Time
12:30am – The Lateness of the Hour
1:00am – The Trouble With Templeton
1:30am – A Most Unusual Camera
2:00am – The Night of the Meek
2:30am – Dust
3:00am – Back There
3:30am – The Whole Truth
4:00am – The Invaders
4:30am – A Penny For Your Thoughts
5:00am – Twenty-Two
5:30am – Mr. Dingle, the Strong
6:00am – Static
6:30am – A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
7:00am – The Rip Van Winkle Caper
7:30am – The Silence
8:00am – Shadow Play
8:30am – Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
9:00am – The Obsolete Man
9:30am – The Arrival
9:55am – The Mirror
10:20am – The Grave
10:45am – It’s a Good Life
11:10am – Deaths-Head Revisited
11:35am – The Midnight Sun
12:00pm – Five Characters in Search of An Exit
12:25pm – Dead Man’s Shoes
12:50pm – The Hunt
1:15pm – A Piano in the House
1:40pm – The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
2:05pm – Little Girl Lost
2:30pm – Person or Persons Unknown
2:55pm – The Gift
3:20pm – The Little People
3:45pm – The Dummy
4:10pm – Cavendar is Coming
4:35pm – A Kind of Stopwatch
5:00pm – The Last Night of a Jockey
5:25pm – Living Doll
5:50pm – The Old Man in the Cave
6:15pm – Night Call
6:40pm – Probe 7, Over and Out
7:05pm – The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
7:30pm – A Drink From a Certain Fountain
7:55pm – Ninety Years Without Slumbering
8:20pm – Ring-a-Ding Girl
8:45pm – You Drive
9:10pm – Black Leather Jackets
9:35pm – From Agnes, With Love
10:00pm – Spur of the Moment
10:25pm – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
10:50pm – What’s in the Box
11:15pm – The Masks
11:40pm – I Am the Night—Color Me Black

Monday, January 1, 2024

12:05am – Sounds and Sliences
12:30am – The Encounter
12:55am – Mr. Garrity and the Graves
1:20am – Come Wander With Me
1:45am – The Fear
2:10am – The Bewitchin’ Pool
2:35am – Stopover in a Quiet Town
3:00am – Two
3:25am – The Shelter
3:50am – The Passersby
4:15am – A Game of Pool
4:40am – Queen of the Nile
5:05am – The Jungle
5:30am – Nothing in the Dark
6:00am – Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
7:00am – Where is Everybody?
7:30am – One For the Angels
8:00am – Mr. Denton on Doomsday
8:30am – Escape Clause
9:00am – The Brain Center at Whipple’s
9:30am – The Long Morrow
10:00am – Steel
10:30am – In Praise of Pip
11:00am – I Sing the Body Electric
11:30am – The Changing of the Guard
12:00pm – Four O’Clock
12:30pm – One More Pallbearer
1:00pm – A Quality of Mercy
1:30pm – Once Upon a Time
2:00pm – The Prime Mover
2:30pm – The Odyssey of Flight 33
3:00pm – The Chaser
3:30pm – Mirror Image
4:00pm – Elegy
4:30pm – The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
5:00pm – Number 12 Looks Just Like You
5:30pm – Uncle Simon
6:00pm – Still Valley
6:30pm – Long Distance Call
7:00pm – The Trade-Ins
7:30pm – The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
8:00pm – To Serve Man
8:30pm – The Fugitive
9:00pm – Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
9:30pm – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
10:00pm – Kick the Can
10:30pm – Young Man’s Fancy
11:00pm – Showdown With Rance McGrew
11:30pm – Execution

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

12:00am – Caesar and Me
12:30am – The Jeopardy Room
1:00am – The Parallel
2:00am – I Dream of Genie
3:00am – No Time Like the Past

[lildude8218]

They're not showing "Walking Distance," aka the episode that made me so pissed off when the main character was revealed to be 36, when he looked at least 50, that I shut the show off and stopped my binge watching session on Netflix.

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

God, I need to get back into this show. One of my all-time favorites.

[Talent Name]

Still feels weird watching on Paramount without my mom, it was one of the few things we did together

[Natural Born Farmer]

I remember back before streaming services were a thing, and this marathon was one of your few chances to make sure you saw some of the best episodes of one of the most important American TV shows.

Think it's super cool they still do it, but it's also an opportunity to reflect on the changing of times.

Don't see any episodes of the 90s revival or Jordan Peele's later one in there, although they both had some fantastic episodes.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Dec 30, 2023 0:19:52 GMT -5 Natural Born Farmer said:

I remember back before streaming services were a thing, and this marathon was one of your few chances to make sure you saw some of the best episodes of one of the most important American TV shows.

Think it's super cool they still do it, but it's also an opportunity to reflect on the changing of times.

Don't see any episodes of the 90s revival or Jordan Peele's later one in there, although they both had some fantastic episodes.

Generally they only do the original series in this marathon, though there were a couple of episodes of the Peele one last year.

Speaking of odd omissions, I do understand why there's barely any season 4, but it's strange that of the ones they did include they left out pretty much all of the particularly liked ones and went with Cliffordville which is kind of an aimless miserable chore of an episode with hilariously awful makeup. Also I think the only non-season 4 episodes they didn't include are Walking Distance and The Mind and the Matter and at that point, why not just cut one of those to fit them all in?

[Cranjis McBasketball]

If any Canadians are here, this thread inspired to do a look, CityTV+ has, what appears to be the first 4 seasons of the original series available on demand.

[Lizuka #BLM]

I remain continually baffled as to what the point of Black Leather Jackets is. Just an awful, awful episode regardless but, "Romeo and Juliet plot with an alien except then they just lose and everyone dies with no lesson learned, and also the romance mostly consists of the girl having the brains of a Styrofoam cup just cooing in bafflement at literally every single word she hears, and for some reason the aliens are greasers," is just so hard to wrap the head around what they were even trying to do with it. Like usually even bad episodes of this show you can fathom what the intent is but this one it's just, "We're at the halfway point of the last season, we just need literally anything that will fill a half hour."

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

Dec 31, 2023 21:36:49 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

I remain continually baffled as to what the point of Black Leather Jackets is. Just an awful, awful episode regardless but, "Romeo and Juliet plot with an alien except then they just lose and everyone dies with no lesson learned, and also the romance mostly consists of the girl having the brains of a Styrofoam cup just cooing in bafflement at literally every single word she hears, and for some reason the aliens are greasers," is just so hard to wrap the head around what they were even trying to do with it. Like usually even bad episodes of this show you can fathom what the intent is but this one it's just, "We're at the halfway point of the last season, we just need literally anything that will fill a half hour."

Watched this one last night on Paramount +. Such a bizarre episode. I have no idea why they made the aliens into bikers other than maybe to have the "other" reflected by what was considered "edgy" at the time.

[cosmo]

I've had the marathon on in the background as I've done chores around the house today, and I had no idea Robby the Robot had so many cameos in the show.