THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1959) - SYFY: MARATHON SCHEDULE THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012
[NOTE: Episodes marked with an "*" haven't aired previously during a marathon during this past year.]
08:00 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.
Jackie Cooper and Stafford Repp
08:30 AM 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.
John Van Dreelen and Martin Landau
09:00 AM The Jeopardy Room
Martin Landau plays a political refugee in a cat-and-mouse game with an assassin, whose penchant for artistry proves ill-advised.
Cast includes Martin Landau, John Van Dreelen and Bob Kelljan.
09:30 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.
10:00 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.
Richard Deacon
10:30 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.
11:00 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 includes Mary Badham, Dee Hartford and Tod Andrews.
11:30 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.
William Reynolds and Dick York
* 12:00 PM 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.
Don Dubbins and Cecil Kellaway
* 12:30 PM Elegy
Astronauts land on an asteroid with Earth-like scenes and people---but the inhabitants don't move.
Cast includes Cecil Kellaway, Jeff Morrow, Don Dubbins and Kevin Hagen.
* 01:00 PM A World Of Difference
An actor (Howard Duff) loses himself in his role as a businessman---or is it the other way around?
Cast includes Howard Duff, David White, Frank Maxwell, Eileen Ryan, Gail Kobe, Peter Walker, Susan Dorn and Bill Idelson.
* 01:30 PM Execution
An outlaw (Albert Salmi) with a noose around his neck is snatched away by a 20th-century time machine.
Cast includes Albert Salmi, Gilligan's Island's Russell Johnson, Than Wyenn, George Mitchell, Jon Lormer, Fay Roope and Richard Karlan.
John Hoyt and Inger Stevens
02:00 PM The Lateness Of The Hour
A young woman (Inger Stevens) grows weary of the servants, all robots built by her father (John Hoyt).
Cast includes Inger Stevens, John Hoyt, Irene Tedrow, Tom Palmer, Mary Gregory, Valley Keene, Doris Karnes and Jason Johnson.
* 02:30 PM The Trouble With Templeton
A Broadway actor yearns for the past---and the wife who died soon after they married. Sydney Pollack plays the brash director.
Cast includes Brian Aherne, Pippa Scott, Sydney Pollack, Dave Willock, King Calder, Larry J. Blake, David Thursby and Charles S. Carlson.
Peter Falk
03:00 PM The Mirror
A deposed dictator warns his successor (Peter Falk) that the faces of his enemies will appear in the palace mirror.
Cast includes Peter Falk, Will Kuluva, Antony Carbone, Arthur Batanides, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Vladimir Sokoloff and Richard Karlan.
03:30 PM Still Valley
A Confederate scout (Gary Merrill) searching for Yankee soldiers finds them---frozen like statues.
Cast includes Gary Merrill, Vaughn Taylor, Mark Tapscott, Jack Mann and Ben Cooper.
* 04:00 PM The Jungle
An engineer scoffs at a curse put on him by natives opposed to his building a dam on their ancestral land.
Cast includes John Dehner, Walter Brooke, Jay Adler, Emily McLaughlin, Hugh Sanders, Howard Wright, Donald Foster and Jay Overholts.
* 04:30 PM Once Upon A Time
Buster Keaton plays a janitor who uses his boss's time helmet to travel from 1890 to 1962, which is not the utopia he'd hoped.
Cast includes Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams, James Flavin, Gil Lamb and Jesse White.
05:00 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 includes Dean Stockwell, Albert Salmi and Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy.
05:30 PM Nothing In The Dark
An aged recluse barricades herself in an abandoned building in order to avoid "Mr. Death."
Cast includes Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford and R.G. Armstrong.
06:00 PM One More Pallbearer
A millionaire (Joseph Wiseman) offers three personal enemies shelter from an atomic war.
Cast includes Joseph Wiseman, Katherine Squire, Trevor Bardette and Gage Clarke.
Bill McLean, Robert Stevenson and Larry Blyden
06:30 PM Showdown With Rance Mcgrew
Larry Blyden as an impudent cowboy star whose self-assurance vanishes when he encounters the real Jesse James (Arch Johnson).
Cast includes Larry Blyden, Arch Johnson, Robert Cornthwaite, Robert Stevenson, Bill McLean, Troy Melton, Jay Overholts, Hal K. Dawson, Bob Kline and James Turley.
