Check Out H& I’s New Year’s Day ‘Twilight Zone’ Marathon Schedule
What To Know
- The H & I Network will air its eighth annual Twilight Zone New Year’s marathon, featuring 62 classic episodes over 34 hours from December 31, 2025, at 8 pm EST to January 2, 2026, at 6 am EST.
- The marathon showcases iconic episodes from the original 1959-1964 series that have significantly influenced American science-fiction and horror, including “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” and “Little Girl Lost.”
Spend your New Year in a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind, with H & I Network’s eighth annual Twilight Zone marathon. This 34-hour marathon, which features 62 fan-favorite episodes, begins at 8 pm EST on December 31, 2025, and rings in the New Year, running until 6 am EST on January 2, 2026.
In between, find classic episodes from the show’s original 1959-1964 run, including some of the most famous stories that helped shape American science-fiction and horror filmmaking forever. The show has been revived three times as a series, in 1985, 2002 and 2019, as well as a 1983 feature film, and even a Disney theme park ride — and, as you’ll see below, inspired countless other favorite films and TV shows.
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8 pm: The Eye of the Beholder
8:30 pm: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
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In this famous tale (which later made its way to the 1983 Twilight Zone film), William Shatner plays a man bedeviled by an ominous figure on the wing of his airplane.
9pm: To Serve Man
9:30pm: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
10pm: Mirror Image
10:30pm: The Hunt
11pm: Where is Everybody?
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In the first-ever episodes of the series, a man wakes up alone in a small town, to find that he is really, really alone.
11:30pm: A Game of Pool
12am: One for the Angels
12:30am: The Old Man in the Cave
1am: The Rip Van Wrinkle Caper
1:30am: The Trade-Ins
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In this heart-tugging episode, an elderly couple explore the idea of purchasing new, youthful bodies.
2am: A Most Unusual Camera
2:30am: A Piano in the House
3am: Back There
3:30am: Elegy
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Three astronauts land on a most confusing planet — it looks like Earth in a previous era, and yet no one seems to be moving…
4am: Passage on the Lady Anne
5am: He’s Alive
6am: Printer’s Devil
7am: We Leave for Home
8am: Death’s Head Revisited
8:30am: Night Call
1940s horror legend Jacques Tourneur, the director behind the original Cat People and I Walked With a Zombie, directs this tale of an elderly woman who starts receiving mysterious phone calls on a dark and stormy night.
9am: Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
9:30am: People Are Alike All Over
10am: Shadow Play
10:30am: Stopover in a Quiet Town
11am: The Invaders
11:30am: The Lonely
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A man is sentenced to life alone on a prison planet as punishment for murder. But the delivery of a female android to keep him company makes him begin to question the meaning of the word “alone.”
12pm: The Midnight Sun
12:30pm: And When the Sky Was Opened
1pm: Nick of Time
1:30pm: Nothing in the Dark
2pm: The Silence
2:30pm: The Hitchhiker
3pm: The Howling Man
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In post-World War I Europe, a tourist comes across an order of monks with a most unusual profession.
3:30pm: Walking Distance
4pm: A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
4:30pm: A World of His Own
5pm: Penny for Your Thoughts
5:30pm: Little Girl Lost
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In this episode (one of many Twilight Zone episodes parodied in The Simpsons‘ annual “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween specials), a little girl disappears into another dimension through a portal that suddenly appears in her bedroom wall.
6pm: Long Live Walter Jameson
6:30pm: The Last Flight
7pm: Time Enough at Last
7:30pm: Living Doll
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On one of the show’s most infamous episodes, which was once again parodied on The Simpsons and thought to have partially inspired Chucky and the Child’s Play movies, Telly Savalas plays a stepfather who’s unable to connect with his new stepdaughter … a situation only worsened by a doll named Talky Tina.
8pm: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
8:30pm: It’s a Good Life
9pm: The Masks
9:30pm: The Obsolete Man
10pm: The Shelter
10:30pm: A Stop at Willoughby
In what Rod Serling described as his personal favorite episode from the show’s first season, a frustrated New York City advertising executive takes refuge in an idyllic 19th century town called Willoughby that appears to him in his dreams.
11pm: The Passersby
11:30pm: The After Hours
12am: Third from the Sun
12:30am: What You Need
1am: Kick the Can
1:30am: Mr. Garrity and the Graves
In the town of Happiness, Arizona, in 1890, a snake oil salesman comes to town, claiming he has the power to raise the dead. But the townsfolk soon begin to wonder if they’re better off letting sleeping dogs (and deceased people) lie.
2am: Queen of the Nile
2:30am: The Fugitive
3am: The Jeopardy Room
3:30am: The Long Morrow
4am: Valley of the Shadow
5am: The New Exhibit
In the final episode of the marathon, Martin Balsam plays a waxworks employee who becomes a little too attached to the wax figures of famous murderers shown at his museum. When the museum goes out of business, he takes them home … but this is the Twilight Zone, so you know he’s not just gonna have a nice time setting up a diorama in his basement.
“A Toast to Twilight” Twilight Zone marathon begins at 8pm EST on December 31, 2025, on H & I Network. Check local listings to figure out how to watch in your area.
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