Wednesday, December 5, 2012

The Twilight Zone ('59) - Syfy: Marathon Schedule Jan 1 '13

Source: Syfy schedulebot [NOTE: Syfy schedule subject to change(s)]

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THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1959) - SYFY: MARATHON SCHEDULE TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2013


12:00 AM 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 includes Lois Nettleton, Betty Garde and Tom Reese.

12:30 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 includes Barry Nelson and Nancy Malone.




01:00 AM 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 Lost In Space's Bill Mumy.

01:30 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 includes James Coburn, John Anderson and Josie Lloyd.

02:00 AM 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.

02:30 AM 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 includes Orson Bean, Henry Jones, William Schallert and Vito Scotti.

03:00 AM Twenty-two

A young woman complains of a recurring nightmare in which she always ends up in Room 22 — the hospital morgue.

Cast includes Barbara Nichols and Lost In Space's Jonathan Harris.

03:30 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 includes Lee Marvin, James Best, Strother Martin, Elen Willard and Lee Van Cleef.

04:00 AM Night Call

A bedridden spinster receives mysterious phone calls from her long-dead fiancé.

Cast includes Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe and Martine Bartlett.

04:30 AM Judgement Night

In 1942, a dazed freighter passenger (Nehemiah Persoff) has a premonition that the ship will be sunk at 1:15 A.M.

Cast includes Nehemiah Persoff, Deirdre Owens, The Avenger's Patrick Macnee and Ben Wright.

05:00 AM Nightmare As A Child

A teacher's encounter with herself as a child unlocks her memory of witnessing her mother's murder.

Cast includes Janice Rule, Shepperd Strudwick and Morgan Brittany.

05:30 AM The Four Of Us Are Dying

Arch Hammer can change his face to look exactly like someone else, a talent that he depends on for a living.

Cast includes Harry Townes, Phillip Pine, Ross Martin, Don Gordon and Beverly Garland.

06:00 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.

06:30 AM 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 includes Dewey Martin, Edward Binns, Ted Otis, Harry Bartell and Leslie Barrett.

07:00 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, Lost in Space's Bill Mumy and Ross Elliott.

07:30 AM Uncle Simon

Cedric Hardwicke plays a discordant inventor, and Constance Ford his long-suffering niece, who finds no solace in his passing.

Cast includes Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Ford and Ian Wolfe.

08:00 AM 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.

08:30 AM A World Of His Own

A playwright describes characters into his tape recorder and they materialize before his eyes.

Cast includes Keenan Wynn, Phyllis Kirk and Mary LaRoche.

09:00 AM Mr. Garrity And The Graves

A con man convinces the inhabitants of a Western town that he can raise the dead from the local cemetery.

Cast includes John Dehner, Stanley Adams and J. Pat O'Malley.

09:30 AM A Thing About Machines

A bad-tempered writer is convinced the machines in his home are conspiring to destroy him.

Cast includes Richard Haydn, Barbara Stuart, Barney Phillips, Henry Beckman, Jay Overholts and Margarita Cordova.

10:00 AM The Last Rights Of Jeff Myrtlebank

A young man wakes up at his own funeral and wants to know what the heck is going on. The townfolk are glad to see him back, but they begin to wonder if he's a man.. or something else?

Cast includes William Fawcett, James Best, Sherry Jackson, Edgar Buchanan, Dub Taylor and Ralph Moody.

10:30 AM Hocus-pocus And Frisby

A celebrated yam-spinner finds no one will believe his latest tale — that he was kidnapped by aliens.

Cast includes Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Howard McNear and Dabbs Greer.

11:00 AM A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain

A wealthy old man begs his doctor-brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.

Cast includes Patrick O'Neal, Ruta Lee and Walter Brooke.

11:30 AM The Arrival

Federal aviation investigator Grant Sheckly (Harold J. Stone) must deal with a mystery when a plane lands at an airport without pilots, passengers or luggage.

Cast includes Harold J. Stone, Fredd Wayne, Noah Keen and Bing Russell.

12:00 PM 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.

12:30 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 includes Jim Hutton, Charles Aidman and Maxine Cooper.

01:00 PM The Hunt (Lovely, lovely episode)

A hunter (Arthur Hunnicutt) 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.

01:30 PM People Are Alike All Over

Sam Conrad (Roddy McDowall), 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 includes Roddy McDowall, Susan Oliver, Paul Comi, Byron Morrow and Vic Perrin.

02:00 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.

02:30 PM The Odyssey Of Flight 33

A commercial airliner, en route to New York, breaks through the time barrier into the prehistoric past.

Cast includes John Anderson, Paul Comi and Sandy Kenyon.

03:00 PM A Penny For Your Thoughts

Timid bank clerk Victor Pool (Dick York) 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 Bewitched's Dick York, June Dayton, Dan Tobin, Cyril Delevanti and Hayden Rorke.

03:30 PM Third From The Sun

Two families steal a rocket ship and flee to another world before atomic war devastates their own.

Cast includes Fritz Weaver, Edward Andrews, Joe Maross and Denise Alexander.

04:00 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.

04:30 PM Nick Of Time

A superstitious newlywed husband finds a penny fortune-telling machine that makes uncannily accurate predictions about his life.

Cast includes Star Trek's William Shatner and Patricia Breslin.

05:00 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.

05:30 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 includes Cliff Robertson, John Crawford, Edward Platt and John Astin.

06:00 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 includes Fred Clark, Jean Carson, Adam Williams and Marcel Hillaire.

06:30 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.

07:00 PM A Stop At Willoughby

A harassed executive escapes into the peaceful town of Willoughby in July 1880.

Cast includes James Daly, Howard Smith and Patricia Donahue.

07:30 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 includes Claude Akins, Barry Atwater and Jack Weston.

08:00 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 includes John Carradine, H.M. Wynant, Robin Hughes and Friedrich von Ledebur.

08:30 PM Time Enough At Last

Nearsighted, meek bank clerk Henry Bernis (Burgess Meredith) 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 includes Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor and Jacqueline deWit.

09:00 PM 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 includes To Kill A Mockingbird's Mary Badham, Dee Hartford and Tod Andrews.

09:30 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.

10:00 PM The Obsolete Man

A librarian in a future society is declared obsolete and told he must die.

Cast includes Burgess Meredith and Fritz Weaver.

10:30 PM The Dummy

A ventriloquist becomes convinced that his dummy has a will and a life of its own.

Cast includes Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton and George Murdock.

11:00 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 includes Warren Stevens, Richard Devon and Joan Marshall.

11:30 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.

12:00 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 includes Simon Oakland, Oscar Beregi Jr., Lew Gallo and John Mitchum.

12:30 AM 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.

01:00 AM 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 includes Gig Young, Frank Overton, Irene Tedrow and Ron Howard.

01:30 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.

02:00 AM 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.

02:30 AM The Lonely

Convicted of murder and sent to a deserted asteroid for 40 years, a man is given a robot woman for company.

Cast includes Jack Warden, John Dehner, Jean Marsh and Ted Knight.

03:00 AM Two

Two survivors of an apocalyptic battle, a man and a woman from each opposing sides, approach each other suspiciously.

Cast includes Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson.

03:30 AM The Brain Center At Whipple's

Richard Deacon (“The Dick Van Dyke Show”) plays a factory owner determined to replace men with machines.

Cast includes Richard Deacon, Paul Newlan, Ted de Corsia, Thalmus Rasulala, Shawn Michaels and Bert Conroy.

04:00 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 includes Kenneth Haigh, Alexander Scourby, Simon Scott and Robert Warwick.

04:30 AM The Purple Testament

An infantry lieutenant (William Reynolds) has the ability to predict who will die in battle.

Cast includes Bewitched's Dick York, William Reynolds, William Phipps, Barney Phillips, S. John Launer, Paul Mazursky, Warren Oates and Ron Masak.

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