This doesn't even mention the M*A*S*H marathon on Hallmark. Actual, uncut episodes all day!

Some aren't so bad, a few good sci-fi authors represented. But most of them do suck . Still, haven't seen them in a long time and I've seen all the original and Forest Whittaker ones many times over

I always read Scyfy as "skiffy". WTF was wrong with spelling it "Sci-Fi"?

Benevolent Misanthrope: WTF was wrong with spelling it "Sci-Fi"?

It's progress for the sake of progress. Never mind that things were fine until some PR jackoff had to justify his paycheck.

What time is the Pleasantville marathon?

Benevolent Misanthrope: I always read Scyfy as "skiffy". WTF was wrong with spelling it "Sci-Fi"?

Because like with G4, Sci-Fi's owners thought there weren't enough clones of Spike. Apparently channels dedicated to young, predominantly male audiences can only be testosterone-driven vehicles of tits and blood.

Norad: Benevolent Misanthrope: WTF was wrong with spelling it "Sci-Fi"?

It's progress for the sake of progress. Never mind that things were fine until some PR jackoff had to justify his paycheck.

pretty much. they decided the y's might appeal to the people who like fantasy shows. then again, submitter has the new name wrong - it's 'syfy'. decent article here

"When we tested this new name, the thing that we got back from our 18-to-34 techno-savvy crowd, which is quite a lot of our audience, is actually this is how you'd text it," Mr. Howe said. "It made us feel much cooler, much more cutting-edge, much more hip, which was kind of bang-on what we wanted to achieve communication-wise."

What? No Monk marathon? And why a Twilight Zone marathon AGAIN? Every holiday weekend, Sci-Fi trots that out.

/Whining only because whenever I tune in, it's always an episode I've seen before. I haven't seen them all--even the good ones like Talky Tina elude me.

Two episodes I liked from the "New Trilight Zone:" The one where a survivalist thinks he's survived nuclear holocaust in his bomb shelter while his family is killed. He hears knocking, and thinks it's atomic mutants searching for him. He gets dressed up Commando style to go out to the world... only to find out that he is trapped in the containment dome people built over the site of a power plant meltdown. His family is alive and unhurt.

The other was a langoliers sort of episode where a guy is trapped a few moments in the future while a bunch of painters, etc. are creating the world.

Already watched the Burn Notice one.
I'll watch NCIS also.

Too bad Sci Fi channel went off the air for good, huh?

Fano: Two episodes I liked from the "New Trilight Zone:" The one where a survivalist thinks he's survived nuclear holocaust in his bomb shelter while his family is killed. He hears knocking, and thinks it's atomic mutants searching for him. He gets dressed up Commando style to go out to the world... only to find out that he is trapped in the containment dome people built over the site of a power plant meltdown. His family is alive and unhurt.

Yeah I remember that one, didn't it star Joe Mantegna? However you spell his name. I thought the conceit was that Survivalist Joe thought he was the Last Man on Earth, sitting on his kingdom of dehydrated food, while he was under that 'Peace Dome'?

The other one I liked was some sort of hallucinogenic Viet Vet episode set in a diner.

Fano: The other was a langoliers sort of episode where a guy is trapped a few moments in the future while a bunch of painters, etc. are creating the world.

I remember that one as well, reminded me of a PKD story where the world is guided by the smallest of events performed on cue and a person ends up in an "unactivated sector".

Think that's the only episode I remember from the new TwyLyZo (just being consistent with the naming).

Though I do wish they're bring back a good scifi short story series like the New Outer Limits.

Watched a few of the origianl Twilight Zone episodes this week on youtube. The Midnight Sun and The Shelter 2. Still awesome after all these years.

USA is having an NCIS marathon. So, how is this different than any other day when you turn on USA?

ScreamingInDigital: TwyLyZo

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ScreamingInDigital: Though I do wish they're bring back a good scifi short story series like the New Outer Limits.

Hulu does have some of the 90's shows available. Just FYI in case you did not know.

SciFi SyFy always brings out the Twilight Zone marathon several times a year. I love the show, but even I get tired after seeing them again and again and again. Why not a BSG marathon? Or an SG-1 marathon?

SpikeTV brings out the James Bond marathon, but I didn't check to see if they're playing that on July 4th. Expect to see it 2-3 times a year though.

Clarence Potter: Fano: Two episodes I liked from the "New Trilight Zone:" The one where a survivalist thinks he's survived nuclear holocaust in his bomb shelter while his family is killed. He hears knocking, and thinks it's atomic mutants searching for him. He gets dressed up Commando style to go out to the world... only to find out that he is trapped in the containment dome people built over the site of a power plant meltdown. His family is alive and unhurt.

Yeah I remember that one, didn't it star Joe Mantegna? However you spell his name. I thought the conceit was that Survivalist Joe thought he was the Last Man on Earth, sitting on his kingdom of dehydrated food, while he was under that 'Peace Dome'?

The other one I liked was some sort of hallucinogenic Viet Vet episode set in a diner.

I enjoyed the one with Robert Klein, where people gradually started using different words in conversation until he couldn't understand anybody. That, and Elliot Gould as a food critic who finds a place with magic fortune cookies (I'm always a sucker for those ones.)

2CountyFairs: USA is having an NCIS marathon. So, how is this different than any other day when you turn on USA?

No House?

Clarence Potter: Fano: Two episodes I liked from the "New Trilight Zone:" The one where a survivalist thinks he's survived nuclear holocaust in his bomb shelter while his family is killed. He hears knocking, and thinks it's atomic mutants searching for him. He gets dressed up Commando style to go out to the world... only to find out that he is trapped in the containment dome people built over the site of a power plant meltdown. His family is alive and unhurt.

Yeah I remember that one, didn't it star Joe Mantegna? However you spell his name. I thought the conceit was that Survivalist Joe thought he was the Last Man on Earth, sitting on his kingdom of dehydrated food, while he was under that 'Peace Dome'?

The other one I liked was some sort of hallucinogenic Viet Vet episode set in a diner.

I liked the one where a community for troubled kids has a rule where if you misbehave you get turned into mulch.

Benevolent Misanthrope: I always read Scyfy as "skiffy". WTF was wrong with spelling it "Sci-Fi"?

Respect the Skiffy, brother.

No Bridezillas? Man, this three-day weekend is just gonna suck. Oh, wait...

2CountyFairs: USA is having an NCIS marathon. So, how is this different than any other day when you turn on USA?

Law & Order won't be on.

Clarence Potter: ScreamingInDigital: TwyLyZo

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ScreamingInDigital: Though I do wish they're bring back a good scifi short story series like the New Outer Limits.

Hulu does have some of the 90's shows available. Just FYI in case you did not know.

I have a box set of the New OL which has a lot of good ones watched too many times. Thanks, I did not know, there's a lot more there, including one of my favorites, "The Light Brigade".

What I'd like to see though is a new series like that. ABC tried it a few years back and failed terribly.

Norad: Benevolent Misanthrope: WTF was wrong with spelling it "Sci-Fi"?

It's progress for the sake of progress. Never mind that things were fine until some PR jackoff had to justify his paycheck.

Or, in other words, a marketing breakthrough!

ScreamingInDigital: I have a box set of the New OL which has a lot of good ones watched too many times. Thanks, I did not know, there's a lot more there, including one of my favorites, "The Light Brigade".

Do not forget the prequel to that one, called Quality of Mercy.

ScreamingInDigital: Clarence Potter: ScreamingInDigital: TwyLyZo

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ScreamingInDigital: Though I do wish they're bring back a good scifi short story series like the New Outer Limits.

Hulu does have some of the 90's shows available. Just FYI in case you did not know.

I have a box set of the New OL which has a lot of good ones watched too many times. Thanks, I did not know, there's a lot more there, including one of my favorites, "The Light Brigade".

What I'd like to see though is a new series like that. ABC tried it a few years back and failed terribly.

Also the failure of Nightmares and Dreamscapes.

'Tis a shame - I like my sci-fi and fantasy in anthology format.

Maybe they can bring back "Ray Bradbury presents"?


M. Knight Shamaylan would probably be the modern host for such a show. No, strike that and pretend I never said it.

Just give me another Tales from the Darkside or even Monsters, and I'll be happy.

Clarence Potter: ScreamingInDigital: I have a box set of the New OL which has a lot of good ones watched too many times. Thanks, I did not know, there's a lot more there, including one of my favorites, "The Light Brigade".

Do not forget the prequel to that one, called Quality of Mercy.

Without googling, I'm guessing that's the one where they're in the prison with the woman being "changed"? Another one of my favorites.

ScreamingInDigital: Without googling, I'm guessing that's the one where they're in the prison with the woman being "changed"? Another one of my favorites.

Bingo. I am such a sucker for the series I even like the time traveler ones.

Fano: Two episodes I liked from the "New Trilight Zone:" The one where a survivalist thinks he's survived nuclear holocaust in his bomb shelter while his family is killed. He hears knocking, and thinks it's atomic mutants searching for him. He gets dressed up Commando style to go out to the world... only to find out that he is trapped in the containment dome people built over the site of a power plant meltdown. His family is alive and unhurt.

That one's on at 4 p.m. EST today.

NuclearPenguins: Clarence Potter: Fano: Two episodes I liked from the "New Trilight Zone:" The one where a survivalist thinks he's survived nuclear holocaust in his bomb shelter while his family is killed. He hears knocking, and thinks it's atomic mutants searching for him. He gets dressed up Commando style to go out to the world... only to find out that he is trapped in the containment dome people built over the site of a power plant meltdown. His family is alive and unhurt.

Yeah I remember that one, didn't it star Joe Mantegna? However you spell his name. I thought the conceit was that Survivalist Joe thought he was the Last Man on Earth, sitting on his kingdom of dehydrated food, while he was under that 'Peace Dome'?

The other one I liked was some sort of hallucinogenic Viet Vet episode set in a diner.

I liked the one where a community for troubled kids has a rule where if you misbehave you get turned into mulch.

That was the pilot episode of the UPN version.

The 80s version did have some good episodes, and the UPN series had even less. 80s version had "Paladin of the Lost Hour," "Profile in Silver," "Her Pilgrim Soul." I also liked the one, I forget the title, where a harried suburban mom has the power either through thought or a stopwatch or something to make time freeze...and then she has to use it during a nuclear attack from the USSR and never call time in.

UPN, hmm...the sequel to "It's a Good Life" called "It's STILL a Good Life" where we catch up on the town where the kid can wish people to the cornfield. "The Monsters Are on Maple Street," the remake of "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," only instead of aliens running fear experiments, it's the government. The only good original episode from the UPN series I can remember was "Homecoming," where a soldier comes back from Iraq to make amends with his family before they learn something about him.

Among new shows, I enjoyed "Fear Itself," but like always, it lasted a season and got dumped.

/nothing can hold a candle to "Walking Distance" from the original

An episode of the 1980s Twilight Zone that scared the shiat out of me was "Kentucky Rye". It's the standard "main character is dead and doesn't know it" plot but it freaked me out.

So what?

So Abby!

I've been watching these New Zones off and on. Two things strike me. First, I don't remember when these were actually broadcast even though I know I was around watching TV at the time. I'm pretty heavy into science fiction and watched the reruns of the classic all the time yet somehow I missed these. Probably for the best from what I've seen. The second thing that strikes me though are the number of pretty big stars I've seen. There was one with Tony Curtis and, of all people, a much younger Gates McFadden ( dressed in 40s fashion and smoking hot holy hell hot ). Another one I swear had a barely legal Markie Post ( yikes! ). It's just weird seeing these people on such a terrible show doing such a horrible job of acting. Pay must have been good. When the hell was this show on TV, the early 80s? Judging from styles and the cheeseball special effects that seems about right. Just odd.

/ by the way, does it strike anyone else relevant that the Twilight Zone marathon is on during the 4th of July celebrating the USA's birthday while the USA itself now finds itself in ... The Twilight Zone? Spooky.

Mugato: An episode of the 1980s Twilight Zone that scared the shiat out of me was "Kentucky Rye". It's the standard "main character is dead and doesn't know it" plot but it freaked me out.

So what?

So Abby!

Gawd man thanks for the pic you just made my day. She's somethin' ain't she? Rowwllll!

/ I'd like to pierce her, if you get my drift.

CrazyCurt: Another one I swear had a barely legal Markie Post


The second Twilight Zone was in 1985. Markie Post was in Night Court at that time so she was more than legal.

They're mostly terrible. "The Button" is being remade as "The Box" (trailer) - a full-length feature by Robert Kelly.

The 80s version of the Twilight Zone is overall superior to the original -- better stories, much much better characters, better writers (TZ1 had Serling, Beaumont, and Matheson; TZ2 had George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Joe Haldeman, Rockne S. O'Bannon, Stephen Barnes, J. Michael Straczynski, Theodore Sturgeon, and many other well-known SF writers and stories), better directors. The old show was ok, but too many formulaic "twist" stories, some which were just plain stupid (astronauts go into space, crash on a desert world with an oxygen atmosphere and the big twist is that they're really on Earth!).

While there were certainly some great TZ episode (not the ones people call classic, but more subtle ones), the new show provided brilliant things like "Nightcrawlers," "Shatterday," "To See the Invisible Man," "Wordplay," "Paladin of the Lost Hour," "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium," "Her Pilgrim Soul," "I of Newton," "Monsters!," "Button, Button," "Lost and Found," "The Cold Equations," and "Cat and Mouse." Watching these shows again, it's amazing how high quality the 80s version was, and how well the stories hold up.

Now if you just want cheap thrills and "clever" twists, maybe you like the original. But once you grow up and want to see great science fiction and fantasy, you'll appreciate the remake.

Already Disturbed: They're mostly terrible. "The Button" is being remade as "The Box" (trailer) - a full-length feature by Robert Kelly.

I remember that episode. The story could barely fill a half hour.

Mugato: Already Disturbed: They're mostly terrible. "The Button" is being remade as "The Box" (trailer) - a full-length feature by Robert Kelly.

I remember that episode. The story could barely fill a half hour.

Which is why I was stunned at the trailer this weekend. What in the fark is all this shiat in it?

Mugato: An episode of the 1980s Twilight Zone that scared the shiat out of me was "Kentucky Rye". It's the standard "main character is dead and doesn't know it" plot but it freaked me out.

The one that freaked me out as a kid was "Shelter Skelter" with Joe Mantegna.

What, no "Scary Door" marathon?

/nice try, RealityChuck, but I think I'll push your Button now, 'cause I don't know you.

haplo53: Mugato: An episode of the 1980s Twilight Zone that scared the shiat out of me was "Kentucky Rye". It's the standard "main character is dead and doesn't know it" plot but it freaked me out.

The one that freaked me out as a kid was "Shelter Skelter" with Joe Mantegna.

That's on in ten minutes. I guess I'll check it out.

TNT: Law & Order

Just like every day.

Heroic Poser: Already watched the Burn Notice one.

If only to see more Gabrielle Anwar.
Damn, I know she's got a trout pout and is skinny as a rail, but she is flat out sexy.

barneyfifesbullet: TNT: Law & Order

Just like every day.

Though it is slowly being replaced by Bones (the dumbed down Law and Order).

The fact, the very fact, that the SyFy suits don't realize that we look forward to the Serling originals every year and not the Diet Pepsi version from the nineties, says so much about that network. Meh.

haplo53: Mugato: An episode of the 1980s Twilight Zone that scared the shiat out of me was "Kentucky Rye". It's the standard "main character is dead and doesn't know it" plot but it freaked me out.

The one that freaked me out as a kid was "Shelter Skelter" with Joe Mantegna.

That episode is on right now.

brigid_fitch: What? No Monk marathon? And why a Twilight Zone marathon AGAIN? Every holiday weekend, Sci-Fi trots that out.

/Whining only because whenever I tune in, it's always an episode I've seen before. I haven't seen them all--even the good ones like Talky Tina elude me.

I don't know how much of an original Twilight Zone fan you are, but if you really like the show and want to see 'em all, the DVD box sets can be had for between 20 and 30 bucks apiece. Damn good deal. The seasons ran around 30 episodes each, and the shows, uncut, are 25 minutes for the half hours and 51 minutes for the hour long episodes. And one of the biggest bonuses of having the box sets is you never have to see "SyFy(lus)" on the side of your screen.

New (80s) TZ Sets are a bit more expensive, though. Probably because not as many people bought 'em.

I'm looking forward to seeing "The Obsolete Man" and "Time Enough at Last." When "The Odyssey of Flight 33" I will pour a drink on the ground for the lost french plane from a month ago.

Is this where we rattle off our favorite episodes? Mine is "Changing of the Guard," with Donald Pleasance.

But they're pretty much all excellent. Still some of the best writing every to grace television, IMO.

Cameron_Talley: Is this where we rattle off our favorite episodes? Mine is "Changing of the Guard," with Donald Pleasance.

But they're pretty much all excellent. Still some of the best writing every to grace television, IMO.

My parents were teachers, and that ep always caused a misty eye in the household.

But there were some stinkers in the original series, and sadly, Rod Serling himself wrote a lot of them. [citation:Stephen King, Danse Macabre]