Twilight Zone-thon:
New Year's Marathon 2010/2011
Zonethon starts:
Dec 31 08:00 AM The Twilight Zone Perchance To Dream
Dec 31 08:30 AM The Twilight Zone The Four Of Us Are Dying
Dec 31 09:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Fever
Dec 31 09:30 AM The Twilight Zone A Thing About Machines
Dec 31 10:00 AM The Twilight Zone What's In The Box
Dec 31 10:30 AM The Twilight Zone And When The Sky Was Opened
Dec 31 11:00 AM The Twilight Zone Ring-a-ding Girl
Dec 31 11:30 AM The Twilight Zone Escape Clause
Dec 31 12:00 PM The Twilight Zone Mr. Garrity And The Graves
Dec 31 12:30 PM The Twilight Zone In Praise Of Pip
Dec 31 01:00 PM The Twilight Zone Queen Of The Nile
Dec 31 01:30 PM The Twilight Zone A Nice Place To Visit
Dec 31 02:00 PM The Twilight Zone The Last Flight
Dec 31 02:30 PM The Twilight Zone Mr. Bevis
Dec 31 03:00 PM The Twilight Zone The Old Man In The Cave
Dec 31 03:30 PM The Twilight Zone A Penny For Your Thoughts
Dec 31 04:00 PM The Twilight Zone The Hunt
Dec 31 04:30 PM The Twilight Zone Walking Distance
Dec 31 05:00 PM The Twilight Zone A Hundred Yards Over The Rim
Dec 31 05:30 PM The Twilight Zone A Most Unusual Camera
Dec 31 06:00 PM The Twilight Zone I Sing The Body Electric
Dec 31 06:30 PM The Twilight Zone It's A Good Life
Dec 31 07:00 PM The Twilight Zone Eye Of The Beholder
Dec 31 07:30 PM The Twilight Zone The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
Dec 31 10:00 PM The Twilight Zone The Hitch-hiker
Dec 31 10:30 PM The Twilight Zone Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up
Dec 31 11:00 PM The Twilight Zone The Howling Man
Dec 31 11:30 PM The Twilight Zone The Masks
Dec 31 12:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Midnight Sun
Dec 31 12:30 AM The Twilight Zone Third From The Sun
Dec 31 01:00 AM The Twilight Zone Long Distance Call
Dec 31 01:30 AM The Twilight Zone One For The Angels
Dec 31 02:00 AM The Twilight Zone Night Of The Meek
Dec 31 02:30 AM The Twilight Zone Nightmare As A Child
Dec 31 03:00 AM The Twilight Zone Night Call
Dec 31 03:30 AM The Twilight Zone Probe 7 Over And Out
Dec 31 04:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Dec 31 04:30 AM The Twilight Zone I Am The Night - Color Me Black
Dec 31 05:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Grave
Dec 31 05:30 AM The Twilight Zone The Fear
Jan 1 06:00 AM The Twilight Zone Judgement Night
Jan 1 06:30 AM The Twilight Zone Long Live Walter Jameson
Jan 1 07:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Arrival
Jan 1 07:30 AM The Twilight Zone A Quality Of Mercy
Jan 1 08:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Fugitive
Jan 1 08:30 AM The Twilight Zone The Gift
Jan 1 09:00 AM The Twilight Zone Black Leather Jackets
Jan 1 09:30 AM The Twilight Zone A Piano In The House
Jan 1 10:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Shelter
Jan 1 10:30 AM The Twilight Zone A World Of His Own
Jan 1 11:00 AM The Twilight Zone A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain
Jan 1 11:30 AM The Twilight Zone Mr. Denton On Doomsday
Jan 1 12:00 PM The Twilight Zone I Shot An Arrow Into The Air
Jan 1 12:30 PM The Twilight Zone The Little People
Jan 1 01:00 PM The Twilight Zone A Kind Of Stopwatch
Jan 1 01:30 PM The Twilight Zone The 7th Is Made Up Of Phantoms
Jan 1 02:00 PM The Twilight Zone Mr. Dingle, The Strong
Jan 1 02:30 PM The Twilight Zone People Are Alike All Over
Jan 1 03:00 PM The Twilight Zone Stopover In A Quiet Town
Jan 1 03:30 PM The Twilight Zone A Game Of Pool
Jan 1 04:00 PM The Twilight Zone Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
Jan 1 04:30 PM The Twilight Zone Nick Of Time
Jan 1 05:00 PM The Twilight Zone The Bewitchin' Pool
Jan 1 05:30 PM The Twilight Zone The Dummy
Jan 1 06:00 PM The Twilight Zone Little Girl Lost
Jan 1 06:30 PM The Twilight Zone Kick The Can
Jan 1 07:00 PM The Twilight Zone The Invaders
Jan 1 07:30 PM The Twilight Zone Five Characters In Search Of An Exit
Jan 1 08:00 PM The Twilight Zone The Odyssey Of Flight 33
Jan 1 08:30 PM The Twilight Zone Where Is Everybody
Jan 1 09:00 PM The Twilight Zone To Serve Man
Jan 1 09:30 PM The Twilight Zone Time Enough At Last
Jan 1 10:00 PM The Twilight Zone Nightmare At 20,000 Feet
Jan 1 10:30 PM The Twilight Zone Living Doll
Jan 1 11:00 PM The Twilight Zone A Stop At Willoughby
Jan 1 11:30 PM The Twilight Zone The Obsolete Man
Jan 1 12:00 AM The Twilight Zone The After Hours
Jan 1 12:30 AM The Twilight Zone Death's Head Revisited
Jan 1 01:00 AM The Twilight Zone Two
Jan 1 01:30 AM The Twilight Zone Mirror Image
Jan 1 02:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Changing Of The Guard
Jan 1 02:30 AM The Twilight Zone Twenty-two
Jan 1 03:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Lonely
Jan 1 03:30 AM The Twilight Zone Dead Man's Shoes
Jan 1 04:00 AM The Twilight Zone Hocus-pocus And Frisby
Jan 1 04:30 AM The Twilight Zone Nothing In The Dark
Jan 1 05:00 AM The Twilight Zone Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Jan 1 05:30 AM The Twilight Zone The Last Rights Of Jeff Myrtlebank
05:00 AM (infomercials, then regular programming resumes @ 8am)
Jan 2 05:00 AM The Twilight Zone Person Or Persons Unknown
Jan 3 08:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Brain Center At Whipple's
Jan 7 08:00 AM The Twilight Zone Come Wander With Me
Jan 8 05:30 AM The Twilight Zone The Lateness Of The Hour
Jan 9 09:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Purple Testament
Jan 9 04:00 AM The Twilight Zone He's Alive
Jan 9 05:00 AM The Twilight Zone Four O'clock
Jan 10 03:30 AM The Twilight Zone A World Of Difference
Jan 13 08:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Big Tall Wish
Jan 14 08:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Chaser
Jan 15 05:00 AM The Twilight Zone The Trade-ins
Jan 15 05:30 AM The Twilight Zone Young Man's Fancy
Jan 30 05:00 AM The Twilight Zone Cavender Is Coming
The Twilight Zone series of 156 episodes originally aired in 25-minute formats (50 minutes in Season Four) over five seasons from 1959 to 1964. Series creator Rod Serling wrote over half of the scripts.
Characters portrayed people caught in unusual circumstances where fantasy intrudes into reality or moral or ethical decisions come into question. There is always something to think about after the episode ends. A simple message runs through the series: that only by reaching out to others and trusting in their common humanity can people overcome fear, alienation, and despair. Giving in to fear means total loss; only through imagination, beauty, and our relationships with others can we transcend the darkness.
By today's standards, The Twilight Zone may appear dated or perhaps even heavy-handed to some viewers. There is no doubt television arts have developed considerably since Rod Serling and his crew created The Twilight Zone some forty years ago. Compared with today's color video with its seemingly unlimited possibilities for digital special effects, black and white film is a completely different, almost rustic, medium. As for content, today's primetime TV fiction features more situation comedy, serial drama, and suspense than analysis of moral and ethical dilemmas.
Although derived from and set in a different era, The Twilight Zone still captivates. Its twisting plots, interesting characters, surreal settings, and existential questions endure, as those of classics will. Young audiences who look beyond the surface, who suspend their techno-sophistication and allow themselves to explore the fifth dimension that Rod Serling drew upon, will find rich reward for their efforts.
The SCIFI Channel
12/31/2009 Last Year's marathon (December 2009)Previous July 4th marathon (2009, none in July 2010)