For the loyal fans, it's that time again!

And for those who haven't yet given Twilight Zone a try, this is a great time to do so...hope you find that you like it!

SciFi Schedule - LINK
TZ Episode Guide - LINK

Here's the schedule that SciFi should be following (with all times Eastern), along with each episode's description as given in the TZ episode guide:

Thursday, July 3rd

8:00 AM
THE PASSERSBY
A crippled Civil War soldier comes to realize that he and the people around him are not walking away from battle-they are dead.
CAST: James Gregory, Joanne Linville, Austin Green, Rex Holman, David Garcia, Warren Kernmerling.

8:30 AM
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.

9:00 AM
THE LATENESS OF THE HOUR
A young woman, bored with the precise, faultless routine of her family's life, persuades her father to dismantle their robot servants.
CAST: Inger Stevens, John Hoyt, Irene Tedrow, Mary Gregory.

9:30 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.

10:00 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.

10:30 AM
THE BEWITCHIN POOL
Two unloved children escape from their squabbling parents to a world that offers them a chance of happiness with a strange, kindly woman.
CAST: Mary Badham, Tim Stafford, Georgia Simmons, Kim Hector, Tod Andrews, Dee Hartford, Harold Gould.

11:00 AM
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.

11:30 AM
THE SILENCE
A garrulous man, bet half a million dollars that he can't keep silent for one year, goes to bizarre lengths to win the wager.
CAST: Franchot Tone, Liam Sullivan, Jonathan Harris.

12:00 PM
AND WHEN THE SKY WAS OPENED
Three astronauts, returning from man's first space flight, cannot remember the events of their trip. Then they begin to disappear one by one.
CAST: Rod Taylor, James Hutton, Charles Aidman, Sue Randall, Gloria Pall, Maxine Cooper, Paul Bryar.

12:30 PM
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.

1:00 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.

1:30 PM
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.

2:00 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.

2:30 PM
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.

3:00 PM
THE FEVER
A man fanatically opposed to gambling battles a Las Vegas one-armed bandit with a malevolent will of its own.
CAST: Everett Sloane, William Kendis, Art Lewis, Carole Kent, Vivi Janiss, Lee Millar.

3:30 PM
A WORLD OF HIS OWN
A playwright describes characters into his tape recorder and they materialize before his eyes.
CAST: Keenan Wynn, Phyllis Kirk, Mary La Roche.

4:00 PM
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.

4:30 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.

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
DEATHS-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.

6:00 PM
MR. DENTON ON DOOMSDAY
A broken-down gunslinger finds a magic potion that restores his shooting skill, but brings an end to his fast-draw career.
CAST: Dan Duryea, Malcolm Atterbury, Martin Landau, Ken Lynch, Doug McClure, Jeanne Cooper, Arthur Batanicles, Robert Burton.

6:30 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.

7:00 PM
SHADOW PLAY
A condemned man tries to convince the people around him that everything and everyone is merely part of a recurring nightmare that always ends in his execution.
CAST: Dennis Weaver, Harry Townes, Wright King.

7:30 PM
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.

8:00 PM
A QUALITY OF MERCY
During a battle, a fanatical and racist World War II soldier mysteriously experiences the situation in the body of a Japanese counterpart.
CAST: Dean Stockwell, Albert Salmi, Rayford Barnes, Leonard Nimoy, Michael Pataki, Ralph Votrian, Dale Ishimoto, Jerry Fujikawa.

8:30 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.

9:00 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.

9:30 PM
IN THE 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.

10:00 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.

10:30 PM
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.

11:00 PM
MR. DINGLE, THE STRONG
A timid little man is experimentally endowed with superhuman strength by a visiting Martian scientist.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Don Rickles, James Westerfield, Edward Ryder, James Millhollin.

11:30 PM
THE OBSOLETE MAN
A librarian in a future society is declared obsolete and told he must die.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver.

Friday, July 4th

12:00 AM
THE TROUBLE WITH TEMPLETON
A distinguished, aging actor who reflects on the happier days of his youth gets a sobering glimpse of the past.
CAST: Brian Aherne, Pippa Scott, Charles S. Carlson, Sydney Pollack.

12:30 AM
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

1:00 AM
STEEL
A small-time promoter, desperate for his purse from a robot prize fight, secretly takes the place of his damaged robot in the ring.
CAST: Lee Marvin, Joe Mantell, Merritt Bohn, Frank London, Tipp McClure, Chuck Hicks, Larry Barton.

1:30 AM
THE JEOPARDY ROOM
A KGB agent sent to kill a Russian defector plants a bomb in the man's hotel room and gives him three hours to find and disarm it and so win his freedom, or else fail and die.
CAST: Martin Landau, John van Dreelen, Robert Kelljan.

2:00 AM
THE THIRTY-FATHOM GRAVE
Sounds heard from a submarine sunk 20 years before haunt the man who believes himself responsible for the sinking.
CAST: Mike Kellin, Simon Oakland, David Sheiner, John Considine, Bill Bixby, Tony Call, Derrick Lewis, Conlan Carter, Charles Kuenstle, Forrest Compton, Henry Scott, Vince Bagetta, Louise Elias.

3:00 AM
HE'S ALIVE
The ghost of Adolf Hitler inspires a young American hatemonger to achieve a short-lived success.
CAST: Dennis Hopper, Ludwig Donath, Curt Conway, Paul Mazursky, Howard Caine, Barnaby Hale, Bernard Fein, Jay Adler, Wolfe Barzell.

4:00 AM
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.

5:00 AM
THE BARD
A hack TV writer conjures up William Shakespeare to act as his collaborator, but his network bosses have their own ideas about what makes for "great television."
CAST: Jack Weston, John Williams, Burt Reynolds, John McGiver, Henry Lascoe, Judy Strangis, Howard McNear, Doro Merande, Marge Redmond, Clegg Hoyt, William Lanteau.

6:00 AM
(PAID PROGRAMMING)

8:00 AM
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.

8:30 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.

9:00 AM
THE CHASER
A lovesick man finds unexpected results when he buys a potion from a stranger to help woo the woman he desires.
CAST: George Grizzard, John McIntire, Patricia Barry, J. Pat O'Malley.

9:30 AM
NERVOUS MAN IN A FOUR-DOLLAR ROOM
A small-time hood assigned to kill an old man finds himself confronted by another version of himself in his own living reflection.
CAST: Joe Mantell, William D. Gordon.

10:00 AM
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.

10:30 AM
THE WHOLE TRUTH
The disreputable patter of a used-car dealer changes when he buys a haunted car from an old man and finds he is suddenly unable to lie to his customers.
CAST: Jack Carson, Jack Ging, Arte Johnson, Nan Peterson, George Chandler, Loring Smith.

11:00 AM
A MAN IN THE BOTTLE
An impoverished pawnbroker is granted four wishes by a genie in a bottle. It's not just that his wishes ended up not being what he expected — it's what they did end up being.
CAST: Luther Alder, Joseph Ruskin, Vivi Janiss, Lisa Golm, Olan Soule, Peter Coe, Albert Szabo.

11:30 AM
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

12:00 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.

12:30 PM
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.

1:00 PM
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.

1:30 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.

2:00 PM
A NICE PLACE TO VISIT
A small-time hoodlum gets killed by the police during a robbery and finds an afterlife where he can have anything he wants.
CAST: Larry Blyden, Sebastian Cabot, Sandra Warner.

2:30 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.

3:00 PM
MR. BEVIS
A happy-go-lucky man loses his job, his car and his home in one morning, then meets his "guardian angel" who tells him they will start the day anew.
CAST: Orson Bean, Henry Jones, Charles Lane, William Schallert, Horace McMahon.

3:30 PM
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.

4:00 PM
MIRROR IMAGE
A young woman grows panicky when she is haunted by a strange double who keeps appearing in a bus depot.
CAST: Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joe Hamilton.

4:30 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.

5:00 PM
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.

5:30 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.

6:00 PM
SHOWDOWN WITH RANCE MCGREW
The ghost of Jesse James takes revenge on an insufferable cowboy star for his shabby film treatment of all the bad guys.
CAST: Larry Blyden, Arch Johnson, Robert Cornthwaite, Robert Kline, William McLean, Troy Melton, Jay Overholts, Robert J. Stevenson, Hal K. Dawson, Jim Turley.

6:30 PM
THE LAST NIGHT OF A JOCKEY
A down-and-out jockey yearns to be a giant of a man so that everyone would look up at him.
CAST: Mickey Rooney.

7:00 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.

7:30 PM
ONCE UPON A TIME
Nineteenth-century janitor Woodrow Mulligan tries on a time helmet invented by his boss and is catapulted 72 years into the future. Featured are two routines by the legendary silent comedian Buster Keaton's: the lock step and putting on a pair of trousers.
CAST: Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams, Jesse White, Milton Parsons, Warren Parker, Gil Lamb, James Flavin, Harry Fleer, George E. Stone.

8:00 PM
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.

8:30 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.

9:00 PM
THE PURPLE TESTAMENT
A soldier unexpectedly acquires the power to recognize death in the faces of men about to die in battle.
CAST: William Reynolds, Dick York, Barney Phillips, Warren Oates, Ron Masak, William Phipps, Marc Cavell, Paul Mazursky.

9:30 PM
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.

10:00 PM
CAVENDER IS COMING
A hapless apprentice angel is given one last chance to win his wings, by helping awkward, inept Agnes Grep. The pilot for an unmade series, it is the only Twilight Zone episode with a laugh track.
CAST: Carol Burnett, Jesse White, Howard Smith, William O'Connell, Pitt Herbert, John Fiedler, G. Stanley Jones, Frank Behrens, Albert Carrier, Roy Sickner, Norma Shattuc, Rory O'Brien, Sandra Gould, Adrienne Marden, Jack Younger, Danny Kulick, Donna Douglas, Maurice Dallimore, Barbara Morrison.

10:30 PM
THE PRIME MOVER
Two men try to make their fortune at Las Vegas from the power one of them has to move inanimate objects.
CAST: Dane Clark, Buddy Ebsen, Christine White, Nesdon Booth, Jane Burgess.

11:00 PM
A PASSAGE FOR TRUMPET
A down-on-his-luck trumpet player is given a second crack at life after being struck down by a truck.
CAST: Jack Klugman, Mary Webster, John Anderson, Frank Wolff.

11:30 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.

Saturday, July 5th

12:00 AM
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.

12:30 AM
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.

1:00 AM
DEATH SHIP
Facing odd circumstances on another planet, an astronaut refuses to admit that he and his crew may be dead.
CAST: Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, Frederick Beir, Mary Webster, Tammy Marihugh, Ross Elliot, Sara Taft.

2:00 AM
OF LATE I THINK OF CLIFFORDVILLE
A ruthless captain of industry strikes a deal with the Devil and goes back in time to the life he remembers as a young man.
CAST: Albert Salmi, Julie Newmar, John Anderson, Wright King, Guy Raymond, Christine Burke, John Harmon, Hugh Sanders.

3:00 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.

4:00 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.

5:00 AM
ON THURSDAY WE LEAVE FOR HOME
The leader of an expedition to a remote asteroid cannot bring himself to face the dissipation of his authority that returning to Earth would bring.
CAST: James Whitmore, Tim O'Connor, James Broderick, Paul Langton, Jo Helton, Marcedes Shirlev Russ Bender

My favorite episode!

Thank you again, gina, for your wonderful annual reminder.

"The Twilight Zone" is wothout a doubt the best anthology that was ever on tv. If you've never watched the show you should check out some of the episodes and see what tv was about in it's hey-day.

are my favorites, but my #1 Fav. would ether be Nightmare at 20,000 feet... or (I don't remember the name) the one where the bank teller goes into the vault just as a nuclear war wipes out everything but the library

SC probably knows

SB, that would be "Time Enough At Last" - one of my favorites, as well.

SC, I always think of you when I see that episode, and was glad to see it'd be airing. Oh, and as I went through the guide, I noticed that Ray Bradbury is actually credited as the writer for "I Sing the Body Electric," because of that short story!

That's the one!! Time Enough at last

You will recognize it's star as the same actor who played Rocky's trainer in "Rocky" - Burgess Meredith, a fine character actor.

I saw that episode in it's first airing and remember laughing at the irony of the end of it. I was very young then but like Meredith, I was a voracious reader and was able to relate to the character.

I started reading sci-fi because of "The Twilight Zone". My prized possessions of my youth (besides my baseball cards) were the paperback books of the TZ episodes (by different authors).

There was an episode done later on in the show (I think it may have been one of the hour-long shows that came after the initial half-hour shows) called "The Star". It was based on a short story by Arthur C. Clarke involving a religious expert and his surprise finding. I won't spoil the ending here, but if you can find a copy of that story, you MUST read it!!!

Thanks as always, gina for the list.

You know my favorite episode, which will be on at 1:30PM on the 4th.
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.

Some other favorites are shown back to back on the 4th:

4:00 PM
MIRROR IMAGE
A young woman grows panicky when she is haunted by a strange double who keeps appearing in a bus depot.
CAST: Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joe Hamilton.

3:30 PM
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.

There is another favorite of mine that I don't think will be shown in this marathon. I think it's called "A Stop at Willoughby." It's about a stressed out businessman, who gets off his commuter train into an idyllic, relaxing and peaceful town in the country. he later finds no such town exists...or does it?

It looks as though I'll miss my favorites this year as I will be at a party most of the day on the Fourth.

SC, you say that "The Star" was the name of the Twilight Zone episode? Or was that just the story's title? I couldn't find it listed in the guide for TZ, but maybe it's under a different name. I'll definitely keep a lookout for Clarke's story, though, since you recommend it.

As I went through the guide for this marathon, out of curiousity, I tried to note which episodes credited Rod Serling as the writer, and then if it wasn't him, who was instead listed. I noticed some, like Bradbury's, credited a short story author, so I suppose those are the paperbacks you're referring to, right?

It's really interesting to look at the writer and director credits. Besides Serling, a few others who contributed a lot as writers were Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, and George Clayton Johnson. But for directors, it seems to be much more varied - there were so many different ones for all the episodes. It amazes me that the series could be so consistently good, with such a variety on that part...I guess that says something about how important the writing was.

Kly, sorry to hear you'll miss your favorites, but a party sounds like a good reason to miss them for! Between work, Astros, and actually seeing fireworks this year, I've decided to give in and tape the marathon. My mom is trying her best to understand why this is necessary. haha

gina, there were a few seasons of "The Twilight Zone" aired long after the original famous five seasons and most of those shows ran for an hour. The particular show I mentioned ("The Star") was originally aired on December 20, 1985 (I had to look it up).

I would provide the link to my source BUT it contains spoiler material and I wouldn't want to ruin the story for ya.

You can find the story in one of Clarke's collections of his greatest works, and I'd HIGHLY recommend you reading it.

BTW - Those additional episodes on tv that were aired in the 1980's didn't have the "edge" of the more famous five seasons that originally aired in the late 50's/early 60's.

SC, I Didn't know you were in an episode of The Twilight Zone

Smartass.

you have to admit it is an uncanny resemblance

Not really.... he's bald, fat and funny-looking, but that's where the resemblance ends.

I'll try to DVR this one - it's been a while since I've seen it.
Thanks, GG!

is there much more than that? j/k

Be aware that the times are approximate, so if you're gonna set your DVR, extend the start and end times.

One of my pet peeves!! Networks must start to realize that DVRs exist and STOP with the fluid scheduling! Not one episode of American Idol (or pretty much anything on FOX) ended on time.

Thanks, I buffered it w/ 15 minutes on both ends...

Anyone have the 28 DVD Box Set? I'm thinking of getting it.

I don't, but would like to have it. I bought the second season collection (the best IMO) and it's fun to see the original introductions to the (original) commercials.

The price has dropped. $186 on Amazon, and approx. $160 on eBay. Maybe when I get back from vacation.

Not bad, considering what The Sopranos cost when they came out...

...Or considering the Sopranos' 28 DVD set is going for $515. Which leads me to another question. Why would you spend $515 for the complete set, when the individual seasons go for only $39 each on Amazon?

FUCK!!!

...and that is a ridiculous price for the entire set!

Don't feel bad. I spent $65 or more for the first 5 seasons too.
At this price, I may have to finally get the Season 6 sets.

I paid $51.99 for the last one just a month ago!!!

If you bought it from Amazon, and it's within 30 days, they will refund you the difference if you email them.

Too late.

JG, another 'Godfather sighting' episode, if you're interested, is...I don't think it's on during the marathon, but YouTube has it:
Part 1/3
Part 2/3
Part 3/3

And the YouTube user who posted that episode has a bunch of other TZ episodes, for anyone who'd like to watch them online.

http://youtube.com/user/FatherMcKenize
The Changing of the Guard, I Sing the Body Electric, The Dummy, The Gift, Four O'Clock, The Little People, Person or Persons Unknown...and that's just the first page of about 11 pages of videos.