Episode Guide to 2025 Fourth of July ‘Twilight Zone’ Marathons on H&I Network and Syfy

Airline passenger Bob Wilson, played by William Shatner, observes a gremlin, played by Nick Cravat, on the plane's wing. 'Nightmare At 20,000 Feet,' episode of The Twilight Zone. Initial television broadcast on October 11, 1963. Image is a frame grab. — CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images

**William Shatner as a man having a "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" in the classic 1963 *Twilight Zone* episode.**

For Independence Day 2025, Syfy and H&I Network (Heroes & Icons) are once again celebrating with their annual fan-favorite marathons of episodes from Rod Serling’s classic 1959-64 sci-fi/fantasy anthology series The Twilight Zone, as well as one of its revival series. H&I’s marathan will run from July 3 through July 7, while SyFy’s marathon will air from 5 a.m. on July 4 through the early morning of July 5.

This year’s episode lineups for both channels feature a mix of familiar classics along with some lesser-known entries. There are, of course, some episodes airing on both channels (but on different days and at different times), but some episodes are airing only on one network and not the other.

Read on to find out when you can catch your favorite!

**H&I NETWORK’S “ROD, WHITE & BLUE” TWILIGHT ZONE 2025 FOURTH OF JULY MARATHON EPISODE SCHEDULE (ALL TIMES ET)**

In 2025, “Rod, White & Blue: A Twilight Zone Celebration” returns for its third year on Heroes & Icons Network (H&I) after previously airing on the DECADES network, and it is by far the most extensive of this year’s Fourth of July Twilight Zone marathons.

Beginning Thursday, July 3, 2025, at 6am ET, and continuing until 6am ET on Monday, July 7, H&I’s “Rod, White & Blue” marathon binge features 174 episodes mostly from the original series, as well as a nice handful from the first Twilight Zone revival, which ran on CBS and in syndication from 1985-89.

Like the original Twilight Zone, the ‘80s revival featured some big future names in pre-stardom roles, like Bruce Willis (who you can see in the “Shatterday” episode), and several installments were helmed by notable directors like Wes Craven, William Friedkin, Joe Dante and John Milius.

Also like the original series, a number of the episodes are based on stories by renowned authors of sci-fi/horror/fantasy, like Harlan Ellison, Robert R. McCammon, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen King. Some of the installments were updates to, or remakes of, original Zone classics like “A Game of Pool.”

You can certainly tell what decade this revival was made in thanks to its oh-so-’80s opening graphics. This would have looked right at home on my dorm room wall back in ’88:

shot from the opening title sequence of "The Twilight Zone" revival series that aired from 1985-89. The top of the image features a window with an eerie blue glow superimposed upon the large backdrop of the sun, which is almost completely covered by the shadow of an eclipse, with just a bit of shine coming out from behind the top left. At the bottom, seeming to be shooting out of the window, is the title "The Twilight Zone" in pinkish-red colors, and in '80s-ish style font.

An episode schedule for “Rod, White & Blue” is below (* = episode is from the ‘80s Twilight Zone series).

THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2025

6am: A Little Peace and Quiet*
6:30am: Chameleon*
7am: Healer*
7:30am: Little Boy Lost*
8am: Shatterday*
8:30am: The Hellgramite Method*
9am: Printer’s Devil (hourlong)
10am: Death Ship (hourlong)
11am: Where Is Everybody? (original series premiere episode)
11:30am: One for the Angels
12pm: Mr. Denton on Doomsday
12:30pm: The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine
1pm: Walking Distance
1:30pm: Escape Clause
2pm: The Lonely
2:30pm: Perchance to Dream
3pm: Judgment Night
3:30pm: And When the Sky Was Opened
4pm: What You Need
4:30pm: The Four of Us Are Dying
5pm: Third From the Sun
5:30pm: I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
6pm: The Hitch-Hiker
6:30pm: The Fever
7pm: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
7:30pm: To Serve Man
8pm: Eye of the Beholder
8:30pm: A Nice Place to Visit
9pm: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
9:30pm: Living Doll
10pm: The Shelter
10:30pm: The Masks
11pm: The Obsolete Man
11:30pm: It’s a Good Life

Wanna See Something REALLY Scary? — Some 'Twilight Zone: The Movie' Moments Have Lived Rent-Free in My Head For 40 Years

A monstrous rabbit in the hat, a mouthless sister, a gremlin on the wing of the plane and more from the 1983 anthology movie that also inspired me to watch Rod Serling's classic series for the first time.

Remind

FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2025

12am: A Most Unusual Camera
12:30am: Dust
1am: Back There
1:30am: The Whole Truth
2am: No Time Like the Past (hourlong)
3am: Passage on the Lady Anne (hourlong)
4am: Nightcrawlers*
4:30am: If She Dies*
5am: Ye Gods*
5:30am: A Message From Charity, Part 1*
6am: A Message From Charity, Part 2*
6:30am: Teacher’s Aide/Children’s Zoo*
7am: Paladin of the Lost Hour*
7:30am: Act Break/Lost and Found*
8am: Monsters!*
8:30am The Card*

9am: On Thursday We Leave for Home (hourlong)
10am: The Parallel (hourlong)
11am: The Purple Testament
11:30am: Elegy
12pm: A World of Difference
12:30pm: Execution
1pm: The Big Tall Wish
1:30pm: Nightmare as a Child
2pm: The Chaser
2:30pm: A Passage for Trumpet
3pm: Mr. Bevis
3:30pm: The Mighty Casey
4pm: King Nine Will Not Return
4:30pm: The Man in the Bottle
5pm: Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
5:30pm: A Thing About Machines
6pm: The Lateness of the Hour
6:30pm: The Trouble With Templeton
7pm: A Stop at Willoughby
7:30pm: The After Hours
8pm: Five Characters in Search of an Exit
8:30pm: The Silence
9pm: The Midnight Sun
9:30pm: Nick of Time
10pm: Nothing in the Dark
10:30pm: The Howling Man
11pm: Number 12 Looks Just Like You
11:30pm: People Are Alike All Over (pictured below)

Actor Roddy McDowall stars in the 'People Are Alike All Over' episode of the CBS television series "The Twilight Zone" on March 25, 1960. He is seen wearing his astronaut uniform, standing in a cage and clutching the bars in confusion and fright. A sign in front of the cage reads: "Earth creature in his native habitat."

CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images

SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2025

12am: Mr. Dingle, the Strong
12:30am: Static
1am: The Prime Mover
1:30am: Long Distance Call
2am: The Thirty Fathom Grave (hourlong)
3am: Jess-Belle (hourlong)
4am: The Burning Man/The Elevator*
4:30am: Dealer’s Choice*
5am: Wong’s Lost and Found Emporium*
5:30am: Dead Woman’s Shoes*
6am: A Saucer of Loneliness*
6:30am: What Are Friends For?*
7am: Aqua Vita*
7:30am: The Storyteller*
8am: Wordplay/Personal Demons*
8:30am: The Cold Equations*
9am: The New Exhibit (hourlong; pictured below)

TWILIGHT ZONE episode: "The New Exhibit" with (from left to right) Bob Mitchell as wax figure depicting murderer Albert W. Hicks, Milton Parsons as wax figure Henri Desire Landru and David Bond as figure Jack the Ripper. Program host Rod Serling is in the foregound. Original airdate: April 4, 1963. Neg dated: February 12, 1963.

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10am: He’s Alive (hourlong)
11am: Twenty Two
11:30am: The Rip Van Winkle Caper
12pm: Person or Persons Unknown
12:30pm: The Old Man in the Cave
1pm: A Kind of a Stopwatch
1:30pm: In Praise of Pip
2pm: The Night of the Meek
2:30pm: The Trade-Ins
3pm: The Jeopardy Room
3:30pm: Two
4pm: A Piano in the House
4:30pm: Kick the Can
5pm: The Fugitive
5:30pm: You Drive
6pm: The Long Morrow
6:30pm: The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
7pm: A World of His Own
7:30pm: A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
8pm: Shadow Play
8:30pm: Long Live Walter Jameson
9pm: Night Call
9:30pm: Stopover in a Quiet Town
10pm: The Invaders
10:30pm: A Penny for Your Thoughts
11pm: Death’s-Head Revisited (pictured below)
11:30pm: The Last Flight

Actor Joseph Schildkraut as the ghost of Alfred Becker, an inmate of Dachau concentration camp, in 'Deaths-Head Revisited ', an episode in the US TV series 'The Twilight Zone', 1961. He is dressed in the striped clothing worn by prisoners of the camp. He is angrily looking and pointing toward the camera (at the former commandant of the camp, unseen here).

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SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2025

12am: Queen of the Nile
12:30am: I Am the Night, Color Me Black
1am: Mr. Garrity and the Graves
1:30am: The Passersby
2am: Of Late I Think of Cliffordville (hourlong)
3am: Mute (hourlong)
4am: Crazy as a Soup Sandwich*
4:30am: The Road Less Traveled*
5am: The Junction*
5:30am: Voices in the Earth*
6am-9am: (preempted for regular educational programming)
9am: Valley of the Shadow (hourlong)
10am: In His Image (hourlong)
11am: The Grave
11:30am: Dead Man’s Shoes
12pm: Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
12:30pm: Probe 7, Over and Out
1pm: One More Pallbearer
1:30pm: A Quality of Mercy
2pm: I Sing the Body Electric
2:30pm: The Fear
3pm: Steel
3:30pm: Four O’Clock
4pm: The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
4:30pm: Uncle Simon
5pm: The Jungle
5:30pm: The Mind and the Matter
6pm: The Gift
6:30pm: The Mirror
7pm: Little Girl Lost (pictured below)
7:30pm: The Little People
8pm: The Changing of the Guard
8:30pm: Mirror Image
9pm: A Game of Pool
9:30pm: The Odyssey of Flight 33
10pm: The Dummy
10:30pm: Ring-a-Ding Girl
11pm: Still Valley
11:30pm: The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

Twilight Zone episode, "Little Girl Lost" originally aired on CBS on March 16, 1962. Tracy Stratford as Tina, a little girl lost in another dimension beneath her bed. She is wearing her nightgown and walking beside her dog in a misty realm. Photo session dated February 2, 1962.

CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images

MONDAY, JULY 7, 2025

12am: Young Man’s Fancy
12:30am: Showdown With Rance McGrew
1am: The Brain Center at Whipple’s
1:30am: The Bewitchin’ Pool
2am: I Dream of Genie (hourlong)
3am: The Incredible World of Horace Ford (hourlong)
4am: Something in the Walls*
4:30am: A Game of Pool*
5am: Room 2426*
5:30am: Love Is Blind*

**SYFY’S “THE TWILIGHT ZONE OUT OF THIS WORLD” 2025 FOURTH OF JULY MARATHON EPISODE SCHEDULE (ALL TIMES ET/PT)**

For a few decades now, Syfy has created an annual July 4th tradition of Twilight Zone marathons. The number of days and episodes in these annual marathons have varied (and I think there may have been a few years were they didn’t have it at all); it often depending upon when the holiday falls.

This year, Syfy’s Twilight Zone Out of This World Marathon is kinda disappointing in terms of its brevity and selection of episodes. It runs a little over 24 hours, beginning on Friday, July 4, 2025, at 5am ET/PT, and continuing until 6am ET/PT on Saturday, July 5, 2025 (the marathon will take a two-hour hiatus on the evening of July 4 to air a new episode of Resident Alien, with an encore afterward).

This lineup focuses on episodes from the original series, featuring a mix of the standard half-hour installments as well as some of the hourlong ones.

TWILIGHT ZONE. Inger Stevens as Nan Adams in "The Hitch-hiker". Season 1, episode 16, of CBS' science fiction television series, 'The Twilight Zone', July 23, 1959. We see her behind the wheel of her parked car, wearing a hat. Her left arm is resting on the open window sill, and she is looking ahead at something with concern and some fear.

CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2025

5am: The Four of Us Are Dying
5:30am Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
6am: Long Distance Call
6:30am: Passage on the Lady Anne (hourlong)
7:30am: Nightmare as a Child
8am: The Hitch-Hiker (pictured above)
8:30am: The Long Morrow
9am: On Thursday We Leave for Home (hourlong)
10am: Elegy
10:30am: I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
11am: Third From the Sun
11:30am: And When the Sky Was Opened
12pm: Where Is Everybody? (series premiere episode)
12:30pm: Mirror Image
1pm: The Parallel (hourlong)
2pm: The Little People
2:30pm: Death Ship (hourlong)
3:30pm: Stopover in a Quiet Town
4pm: The Gift
4:30pm: To Serve Man
5pm: People Are Alike All Over
5:30pm: Black Leather Jackets
6pm: Probe 7, Over and Out
6:30pm: Mr. Dingle, the Strong
7pm: The Invaders
7:30pm: The Fear
8pm: Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
8:30pm: The Fugitive
9pm: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
9:30pm: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
10pm-12:08am: Preempted for new episode of Resident Alien and an encore

SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2025

12:08am: The Lonely
12:38am: Mr. Denton on Doomsday
1:07am: Night Call
1:36am: The Bard (hourlong)
2:35am: One for the Angels
3:04am: Escape Clause
3:33am: Jess-Belle (hourlong)
4:32am: I Dream of Genie (hourlong)
5:31am: The Man in the Bottle