Yep, it's that time of year, time for the Twilight Zone marathon.

Every year, I see one or two episodes for the first time.

I just watched the Cliffordville episode for the first time.

Anyone else watching?

Started watching last night, still watching.

I do have some other things I really "should" be doing....

Every so often I watch one that I have never seen prior. The sets are obviously pretty crude but the stories are what draws you back.

Film, which is of course what the TZ episodes were shot on, has a standard frame rate of 24fps. The idiots at the SyFy network have changed the frame rate to 60fps, making those episodes look like they were shot on video, not film. This is quite annoying. If these classic episodes look too dated for them, then show something else.

I will, however, make an exception for my favorite TZ episode- The Grave, with Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Lee Van Cleef and James Best, airing Monday at 6 AM Eastern.

There are times when I feel like chucking it all and stopping at Willoughby.

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street is on now. It’s one of my absolute favorites. Frankly it was more visionary than anyone from that era probably realized.

The marathon is playing on Decades channel here. Jackie Cooper as an Irish ventriloquist in the Caesar and Me episode is on now.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Film, which is of course what the TZ episodes were shot on, has a standard frame rate of 24fps. The idiots at the SyFy network have changed the frame rate to 60fps, making those episodes look like they were shot on video, not film. This is quite annoying. If these classic episodes look too dated for them, then show something else.

I will, however, make an exception for my favorite TZ episode- The Grave, with Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Lee Van Cleef and James Best, airing Monday at 6 AM Eastern.

I thought there was a period when the TZ episodes were shot on video? I could have sworn I read that they went to that for like one season and then switched back.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I thought there was a period when the TZ episodes were shot on video?

Those are kinescopes of live broadcasts and there are only a few such episodes. The "did it for one season" was when they switched to episodes which were one hour instead of a half hour.

For people like me who don't have cable any more, Pluto TV is playing the Twilight Zone on their Classic TV Drama channel:

https://pluto.tv/it/live-tv/classic-tv-drama-ptv1

They aren't playing them in the same order as the SyFy Channel marathon.

I managed to catch one of the best episodes "Deaths-Head Revisited" during the marathon. It's about a former SS officer visiting Dachau after the war. Rod's closing narration was memorable.

There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes – all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.