THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1959) - SYFY: MARATHON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2011
09:00 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 includes David Wayne, Thomas Gomez, Virginia Christine and Raymond Bailey.
09:30 AM 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 includes Jack Klugman, Connie Gilchrist, Bobby Diamond, Bill Mumy and Ross Elliott.
10:00 AM Ring-a-ding Girl
A movie star receives a gift from her hometown fan club that gives her a premonition of the future.
Cast includes Maggie McNamara, Mary Munday, David Macklin, George Mitchell, Bing Russell and Vic Perrin.
10:30 AM 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 includes Jim Hutton, Charles Aidman and Maxine Cooper.
11:00 AM The Silence
An aristocrat (Franchot Tone) bets $500,000 that a talkative acquaintance can't keep quiet for a year.
Cast includes Franchot Tone, Liam Sullivan, Lost in Space's Jonathan Harris, Cyril Delevanti, Everett Glass, Felix Locher and John Holland.
11:30 AM The Hunt (Lovely, lovely episode)
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 includes Arthur Hunnicutt, Jeanette Nolan and Robert Foulk.
12:00 PM I Am The Night - Color Me Black
The sun fails to rise on the morning that a town's "idealist" is due to be executed for killing one of his bigoted neighbors, and the community finds itself locked in the darkness of hate.
Cast includes Michael Constantine, Paul Fix, George Lindsey and Ivan Dixon.
Lew Gallo and Oscar Beregi, Jr.
12:30 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 includes Simon Oakland, Oscar Beregi Jr., Lew Gallo and John Mitchum.
01:00 PM Queen Of The Nile
A magazine writer is determined to discover the secret of an ageless movie star's everlasting youth.
Cast includes Ann Blyth, Lee Philips, Celia Lovsky and Frank Ferguson.
Jackie Cooper and Stafford Repp
01:30 PM Caesar And Me
Jackie Cooper plays a struggling ventriloquist who turns to crime, on advice from his suddenly vociferous dummy.
Cast include Jackie Cooper, Morgan Brittany, Sarah Selby, Don Gazzaniga and Stafford Repp.
02:00 PM Probe 7 Over And Out
The lone survivors of two devastated planets meet on a new world.
Cast includes Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower, Harold Gould and Barton Heyman.
02:30 PM Mr. Dingle, The Strong
A timid little man is experimentally endowed with superhuman strength by a visiting Martian scientist.
Cast includes Don Rickles, Burgess Meredith, James Westerfield, Eddie Ryder, Douglas Spencer and Michael Fox.
03:00 PM A Kind Of Stopwatch
A talkative man acquires a stopwatch with the power to halt all other action in the world.
Cast includes Richard Erdman, Herbie Faye, Doris Singleton and Roy Roberts.
03:30 PM The Little People
On a desolate planet, two astronauts discover an entire society populated by beings only 1/100th their size. One of them decides to rule the society as god.
Cast includes Joe Maross, Claude Akins, Michael Ford and Robert Eaton.
Cliff Robertson
04:00 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 includes Cliff Robertson, John Crawford, Edward Platt and John Astin.
04:30 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 includes Anne Francis and Elizabeth Allen.
05:00 PM 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 includes Sarah Marshall, Robert Sampson and Charles Aidman.
Jonathan Winters and Jack Klugman in A Game Of Pool
05:30 PM A Game Of Pool
A frustrated pool champ has beaten everyone. Everyone except one man; the legend, Fat's Brown. Brown is dead, and the champ can only curse his name. But guess who just walked in.
Cast includes Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters.
06:00 PM Long Distance Call
A young boy keeps in touch with his dead grandmother via the toy telephone she once gave him.
Cast includes Philip Abbott, Lili Darvas, Patricia Smith and Bill Mumy.
06:30 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 includes Fred Clark, Jean Carson, Adam Williams and Marcel Hillaire.
07:00 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 includes Barry Nelson and Nancy Malone.
07:30 PM Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
A young woman resists pressure to be transformed into a state-controlled image of flawless beauty.
Cast includes Collin Wilcox Paxton, Richard Long, Pamela Austin and Suzy Parker.
08:00 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 includes Dick York, June Dayton, Dan Tobin, Cyril Delevanti and Hayden Rorke.
08:30 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 includes Josephine Hutchinson, David White and Veronica Cartwright.
09:00 PM Night Call
A bedridden spinster receives mysterious phone calls from her long-dead fiancé.
Cast includes Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe and Martine Bartlett.
09:30 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 includes Susan Harrison, William Windom, Murray Matheson, Kelton Garwood and Clark Allen.
Patricia Breslin and William Shatner from Nick of Time
10:00 PM Nick Of Time
A superstitious newlywed husband finds a penny fortune-telling machine that makes uncannily accurate predictions about his life.
Cast includes William Shatner and Patricia Breslin.
10:30 PM Night Of The Meek
After a derelict Santa Claus is fired on Christmas Eve, he finds a mysterious bag that gives out presents. With this bag he sets out to fulfill his one wish - to see the less fortunate inherit the bounties of Christmas.
Cast includes Art Carney and John Fiedler.
11:00 PM Kick The Can
The magic of a children's game enables a group of old people to recapture their youth.
Cast includes Ernest Truex, Russell Collins, John Marley and Hank Patterson.
11:30 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 includes Earl Holliman, James Gregory and Paul Langton.
