Twilight Zone - An Alternative Marathon to Syfy from Decades Network

Not a particularly well known channel that appears on certain cable systems across the United States, Decades Network has two locations in my home state available, only one in other states across the country. But certain Twitter Zoners have this channel and actually follow it instead of the Syfy marathon. And unlike Syfy last year, Decades Network had the 4th of July Twilight Zone Independence Day Marathon. So I did follow as much of Syfy I could during the first day of 2020 while keeping a record of Decades own lineup for the last two days. I wouldn't give up spending time with family on New Year's Eve, bringing in the new year with Twilight Zone isn't something I wouldn't have minded. So much like the previous thread, I'll highlight on this lineup the episodes I missed on the 31st of December, 2019. This was the Decades lineup.I'm watching many of them in the coming days after work or the weekend when time permits.

So my plans when I initially put this together was to run little mini-marathons in the coming days but instead I thought it would be cool to stretch this out over the coming months. Sort of use this now meaningless schedule, four/five days removed, as a template for future marathons. While some of the below episodes are common marathon mainstays, a few I really would like to eventually write up official reviews for. And some that didn't make either Syfy or Decades list for the New Year's Eve and Day marathons. Those I would give special attention to as well.

 The only season I won't be viewing is the fourth. I covered it in the middle of 2019 at great length.

7:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Dummy "A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!"

7:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - A Most Unusual Camera "Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of events five minutes into the future."

8:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Queen of the Nile "A columnist's expose on a movie actress takes a turn when her mother warns not to return."

8:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Long Live Walter Jameson "A professor suspects his daughter's fiance of leading a double-life with a connection to the past."

9:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Execution "Just before being hanged, a murderer from 1880 is transported into the future."

9:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Nightmare as a Child "A schoolteacher is forced to confront her past when a little girl with intimate knowledge arrives at her door."

10:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - In His Image "A scientist creates an android that has the qualities which he feels he's lacking."

11:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - One for the Angels "A jovial salesman attempts to elude Death."

11:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Where is Everybody? "A man with no memory awakes in a town that's completely empty."

12:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - A Quality of Mercy "A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from his enemy's point of view."

12:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Obsolete Man "In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death."

1:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Chaser "A desperate man turns to a love potion after his sweetheart rejects him."

1:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Once Upon a Time "Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time traveling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down."

2:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Printer's Devil "Douglas Winter's paper, The Courier, is in financial trouble. Mr. Smith appears and offers to pay off the debts, and run the linotype machine. Douglas agrees, but soon regrets when he realizes Mr. Smith is the devil. Mr. Smith offers him a contract guaranteeing The Courier's success in exchange for Doug's soul. Afraid of losing Mr. Smith, he agrees. Mr. Smith proceeds to cause all kinds of disasters. Doug asks him to stop, and Mr. Smith makes him another offer: He'll stop if Doug will kill hims

3:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - A Piano in the House "Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence."

3:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - One More Pallbearer "Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter."

4:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Four of Us are Dying "A man with the ability to change his face chooses the wrong person to impersonate."

4:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Nothing in the Dark "A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death"."

5:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Shelter "When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter."

5:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Jeopardy Room "Trying to defect, Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room with Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, in the room across the street. Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and Ivan must find it within three hours or be blown to bits."

6:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Death Ship "A three-man spacecraft lands on a planet only to discover the wreckage of a spacecraft identical to their own. Two of the crew are convinced that they are dead, but the captain refuses to see the truth."

7:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - It's a Good Life "Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing."

7:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Howling Man "A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner."

8:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Masks "A dying man demands his money-hungry family wear peculiar masks in order to recieve their just inheritance."

8:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Mirror Image "A woman discovers her exact double at a bus terminal."

9:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Time Enough at Last "A badgered bank teller dreams of being alone, until his wish comes true."

9:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Eye of the Beholder "A woman undergoes experimental treatments in an attempt to make her appear "normal" again."

10:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Living Doll "Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!"

10:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Invaders "An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens."

11:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up "Troopers follow the tracks from a frozen pond, into a diner. Inside they find a soda jerk, a bus driver and his seven passengers. The bus driver is certain only six people boarded his bus"

11:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Hitchhiker "Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks."

12:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Parallel "An astronaut arrives back on Earth, then notices several differences."

1:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Hunt "On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him."

1:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Kick the Can "The senior residents of Sunnyvale decide that the secret to youth is acting young, and in particular playing a childhood game called "kick-the-can.""

2:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Fugitive "Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl."

2:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Little Girl Lost "A six-year-old girl rolls under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension. Her parents and a neighbor struggle to free her before the hole between the dimensions closes forever."

3:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Come Wander with Me "A singer searches for an authentic folk song."

3:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - I Sing the Body Electric "A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children."

4:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Cavender is Coming "Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired. He sets her up in a mansion, with a fortune. However, none of her friends from her old neighborhood remember her. She decides she would rather have friends than money. She asks to be returned to her old life. Cavender's boss is furious, until he notices that Agnes is extremely happy. He decides maybe other people could use Cavender's help."

4:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Changing of the Guard "On Christmas Eve, an elderly professor is heartbroken to learn of his school’s plans to replace him with a younger teacher. Unable to come to grips with this forced retirement, he becomes convinced that his life’s work has had no meaning. That is, until the spirits of his former students come to visit."

5:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine "An aging movie star retreats into her old films."

5:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Escape Clause "A hypochondriac makes a deal with the devil for immortality."

6:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - And When the Sky Was Opened "Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling."

6:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Purple Testament "Lt. Fitzgerald has found his own special wartime hell. Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle, he has the disquieting ability to see who is about to die."

7:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - What's in the Box "A husband sees the consequences of his affair play out on his repaired TV set."

7:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Dead Man's Shoes "A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer."

8:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby "A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens."

8:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Back There "It's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club. Corrigan suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears, he has moved back to April 14, 1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination. He tries to warn everyone at Ford's Theater, but ends up being arrested. Mr. Wellington asks that Corrigan be remanded to his custody. Wellington is actually John Wilkes Booth, and he wants no interference. He drugs Corrigan, and when he wakes up it's too late. He returns

9:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Penny for Your Thoughts "The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read."

9:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Night of the Meek "Fired on Christmas Eve, a down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus finds a mysterious bag that gives out endless presents."

10:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Valley of the Shadow "A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things."

11:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Monsters are Due on Maple Street "Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood."

11:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Man in the Bottle "A discontented shop owner believes his life will turn around after discovering a genie."

12:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Stopover in a Quiet Town "A young couple, the Fraziers, leave a party after having a little too much to drink. They wake up to find themselves in Centerville, a small town where no one lives: where the houses are empty, the trees are props, the food is plastic... and the only train comes right back to Centerville."

12:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - A Stop at Willoughby "Frustrated with his high pressure job, an executive contemplates living in his dream world, not realizing where it really leads."

1:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - A Nice Place to Visit "A small time crook wakes up in his own personal heaven with a mysterious jovial man."

1:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Walking Distance "A man accidently travels back in time to his childhood hometown."

2:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The New Exhibit "The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures of Jack the Ripper, Albert W. Hicks, Henri Désiré Landru, William Burke and William Hare for a while. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins..."

3:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet "A man recovering from a breakdown sees a gremlin on the wing of the airplane."

3:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Nick of Time "A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble."

4:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - What You Need "A thug attempts to use a psychic salesman's gift for his own gain."

4:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - To Serve Man "When aliens arrive, scientists attempt to decipher their secret language to see if peace is really their objective."

5:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Trade-Ins "An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies."

5:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Odyssey of Flight 33 "A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time."

6:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - On Thursday We Leave for Home "A man named Benteen leads a colony of Americans stranded on a desert planet for 30 years."

7:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The After Hours "A woman searches for a department store floor which doesn't exist anymore."

7:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Five Characters in Search of an Exit "Four strangers awaken in a small room with no memory of who they are or how to escape."

8:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Trouble with Templeton "Booth Templeton is an aging actor who longs for the old days when his wife was alive. Miraculously, he is given a sobering glimpse of the past he holds so dear."

8:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - A Hundred Yards Over the Rim "In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico."

9:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Rip Van Winkle Caper "Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars’ worth of gold bars."

9:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Shadow Play "Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real."

10:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Two "A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town."

10:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Passersby "A Confederate soldier and a widow meet during the end of the Civil War."

11:00PM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Grave "Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse."

11:30PM ET

The Twilight Zone - Death's Head Revisited "A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims."

12:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Midnight Sun "The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction."

12:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - In Praise of Pip "An alcoholic bookie regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance."

1:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Little People "An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants."

1:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Bewitchin' Pool "Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool."

2:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - A World of His Own "A playwright brings his characters to life."

2:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - A Game of Pool "Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game."

3:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Lonely "A man wrongfully accused is sent to live on an isolated planet."

3:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Long Distance Call "A young boy finds he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone."

4:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - The Silence "A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000."

4:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Elegy "Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time."

5:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - A World of Difference "Businessman Arthur Curtis discovers that life as he knows it doesn't really exist."

5:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Twenty Two "A recovering dancer has a reoccuring dream that leads her to a morgue."

6:00AM ET

The Twilight Zone - People Are Alike All Over "When a space exploration crashes on Mars, the surviving passenger is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking, very friendly and apparently just like us."

6:30AM ET

The Twilight Zone - Person or Persons Unknown "David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.