Syfy’s 2020-2021 New Year’s Twilight Zone Marathon Schedule

Having a Twilight Zone marathon to close out a year like 2020 almost feels redundant. There’s nothing like a global pandemic to make you feel like you’re already knee-deep in the fifth dimension.

And yet, paradoxically, I don’t think we’ve ever needed the comfort of The Twilight Zone more than we do right now.

It can be a scary place, no question. And yet it’s also a land of redemption and wonder — a universe filled with imaginative twists and thought-provoking morals. And hey, when bad things happen, at least they’re happening to fictional characters, and not you!

So if you’re inclined to tune in the Syfy channel to ring out the old and ring in the new with Rod Serling’s brainchild, you’re in luck. Sure, the marathons have their drawbacks (the cuts, the ads, etc.). But for me and for so many other fans, the pros outweigh the cons.

I’d like to thank the good people at Syfy who supplied me with this list ahead of time. This is a first-look exclusive, my friends; it hasn’t been published elsewhere yet. So, without further ado, here’s what we can look forward to seeing this year. All times are EST:

Thursday, December 31, 2020

6:00am – Where Is Everybody?

6:30am – One For the Angels

7:00am – Mr. Denton On Doomsday

7:30am – The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

8:00am – Walking Distance

8:25am – Escape Clause

8:50am – The Lonely

9:15am – Judgment Night

9:40am – And When the Sky Was Opened

10:05am – What You Need

10:30am – The Four of Us Are Dying

10:55am – Third From the Sun

11:20am – I Shot An Arrow Into the Air

11:45am – The Fever

12:10pm – The Last Flight

12:35pm – The Purple Testament

1:00pm – Elegy

1:25pm – Mirror Image

1:50pm – Long Live Walter Jameson

2:15pm – People Are Alike All Over

2:40pm – Execution

3:05pm – The Big Tall Wish

3:30pm – Nightmare As a Child

3:55pm – The Chaser

4:20pm – A Passage for Trumpet

4:45pm – Mr. Bevis

5:10pm – The After Hours

5:35pm – The Mighty Casey

6:00pm – A World of His Own

6:25pm – King Nine Will Not Return

6:50pm – Time Enough At Last

7:15pm – Perchance to Dream

7:40pm – The Hitch-hiker

8:05pm – The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

8:30pm – A World of Difference

8:55pm – A Nice Place to Visit

9:20pm – A Stop at Willoughby

9:45pm – The Howling Man

10:10pm – Eye of the Beholder

10:35pm – Night of the Meek

11:00pm – Dust

11:25pm – The Invaders

11:50pm – The Man in the Bottle

Friday, January 1, 2021

12:15am – Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

12:40am – A Thing About Machines

1:05am – Nick of Time

1:30am – The Lateness of the Hour

1:55am – The Trouble With Templeton

2:20am – Once Upon a Time

2:45am – A Quality of Mercy

3:10am – The Hunt

3:35am – Kick the Can

4:00am – A Piano in the House

4:30am – The Little People

5:00am – The Trade-Ins

5:30am – A Kind of Stopwatch

6:00am – A Most Unusual Camera

6:30am – Back There

7:00am – The Whole Truth

7:30am – A Penny For Your Thoughts

8:00am – Twenty-Two

8:30am – The Odyssey of Flight 33

9:00am – Mr. Dingle, The Strong

9:30am – Static

10:00am – The Prime Mover

10:30am – A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

11:00am – The Rip Van Winkle Caper

11:30am – The Silence

12:00pm – Shadow Play

12:30pm – The Mind and the Matter

1:00pm – Two

1:30pm – The Arrival

2:00pm – The Shelter

2:30pm – The Passersby

3:00pm – The Mirror

3:30pm – The Grave

4:00pm – It’s a Good Life

4:30pm – Deaths-Head Revisited

5:00pm – Still Valley

5:30pm – The Jungle

6:00pm – Long Distance Call

6:30pm – Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

7:00pm – The Obsolete Man

7:30pm – A Game of Pool

8:00pm – The Midnight Sun

8:30pm – Five Characters in Search of an Exit

9:00pm – To Serve Man

9:30pm – The Dummy

10:00pm – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

10:30pm – Living Doll

11:00pm – The Masks

11:30pm – Jess-Belle

Saturday, January 2, 2021

12:30am – What’s in the Box?

1:00am – I Am the Night – Color Me Black

1:30am – Sounds and Silences

2:00am – Caesar and Me

2:30am – The Jeopardy Room

3:00am – The Encounter

3:30am – Mr. Garrity and the Graves

4:00am – The Brain Center at Whipple’s

4:30am – Come Wander With Me

5:00am – The Fear

5:30am – The Bewitchin’ Pool

I should also note that the fine folks at Decades are airing a New Year’s marathon as well. Unfortunately, very few people (relatively speaking) can tune them in. But if you can, and you’d like to see which episodes they’re airing, click here and then select December 31 on the calendar grid.

And of course some fans prefer to program their own marathon on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime/CBS All-Access, or DVD/Blu-ray. Wherever you get your fifth-dimensional fix, I hope you have a great time. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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For a list of past marathon schedules, click here.

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Hope to see you in some corner of the fifth dimension soon!