The Rod, White & Blue Twilight Zone Marathon
78 episodes of The Rod, White & Blue Twilight Zone Marathon this weekend on Decades!
This Weekend:
July 4-5, 2020
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This Weekend:
July 4-5, 2020
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12:00PM ET
Time Enough at Last
A badgered bank teller dreams of being alone, until his wish comes true. -
12:30PM ET
The Hitchhiker
Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks. -
1:00PM ET
Living Doll
Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't... -
1:30PM ET
The Trade-Ins
An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies. -
2:00PM ET
On Thursday We Leave for Home
A man named Benteen leads a colony of Americans stranded on a desert planet for 30 years. -
3:00PM ET
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood. -
3:30PM ET
To Serve Man
When aliens arrive, scientists attempt to decipher their secret language to see if peace is really their objective. -
4:00PM ET
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Four strangers awaken in a small room with no memory of who they are or how to escape. -
4:30PM ET
A Stop at Willoughby
Frustrated with his high pressure job, an executive contemplates living in his dream world, not realizing where it really leads. -
5:00PM ET
It's a Good Life
Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing. -
5:30PM ET
The Masks
A dying man demands his money-hungry family wear peculiar masks in order to recieve their just inheritance. -
6:00PM ET
The Obsolete Man
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death. -
6:30PM ET
The After Hours
A woman searches for a department store floor which doesn't exist anymore. -
7:00PM ET
The New Exhibit
The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures of Jack the Ripper, Albert W.... -
8:00PM ET
Where is Everybody?
A man with no memory awakes in a town that's completely empty. -
8:30PM ET
A Game of Pool
Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game. -
9:00PM ET
The Shelter
When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter. -
9:30PM ET
The Dummy
A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't... -
10:00PM ET
The Odyssey of Flight 33
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time. -
10:30PM ET
A Nice Place to Visit
A small time crook wakes up in his own personal heaven with a mysterious jovial man. -
11:00PM ET
Nick of Time
A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble. -
11:30PM ET
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico. -
12:00AM ET
Printer's Devil
Douglas Winter's paper, The Courier, is in financial trouble. Mr. Smith appears and offers to pay off the debts, and run the linotype machine. Douglas... -
1:00AM ET
Night Call
Mysterious phone calls haunt a disabled woman. -
1:30AM ET
The Night of the Meek
Fired on Christmas Eve, a down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus finds a mysterious bag that gives out endless presents. -
2:00AM ET
Penny for Your Thoughts
The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you... -
2:30AM ET
The Changing of the Guard
On Christmas Eve, an elderly professor is heartbroken to learn of his school’s plans to replace him with a younger teacher. Unable to come to grips... -
3:00AM ET
People Are Alike All Over
When a space exploration crashes on Mars, the surviving passenger is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking, very friendly and apparently... -
3:30AM ET
Person or Persons Unknown
David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him. He is put in an asylum, but... -
4:00AM ET
The Lonely
A man wrongfully accused is sent to live on an isolated planet. -
4:30AM ET
Two
A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town. -
5:00AM ET
A World of His Own
A playwright brings his characters to life. -
5:30AM ET
The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
A man finds that he can trade anything he has, including youth and personality, with anybody else. -
6:00AM ET
Long Distance Call
A young boy finds he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone. -
6:30AM ET
The Long Morrow
Before leaving on his mission, an astronaut meets a woman. They fall in love.
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7:00AM ET
Death Ship
A three-man spacecraft lands on a planet only to discover the wreckage of a spacecraft identical to their own. Two of the crew are convinced that they... -
8:00AM ET
The Parallel
An astronaut arrives back on Earth, then notices several differences. -
9:00AM ET
The Invaders
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens. -
9:30AM ET
Mirror Image
A woman discovers her exact double at a bus terminal. -
10:00AM ET
Walking Distance
A man accidently travels back in time to his childhood hometown. -
10:30AM ET
The Howling Man
A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner. -
11:00AM ET
The Silence
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000. -
11:30AM ET
The Chaser
A desperate man turns to a love potion after his sweetheart rejects him. -
12:00PM ET
And When the Sky Was Opened
Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and... -
12:30PM ET
The Midnight Sun
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction. -
1:00PM ET
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
A man recovering from a breakdown sees a gremlin on the wing of the airplane. -
1:30PM ET
Death's Head Revisited
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims. -
2:00PM ET
In His Image
A scientist creates an android that has the qualities which he feels he's lacking. -
3:00PM ET
Shadow Play
Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real. -
3:30PM ET
Third from the Sun
With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship. -
4:00PM ET
Nothing in the Dark
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death". -
4:30PM ET
What You Need
A thug attempts to use a psychic salesman's gift for his own gain. -
5:00PM ET
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
Troopers follow the tracks from a frozen pond, into a diner. Inside they find a soda jerk, a bus driver and his seven passengers. The bus driver is... -
5:30PM ET
The Last Flight
A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959! -
6:00PM ET
The Eye of the Beholder
A woman undergoes experimental treatments in an attempt to make her appear "normal" again. -
6:30PM ET
The Little People
An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants. -
7:00PM ET
He's Alive
Peter Vollmer, a small-time neo-Nazi leader, yearns for more power. Advised by a shadowy benefactor, Vollmer's following grows, as does his ego... -
8:00PM ET
Long Live Walter Jameson
A professor suspects his daughter's fiance of leading a double-life with a connection to the past. -
8:30PM ET
Queen of the Nile
A columnist's expose on a movie actress takes a turn when her mother warns not to return. -
9:00PM ET
Kick the Can
The senior residents of Sunnyvale decide that the secret to youth is acting young, and in particular playing a childhood game called "kick-the-can. -
9:30PM ET
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead. -
10:00PM ET
Twenty Two
A recovering dancer has a reoccuring dream that leads her to a morgue. -
10:30PM ET
A Kind of a Stopwatch
Patrick Thomas McNulty, a long-winded and self-absorbed know-it-all, is given a fantastic device which brings literal meaning to the expression "stop... -
11:00PM ET
A World of Difference
Businessman Arthur Curtis discovers that life as he knows it doesn't really exist. -
11:30PM ET
Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang... -
12:00AM ET
Valley of the Shadow
A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things. -
1:00AM ET
One for the Angels
A jovial salesman attempts to elude Death. -
1:30AM ET
The Old Man in the Cave
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth. -
2:00AM ET
Ring-A-Ding Girl
Bunny receives a ring from her fan club in her home town. In the ring she sees the faces of people from her hometown telling her she's needed there.... -
2:30AM ET
The Jeopardy Room
Trying to defect, Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room with Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, in the room across... -
3:00AM ET
A Most Unusual Camera
Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of events five minutes into the future. -
3:30AM ET
The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars’ worth of gold bars. -
4:00AM ET
Little Girl Lost
A six-year-old girl rolls under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension. Her parents and a neighbor struggle to free her before the hole between... -
4:30AM ET
The Hunt
On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him. -
5:00AM ET
Stopover in a Quiet Town
A young couple, the Fraziers, leave a party after having a little too much to drink. They wake up to find themselves in Centerville, a small town... -
5:30AM ET
Elegy
Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time. -
6:00AM ET
Back There
It's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club. Corrigan suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears,... -
6:30AM ET
I Shot an Arrow into the Air
Three astronauts crash on what they believe to be an asteroid. Unfortunately they have only limited water supplies to sustain them.
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Test your memory for characters Rod Serling made sure need no introduction.Article
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Desi even offered his own opinion on Serling's first TV teleplay.Article
Of course Rod Serling came up with the weirdest way to pitch the pilot of The Twilight Zone
This is what he wrote, word for word.Quiz
Can you name the Twilight Zone episode from a single scene?
Today, there are many imitators of The Twilight Zone, but none quite like the original, with episodes so consistently memorable that they're cited as influences decades later.
If you're a big fan of The Twilight Zone, you'll breeze through these scenes of classic episodes, but if it's been a while since you've entered the Zone, it might be trickier than you think!
See if we can pull one over on you with the twists and turns below.