Syfy’s 2021-2022 New Year’s Twilight Zone Marathon Schedule

Ah, the Twilight Zone marathon. It’s become such a fixture of each New Year’s Eve. Can you think of a better way to ring out the old and ring in the new than with Rod Serling?

Sure, there are drawbacks to watching the Zone this way. The ads and the edits sometimes seem as if they’ve been engineered by Talky Tina. It’s best to watch the show on disc, frankly. But there’s something comforting about the tradition of the NYE marathon. Plus, it’s great to all be watching at the same time and interacting over social media.

So let’s get to the big question: What will they be showing this year? I know some fans like to be surprised, but most fans appreciate a heads up. So, courtesy of the friendly folks at Syfy (who were nice enough to share the lineup with me ahead of time), here’s the schedule for the 2021-2022 marathon: 104 episodes out of TZ’s 156. Times shown are EST, btw:

Friday, December 31, 2021

2:00am – The Parallel
3:00am – Where is Everybody?
3:30am – One For the Angels
4:00am – Mr. Denton on Doomsday
4:30am – The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
5:00am – The Incredible World of Horace Ford
6:00am – Judgment Night
6:30am – The Purple Testament
7:00am – Elegy
7:30am – Nightmare As a Child
8:00am – Valley of the Shadow
8:50am – The Chaser
9:15am – A World of His Own
9:40am – King Nine Will Not Return
10:05am – Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
10:55am – A Thing About Machines
11:20am – The Trouble With Templeton
11:45am – Back There
12:10pm – Mr. Dingle, the Strong
12:35am – The Rip Van Winkle Caper
1:00pm – The Mind and the Matter
1:25pm – The Arrival
1:50pm – The Passersby
2:15pm – A Quality of Mercy
2:40pm – Nothing in the Dark
3:05pm – The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
3:30pm – The Trade-Ins
3:55pm – Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
4:20pm – Young Man’s Fancy
4:45pm – Cavender Is Coming
5:10pm – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
5:35pm – The New Exhibit
6:25pm – A Kind of Stopwatch
6:50pm – The Last Night of a Jockey
7:15pm – Living Doll
7:40pm – Time Enough at Last
8:05pm – Perchance to Dream
8:30pm – The Hitch-Hiker
8:55pm – The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
9:20pm – A World of Difference
9:45pm – Night of the Meek
10:10pm – The Odyssey of Flight 33
10:35pm – Long Distance Call
11:00pm – Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
11:25pm – The Shelter
11:50pm – The Fugitive

Saturday, January 1, 2022

12:15am – Person or Persons Unknown
12:40am – The Masks
1:05am – Jess-Belle
1:55am – Ring-a-Ding Girl
2:20am – On Thursday We Leave For Home
3:10am – A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
3:35am – You Drive
4:00am – The Self-Improvement of Salvatore Ross
4:30am – Spur of the Moment
5:00am – What’s in the Box?
5:30am – The Brain Center at Whipple’s
6:00am – Mute
7:00am – Passage on the Lady Anne
8:00am – And When the Sky Was Opened
8:30am – Third From the Sun
9:00am – People Are Alike All Over
9:30am – Mr. Bevis
10:00am – The After Hours
10:30am – The Mighty Casey
11:00am – Twenty-Two
11:30am – Static
12:00pm – The Mirror
12:25pm – Once Upon a Time
12:50pm – The Hunt
1:15pm – The Bard
2:05pm – Showdown With Rance McGrew
2:30pm – The Gift
2:55pm – The Little People
3:20pm – The Changing of the Guard
3:45pm – In Praise of Pip
4:10pm – The Old Man in the Cave
4:35pm – Number 12 Looks Just Like You
5:00pm – The Long Morrow
5:25pm – Probe 7 Over and Out
5:50pm – The 7^th is Made Up of Phantoms
6:15pm – From Agnes With Love
6:40pm – I Am the Night – Color Me Black
7:05pm – Sounds and Silences
7:30pm – Caesar and Me
7:55pm – A Nice Place to Visit
8:20pm – A Stop at Willoughby
8:45pm – The Howling Man
9:10pm – Eye of the Beholder
9:35pm – Dust
10:00pm – The Invaders
10:30pm – The Obsolete Man
11:00pm – Midnight Sun
11:30pm – Five Characters in Search of an Exit

Sunday, January 2, 2022

12:00am – To Serve Man
12:30am – The Dummy
1:00am – I Sing the Body Electric
1:30am – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
2:00am – The Jeopardy Room
2:30am – The Encounter
3:00am – Mr. Garrity and the Graves
3:30am – The Bewitchin’ Pool
4:00am – The Thirty-Fathom Grave
5:00am – He’s Alive

Please note that many episodes won’t be starting on the hour and half-hour! Can’t say I’m crazy about that. It’s sure to confuse some people. And although this enables Syfy to include more episodes over a shorter block of time, I can’t see how it’s possible to do without cutting more scenes than they already do.

Also, they’ve scheduled episodes from every season, but there’s an emphasis this time out on Seasons 3 and 5, as well as nine episodes from the lesser-known Season 4, when TZ shifted from a half-hour to an hour.

Would I have made some different choices? Absolutely. Some of the Season 5 picks, for example, are hardly the cream of the TZ crop (and two of the Season 4 picks are on my list of least-favorite TZs). But there are, of course, some real gems.

As always, I’ll be live-tweeting quotes and facts over on my Twitter page, and sharing some fun info on my Facebook page. Hope we get a chance to interact at some point. Enjoy!

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