Scarecrow's Memorial Day Twilight Zone Marathon 2021

Rod Serling introduces From Agnes With Love

 I was looking over the fifth season of Twilight Zone, deciding on which episodes to watch for my Memorial Day marathon this year, using Netflix for the final time to watch the show. I knew going in, though, there would be exceptions I wouldn't bother with this year. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" was watched just recently for the millionth time during SYFY's own TZ Day marathon. The same for "Living Doll" and "The Masks". I have just recently revisited a few episodes such as "Spur of the Moment", "Night Call", "Black Leather Jackets", "The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms", and "Probe 7, Over and Out".

I do remember a January marathon featuring plenty of 5th season episodes in the afternoon before SYFY unloaded the "greatest hits", and that feeling of appreciation for some of the less discussed episodes, gaining renewed interest when discussed by many on Twitter (using the #TwilightZoneMarathon) I found quite satisfying.

I might also mix it up, not going in order, sort of going with whatever might interest me from the fifth season. This is the fun stuff, the fanatic Frankensteining a marathon as he sees fit. I'm including a companion later as an addition to this post. I added a few first season episodes to pad out the marathon as substitutes for some fifth season episodes I really had no interest in.

1. In Praise of Pip 4/5
2. Ninety Years Without Slumbering 3/5
3. Ring-a-Ding Girl 4/5
4. Queen of the Nile 2/5
5. Sounds and Silences 2/5
6. From Agnes With Love 2/5
7. You Drive 3.5/5
8. One for the Angels 3.5/5 maybe 4/5

Intermission 1

1. A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain 2/5
2. The Long Morrow 4/5
3. The Old Man in the Cave 4/5
4. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross 2/5
5. Stopover in a Quiet Town 4/5
6. Where is Everybody? 4.5/5
7. I Shot an Arrow into the Air 4/5
8. The Fear 3.5/5

Because I plan on some sort of Independence Day marathon weekend, I sort of decided on limiting the iconic episodes I usually include. 

I do hope to add thoughts on the above soon. I have plans to write reviews for The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross, A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain, and From Agnes with Love in the upcoming days.