Episode Guide to Syfy’s ’65 Years of The Twilight Zone’ Marathon

Jeff Pfeiffer October 4, 2024

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"To Serve Man" will be among the 65 episodes featured during Syfy's October 2024 marathon celebrating 65 years of *The Twilight Zone*

Rod Serling’s legendary sci-fi/fantasy anthology series The Twilight Zone premiered Oct. 2, 1959, on CBS.

To celebrate the iconic and influential show’s 65th anniversary, Syfy is airing a marathon of 65 classic episodes that lean more toward the horror/scary side of the Zone. Beginning the morning of Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, and continuing into late-night Sunday, Oct. 6/early morning Monday, Oct 7, the marathon will feature a mix of the standard half-hour episodes along with some of the hourlong ones that were produced over the course of the show’s original five-season run (it ended June 19, 1964).

Among the installments included during the marathon is the series’ Oct. 2, 1959, premiere episode, the Serling-scripted “Where Is Everybody?”

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**Syfy’s 65 Years of The Twilight Zone Marathon Schedule (All Times Eastern)**

Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024

8am: The Thirty-Fathom Grave (hourlong episode)
9am: The New Exhibit (hourlong episode)
10am: In His Image (hourlong episode)
11am: Mute (hourlong episode)
12pm: It’s a Good Life
12:30pm: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
1pm: Come Wander With Me
1:30pm: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

image from the 1960 "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" episode of "The Twilight Zone." It is an image from th closing titles of the episode; superimposed over an image of a street sign reading "Maple Street" is the credit: "Written and Narrated by Rod Serling."

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2pm: The Invaders
2:30pm: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
3pm: Living Doll
3:30pm: Mirror Image
4pm: Perchance to Dream
4:30pm: The Hitch-Hiker
5pm: The Dummy
5:30pm: You Drive
6pm: Caesar and Me
6:30pm: Long Distance Call
7pm: Ninety Years Without Slumbering
7:30pm: Queen of the Nile
8pm: The Masks
8:30pm: Night Call
9pm: Escape Clause
9:30pm: The Purple Testament
10pm: A Nice Place to Visit
10:30pm: The Howling Man
11pm: Still Valley
11:30pm: The Hunt

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Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024

12am: Miniature (hourlong episode)
1am: Jess-Belle (hourlong episode)
2am: Death Ship (hourlong episode)
3am: Valley of the Shadow (hourlong episode)
4am: He’s Alive (hourlong episode)
5am: Printer’s Devil (hourlong episode)
6am-8am: paid programming
8am: The Incredible World of Horace Ford (hourlong episode)
9am: On Thursday We Leave for Home (hourlong episode)
10am: Passage on the Lady Anne (hourlong episode)
11am: A Game of Pool
11:30am: To Serve Man
12pm: Sounds and Silences
12:30pm: Where Is Everybody? (series premiere episode; originally aired Oct. 2, 1959)

a Dec. 5, 1958, behind the scenes image from between takes on the set of the first "Twilight Zone" episode, "Where Is Everybody?" It is a medium shot of series creator Rod Serling, standing on left, wearing a zip-up white sweater and leaning against a pole with his right arm up against it, and episode star Earl Holliman on the right, with his right leg up on some support and leaning forward and resting his arms on the right knee.

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**Rod Serling and actor Earl Holliman on the set of the first Twilight Zone episode, “Where Is Everybody?”**

1pm: Mr. Garrity and the Graves
1:30pm: The Brain Center at Whipple’s
2pm: And When the Sky Was Opened
2:30pm: Third From the Sun
3pm: Elegy
3:30pm: People Are Alike All Over
4pm: The Little People
4:30pm: Probe 7, Over and Out
5pm: Young Man’s Fancy
5:30pm: A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
6pm: Queen of the Nile
6:30pm: A Thing About Machines
7pm: The Lateness of the Hour
7:30pm: Static
8pm: I Sing the Body Electric
8:30pm: Uncle Simon
9pm: From Agnes With Love
9:30pm: King Nine Will Not Return
10pm: Spur of the Moment
10:30pm: Death’s-Head Revisited
11pm: The Changing of the Guard
11:30pm: The Shelter