'Twilight Zone' Fourth of July marathon features several iconic episodes

[Omaha Steve]

Most DU TZ fans have seen our TZ pages already. The entire trips are there with many photos. Dial up warning.

2002 TZCon: http://www.steveandmarta.com/graveyards/tzcon2002.htm

2004 TZCon: http://www.steveandmarta.com/tzcon2004.htm

The TZ from the 80's: http://www.steveandmarta.com/ntz1.htm




William Shatner plays a nervous airline passenger who thinks he sees something frightening on the wing of a plane in "Nightmare at 20.000 Feet," one of the classic episodes featured in this year's Fourth of July "Twilight Zone" marathon. (CBS)


http://www.cleveland.com/tv-blog/index.ssf/2015/06/twilight_zone_fourth_of_july_marathon_features_several_iconic_episodes.html

By Mark Dawidziak, The Plain Dealer
on June 24, 2015 at 9:00 AM, updated June 24, 2015 at 10:21 AM

CLEVELAND, Ohio – More than 50 years after its five-season CBS run came to an end, "The Twilight Zone" remains one of television's most influential, most celebrated, most cherished shows. It turns out that the acclaimed fantasy anthology's creator, host and principal writer, Rod Serling, wasn't overstating the case when he called this magical landscape as "timeless as infinity."

Although filmed in black-and-white with techniques that look downright quaint in this CGI world, "The Twilight Zone" presented a parade of morality tales that seem as fresh, insightful and relevant today as when they first aired. Never mind the lack of color. Never mind the absence of spiffy special effects. The storytelling and the acting are what hold up so magnificently in this "wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination."

Want to celebrate this series that so brilliantly probed the human condition? That's the signpost up ahead. Your next stop, Syfy's annual Fourth of July "Twilight Zone" marathon. It begins at 8 a.m. the morning of the Fourth, running for 19 and ½ hours.

Syfy, which also fields an annual "Twilight Zone" marathon that begins on New Year's Eve, has announced the schedule for this year's Fourth of July marathon. Some of our favorites are bound to be missing, since there were 156 original episodes, but the list features many iconic stories, including the pilot "Where is Everybody?" (at 4 p.m. Saturday, July 4), which first aired Oct. 2, 1959, and "The Hitchhiker" (at 5 p.m. Saturday), with Inger Stevens as the cross-country driver who keeps seeing the same creepy hitchhiker beckoning for her to stop.

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[MindPilot]

1. "A Stop at Willoughby" is my fav episode

"This is Gart Williams, age thirty-eight, a man protected by a suit of armor, all held together by one bolt. Just a moment ago, someone removed the bolt, and Mr. Williams' protection fell away from him and left him a naked target. He's been cannonaded this afternoon by all the enemies of his life. His insecurity has shelled him, his sensitivity has straddled him with humiliation, his deep-rooted disquiet about his own worth has zeroed in on him, landed on target, and blown him apart. Mr. Gart Williams, ad agency exec, who, in just a moment, will move into the Twilight Zone - in a desperate search for survival."

"...a place where a man can live out his life, full measure."

[pamela]

3. Mine, too.

And the one with Billy Mumy, "It's a Good Life" but just because I always laugh my ass off at the scene where he says “He was a bad man, so I turned him into a jack-in-the-box, a jack-in-the-box that still had his bad face."

[rurallib]

4. "Night of the Meek" for me

I think that is what it is called.
Seems to capture a Christmas spirit better than damn near anything else I have seen.

[Person 2713]

2. That one right there with that monster on the airplane wings was one of the best IMO

Thanks for the (scary) memories

[The Blue Flower]

5. A very young Robert Redford as Death

One of my favorites.