Twilight Zone Marathon all day today and New Years Day on Sci-Fi Channel

Sci-Fi Channel ^ | Dec 31 and Jan 1

[ETL]

Just thought I'd give a heads-up to anyone who wasn't aware, and of course, liked the series. I posted this in the 'Chat' forum under TV/Movies.

http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3
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You can also watch every episode of the Twilight Zone free on your computer here:
(schedule is for eastern time zone)
http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/

[ETL]

To Serve Man
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the story by Damon Knight
Director: Richard L. Bare

Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine. The Kanamits, nine-foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man. They end war, they end famine. They make the military wonder: what's the catch?

CAST: Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, Lloyd Bochner, Lomax Study, Theodore Marcuse, Susan Cummings, Nelson Olmstead.

Watch it online for free at:
(see Season 3, page 1)
http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/
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[Tanniker Smith]

Thanks for the schedule link. Dish isn't listing the individual episodes.

It's a shame that I've seen just about all of the half-hour episodes already (and a bigger shame that I can't sit through most of the one-hour episodes. They're just too long!)

[the_devils_advocate_666]

“Time Enough at Last” is certainly one of my favorites!

[the_devils_advocate_666]

And it’s not even on their schedule!

[ETL]

Oops! I just realized I screwed up and labeled the CBS free online link with the Sci-Fi Channel schedule link.

[Free America52]

I thought we had been living in the Twilight Zone.

[tatsinfla]

thanks for the heads up...always loved that show and rod...great writer...died way to young...

[Maine Mariner]

Yes, he died way too young. As I recall he was a paratrooper in WWII and saw combat.

[ETL]

You can watch it free online if they don't show it on the Sci-Fi Ch marathon.

"Time Enough At Last"
(listed under 'most popular', and also 'season 1, page 2')
http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/

[Red in Blue PA]

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

[tm61]

ah ha!, only the true monstor would mention that episode!

we knew it all along,

[NeoConfederate]

Thanks for the heads-up! Brings me back to the days I’d axe my mom to make some coffee at night and I’d stay up to watch The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limts, and most anything with Vincent Price.

Then I discovered pot and they really got good! Does anyone remember Night Gallery? That was the bomb! Much in the same way Israel is now bombing the terrorist group Hamas. I can’t wait till the Shock-n-Awe part!

[KarlInOhio]

"Time Enough At Last"

I finally got it on DVD and then my TV died. :-)

[Toki]

Wow! Thanks for the reminder. I always try to watch some of the marathon, (but I always catch the same episodes over and over.) Now I can try to find some new ones. :D

[Oatka]

Twilight Zone Marathon all day today and New Years Day on Sci-Fi Channel

This will drive the wife nuts - "HOW MANY TIMES can you watch that stuff?

Let me count the ways . . .

As an old bold Linotype operator, my favorite one-hour episode is "Printer's Devil". Burgess Meridith was in top form.

[retrokitten]

www.fancast.com

Also has Twilight Zone episodes free online.

[ETL]

Brings me back to the days I’d axe my mom...

Your name wouldn't be 'Borden' would it? :)

[Hatteras]

[RenegadeNC]

Wow...in all my years of watching Twilight Zone as a child, that is the one scene that gave me nightmares!!

[antiRepublicrat]

I’m going to have to turn off the Twilight Zone recording on my DVR or that sucker’s going to fill up over the weekend.

[ETL]

There’s also a Clint Eastward marathon on AMC (American Movie Classics). It’s scheduled to run until 12 noon(ET) New Years Day. Immediately following the final Eastward film is The Magnificent Seven.

[Pagey]

BTTT! Thanks for that info.

[Tanniker Smith]

I always liked "A Stop at Willoughby" for a good story with a nice little twist at the end.

That one caught my wife totally off-guard, and it was right after some other episode that made her comment, "Why does it always seem like they're saying 'don't bother trying to be better than you are, be happy with you're current lot'?"

Actually, that's one thing that I hate about bad TZ ripoffs (and some of the poorer episodes): whether the main character lives or dies, thrives or is punished seems to be totally random, regardless of character or decisions or even any relevant moral.

[ETL]

Is that Congressman Henry Waxman out there on the wing staring in at Stratner?

[ETL]

I always liked "A Stop at Willoughby" for a good story with a nice little twist at the end.

Excellent episode! One of my favorites. But I would say it had a very sad twist ending.

Every time I'm on a commuter-type train like that (not often), I can't resist calling out "Willoughby...Next stop is Willoughby". It almost always gets a few laughs from the other passengers. I can't imagine what the rest might be thinking!

[steelyourfaith]

There are three Twilight Zone Episodes that they never seem to show on the SciFi Channel:

* "The Time Element" ..................................... 11/24/58 (Original Pilot Episode)
* "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" ... 2/28/64
* "The Encounter" ............................................ 5/1/64

[tatsinfla]

NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOME GOOD MOVIE WATCHIN THERE.....

[ETL]

Looks like you might be right. I don't see any of those episodes on the Sci-Fi Marathon schedule.

Today's schedule:
http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3

Tomorrow's schedule (Jan 1):
http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3?date=1-JAN-2009&feed_req=

Did you check with the free online site? Be sure to check each of 3 seasons. Note that for each season, there are 2 pages.
http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/

[steelyourfaith]

I’ve been scanning the SciFi marathon schedule for years and I never see these episodes listed.

[ETL]

It must be Waxman. He's out on the "left" wing! :)

I don't blame Shatner for shutting his eyes. That is one ugly son-of-#.

[Tanniker Smith]

* "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" ... 2/28/64

There could be a rights issue with that one. If I'm not mistaken, that was an independent show (foreign?), that Rod Serling licensed for use on the TZ. It wasn't reshot as a TZ episode, mind you. He used the original telecast.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Dang! I’d forgotten about this!

[Zionist Conspirator]

Yes, he died way too young. As I recall he was a paratrooper in WWII and saw combat.

A fanatical lib, unfortunately, who wanted to ban ethnic slurs while removing the bans on swearing. Which of his shows would have been better with swearing?

No denying his writing talent, though.

[NCC-1701]

Thanks for the heads up. However, I don’t have to watch it on Sci-Fi any more. I’ve got the complete boxed set so a TZ marathon is possible at anytime.

As an aside, I want to wish all FReepers a very happy and prosperous new year in 2009. That is despite of The Messiah taking the reins of the country for the next four years.

[Maine Mariner]

Yes, no question a lib-not unusual for Hollywood writers in the 1950s and 60’s. He was also a 1950 graduate of Antioch College.

As you said, “no denying his writing talent”. I wish we had more conservatives with those skills.

[ETL]

“Rodman Edward Serling was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on December 25, 1924, and grew up in Binghamton, the son of a wholesale meat dealer. By his own account, he had no early literary ambitions, though from an early age, he and his older brother, Robert, immersed themselves in movies and in such magazines as Astounding Stories and Weird Tales.

On the day he graduated from high school, Serling enlisted in the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division paratroopers, and after basic training (during which time he took up boxing and won 17 out of 18 bouts) he was sent into combat in the Philippines and wounded by shrapnel.

After being discharged in 1946, Serling enrolled at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he majored in Physical Education. He soon switched to Language and Literature, and began writing, directing and acting in weekly productions on a local radio station. While still a student, Serling sold his first three national radio scripts — and even his first television script, “Grady Everett for the People,” which he sold to the live half-hour anthology series Stars Over Hollywood (NBC 1950-51) for $100.

Serling married Carolyn Louise Kramer in 1948. After graduation, the pair moved to Cincinnati, where Serling became a staff writer for WLW radio and collected rejection slips for his freelance writing — 40 in a row at one point!

Serling’s fortunes changed when he began writing full-time. From 1951 to 1955, more than 70 of his television scripts were produced, garnering both critical and public acclaim. Full-scale success came on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1955, with the live airing of his Kraft Television Theatre script “Patterns.” Deemed a “creative triumph” by critics, and the winner of the first of Serling’s six Emmy awards, the acclaimed production was actually remounted live to air a second time on Feb. 9, 1955 — an unprecedented event.

Serling went to work on screenplays for MGM and as a writer for CBS’ illustrious Playhouse 90, for which he crafted 90-minute dramas — including both the series’ 1956 debut, “Forbidden Area,” starring Charlton Heston, Vincent Price, Jackie Coogan and Tab Hunter; and the multiple-Emmy Award-winning “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” starring Jack Palance and Keenan Wynn that later was turned into both a feature film and a Broadway play. Remarkably, in a milieu that included such writing legends as Paddy Chayefsky and Reginald Rose, Serling took the writing Emmy again the following year for his Playhouse 90 script “The Comedian,” starring Mickey Rooney.

A critical and financial success, Serling shocked many of his fans in 1957 when he left Playhouse 90 to create a science-fiction series he called The Twilight Zone.

CBS would air 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone, an astonishing 92 of which were written by Serling, over the next five years. His writing earned him two more Emmy Awards. The show went on to become one of television’s most widely recognized and beloved series, and it has achieved a permanent place in American popular culture with its instantly recognizable opening, its theme music and its charismatic host, Serling himself. With early appearances by such performers as Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper and many others, The Twilight Zone became a launching pad for some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

After the production of The Twilight Zone ended in January 1964, Serling remained active in television and movies, winning an Emmy for his Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre adapted script “It’s Mental Work,” and hosting and writing episodes of the 1970-73 anthology series Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. There, his script “They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar” earned an Emmy nomination as the year’s Outstanding Single Program. Serling returned to Antioch College as a professor and lectured at college campuses across the country. Politically active, Serling spoke out against the Vietnam War in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

Rod Serling died on June 28, 1975, in Rochester, N.Y., of complications arising from a coronary bypass operation.”

http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/about/

[PowderMonkey]

GAWD! That episode still creeps me out. When it first aired, my sister and I were alone in the house that night and both of came off the floor screaming when Shatner’s character whipped the curtain open. To this day I cannot stand looking out a darkened window at night, or even being in the room without closing the drapes.

[Zionist Conspirator]

You know, they've just shown "Eye of the Beholder," an allegorical condemnation of "fascism" (conformity).

I can't help but wonder if Rod Serling would condemn the Leftist conformity of today's media and academe or if he'd be as hypocritical as most liberals are.

[Maine Mariner]

I don’t know if he would be hypocritical or not but if anyone would condemn Leftist conformity it would be him.

[Maine Mariner]

I don’t know if he would be hypocritical or not but if anyone would condemn Leftist conformity it would be him.

[TomGuy]

* "The Time Element" ..................................... 11/24/58 (Original Pilot Episode)

Related thread:

The true first episode of The Twilight Zone - The Time Element was actually shown on the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.