# Twilight Zone Marathon on Syfy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014 "2018-12-31T23:25:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/1 "2018-12-31T23:25:57Z")
It goes until 7a on Wed. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/2 "2018-12-31T23:39:16Z")
Hooray! The schedule is [here](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-twilight-zone-marathon-2019-schedule). My favorite episode, Steel, will be showing at 2. I’ll have to stay awake. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/3 "2018-12-31T23:42:11Z")
Yay! Dr. Who is getting a bit too much. Of course I’ve been watching for 2 days. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/4 "2018-12-31T23:56:12Z")
Some of the shows were filmed, some were taped. They’re not showing them in order, but the series premier was filmed but **Twenty-two,** from season two, was taped. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/5 "2019-01-01T00:12:13Z")
Video-taped episodes happened during one season only–it was an experiment (to save money) and they decided it hadn’t worked out. Six episodes only. A “Christmas” episode, _The Night of the Meek,_ with Art Carney, might be one of the better-known ones. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/6 "2019-01-01T00:39:31Z")
It’s a good thing!! A real good thing!! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/7 "2019-01-01T00:40:32Z")
And on the Decades network. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/8 "2019-01-01T05:03:06Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Some of the shows were filmed, some were taped. They’re not showing them in order, but the series premier was filmed but **Twenty-two,** from season two, was taped. Just watched 22 a little bit ago. They stole the plot from, among other places, a segment of the movie Dead of Night (1945). ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/9 "2019-01-01T07:08:48Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Hooray! The schedule is [here](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-twilight-zone-marathon-2019-schedule). > > My favorite episode, Steel, will be showing at 2. I’ll have to stay awake. On now. I like it as well. I think it is funny that in the TZ universe, no matter what planet we are on or how far in the future we go, the advanced technological era still has ashtrays everywhere and women subservient to men and everyone dressed like it is the 1960s. Is there a name for this phenomenon? Something along the lines that we make a bold prediction about something that seems far fetched but the underlying things about our society stay the same. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/10 "2019-01-01T13:12:28Z")
Holy crap, I saw one with Buster Keaton!! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-marathon-on-syfy/827014/11 "2019-01-01T17:23:29Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > On now. I like it as well. > > I think it is funny that in the TZ universe, no matter what planet we are on or how far in the future we go, the advanced technological era still has ashtrays everywhere and women subservient to men and everyone dressed like it is the 1960s. > > Is there a name for this phenomenon? Something along the lines that we make a bold prediction about something that seems far fetched but the underlying things about our society stay the same. TV Tropes calls it [Society Marches On](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SocietyMarchesOn).