It was a year befitting of Rod Serling’s TV classic. Now that we’ve lived a full trip around the sun in The Twilight Zone, maybe we’ll find even deeper meaning in its parables. Or we’ll continue to ignore them completely as our planet descends into chaos.
Either way, the annual Twilight Zone New Year’s Day Marathon continues on SYFY for our viewing pleasure. The marathon spans three days, from Thursday, Dec. 31 at 6:00 a.m., kicking off with The Twilight Zone’s inaugural episode, “Where Is Everybody,” until Saturday, Jan. 2 at 5:30 a.m with “The Bewitchin’ Pool,” the 156th and final episode of the series’ original run.
The holiday season marks a special time in The Twilight Zone. Serling was born on Christmas Day 1924 and the series has a memorable homage to Miracle on 34th Street with season two’s “The Night of The Meek,” set during Christmas. Outside of his anthology masterpiece, Serling even wrote his own take on A Christmas Carol, as a TV movie featuring Peter Sellers, that was nearly completely forgotten for almost 50 years before it resurfaced on television. We wrote more on that here.
The Twilight Zone Holiday Marathons–first Thanksgiving, then July 4th, and now New Years–have their own history, which we detailed a few years back. The marathon’s most recent home has been SYFY. You can check out the network’s full Twilight Zone Marathon schedule below.
Thursday, December 31st
- 6:00 a.m. ET – “Where Is Everybody?”
- 6:30 a.m. ET – “One for the Angels”
- 7:00 a.m. ET – “Mr. Denton on Doomsday”
- 7:30 a.m. ET – “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine”
- 8:00 a.m. ET – “Walking Distance”
- 8:25 a.m. ET – “Escape Clause”
- 8:50 a.m. ET – “The Lonely”
- 9:15 a.m. ET – “Judgment Night”
- 9:40 a.m. ET – “And When the Sky Was Opened”
- 10:05 a.m. ET – “What You Need”
- 10:30 a.m. ET – “The Four of Us Are Dying”
- 10:55 a.m. ET – “Third From the Sun”
- 11:20 a.m. ET – “I Shot an Arrow Into the Air”
- 11:45 a.m. ET – “The Fever”
- 12:10 p.m. ET – “The Last Flight”
- 12:35 p.m. ET – “The Purple Testament”
- 1:00 p.m. ET – “Elegy”
- 1:25 p.m. ET – “Mirror Image”
- 1:50 p.m. ET – “Long Live Walter Jameson”
- 2:15 p.m. ET – “People Are Alike All Over”
- 2:40 p.m. ET – “Execution”
- 3:05 p.m. ET – “The Big Tall Wish”
- 3:30 p.m. ET – “Nightmare as a Child”
- 3:55 p.m. ET – “The Chaser”
- 4:20 p.m. ET – “A Passage for Trumpet”
- 4:45 p.m. ET – “Mr. Bevis”
- 5:10 p.m. ET – “The After Hours”
- 5:35 p.m. ET – “The Mighty Casey”
- 6:00 p.m. ET – “A World of His Own”
- 6:25 p.m. ET – “King Nine Will Not Return”
- 6:50 p.m. ET – “Time Enough at Last”
- 7:15 p.m. ET – “Perchance to Dream”
- 7:40 p.m. ET – “The Hitch-hiker”
- 8:05 p.m. ET – “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”
- 8:30 p.m. ET – “A World of Difference”
- 8:55 p.m. ET – “A Nice Place to Visit”
- 9:20 p.m. ET – “A Stop at Willoughby”
- 9:45 p.m. ET – “The Howling Man”
- 10:10 p.m. ET – “Eye of the Beholder”
- 10:35 p.m. ET – “Night of the Meek”
- 11:00 p.m. ET – “Dust”
- 11:25 p.m. ET – “The Invaders”
- 11:50 p.m. ET – “The Man in the Bottle”
Friday, January 1st
- 12:15 a.m. ET – “Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room”
- 12:40 a.m. ET – “A Thing About Machines”
- 1:05 a.m. ET – “Nick of Time”
- 1:30 a.m. ET – “The Lateness of the Hour”
- 1:55 a.m. ET – “The Trouble With Templeton”
- 2:20 a.m. ET – “Once Upon a Time”
- 2:45 a.m. ET – “A Quality of Mercy”
- 3:10 a.m. ET – “The Hunt”
- 3:35 a.m. ET – “Kick the Can”
- 4:00 a.m. ET – “A Piano in the House”
- 4:30 a.m. ET – “The Little People”
- 5:00 a.m. ET – “The Trade-Ins”
- 5:30 a.m. ET – “A Kind of Stopwatch”
- 6:00 a.m. ET – “A Most Unusual Camera”
- 6:30 a.m. ET – “Back There”
- 7:00 a.m. ET – “The Whole Truth”
- 7:30 a.m. ET – “A Penny for Your Thoughts”
- 8:00 a.m. ET – “Twenty-Two”
- 8:30 a.m. ET – “The Odyssey of Flight 33”
- 9:00 a.m. ET – “Mr. Dingle, The Strong”
- 9:30 a.m. ET – “Static”
- 10:00 a.m. ET – “The Prime Mover”
- 10:30 a.m. ET – “A Hundred Yards Over the Rim”
- 11:00 a.m. ET – “The Rip Van Winkle Caper”
- 11:30 a.m. ET – “The Silence”
- 12:00 p.m. ET – “Shadow Play”
- 12:30 p.m. ET – “The Mind and the Matter”
- 1:00 p.m. ET – “Two”
- 1:30 p.m. ET – “The Arrival”
- 2:00 p.m. ET – “The Shelter”
- 2:30 p.m. ET – “The Passersby”
- 3:00 p.m. ET – “The Mirror”
- 3:30 p.m. ET – “The Grave”
- 4:00 p.m. ET – “It’s a Good Life”
- 4:30 p.m. ET – “Deaths-Head Revisited”
- 5:00 p.m. ET – “Still Valley”
- 5:30 p.m. ET– “The Jungle”
- 6:00 p.m. ET – “Long Distance Call”
- 6:30 p.m. ET – “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?”
- 7:00 p.m. ET – “The Obsolete Man”
- 7:30 p.m. ET – “A Game of Pool”
- 8:00 p.m. ET – “The Midnight Sun”
- 8:30 p.m. ET – “Five Characters in Search of an Exit”
- 9:00 p.m. ET – “To Serve Man”
- 9:30 p.m. ET – “The Dummy”
- 10:00 p.m. ET – “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”
- 10:30 p.m. ET – “Living Doll”
- 11:00 p.m. ET – “The Masks”
- 11:30 p.m. ET – “Jess-Belle”
Saturday, January 2nd
- 12:30 a.m. ET – “What’s in the Box?”
- 1 a.m. ET – “I Am the Night – Color Me Black”
- 1:30 a.m. ET – “Sounds and Silences”
- 2 a.m. ET – “Caesar and Me”
- 2:30 a.m. ET – “The Jeopardy Room”
- 3 a.m. ET – “The Encounter”
- 3:30 a.m. ET – “Mr. Garrity and the Graves”
- 4 a.m. ET – “The Brain Center at Whipple’s”
- 4:30 a.m. ET – “Come Wander With Me”
- 5 a.m. ET – “The Fear”
- 5:30 a.m. ET – “The Bewitchin’ Pool”