Another strange, downright sci-fi year has come and gone. What better way to celebrate 2021’s demise and prepare for what 2022 holds in store than with a heaping dose of Twilight Zone?

The annual Twilight Zone New Year’s Day Marathon is set to continue on SYFY this New Year. The marathon spans three days, from Friday, Dec. 31 at 2:00 a.m., kicking off with The Twilight Zone season 4 episode, “The Parallel” and running until Sunday, Jan. 2 at 5:00 a.m with “He’s Alive.”

The holiday season marks a special time in The Twilight Zone. Serling was born on Christmas Day 1924 and the series has a memorable homage to Miracle on 34th Street with season two’s “The Night of The Meek,” set during Christmas. Outside of his anthology masterpiece, Serling even wrote his own take on A Christmas Carol, as a TV movie featuring Peter Sellers, that was nearly completely forgotten for almost 50 years before it resurfaced on television. We wrote more on that here.

The Twilight Zone Holiday Marathons–first Thanksgiving, then July 4th, and now New Years–have their own history, which we detailed a few years back. The marathon’s most recent home has been SYFY. You can check out the network’s full Twilight Zone Marathon schedule below, as first reported by Shadow & Substance.

Friday, December 31

2:00am – The Parallel3:00am – Where is Everybody?3:30am – One For the Angels4:00am – Mr. Denton on Doomsday4:30am – The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine5:00am – The Incredible World of Horace Ford6:00am – Judgment Night6:30am – The Purple Testament7:00am – Elegy7:30am – Nightmare As a Child8:00am – Valley of the Shadow8:50am – The Chaser9:15am – A World of His Own9:40am – King Nine Will Not Return10:05am – Of Late I Think of Cliffordville10:55am – A Thing About Machines11:20am – The Trouble With Templeton11:45am – Back There12:10pm – Mr. Dingle, the Strong12:35am – The Rip Van Winkle Caper1:00pm – The Mind and the Matter1:25pm – The Arrival1:50pm – The Passersby2:15pm – A Quality of Mercy2:40pm – Nothing in the Dark3:05pm – The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank3:30pm – The Trade-Ins3:55pm – Hocus-Pocus and Frisby4:20pm – Young Man’s Fancy4:45pm – Cavender Is Coming5:10pm – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge5:35pm – The New Exhibit6:25pm – A Kind of Stopwatch6:50pm – The Last Night of a Jockey7:15pm – Living Doll7:40pm – Time Enough at Last8:05pm – Perchance to Dream8:30pm – The Hitch-Hiker8:55pm – The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street9:20pm – A World of Difference9:45pm – Night of the Meek10:10pm – The Odyssey of Flight 3310:35pm – Long Distance Call11:00pm – Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?11:25pm – The Shelter11:50pm – The Fugitive

Saturday, January 1

12:15am – Person or Persons Unknown12:40am – The Masks1:05am – Jess-Belle1:55am – Ring-a-Ding Girl2:20am – On Thursday We Leave For Home3:10am – A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain3:35am – You Drive4:00am – The Self-Improvement of Salvatore Ross4:30am – Spur of the Moment5:00am – What’s in the Box?5:30am – The Brain Center at Whipple’s6:00am – Mute7:00am – Passage on the Lady Anne8:00am – And When the Sky Was Opened8:30am – Third From the Sun9:00am – People Are Alike All Over9:30am – Mr. Bevis10:00am – The After Hours10:30am – The Mighty Casey11:00am – Twenty-Two11:30am – Static12:00pm – The Mirror12:25pm – Once Upon a Time12:50pm – The Hunt1:15pm – The Bard2:05pm – Showdown With Rance McGrew2:30pm – The Gift2:55pm – The Little People3:20pm – The Changing of the Guard3:45pm – In Praise of Pip4:10pm – The Old Man in the Cave4:35pm – Number 12 Looks Just Like You5:00pm – The Long Morrow5:25pm – Probe 7 Over and Out5:50pm – The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms6:15pm – From Agnes With Love6:40pm – I Am the Night – Color Me Black7:05pm – Sounds and Silences7:30pm – Caesar and Me7:55pm – A Nice Place to Visit8:20pm – A Stop at Willoughby8:45pm – The Howling Man9:10pm – Eye of the Beholder9:35pm – Dust10:00pm – The Invaders10:30pm – The Obsolete Man11:00pm – Midnight Sun11:30pm – Five Characters in Search of an Exit

Sunday, January 2 

12:00am – To Serve Man12:30am – The Dummy1:00am – I Sing the Body Electric1:30am – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet2:00am – The Jeopardy Room2:30am – The Encounter3:00am – Mr. Garrity and the Graves3:30am – The Bewitchin’ Pool4:00am – The Thirty-Fathom Grave5:00am – He’s Alive

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