It's that time again. Maybe a little early, but I'm excited.

All times are in Eastern - I hope this schedule is what they actually go with.

Dec. 31, 2007

3:30 AM
IN HIS IMAGE
A scientific genius creates an almost-perfect mechanical man, combining all the qualities he feels are missing in his own imperfect, human self.
CAST: George Grizzard, Gail Kobe, Katherine Squire, Wallace Rooney, Sherry Granato, James Seay, George Petrie, Jamie Forster, Joseph Sargent.

4:30 AM
KING NINE WILL NOT RETURN
A downed bomber pilot crash-lands in the desert. When he regains consciousness he cannot find any of his crew members.
CAST: Bob Cummings, Gene Lyons, Seymour Green, Richard Lupino, Paul Lambert, Jenna McMahon.

5:00 AM
A THING ABOUT MACHINES
A bad-tempered writer is convinced the machines in his home are conspiring to destroy him.
CAST: Richard Haydn, Barbara Stuart, Barney Phillips.

5:30 AM
PERCHANCE TO DREAM
A terrified man stumbles into a psychiatrist's office, afraid that if he falls asleep a woman in his dream will murder him.
CAST: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd, Eddie Marr, Ted Stanhope, Russell Trent.

6:00 AM
PAID PROGRAMMING (??)

8:00 AM
LITTLE GIRL LOST
A couple is awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their six-year-old daughter who has fallen through a mysterious door into another dimension.
CAST: Sarah Marshall, Robert Sampson, Tracy Stratford, Charles Aidman.

8:30 AM
A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
Timid bank clerk Victor Pool discovers that a coin that lands on its edge as he pays for a paper leaves him with the power to read minds.
CAST: Dick York, Dan Tobin, Hayden Rorke, June Dayton, Cyril Delevanti.

9:00 AM
MUTE
Experimenting with the powers of telepathy, a mother and father try to raise their daughter in a world free of verbal communication.
CAST: Ann Jillian, Frank Overton, Barbara Baxley, Irene Dailey, Oscar Beregi, Claudia Bryar, Robert Boon, Eva Soreny, Percy Helton.

10:00 AM
THE OLD MAN IN THE CAVE
A small community has survived the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust by accepting the advice of The Old Man in the Cave.
CAST: James Coburn, John Anderson, Josie Lloyd, John Craven, Natalie Masters, John Marley, Frank Watkins, Don Wilbanks, Lenny Geer.

10:30 AM
THE SHELTER
A group of neighbors turns into a hostile mob when they try to invade one family's bomb shelter, believing a nuclear attack is imminent.
CAST: Larry Gates, Peggy Stewart, Michael Burns, Jack Albertson, John McLiam, Jo Helton, Joseph Bernard, Moira Turner, Sandy Kenyon, Mary Gregory.

11:00 AM
A KIND OF STOPWATCH
A talkative man acquires a stopwatch with the power to halt all other action in the world.
CAST: Richard Erdman, Leon Balasco, Herbie Faye, Roy Roberts, Doris Singleton, Richard Wessel, Ken Drake, Ray Kellogg, Sam Baiter.

11:30 AM
A PIANO IN THE HOUSE
A strange piano allows the listener's hidden character to be suddenly revealed.
CAST: Barry Morse, Joan Hackett, Muriel Landers, Don Durant, Phil Coolidge, Cyril Delevanti

12:00 PM
A MOST UNUSUAL CAMERA
A pair of petty thieves find that a camera they have just stolen can predict the future by the pictures it takes.
CAST: Jean Carson, Fred Clark, Adam Williams.

12:30 PM
DEAD MAN'S SHOES
A down-and-out man steals the fancy shoes from the body of a murdered gangster and finds himself living in the dead man's footsteps.
CAST: Warren Stevens, Ben Wright, Harry Swoger, Joan Marshall, Eugene Borden, Richard Devon, Florence Marly, Ron Hagerthy, Joe Mell.

1:00 PM
TWENTY-TWO
A young woman complains of a recurring nightmare in which she always ends up in Room 22 — the hospital morgue.
CAST: Barbara Nichols, Jonathan Harris, Arline Sax, Fredd Wayne, Norma Connolly, Mary Adams, Wesley Lau, Joe Sargeant, Jay Overholts, Carole Conn.

1:30 PM
NIGHTMARE AS A CHILD
A teacher's encounter with herself as a child unlocks her memory of witnessing her mother's murder.
CAST: Janice Rule, Terry Burnham, Sheppard Strudwick.

2:00 PM
PROBE 7 OVER AND OUT
The lone survivors of two devastated planets meet on a new world.
CAST: Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower, Barton Heyman, Harold Gould.

2:30 PM
I SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE AIR
A panicky astronaut traveler, believing his ship has crashed on a deserted asteroid, kills his two companions to save water, then discovers his shocking true location.
CAST: Dewey Martin, Edward Binns, Ted Otis.

3:00 PM
NICK OF TIME
A superstitious newlywed husband finds a penny fortune-telling machine that makes uncannily accurate predictions about his life.
CAST: William Shatner, Patricia Breslin.

3:30 PM
WHAT YOU NEED
A down-and-out man tries to turn another man's ability to tell the future into a money-making scheme.
CAST: Steve Cochran, Read Morgan, Arline Sax, Frank Alloca, Ernest Truax, William Edmonson, Norman Sturgis, Mark Sunday.

4:00 PM
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC
A widowed father buys his three young children an electronic grandmother to the delight of all but one of them.
CAST: Josephine Hutchinson, David White, June Vincent, Vaughn Taylor, Judy Morton, Dana Dillaway, Paul Nesbitt, Charles Herbert, Veronica Cartwright, Susan Crane.

4:30 PM
UNCLE SIMON
A woman learns that she has inherited the estate of the uncle she left to die provided she looks after his latest invention — a robot that mysteriously takes on the nature of her dead uncle.
CAST: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Ford, John McLiam, Ian Wolfe.

5:00 PM
KICK THE CAN
The magic of a children's game enables a group of old people to recapture their youth.
CAST: Ernest Truex, Hank Patterson, Russell Collins, Earle Hodgins, Burt Mustin, Gregory McCabe, Marjorie Bennett, Lenore Shanewise, Anne O'Neal, John Marley, Barry Truex, Eve McVeagh, Marc Stevens.

5:30 PM
A SHORT DRINK FROM A CERTAIN FOUNTAIN
A wealthy old man begs his doctor-brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
CAST: Patrick O'Neal, Ruta Lee, Walter Brooke.

6:00 PM
WHERE IS EVERYBODY
Greeted by empty streets, a man searches a small town to find that he is completely and inexplicably alone. The series pilot.
CAST: Earl Holliman, James Gregory, John Conwell, Paul Langton, James McCallion, Jay Overholts, Carter Mulavey, Jim Johnson, Gary Walberg.

6:30 PM
THE LONELY
Convicted of murder and sent to a deserted asteroid for 40 years, a man is given a robot woman for company.
CAST: Jack Warden, John Dehner, Jim Turley, Jean Marsh, Ted Knight.

7:00 PM
TO SERVE MAN
Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine.
CAST: Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, Lloyd Bochner, Lomax Study, Theodore Marcuse, Susan Cummings, Nelson Olmstead.

7:30 PM
WILL THE REAL MARTIAN PLEASE STAND UP?
On the night of a UFO sighting, seven people at a diner claim to be of Earth, though one of them is not.
CAST: Morgan Jones, John Archer, Bill Kendis, John Hoyt, Jack Elam, Jean Wiles, Barney Phillips

8:00 PM
THE 7TH IS MADE UP OF PHANTOMS
During maneuvers near the site of Custer's Last Stand, three national guardsmen find themselves plunged into the Battle of Little Big Horn.
CAST: Ron Foster, Warren Oates, Randy Boone, Robert Bray, Wayne Mallory, Greg Morris, Jeffrey Morris, Jacque Shelton, Lew Brown.

8:30 PM
DEATH'S HEAD REVISITED
At the Dachau concentration camp, a former Nazi is tried by a phantom jury of his tortured victims.
CAST: Oscar Beregi, Joseph Schildkraut, Ben Wright, Karen Verne, Chuck Fox, Robert Boone.

9:00 PM
WALKING DISTANCE
A man's need to escape the pressure of his work is so great that he slips back 30 years into his own childhood.
CAST: Gig Young, Michael Montgomery, Byron Foulger, Joseph Corey, Frank Overton, Irene Tedrow, Buzz Martin.

9:30 PM
A HUNDRED YARDS OVER THE RIM
A 19th-century Western settler, desperately searching for water for his sick son, takes a walk that inexplicably leads him into the next century.
CAST: Cliff Robertson, Miranda Jones, John Crawford, Evan Evans.

10:00 PM
A GAME OF POOL
A pool master returns from the dead to play one last game with an eager young hustler.
CAST: Jack Klugman, Jonathan Winters.

10:30 PM
PERCHANCE TO DREAM
A terrified man stumbles into a psychiatrist's office, afraid that if he falls asleep a woman in his dream will murder him.
CAST: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd, Eddie Marr, Ted Stanhope, Russell Trent.

11:00 PM
TIME ENOUGH AT LAST
Nearsighted, meek bank clerk Henry Bernis is the sole survivor of an H-bomb attack. At last he has the time to engulf himself in his passion for books. Or so he thinks.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor, Jacqueline de Wit, Lela Bliss.

11:30 PM
TWO
A man and a woman from different sides of a war are the sole survivors of a nuclear holocaust.
CAST: Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Montgomery.

Jan. 1, 2008

12:00 AM
THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET
A mysterious power failure causes paranoid suburban residents to suspect one another of being disguised creatures from outer space.
CAST: Claude Akins, Jack Weston, Barry Atwater, Jan Handzlik, Burt Metcalfe, Mary Gregory, Anne Barton, Lea Waggner, Ben Erway, Lyn Guild, Sheldon Allman, William Walsh.

12:30 AM
THE INVADERS
A lone woman battles two miniature spacemen whose craft crashes into her isolated farmhouse. The essentially dialogue-free, one-woman performance by the legendary Agnes Moorehead of Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and, later, television's Bewitched, is a tour de force.

1:00 AM
A STOP AT WILLOUGHBY
A harassed executive escapes into the peaceful town of Willoughby in July 1880.
CAST: James Daly, Howard Smith, Patricia Donahue, James Maloney.

1:30 AM
VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
A reporter comes upon a peaceful village that guards the secret of creating and obliterating matter. Once he learns the secret, it takes another miracle to release him from the responsibility of the knowledge.
CAST: Ed Nelson, Natalie Trundy, David Opatoshu, James Doohan, Suzanne Cupito, Dabbs Greer, Jacques Aubuchon, Sandy Kenyon, Henry Beckman, Bart Burns, King Calder, Pat O'Hara.

2:30 AM
THE ODYSSEY OF FLIGHT 33
A commercial airliner, en route to New York, breaks through the time barrier into the prehistoric past.
CAST: John Anderson, Paul Comi, Sandy Kenyon, Harp McGuire, Wayne Heffley, Nancy Rennick, Beverly Brown, Jay Overholt, Betty Garde.

3:00 AM
THE LAST FLIGHT
Fleeing from a World War One dogfight, a cowardly British pilot lands his 1917 biplane at a modem jet air base in France ... in 1959.
CAST: Kenneth Haigh, Alexander Scourby, Simon Scott, Robert Warwick, Harry Raybould.

3:30 AM
FIVE CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN EXIT
Five people — a ballet dancer, a major, a clown, tramp and a bagpipe player — trapped in a featureless enclosure with no idea how they got there attempt to escape.
CAST: William Windom, Murray Matheson, Susan Harrison, Kelton Garwood, Clark Allen, Mona Houghton, Carol Hill.

4:00 AM
KING NINE WILL NOT RETURN
A downed bomber pilot crash-lands in the desert. When he regains consciousness he cannot find any of his crew members.
CAST: Bob Cummings, Gene Lyons, Seymour Green, Richard Lupino, Paul Lambert, Jenna McMahon.

4:30 AM
PRINTER'S DEVIL
A newspaper editor who is facing bankruptcy hires a man who claims to be the Devil.
CAST: Robert Sterling, Patricia Crowley, Burgess Meredith, Ray Teal, Charles Thompson, Doris Kemper, Camille Franklin.

5:00 AM ??
5:30 AM ??

6:00 AM
THE PARALLEL
An orbiting astronaut passes into a strange parallel world.
CAST: Steve Forrest, Jacqueline Scott, Frank Aletter, Philip Abbott, Shari Lee Bernath, Paul Comi, Morgan Jones, William Sargent.

7:00 AM
I DREAM OF GENIE
A mild-mannered clerk finds Aladdin's lamp but decides that using his one wish for wealth, power or the girl of his dreams would be a waste of the lamp's power.
CAST: Howard Morris, Patricia Barry, Mark Miller, Jack Albertson, Loring Smith, Joyce Jameson, James Milhollin, Robert Ball, Bob Hastings.

8:00 AM
THE INCREDIBLE WORLD OF HORACE FORD
A toy manufacturer recalls his youth with such longing that he becomes a boy again.
CAST: Pat Hingle, Nan Martin, Ruth White, Phili

9:00 AM
THE DUMMY
A ventriloquist becomes convinced that his dummy has a will and a life of its own.
CAST: Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, George Murdock, Bethelynn Grey, John Harmon, Sandra Warner, Rudy Dolan, Ralph Manza.

9:30 AM
CAESAR AND ME
An impoverished ventriloquist accedes to his dummy's demands that he turn to crime to make money.
CAST: Jackie Cooper, Susanne Cupito, Sarah Selby, Olan Soule, Stafford Repp, Sidney Marion, Don Gazzaniga, Ken Konopka.

10:00 AM
PEOPLE ARE ALIKE ALL OVER
Sam Conrad, the first human to visit Mars, is relieved to find that the Martians treat him kindly and even build him a house like his home on Earth — but with one big difference.
CAST: Roddy McDowell, Paul Comi, Vic Perrin, Susan Oliver, Byron Morrow, Vernon Gray.

10:30 AM
ELEGY
Earth-like scenes from many historical periods greet three space travelers who land on a strange planet.
CAST: Cecil Kellaway, Kevin Hagen, Jeff Morrow, Don Dubbins.

11:00 AM
THE HUNT
A hunter and his faithful dog are drowned while chasing a raccoon, and confront a gatekeeper who implies that he is St. Peter and that Heaven lies inside.
CAST: Arthur Hunnicutt, Titus Moede, Charles Seel, Dexter Dupont, Jeanette Nolan, Orville Sherman, Robert Foulk.

11:30 AM
THE LAST RITES OF JEFF MYRTLEBANK
When a young man steps out of his coffin at his own funeral the townsfolk grow to suspect that the devil has assumed the man's body.
CAST: James Best, Ralph Moody, Ezelle Poule, Vickie Barnes, Sherry Jackson, Helen Wallace, Lance Fuller, Bill Fawcett, Edgar Buchanan, Mabel Forrest, Dub Taylor, Jon Lormer, Pat Hector.

12:00 PM
THIRD FROM THE SUN
Two families steal a rocket ship and flee to another world before atomic war devastates their own.
CAST: Fritz Weaver, Edward Andrews, Lori March, Will J. White, Joe Maross, Denise Alexander, Jeanne Evans.

12:30 PM
ONE MORE PALLBEARER
A wealthy man devises an elaborate hoax to force three people to apologize for humiliating him earlier in his life.
CAST: Joseph Wiseman, Gage Clark, Trevor Bardette, Katherine Squire, JosipElic, Ray Galvin, Robert Snyder.

1:00 PM
THE RIP VAN WINKLE CAPER
Four thieves plot to hide out with their loot for 100 years in a state of suspended animation.
CAST: Oscar Beregi, Simon Oakland, John Mitchum, Lew Gallo.

1:30 PM
THE LONG MORROW
A deep-space astronaut smashes the suspended-animation device that will keep him young, so that he can age at the same rate as the woman he loves.
CAST: Robert Lansing, Mariette Hartley, George MacReady, Edward Binns, William Swan.

2:00 PM
ONE FOR THE ANGELS
Informed that his time on Earth is about up, a gentle sidewalk salesman named Bookman talks Mr. Death into letting him make one really big pitch — "one for the angels" — before he dies.
CAST: Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Dana Dillaway, Jay Overholts, Merritt Bohn, Mickey Maga

2:30 PM
NOTHING IN THE DARK
An aged recluse barricades herself in an abandoned building in order to avoid "Mr. Death."
CAST: Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford, R.G. Armstrong

3:00 PM
IT'S A GOOD LIFE
A six-year-old boy holds a town in terror with his powers to change or destroy anyone or anything at will.
CAST: Billy Mumy, Cloris Leachman, Alice Frost, Jeanne Bates, Casey Adams, John Larch, Tom Botcher, Don Keefer, Lenore Kingston.

3:30 PM
THE MIND AND THE MATTER
A book about thought gives a clerk the power to accomplish anything just by willing it, leaving him free to create an ideal world. Or at least his version of it.
CAST: Shelley Berman, Jack Grinnage, Jeane Wood, Chet Stratton.

4:00 PM
THE MIDNIGHT SUN
The Earth has fallen out of its orbit and is drawing closer to the Sun, inflicting ever-increasing heat on the planet.
CAST: Lois Nettleton, Betty Garde, Jason Wingreen, Ned Glass, June Ellis, John McLiam, William Keene, Robert J. Stevenson, Tom Reese.

4:30 PM
LIVING DOLL
A man is threatened with revenge by the expensive talking doll he is planning to dispose of.
CAST: Telly Savalas, Tracy Stratford, Mary LaRoche.

5:00 PM
MINIATURE
Charley Parkes, a shy bachelor, falls in love with a tiny, beautiful museum doll who he believes is alive.
CAST: Robert Duvall, Pert Kelton, Barbara Barrie, Len Weinrib, William Windom, John McLiam, Claire Griswold, Nina Roman, Richard Angarola, Barney Phillips, Joan Chambers, Chet Stratton.

6:00 PM
THE HITCH-HIKER
Driving cross-country, a girl keeps seeing the same hitch-hiker on the road ahead, beckoning her toward a fatal accident.
CAST: Inger Stevens, Leonard Strong, Adam Williams, Dwight Townsend, Mitzi McCall, Eleanor Audley, Lew Gallo, Russ Bender, George Mitchell.

6:30 PM
IN PRAISE OF PIP
Bookie Max Phillips learn that his soldier son, Pip, has been critically wounded in Vietnam. Remorseful over the way he raised him, Max pleads with God to take his life in place of his son's.
CAST: Jack Klugman, Billy Mumy, Bob Diamond, Connie Gilchrist, John Launer, Ross Elliott, Stuart Nisbet, Russell Horton, Gerald Gordon, Kreg Martin.

7:00 PM
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
In a hospital room, her face completely covered by medical wrappings, a woman waits to see if a last-chance operation on her face has fixed the freakishness that will have her sent to a reservation of outcasts.
CAST: Joanna Hayes, Jennifer Howard, William D. Gordon, Maxine Stuart, Donna Douglas.

7:30 PM
NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS JUST LIKE YOU
A young woman resists pressure to be transformed into a state-controlled image of flawless beauty.
CAST: Collin Wilcox, Suzy Parker, Richard Long, Pam Austin.

8:00 PM
LONG DISTANCE CALL
A young boy keeps in touch with his dead grandmother via the toy telephone she once gave him.
CAST: Bill Mumy, Philip Abbott, Patricia Smith, Lili Darvas.

8:30 PM
NIGHT OF THE MEEK
Henry Corwin, a down-at-the-heels department store Santa, dispenses Christmas cheer to a mission house with the help of a sack that will produce whatever one asks for.
CAST: Art Carney, John Fiedler, Meg Wylie, Robert Lieb.

9:00 PM
THE AFTER HOURS
A woman who buys a thimble on the ninth floor of a department store later discovers the floor doesn't exist, and makes a startling discovery after the store closes.
CAST: Anne Francis, Elizabeth Allen, James Millhollin, John Conwell, Nancy Rennick.

9:30 PM
STOPOVER IN A QUIET TOWN
The day after a drunken party, a married couple awakens in an unfamiliar house with no idea how they got there.
CAST: Barry Nelson, Karen Norris, Nancy Malone, Denise Lyon.

10:00 PM
ECW (??)

11:00 PM
NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET
A newly released mental patient is the only one able to see a gremlin ripping up the wing of his airliner.
CAST: William Shatner, Christine White, Nick Cravat, Edward Kammer, Asa Maynor.

11:30 PM
THE ARRIVAL
An airline official tests his theory that a newly arrived but totally empty plane is imaginary-with startling results.
CAST: Harold J. Stone, Robert Karnes, Jim Soles, Fredd Wayne, Bing Russell, Noah Keen, Robert Brubaker.

Jan. 2, 2008

12:00 AM
THE MASKS
A wealthy old man compels his hateful family to wear masks they think are the opposite of their personalities. When they remove the masks a frightening change has taken place.
CAST: Robert Keith, Milton Selzer, Brooke Hayward, Virginia Gregg, Alan Sues, Bill Walker, Willis Bouchey.

12:30 AM
THE GRAVE
A hired gunman defies a Western outlaw's warning that if he ever came near his grave he'd reach up and snatch away his life.
CAST: Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Lee Van Cleef, Stafford Rapp, Richard Geary, James Best, Ellen Willrad, William Challee, Larry Johns.

1:00 AM
THE HOWLING MAN
Taking refuge in a European monastery during a storm, a man hears someone howling and is told it's the Devil who is being held prisoner.
CAST: H.M. Wynant, John Carradine, Robin Hughes, Ezelle Poule.

1:30 AM
ESCAPE CLAUSE
A man makes a pact with the devil for immortality then finds he doesn't get a kick out of living anymore.
CAST: David Wayne, Wendell Holmes, Raymond Bailey, Dick Wilson, Paul E. Burns, Allan Lurie, Virginia Christine, Thomas Gomez, Nesdon Booth, Joe Flynn, George Baxter.

2:00 AM
THE OBSOLETE MAN
A librarian in a future society is declared obsolete and told he must die.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver.

2:30 AM
THE MIRROR
A victorious revolutionary is shown a mirror in the presidential office that is reputed to show the watcher his own assassins.
CAST: Peter Falk, Richard Karlan, Tony Carbone, Val Ruffino, Arthur Batanides, Rodolfo Hoyos, Will Kuluva, Vladimir Sokoloff.

3:00 AM
NIGHT CALL
A bedridden spinster receives mysterious phone calls from her long-dead fiancé.
CAST: Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe, Martine Bartlett.

3:30 AM
JUDGMENT NIGHT
A passenger on board a wartime freighter has a premonition that the ship will be sunk by a Nazi submarine at 1:15 a.m., but no one believes him.
CAST: Nehemiah Persoff, Patrick Macnee, Leslie Bradley, Kendrick Huxham, Ben Wright, Hugh Sanders, Deirdre Owen, James Franciscus.

4:00 AM
PASSAGE ON THE LADY ANNE
An unhappily married couple on a last-attempt cruise to save their marriage find themselves on an old ship filled with even older couples and an ageless secret.
CAST: Lee Philips, Joyce Van Patten, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper, Alan Napier, Don Keefer, Cyril Delevanti.

5:00 AM
THE NEW EXHIBIT
A wax museum's custodian takes in the discarded effigies of famous murderers.
CAST: Martin Balsam, Will Kuluva, Maggie Mahoney, William Mims, Milton Parsons, David Bond, Bob Mitchell, Robert L. McCord, Billy Beck, Phil Chambers, Lennie Breman, Ed Barth, Marcel Hillaire, Craig Curtis.

Now I know that it's officially New Years!

Every year I try to watch at least a few episodes. I'll try to catch some I missed last year. Among the titles I recognize, I really liked "to serve man" .

Thanks Gina


TIS

My favorites are on 12/31 PM at 1:00, 1;30, 7:30, 9:30;
and 1/1 at 1:00AM, and PM 12:00, 5:00, 6:00, 9:00, and 1/2 at 1:00AM and 3:00AM.

I won't get to see all of these, but I'll try to watch some of them.

Thanks, Gina for posting the schedule.

The episode with Agnes Moorehead (in which she plays the old woman living by herself and battles off the space invaders) is my favorite. Wonderfully done!!!

I saw it when it first aired (so many years ago) and to this day, I STILL get blown away by the ending.

That is a classic. No dialogue too.

The episode that gets me every time is "Twenty-Two." An exhausted entertainer spending time in a hospital, who gets eerie visits from an unusual nurse in the middle of the night...

gina knows what I'm talking about.

Those are some great ones, KL.

TZ is one of those shows that I'll annoy nearly everyone I'm around with, because I never get tired of watching it - no matter how many times I've seen the episode. But when I come across one I've never seen - which I do every so often, and which I'm happy to know there are more of - it's always a treat!

I believe I told DC about this one, but a while back, I watched this for what I think was the first time:

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
A man finds he has the power to trade character traits, infirmities and even his lifespan with others.
CAST: Don Gordon, Gail Kobe, Vaughn Taylor, Douglass Dumbrille, Doug Lambert, J. Pat O'Malley, Ted Jacques, Kathleen O'Malley, Seymour Cassel.

It was a great storyline, and gave me chills! Unfortunately, the marathon doesn't seem to be showing it.

I'd love to catch "The Long Morrow," as I remember that one being really good.

Just as I read your post, the image of that woman popped into my head! Aghh!

I caught "Perchance to Dream" here recently, and there was another really spooky woman in that one (along with Richard Conte, another GF sighting), and she had a terribly crazy laugh. Makes me shudder!

THE OBSOLETE MAN
A librarian in a future society is declared obsolete and told he must die.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver.

I'm sure I must have seen this, but how creepy is the description. "declared obsolete"...what a drag that would be.

I know it's not the one with Wally Cox (the book worm) I can't remember the title. That one had a great ending

TIS

TIS, both episodes you mentioned are ones that have great lines to quote...

In "The Obsolete Man," I crack up at how they yell aloud, "Obsolete! Obsolete!" in this monotonous voice.

It's got an incredible ending to it. I just love what the main character thinks up, in his time facing execution, and what that ends up meaning.

The book worm one is "Time Enough at Last"...
"But there was time!!"

Great stuff to shout out at New Year's parties.

(I know, what kind of parties am I having?? )

I am not a huge Twilight Zone fan, but do remember the one with Robert Duvall and the dollhouse. Definitely great.

A personal favorite TZ episode is a sapfest, but it always gets me.

"The Night of the Meek," with a drunk Santa (Art Carney)raging at the commercialization of Christmas, and the inhumanity that the "meek" have to suffer on Christmas, until he finds a magical bag....

Why does this episode work? Maybe its Carney's charming personality. Maybe its that the episode is simple yet delivers on it.

Its an example of why "The Twilight Zone" was so successful as a great bit of television. It told a simple story that was excellently written and acted.

This particular episode was, obviously, a seasonal one. Its almost as if Serling was making light of his "normal" subjects, but in a fun way.

A lot of the episodes are highly successful because of the casts. The one show with Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters comes to mind (as pool players). Its a good story, but the acting makes the show!

"The Twilight Zone" was, without a doubt, the best anthology show ever on television.

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Some of my favorites are :


THE BEWITCHIN POOL

A young brother and sister are neglected emotionally by their parents. While sitting beside their well appointed pool in their backyard, a young boy in a Tom Sawyer straw hat pops up from the deep end of their pool and invites them to follow him. The children follow him by diving underwater only to come back up in a lake bordering a rustic, simple homestead. There is only one adult there named "Aunt T", a sweet and kind elderly woman who loves children; she explains she has many children there who came from parents who didn't deserve them. When the boy and girl decide to go home, because they fear their parents are worried, they find out that their parents have decided to divorce and haven't even missed them while they have been gone. the children race to the backyard pool, dive in, and disappear as they dive and try to escape back to Aunt T.



THE NIGHT OF THE MEEK

This is Mr. Henry Corwin, normally unemployed, who once a year takes the lead role in the uniquely popular American institution, that of the department-store Santa Claus in a road-company version of 'The Night Before Christmas'. But in just a moment Mr. Henry Corwin, ersatz Santa Claus, will enter a strange kind of North Pole which is one part the wondrous spirit of Christmas and one part the magic that can only be found... in the Twilight Zone."


LIVING DOLL



Talky Tina, a doll that does everything, a lifelike creation of plastic and springs and painted smile. To Erich Streator, she is a most unwelcome addition to his household, but without her he'd never enter the Twilight Zone.


A GAME OF POOL

Mr. Jesse Cardiff, who became a legend by beating one, but who has found out after his funeral that being the best of anything carries with it a special obligation to keep proving it. Mr. Fats Brown, on the other hand, having relinquished the champion's medal, has gone fishing. These are the ground rules, in the Twilight Zone.


THE INVADERS

"This is one of the out-of-the-way places, the unvisited places, bleak, wasted, dying. This is a farmhouse, handmade, crude, a house without electricity or gas, a house untouched by progress. This is the woman who lives in the house, a woman who's been alone for many years, a strong, simple woman whose only problem up until this moment has been that of acquiring enough food to eat, a woman about to face terror which is even now coming at her from the Twilight Zone."


THE INCREDIBLE WORLD OF HORACE FORD

Horace Ford is a toy designer who keeps remembering his childhood. Finally he decides to go to his childhood neighborhood where he discovers to his amazement that he sees the same kids that he was friends with in his childhood. They bully and assault him, and Horace realizes that his childhood was not as glamorous as he would nostalgically recall. He returns to his own time period with new found appreciation for his current self.


THE LAST NIGHT OF A JOCKEY

The name is Grady, five feet short in stockings and boots, a slightly distorted offshoot of a good breed of humans who race horses. He happens to be one of the rotten apples, bruised and yellowed by dealing in dirt, a short man with a short memory who's forgotten that he's worked for the sport of kings and helped turn it into a cesspool, used and misused by the two-legged animals who've hung around sporting events since the days of the Colosseum. So this is Grady, on his last night as a jockey. Behind him are Hialeah, Hollywood Park and Saratoga. Rounding the far turn and coming up fast on the rail - is the Twilight Zone."


NICK OF TIME


"The hand belongs to Mr. Don S. Carter, male member of a honeymoon team on route across the Ohio countryside to New York City. In one moment, they will be subjected to a gift most humans never receive in a lifetime. For one penny, they will be able to look into the future. The time is now, the place is a little diner in Ridgeview, Ohio, and what this young couple doesn't realize is that this town happens to lie on the outskirts of the Twilight Zone."

I'm loving these commercials they're having, with small teasers of the episodes.

For It's a Good Life, with the crazy kid, they show a clip - "You're a bad man!" - then it says, "It's just a phase...right?"

And for the evil Talking Tina doll, they show a clip, then it says, "It's just plastic...right?"

For Time Enough At Last, it says, "Alone time is good...right?"

And the great Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: "It's just turbulence...right?"



I got to see some today that I'd never seen before - Uncle Simon and Death's Head Revisited.

SC, don't forget about your favorite, coming up in a bit!

Gina,

I'm watching a couple episodes too. They just had one of my favorites, "To Serve Man" and now I'm watching "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up." I just love Rod Serlings narratives.


TIS

I have it on DVD, but thanks for the reminder anyway. Dunno if I'll be able to stay up that late.

TIS, I guess the schedule I posted is completely off for you, then? Same order, but different times...hmm!

I love the martian one, but I missed most of To Serve Man - I never seem to catch that one all the way through. But I do love the ending.

And yes, I could listen to Rod Serling all day.

SC, did you tape it off TV, or you have the official set? I'm seeing the complete set advertised on TV...

Hope you can keep awake. I'm straining to hear TZ over my dad's snoring (who claims he never snores... ), and I was fighting sleep earlier, when I was lying on the couch with my cat on my stomach. He's terrified of the fireworks, so we've been treating him like a baby all day.

I bought one of the seasons on DVD. I'd buy them all if I had the money.

Speaking of cats.... my OzzieBoy will celebrate his 17th birthday tomorrow (New Year's Day). We've seen a lot of New Year's together.

Aw! Give him a scratch on the ears, or a rub on the belly, or whatever is his desire, from me for his birthday.

That's wonderful you've had so many happy years with him. Will he get any treats or a little kitty cake? haha

I only ask, because I once actually put my family through a birthday party for my favorite stuffed animal - a teddy bear named "Old Spank." My mom was even kind enough to have a cake.

We gave our cats milk and catnip for Christmas. I don't know if they knew why, but I doubt they cared.

I'll let him watch "Born Free". Its his favorite movie.

ha ha ha!!! How cute.


TIS

I watched the epi. with Duvall in it this evening.

I've watched several episodes with my kids over the past few days. If I'm awake at 1am, I'll watch "The Howling Man", one of my favorites.

By the way, for best actor/actress in a Twilight Zone episode, I'd give it to Art Carney as the drunken department store Santa. The episode wasn't close to being my favorite, but I thought his acting stood out.

did anyone see the episode two with a young elizabeth montgomery and charles bronson? montgomery certainly was a looker

OH and i loved the episode with richard conte and the cat lady.......she was creepy as all hell haha