New Year's Tradition: Twilight Zone Marathon

[HardyGirl]

Does anyone else follow this tradition? Do you have a favorite episode?

[Mikey]

The only problem with their marathon is every year they keep playing the same ones.

And if they ever do throw in a few rare ones, it's always in the wee hours of the morning.

I'm sooo tired of the fan favourite episodes.

How many times can someone watch the one with the old lady and the flying saucer crashes onto her roof ?
Or the pig face one.
Or Shatner on the plane.

I want some uncommon ones

Favourite episodes ?
My list is
On Thursday We Leave For Home
The Bard
I Shot An Arrow
The one with Jack Warden on the planet with the robot woman.

[The Toyroom]

I wish they wouldn't show the hour-long episodes....there are only a few good ones and it throws the timing and flow off IMO.

How many times can someone watch the one with the old lady and the flying saucer crashes onto her roof ?

By my count, I've seen "The Invaders" more times than any other episode during the Sci-Fi marathons and the ones that used to run on WPIX and WSBK years ago. I HATE the stupid thing.

My top 10 (something we were actually discussing tonight):

1) Time Enough at Last
2) Nick of Time
3) Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
4) To Serve Man
5) The Howling Man
6) A Thing About Machines
7) Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
8) The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
9) What You Need
10) It's A Good Life

[toys2cool]

The only problem with their marathon is every year they keep playing the same ones.

And if they ever do throw in a few rare ones, it's always in the wee hours of the morning.

I'm sooo tired of the fan favourite episodes.

How many times can someone watch the one with the old lady and the flying saucer crashes onto her roof ?
Or the pig face one.
Or Shatner on the plane.

I want some uncommon ones

Favourite episodes ?
My list is
On Thursday We Leave For Home
The Bard
I Shot An Arrow
The one with Jack Warden on the planet with the robot woman.

I love the one with the robot woman in the planet
The one where they're toys
the hitchhiker one
and a few more I can't think of right now

[Hector]

I wish they wouldn't show the hour-long episodes....there are only a few good ones and it throws the timing and flow off IMO.



By my count, I've seen "The Invaders" more times than any other episode during the Sci-Fi marathons and the ones that used to run on WPIX and WSBK years ago. I HATE the stupid thing.

My top 10 (something we were actually discussing tonight):

1) Time Enough at Last
2) Nick of Time
3) Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
4) To Serve Man
5) The Howling Man
6) A Thing About Machines
7) Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
8) The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
9) What You Need
10) It's A Good Life

No...The Eye of the Beholder???

That's the creepiest episode for me.

[StrangeVisitor]

The one with Jack Warden on the planet with the robot woman.

The Lonely with Jean Marsh (who had one of the shortest stints as a Dr Who companion in what serial?) as the robot and Ted Knight in a bit part.

toys2cool
The one where they're toys

Five Characters in Search of an Exit with William Windom (Commodore Decker from ST Classic).

[kryptosmaster]

The one that bugs me (and I've only seen it a couple times) is the last episode (if I remember my TZ trivia) and I'm not up on the titles but it was the one where the kids jumped in their pool and then come up in a pond in another land where an old lady lives with a bunch of other kids.
What bugs me about it is the jarring voice dub by June Foray (Rocky the flying squirrel) due to recording problems they had when the episode was originally filmed.
Rich

[sauce]

i've been doing this one since childhood
i don't really follow it and watch the whole thing. i mostly just pop in when i can. that's my tradition with this tradition.
although, it used to be during Thanksgiving and not New Years, back in the day....

[Bizarro Amy]

I love the TZ marathon. Five Characters in Search of an Exit is one of my favorites, mostly because after several years, I caught it for the first time and was blown away. Another on my list is A Game of Pool. And I know some of them are shown frequently, but I always like watching Eye of the Beholder, Of Late I Think of Cliffordville.

[HardyGirl]

The one that bugs me (and I've only seen it a couple times) is the last episode (if I remember my TZ trivia) and I'm not up on the titles but it was the one where the kids jumped in their pool and then come up in a pond in another land where an old lady lives with a bunch of other kids.
What bugs me about it is the jarring voice dub by June Foray (Rocky the flying squirrel) due to recording problems they had when the episode was originally filmed.
Rich

Yeah, that's always kinda bugged me too, even though The Bewitchin' Pool is one of my fave eps.

[kryptosmaster]

The only problem with their marathon is every year they keep playing the same ones.


How many times can someone watch the one with the old lady and the flying saucer crashes onto her roof ?

Hee,hee,hee...that one is on right now!!

Rich

[Earth 2 Chris]

I never saw TZ much as a kid. I pretty much discoverd it on Sci-Fi.

I saw "The Howling Man" for the first time a few years back. Whoa. That one was heavy.

The one about the toys is another great one. Actually the other one where people are toys (the couple stuck in the train set display) is another good one. I wonder which one came first?

I bought my Dad TZ season 1 for Christmas. He was talking about how he always liked it, but rarely gets to watch it, so I remedied that. I hope to borrow his set soon.

Chris

[The Toyroom]

No...The Eye of the Beholder???

That's the creepiest episode for me.

I actually forgot about that one! So add that to my list for #11 and The Midnight Sun for #12

[The Toyroom]

The one about the toys is another great one. Actually the other one where people are toys (the couple stuck in the train set display) is another good one. I wonder which one came first?

"Five Characters in Search of An Exit" is from Season 3 and "Stopover in A Quiet Town" from Season 5.

[The Toyroom]

The one that bugs me (and I've only seen it a couple times) is the last episode (if I remember my TZ trivia) and I'm not up on the titles but it was the one where the kids jumped in their pool and then come up in a pond in another land where an old lady lives with a bunch of other kids.
What bugs me about it is the jarring voice dub by June Foray (Rocky the flying squirrel) due to recording problems they had when the episode was originally filmed.
Rich

That's "The Bewitchin' Pool" and I think Foray only dubs the voice when the kids are in the real world. When they're in the other dimension or whatever with Aunt T the voice is that of the actual actress.

Something similar bugged me when I was watching "Little Girl Lost" last night....when she's trapped in the fourth dimension, the girl's voice is supplied by an adult...and it's sooooooooo obvious. And when the dog is growling, it's obviosuly supplied by an actor as well. It distracted from the entire episode. Which was cheesy to begin with.