i've seen all these more times than i can count SG-1 marathons would be better
Twilight Zone Marathon on scifi channel.
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My brother and I love the original TZ, but love to list the cliches as they happen. Our two favorite cliches :
1 - The arms in front of your face if the character is facing a car crash
2 - The 'I've read/heard about this kind of thing happening' moment. Yeah, I read in Popular Mechanix how barriers between universes break down sometimes--or was that in Cosmo, while I was waiting in the salon for my wife to finish getting her hair done? Oh-wait---it was on radio, during The Bob And Ray Show, just before they did the Pilsner skit. Yeah, that whole colliding universes 'thing'. Everyone's been talking about it.
Also, two rules for surviving TZ :
1 - Get out of any small town as quickly as you can, without being rude. Accept no offers of aid, except if nightfall is coming, then try and leave at first light.
2 - Don't buy any object that is described as having 'many strange powers' or like terms. Buy the folding card table instead. You can always use it during the holidays.
1 - The arms in front of your face if the character is facing a car crash
2 - The 'I've read/heard about this kind of thing happening' moment. Yeah, I read in Popular Mechanix how barriers between universes break down sometimes--or was that in Cosmo, while I was waiting in the salon for my wife to finish getting her hair done? Oh-wait---it was on radio, during The Bob And Ray Show, just before they did the Pilsner skit. Yeah, that whole colliding universes 'thing'. Everyone's been talking about it.
Also, two rules for surviving TZ :
1 - Get out of any small town as quickly as you can, without being rude. Accept no offers of aid, except if nightfall is coming, then try and leave at first light.
2 - Don't buy any object that is described as having 'many strange powers' or like terms. Buy the folding card table instead. You can always use it during the holidays.
LOL. I love Mirror Image but yeah, that is an odd one.
Serling was a great writer but he had his flaws too. Preachy and often unrealistic dialogue.
The Shelter is on now...
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Yesterday I was talking to my "old man" who LOVES TZ. I told him that there was a TZ marathon on ScY-Fie all yesterday and all day today. So he turns it on and there is fucking wrestling. He was like WTF? I told him that the commercials I saw said the marathon was going on all day and all tomorrow. Thats a pretty stupid thing to slap wrestling in between a marathon on TZ...
From a business standpoint, "Wrestling" is a decent option. It makes a boatload of money for the channel, which in turn helps fund other things. Too bad so many of those are the insipid digital monster trash films.
However, speaking from a fan/customer perspective... having "wrestling" in the middle of a marathon of arguably the greatest sci-fi series of all time is a mortal sin.
I begrudgingly understand their stupid money making wrestling gimmicks, but over a holiday when you are running a marathon adhere to the true traditional meaning of your network is just unnecessary. Not only is The Twilight Zone THE classic of classics, but come on if you are going to have a holiday marathon, you can't put you desperate regular programming on at the same time. This just totally sums up everything that is wrong with this channel anymore.
As I said before, I'd much rather get my classic sf series from streaming and Hulu and other options before catching them every once in a blue moon cut up on one of 'syfy's daytime marathons. Did anyone notice if the TZ episodes were edited and shortened? In one patch on Friday before and after wrestling, it looked like they were just showing the 'Treasures of the Twilight Zone' compilation DVD set.
As I said before, I'd much rather get my classic sf series from streaming and Hulu and other options before catching them every once in a blue moon cut up on one of 'syfy's daytime marathons. Did anyone notice if the TZ episodes were edited and shortened? In one patch on Friday before and after wrestling, it looked like they were just showing the 'Treasures of the Twilight Zone' compilation DVD set.
Just getting around to plowing thru all the recorded episodes...deleted a bunch I've already seen enough of. But after all these New Years' of TZ marathons, there are still plenty I've never seen! 
The one about the post-atomic war survivor who doesn't care about humanity and breaks his glasses...meh, overrated. Robert Redford turns out to be death, whatever...the one with the raggedy old woman who fights a tiny robot, that's gone too. Jack Klugman playing pool with the devil - boring! Ivan Dixon as a boxer - nope!
The ones I'll watch over and over: William Shatner freaking out over a relative of the Gorn on an airplane wing. William Shatner freaking out over some gizmo in a diner that predicts the future. Telly Savalas arguing with his daughter's doll ("I'm Chatty Cathy and I'm going to KILL YOU!") And that one about the ventriliquist's dummy...brrr!
The one about the post-atomic war survivor who doesn't care about humanity and breaks his glasses...meh, overrated. Robert Redford turns out to be death, whatever...the one with the raggedy old woman who fights a tiny robot, that's gone too. Jack Klugman playing pool with the devil - boring! Ivan Dixon as a boxer - nope!
The ones I'll watch over and over: William Shatner freaking out over a relative of the Gorn on an airplane wing. William Shatner freaking out over some gizmo in a diner that predicts the future. Telly Savalas arguing with his daughter's doll ("I'm Chatty Cathy and I'm going to KILL YOU!") And that one about the ventriliquist's dummy...brrr!
I saw that one for the first time and thought it was great.
Now, the one with Burgess Meredith as the victim of a two-headed Martian's science experiment...
What was the point of that? Although I loved the intentionally goofy costumes.
I believe SyFy actually does it twice a year (Labor Day or Memorial Day, Plus New Year's... or maybe they move it around?)
My favorite Burgess Meredith one is Time Enough At Last (Bookworm not allowed by his wife to read, and survives a nuclear holocaust so he's got all the books and time in the world to read, very sad ending)
One I keep watching for is the one with Barbara Nichols and Johnathon Harris called Twenty Two, where she dreams of going to the Morgue "Room For One More, Honey"
My favorite Burgess Meredith one is Time Enough At Last (Bookworm not allowed by his wife to read, and survives a nuclear holocaust so he's got all the books and time in the world to read, very sad ending)
One I keep watching for is the one with Barbara Nichols and Johnathon Harris called Twenty Two, where she dreams of going to the Morgue "Room For One More, Honey"
Hey! Some of us really like wrestling!
On a more relevant note, I doubt they had a choice in the matter. Their contract with WWE most likely commands they show each new episode of SmackDown each week.
They used to do 4th of July. Do they not anymore?
As for Twenty Two, IMO that episode has way too much padding. It would have been stellar as a 13 minute half episode but just drags when extended to a full 25.
From a business standpoint, "Wrestling" is a decent option. It makes a boatload of money for the channel, which in turn helps fund other things. Too bad so many of those are the insipid digital monster trash films.
However, speaking from a fan/customer perspective... having "wrestling" in the middle of a marathon of arguably the greatest sci-fi series of all time is a mortal sin.
If they want to make their money off of wrestling, they have to honor the contract by running it Friday nights, with no exceptions.
It won't be an issue next year.
^^because next year New Year's Eve is on a Saturday! So it won't be an issue again for a few years, in which time Syfy'll probably be a shopping channel anyhow.
Oh, maybe it's 4th of July then, not Labor Day or Memorial Day (I knew it was somewhere in Summer
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