Twilight Zone New Year's Eve Marathon on Syfy - All 156 episodes in order and in HD

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Own them all, but my favorites are:

Five Characters in Search of an Exit
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Time Enough At Last
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
Eye of the Beholder
 
I never got to enjoy that episode fresh, the Futurama parody ruined it for me. Haha, I think another show parodied Time Enough At Last too.
 
What's the name of the episode where the woman is assaulted and she is clearly lost it and her husband then takes her into town and she goes "there that's the man" and the guy kills him and gets back in the car, drives a bit more and she says the same thing about another guy and he realizes he just killed an innocent man?

Edit: never mind guys, I was confused. This episode is from Alfred Hitchcock presents "Revenge". Really good episode.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508235/
 
I used to love this marathon, because episodes of Twilight Zone weren't readily available for purchase or streaming and it was pretty much the only way to see a lot of episodes that you had never seen before. I always had a VCR set up to record all my new and old favorites.

That said, this event just feels like an archaic relic of a time before Netflix and Hulu. They really ought to do something to make it more special and relevant. Just airing the barebones episodes with commercials is hardly appealing. Get a notable celebrity or TV historian to host the whole thing and have his/her commentary before and after every episode. Include interesting trivia or behind the scenes stories. A precious handful of the original stars and writers are still alive -- why not have interviews with them? I would love to hear William Shatner, George Takei, Bill Mumy, or Martin Landau talk about the episodes they starred in.
 
Great show. Always enjoy the marathons. Even the 80s remake had some good episodes, although Tales from the Darkside was better. Night Gallery is quality as well. So many good scifi/fantasy/horror anthology series in last 70 years. Even the worse ones like The Hunger have some good episodes. The Twilight Zone is special because the good episodes largely outnumber the bad. Every anthology series has some clunkers, but they were more rare on the original Twilight Zone.
 
rocksteady1983 said:
What's the name of the episode where the woman is assaulted and she is clearly lost it and he then takes her into town and she goes "there that's the man" and the guy kills him and gets back in the car, drives a bit more and she says the same thing about another guy and he realizes he just killed an innocent man?
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The Hitchhiker?
 
In all these old shows and movies, they turn those rotary dialed phones so hard. Maybe they were stiff in those days.
 
Anyone know the reason why Harrington was going to run out of the telephone booth? I always thought that was a weird scene.
 
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Are these in HD on any websites? Netflix?

EBF, what are your favorite eps?
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In chronological order, aside from the obvious classics.

Walking Distance
Escape Clause
Judgement Night
The Hitch-Hiker
The Fever
The Eye of the Beholder
Nick of Time
A Most Unusual Camera
Twenty-Two
Static
The Silence
The Obsolete Man
The Shelter
Deaths-Head Revisited
Nothing in the Dark
A Piano in the House
Little Girl Lost
The Thirty-Fathom Grave
He's Alive
Miniature
On Thursday We Leave For Home
A Kind of Stopwatch
The 7th Is Made Up Of Phantoms
You Drive (plot twist: the car is an Autobot)
Night Call
What's In The Box
The Masks
I Am The Night-Color Me Black
 
Last night, I kept thinking of the original Planet of the Apes movie during the end of I Shot an Arrow into the Air. I wonder if Serling was thinking of that episode when he wrote the ending to Planet of the Apes.
 
B.K. said:
Last night, I kept thinking of the original Planet of the Apes movie during the end of I Shot an Arrow into the Air. I wonder if Serling was thinking of that episode when he wrote the ending to Planet of the Apes.
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True story: I had no idea Rod Serling wrote Planet of the Apes when I first watched it. And the whole time I kept thinking, "This dialog seems like something from The Twilight Zone."
 
ElectricBlanketFire said:
True story: I had no idea Rod Serling wrote Planet of the Apes when I first watched it. And the whole time I kept thinking, "This dialog seems like something from The Twilight Zone."
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There's actually a fan edit of Planet of the Apes that cuts it down to 30 minutes, is converted to black and white, and has an opening and ending narration from Serling from other episodes of The Twilight Zone. It's a bit rough, but it actually works better than you would think as an episode of The Twilight Zone.
 
MattKeil said:
What's with the AutoMotion Plus effect on the episodes this year? Awful.
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Yeah. I hate that. I hope that's something that Syfy has done and that's not something done during the HD transfer. I won't buy the Blu-Rays if they're like this.
 
We back with "The Invaders"!

MattKeil said:
What's with the AutoMotion Plus effect on the episodes this year? Awful.
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It's pretty bad for sure. It's weird, I don't think the episodes from last night (Season1) had it. Don't know why they decided to do it in the later ones.
 
Amazing, amazing show. So influential. Classic episodes parodied and copied yet no one could ever make them as good as the originals. Along with The X Files, my fav tv show of all time.
 
I was watching earlier today and caught the first few episodes of Season 2. I was thinking "I've never seen this episode before...how's that possible?". Then after finishing the episode (the bomber grounded in the desert), I realized it was because that damn episode was boring as all hell and the stinger ending sucked. Definitely not a classic, but interesting that there are episodes out there I actually haven't seen. As for The Invaders? That episode scarred me as a child. I was rooting for the damn enemy! Argh.
 
Amazing special effects on that plane explosion.

Not a huge fan of "The Odyssey of Flight 33". Maybe because I've seen it too many times.
 
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