Twilight Zone New Year's Day Wrap-up

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A family sees the ugliness reflected outward in The Masks


 I am finishing up marathon views, which are in red, and I have to admit: this year was a bummer. A ton of missed episodes due to so much 4th season episodes, so much real estate taken thanks to the Christmas marathon which had quite a bit of episodes I sadly missed out on. But I'll use both the Christmas and New Year's lists for fun the first part of the year and once again retire them. 

All the main primetime episodes of renown popped up tonight, but I hate missing out on The Hitch-Hiker and others. I have my list so maybe I might look at what to pair together later on. Just the same, I've ran out of time, so here is what I was able to see and sadly missed out on:

New Year’s Eve

  • "Come Wander with Me" - 5:00 a.m.

  • "The Mirror" - 5:30 a.m..

  • "Death's Head Revisited" - 6:00 a.m.

  • "The Brain Center at Whipple's" - 6:30 a.m.

  • "The Bewitchin' Pool" - 7:00 a.m.

  • "A World of Difference" 7:30 a.m.

  • "Execution" - 8:00 a.m.

  • "Mr Bevis" - 8:30 a.m.

  • "A Passage for Trumpet" - 9:00 a.m.

  • "The Fever" - 9:30 a.m.

  • "King Nine Will Not Return" - 10:00 a.m.

  • "A Thing About Machines" - 10:30 a.m.

  • "Back There" - 11:00 a.m.

  • "Walking Distance" - 11:30 a.m.

  • "In His Image" - 12:00 p.m.

  • "The Thirty-Fathom Grave" - 1:00 p.m.

  • "Mute" - 2:00 p.m.

  • "Jesse-Belle" - 3:00 p.m.

  • "Death Ship" - 4:00 p.m.

  • "Valley of the Shadow" - 5:00 p.m.

  • "The Masks" - 6:00 p.m.

  • "A Stop at Willoughby" - 6:30 p.m.

  • "Living Doll" - 7:00 p.m.

  • "It's a Good Life" - 7:30 p.m.

  • "Where is Everybody?" - 8:00 p.m.

  • "Mirror Image" - 8:30 p.m.

  • "The After Hours" - 9:00 p.m.

  • "Nick of Time" - 9:30 p.m.

  • "The Four of Us Are Dying" - 10:00 p.m.

  • "Perchance to Dream" - 10:30 p.m.

  • "The Midnight Sun" - 11:00 p.m.

  • "The Hitchhiker" - 11:30 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026

  • "Two" - 12:00 a.m.

  • "The Lonely" - 12:30 a.m.

  • "One for the Angels" - 1:00 a.m.

  • "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" - 1:30 a.m.

  • "Escape Clause" - 2:00 a.m.

  • "The Purple Testament" - 2:30 a.m.

  • "Long Live Walter Jameson" - 3:00 a.m.

  • "The Howling Man" - 3:30 a.m.

  • "The Whole Truth" - 4:00 a.m.

  • "Twenty-Two" - 4:30 a.m.

  • "Shadow Play" - 5:00 a.m

  • "The Passerby" - 5:30 a.m.

  • "I Dream of Genie" - 6:00 a.m.

  • "The New Exhibit" - 7:00 a.m.

  • "The Bard" - 8:00 a.m.

  • "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" - 9:00 a.m.

  • "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" - 10:00 a.m.

  • "On Thursday We Leave for Home" - 11:00 a.m.

  • "He's Alive" - 12:00 p.m.

  • "The Miniature" - 1:00 p.m.

  • "Printer's Devil" - 2:00 p.m.

  • "No Time Like the Past" - 3:00 p.m.

  • "The Parallel" - 4:00 p.m.

  • "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" - 5:00 p.m.

  • "The Prime Mover" - 5:30 p.m.

  • "Long Distance Call" - 6:00 p.m.

  • "Time Enough at Last" - 6:30 p.m.

  • "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" - 7:00 p.m.

  • "To Serve Man" - 7:30 p.m.

  • "The Invaders" - 8:00 p.m.

  • "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" - 8:30 p.m.

  • "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" - 9:00 p.m.

  • "Eye of the Beholder" - 9:30 p.m.

  • "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" - 10:00 p.m.

  • "A Game of Pool" - 10:30 p.m.

  • "A Nice Place to Visit" - 11:00 p.m.

  • "The Dummy" - 11:30 p.m.

I did save The Masks for last to close out the day which I wished I got to see NYE, but it wasn't meant to be due to a family party.

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