Always my favorite way to ring in the New Year!
Here's the now-traditional guide for my fellow fans and any newcomers, so you'll know what's on and when. Enjoy the marathon!
SciFi Schedule -
LINKTZ Episode Guide -
LINK This is the schedule that SciFi should be following (with all times Eastern), along with each episode's description as given in the TZ episode guide:
Wednesday, December 31st 20088:00 AM
THE THIRTY FATHOM GRAVESounds heard from a submarine sunk 20 years before haunt the man who believes himself responsible for the sinking.CAST: Mike Kellin, Simon Oakland, David Sheiner, John Considine, Bill Bixby, Tony Call, Derrick Lewis, Conlan Carter, Charles Kuenstle, Forrest Compton, Henry Scott, Vince Bagetta, Louise Elias.
9:00 AM
MR. GARRITY AND THE GRAVESA con man convinces the inhabitants of a Western town that he can raise the dead from the local cemetery.CAST: John Dehner, Stanley Adams, J. Pat O'Malley, Norman Leavitt, Percy Helton, John Mitchum, Patrick O'Moore, Kate Murtagh, John Cliff.
9:30 AM
A WORLD OF HIS OWNA playwright describes characters into his tape recorder and they materialize before his eyes.CAST: Keenan Wynn, Phyllis Kirk, Mary La Roche.
10:00 AM
NOTHING IN THE DARKAn aged recluse barricades herself in an abandoned building in order to avoid "Mr. Death."CAST: Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford, R.G. Armstrong
10:30 AM
THE FEARA state trooper and an unstable woman both think they have found traces of a giant visitor from outer space.CAST: Mark Richman, Hazel Court.
11:00 AM
HOCUS-POCUS AND FRISBYA celebrated yam-spinner finds no one will believe his latest tale — that he was kidnapped by aliens.CAST: Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Larry Breitman, Howard McNear, Dabbs Greer, Clem Bevans, Peter Brocco.
11:30 AM
THE ARRIVALAn airline official tests his theory that a newly arrived but totally empty plane is imaginary-with startling results.CAST: Harold J. Stone, Robert Karnes, Jim Soles, Fredd Wayne, Bing Russell, Noah Keen, Robert Brubaker.
12:00 PM
DEATH'S HEAD REVISITEDAt the Dachau concentration camp, a former Nazi is tried by a phantom jury of his tortured victims.CAST: Oscar Beregi, Joseph Schildkraut, Ben Wright, Karen Verne, Chuck Fox, Robert Boone.
12:30 PM
THE SHELTERA group of neighbors turns into a hostile mob when they try to invade one family's bomb shelter, believing a nuclear attack is imminent.CAST: Larry Gates, Peggy Stewart, Michael Burns, Jack Albertson, John McLiam, Jo Helton, Joseph Bernard, Moira Turner, Sandy Kenyon, Mary Gregory.
1:00 PM
THE HUNTA hunter and his faithful dog are drowned while chasing a raccoon, and confront a gatekeeper who implies that he is St. Peter and that Heaven lies inside.CAST: Arthur Hunnicutt, Titus Moede, Charles Seel, Dexter Dupont, Jeanette Nolan, Orville Sherman, Robert Foulk.
1:30 PM
THE 7TH IS MADE UP OF PHANTOMSDuring maneuvers near the site of Custer's Last Stand, three national guardsmen find themselves plunged into the Battle of Little Big Horn.CAST: Ron Foster, Warren Oates, Randy Boone, Robert Bray, Wayne Mallory, Greg Morris, Jeffrey Morris, Jacque Shelton, Lew Brown.
2:00 PM
QUEEN OF THE NILEA magazine writer is determined to discover the secret of an ageless movie star's everlasting youth.CAST: Ann Blyth, Lee Philips, James Tyler, Celia Lovsky, Ruth Phillips, Frank Ferguson.
2:30 PM
NIGHT CALLA bedridden spinster receives mysterious phone calls from her long-dead fiancé.CAST: Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe, Martine Bartlett.
3:00 PM
MR. DINGLE, THE STRONGA timid little man is experimentally endowed with superhuman strength by a visiting Martian scientist.CAST: Burgess Meredith, Don Rickles, James Westerfield, Edward Ryder, James Millhollin.
3:30 PM
MR. BEVISA happy-go-lucky man loses his job, his car and his home in one morning, then meets his "guardian angel" who tells him they will start the day anew.CAST: Orson Bean, Henry Jones, Charles Lane, William Schallert, Horace McMahon.
4:00 PM
ONE FOR THE ANGELSInformed that his time on Earth is about up, a gentle sidewalk salesman named Bookman talks Mr. Death into letting him make one really big pitch — "one for the angels" — before he dies.CAST: Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Dana Dillaway, Jay Overholts, Merritt Bohn, Mickey Maga
4:30 PM
THE LITTLE PEOPLEA space traveler terrorizes the tiny inhabitants of a space station into accepting him as their God, but when another space ship arrives the tyrannical man discovers everything is relative.CAST: Joe Maross, Claude Akins, Michael Ford, Robert Eaton.
5:00 PM
A HUNDRED YARDS OVER THE RIMA 19th-century Western settler, desperately searching for water for his sick son, takes a walk that inexplicably leads him into the next century.CAST: Cliff Robertson, Miranda Jones, John Crawford, Evan Evans.
5:30 PM
THE OLD MAN IN THE CAVEA small community has survived the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust by accepting the advice of The Old Man in the Cave.CAST: James Coburn, John Anderson, Josie Lloyd, John Craven, Natalie Masters, John Marley, Frank Watkins, Don Wilbanks, Lenny Geer.
6:00 PM
LONG DISTANCE CALLA young boy keeps in touch with his dead grandmother via the toy telephone she once gave him.CAST: Bill Mumy, Philip Abbott, Patricia Smith, Lili Darvas.
6:30 PM
LITTLE GIRL LOSTA couple is awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their six-year-old daughter who has fallen through a mysterious door into another dimension.CAST: Sarah Marshall, Robert Sampson, Tracy Stratford, Charles Aidman.
7:00 PM
THE ODYSSEY OF FLIGHT 33A commercial airliner, en route to New York, breaks through the time barrier into the prehistoric past.CAST: John Anderson, Paul Comi, Sandy Kenyon, Harp McGuire, Wayne Heffley, Nancy Rennick, Beverly Brown, Jay Overholt, Betty Garde.
7:30 PM
THE HITCH-HIKERDriving cross-country, a girl keeps seeing the same hitch-hiker on the road ahead, beckoning her toward a fatal accident.CAST: Inger Stevens, Leonard Strong, Adam Williams, Dwight Townsend, Mitzi McCall, Eleanor Audley, Lew Gallo, Russ Bender, George Mitchell.
8:00 PM
EYE OF THE BEHOLDERIn a hospital room, her face completely covered by medical wrappings, a woman waits to see if a last-chance operation on her face has fixed the freakishness that will have her sent to a reservation of outcasts.CAST: Joanna Hayes, Jennifer Howard, William D. Gordon, Maxine Stuart, Donna Douglas.
8:30 PM
WHERE IS EVERYBODYGreeted by empty streets, a man searches a small town to find that he is completely and inexplicably alone. The series pilot.CAST: Earl Holliman, James Gregory, John Conwell, Paul Langton, James McCallion, Jay Overholts, Carter Mulavey, Jim Johnson, Gary Walberg.
9:00 PM
WILL THE REAL MARTIAN PLEASE STAND UP? On the night of a UFO sighting, seven people at a diner claim to be of Earth, though one of them is not.CAST: Morgan Jones, John Archer, Bill Kendis, John Hoyt, Jack Elam, Jean Wiles, Barney Phillips
9:30 PM
THE OBSOLETE MANA librarian in a future society is declared obsolete and told he must die.CAST: Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver.
10:00 PM
TO SERVE MANApparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine.CAST: Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, Lloyd Bochner, Lomax Study, Theodore Marcuse, Susan Cummings, Nelson Olmstead.
10:30 PM
THE MASKSA wealthy old man compels his hateful family to wear masks they think are the opposite of their personalities. When they remove the masks a frightening change has taken place.CAST: Robert Keith, Milton Selzer, Brooke Hayward, Virginia Gregg, Alan Sues, Bill Walker, Willis Bouchey.
11:00 PM
THE INVADERS (SC's Favorite)
A lone woman battles two miniature spacemen whose craft crashes into her isolated farmhouse. The essentially dialogue-free, one-woman performance by the legendary Agnes Moorehead of Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and, later, television's Bewitched, is a tour de force. 11:30 PM
THE MIDNIGHT SUNThe Earth has fallen out of its orbit and is drawing closer to the Sun, inflicting ever-increasing heat on the planet.CAST: Lois Nettleton, Betty Garde, Jason Wingreen, Ned Glass, June Ellis, John McLiam, William Keene, Robert J. Stevenson, Tom Reese.
Thursday, January 1st 200912:00 AM
FIVE CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN EXITFive people — a ballet dancer, a major, a clown, tramp and a bagpipe player — trapped in a featureless enclosure with no idea how they got there attempt to escape.CAST: William Windom, Murray Matheson, Susan Harrison, Kelton Garwood, Clark Allen, Mona Houghton, Carol Hill.
12:30 AM
A MOST UNUSUAL CAMERAA pair of petty thieves find that a camera they have just stolen can predict the future by the pictures it takes.CAST: Jean Carson, Fred Clark, Adam Williams.
1:00 AM
I SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE AIRA panicky astronaut traveler, believing his ship has crashed on a deserted asteroid, kills his two companions to save water, then discovers his shocking true location.CAST: Dewey Martin, Edward Binns, Ted Otis.
1:30 AM
A KIND OF STOPWATCHA talkative man acquires a stopwatch with the power to halt all other action in the world.CAST: Richard Erdman, Leon Balasco, Herbie Faye, Roy Roberts, Doris Singleton, Richard Wessel, Ken Drake, Ray Kellogg, Sam Baiter.
2:00 AM
THE RIP VAN WINKLE CAPERFour thieves plot to hide out with their loot for 100 years in a state of suspended animation.CAST: Oscar Beregi, Simon Oakland, John Mitchum, Lew Gallo.
2:30 AM
DEAD MAN'S SHOESA down-and-out man steals the fancy shoes from the body of a murdered gangster and finds himself living in the dead man's footsteps.CAST: Warren Stevens, Ben Wright, Harry Swoger, Joan Marshall, Eugene Borden, Richard Devon, Florence Marly, Ron Hagerthy, Joe Mell.
3:00 AM
IN THE PRAISE OF PIPBookie Max Phillips learn that his soldier son, Pip, has been critically wounded in Vietnam. Remorseful over the way he raised him, Max pleads with God to take his life in place of his son's.CAST: Jack Klugman, Billy Mumy, Bob Diamond, Connie Gilchrist, John Launer, Ross Elliott, Stuart Nisbet, Russell Horton, Gerald Gordon, Kreg Martin.
3:30 AM
WHAT'S IN THE BOXA cab driver turns on the television and sees a portent of his wife's death after an argument. When he tries to tell his wife, she won't listen to him — and an argument starts....CAST: Joan Blondell, William Demarest, Sterling Holloway, Herbert Lytton, Sandra Gould, Howard Wright, John L. Sullivan, Ted Christy, Ron Stokes, Douglas Bank, Tony Miller.
4:00 AM
AND WHEN THE SKY WAS OPENEDThree astronauts, returning from man's first space flight, cannot remember the events of their trip. Then they begin to disappear one by one.CAST: Rod Taylor, James Hutton, Charles Aidman, Sue Randall, Gloria Pall, Maxine Cooper, Paul Bryar.
4:30 AM
JESS-BELLEA girl strikes a deadly bargain with a witch to ensure the attention of a young man.CAST: Anne Francis, James Best, Laura Devon, Jeanette Nolan, Virginia Gregg, George Mitchell, Helen Kleeb, Jim Boles, Jon Lormer.
6:00 AM
I DREAM OF GENIEA mild-mannered clerk finds Aladdin's lamp but decides that using his one wish for wealth, power or the girl of his dreams would be a waste of the lamp's power.CAST: Howard Morris, Patricia Barry, Mark Miller, Jack Albertson, Loring Smith, Joyce Jameson, James Milhollin, Robert Ball, Bob Hastings.
7:00 AM
TWENTY-TWO (Klydon's Favorite)
A young woman complains of a recurring nightmare in which she always ends up in Room 22 — the hospital morgue.CAST: Barbara Nichols, Jonathan Harris, Arline Sax, Fredd Wayne, Norma Connolly, Mary Adams, Wesley Lau, Joe Sargeant, Jay Overholts, Carole Conn.
7:30 AM
ONCE UPON A TIMENineteenth-century janitor Woodrow Mulligan tries on a time helmet invented by his boss and is catapulted 72 years into the future. Featured are two routines by the legendary silent comedian Buster Keaton's: the lock step and putting on a pair of trousers.CAST: Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams, Jesse White, Milton Parsons, Warren Parker, Gil Lamb, James Flavin, Harry Fleer, George E. Stone.
8:00 AM
BLACK LEATHER JACKETSAn advance party of an alien invasion force arrive in a quiet residential neighborhood disguised as leather-jacketed motorcycle youths.CAST: Lee Kinsolving, Shelley Fabares, Michael Forest, Tom Gilleran, Denver Pyle, Irene Hervey, Michael Conrad, Wayne Heffley.
8:30 AM
NIGHTMARE AS A CHILDA teacher's encounter with herself as a child unlocks her memory of witnessing her mother's murder.CAST: Janice Rule, Terry Burnham, Sheppard Strudwick.
9:00 AM
A THING ABOUT MACHINESA bad-tempered writer is convinced the machines in his home are conspiring to destroy him.CAST: Richard Haydn, Barbara Stuart, Barney Phillips.
9:30 AM
A NICE PLACE TO VISITA small-time hoodlum gets killed by the police during a robbery and finds an afterlife where he can have anything he wants.CAST: Larry Blyden, Sebastian Cabot, Sandra Warner.
10:00 AM
THE SILENCEA garrulous man, bet half a million dollars that he can't keep silent for one year, goes to bizarre lengths to win the wager.CAST: Franchot Tone, Liam Sullivan, Jonathan Harris.
10:30 AM
ESCAPE CLAUSEA man makes a pact with the devil for immortality then finds he doesn't get a kick out of living anymore.CAST: David Wayne, Wendell Holmes, Raymond Bailey, Dick Wilson, Paul E. Burns, Allan Lurie, Virginia Christine, Thomas Gomez, Nesdon Booth, Joe Flynn, George Baxter.
11:00 AM
MIRROR IMAGEA young woman grows panicky when she is haunted by a strange double who keeps appearing in a bus depot.CAST: Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joe Hamilton.
11:30 AM
TWOA man and a woman from different sides of a war are the sole survivors of a nuclear holocaust.CAST: Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Montgomery.
12:00 PM
THE CHANGING OF THE GUARDA well-loved teacher feels his useful life is over when he is asked to retire.CAST: Donald Pleasence, Liam Sullivan, Philippa Bevans, Bob Biheller, Kevin O'Neal, Jimmy Baird, Kevin Jones, Tom Lowell, Russell Horton, Buddy Hart, Darryl Richard, James Browning, Pat Close, Dennis Kerlee.
12:30 PM
MR. DENTON ON DOOMSDAYA broken-down gunslinger finds a magic potion that restores his shooting skill, but brings an end to his fast-draw career.CAST: Dan Duryea, Malcolm Atterbury, Martin Landau, Ken Lynch, Doug McClure, Jeanne Cooper, Arthur Batanicles, Robert Burton.
1:00 PM
WALKING DISTANCEA man's need to escape the pressure of his work is so great that he slips back 30 years into his own childhood.CAST: Gig Young, Michael Montgomery, Byron Foulger, Joseph Corey, Frank Overton, Irene Tedrow, Buzz Martin.
1:30 PM
THE LAST FLIGHTFleeing from a World War One dogfight, a cowardly British pilot lands his 1917 biplane at a modem jet air base in France ... in 1959.CAST: Kenneth Haigh, Alexander Scourby, Simon Scott, Robert Warwick, Harry Raybould.
2:00 PM
PEOPLE ARE ALIKE ALL OVERSam Conrad, the first human to visit Mars, is relieved to find that the Martians treat him kindly and even build him a house like his home on Earth — but with one big difference.CAST: Roddy McDowell, Paul Comi, Vic Perrin, Susan Oliver, Byron Morrow, Vernon Gray.
2:30 PM
THE GRAVEA hired gunman defies a Western outlaw's warning that if he ever came near his grave he'd reach up and snatch away his life.CAST: Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Lee Van Cleef, Stafford Rapp, Richard Geary, James Best, Ellen Willrad, William Challee, Larry Johns.
3:00 PM
NIGHT OF THE MEEKHenry Corwin, a down-at-the-heels department store Santa, dispenses Christmas cheer to a mission house with the help of a sack that will produce whatever one asks for.CAST: Art Carney, John Fiedler, Meg Wylie, Robert Lieb.
3:30 PM
A GAME OF POOLA pool master returns from the dead to play one last game with an eager young hustler.CAST: Jack Klugman, Jonathan Winters.
4:00 PM
NICK OF TIMEA superstitious newlywed husband finds a penny fortune-telling machine that makes uncannily accurate predictions about his life.CAST: William Shatner, Patricia Breslin.
4:30 PM
NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS JUST LIKE YOUA young woman resists pressure to be transformed into a state-controlled image of flawless beauty.CAST: Collin Wilcox, Suzy Parker, Richard Long, Pam Austin.
5:00 PM
STOPOVER IN A QUIET TOWNThe day after a drunken party, a married couple awakens in an unfamiliar house with no idea how they got there.CAST: Barry Nelson, Karen Norris, Nancy Malone, Denise Lyon.
5:30 PM
THE BEWITCHIN' POOLTwo unloved children escape from their squabbling parents to a world that offers them a chance of happiness with a strange, kindly woman.CAST: Mary Badham, Tim Stafford, Georgia Simmons, Kim Hector, Tod Andrews, Dee Hartford, Harold Gould.
6:00 PM
PROBE 7 OVER AND OUTThe lone survivors of two devastated planets meet on a new world.CAST: Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower, Barton Heyman, Harold Gould.
6:30 PM
THE DUMMYA ventriloquist becomes convinced that his dummy has a will and a life of its own.CAST: Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, George Murdock, Bethelynn Grey, John Harmon, Sandra Warner, Rudy Dolan, Ralph Manza.
7:00 PM
THE HOWLING MANTaking refuge in a European monastery during a storm, a man hears someone howling and is told it's the Devil who is being held prisoner.CAST: H.M. Wynant, John Carradine, Robin Hughes, Ezelle Poule.
7:30 PM
I SING THE BODY ELECTRICA widowed father buys his three young children an electronic grandmother to the delight of all but one of them.CAST: Josephine Hutchinson, David White, June Vincent, Vaughn Taylor, Judy Morton, Dana Dillaway, Paul Nesbitt, Charles Herbert, Veronica Cartwright, Susan Crane.
8:00 PM
TIME ENOUGH AT LASTNearsighted, meek bank clerk Henry Bernis is the sole survivor of an H-bomb attack. At last he has the time to engulf himself in his passion for books. Or so he thinks.CAST: Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor, Jacqueline de Wit, Lela Bliss.
8:30 PM
LIVING DOLLA man is threatened with revenge by the expensive talking doll he is planning to dispose of.CAST: Telly Savalas, Tracy Stratford, Mary LaRoche.
9:00 PM
THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREETA mysterious power failure causes paranoid suburban residents to suspect one another of being disguised creatures from outer space.CAST: Claude Akins, Jack Weston, Barry Atwater, Jan Handzlik, Burt Metcalfe, Mary Gregory, Anne Barton, Lea Waggner, Ben Erway, Lyn Guild, Sheldon Allman, William Walsh.
9:30 PM
KICK THE CANThe magic of a children's game enables a group of old people to recapture their youth.CAST: Ernest Truex, Hank Patterson, Russell Collins, Earle Hodgins, Burt Mustin, Gregory McCabe, Marjorie Bennett, Lenore Shanewise, Anne O'Neal, John Marley, Barry Truex, Eve McVeagh, Marc Stevens.
10:00 PM
NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEETA newly released mental patient is the only one able to see a gremlin ripping up the wing of his airliner.CAST: William Shatner, Christine White, Nick Cravat, Edward Kammer, Asa Maynor.
10:30 PM
THIRD FROM THE SUNTwo families steal a rocket ship and flee to another world before atomic war devastates their own.CAST: Fritz Weaver, Edward Andrews, Lori March, Will J. White, Joe Maross, Denise Alexander, Jeanne Evans.
11:00 PM
A STOP AT WILLOUGHBYA harassed executive escapes into the peaceful town of Willoughby in July 1880.CAST: James Daly, Howard Smith, Patricia Donahue, James Maloney.
11:30 PM
IT'S A GOOD LIFEA six-year-old boy holds a town in terror with his powers to change or destroy anyone or anything at will.CAST: Billy Mumy, Cloris Leachman, Alice Frost, Jeanne Bates, Casey Adams, John Larch, Tom Botcher, Don Keefer, Lenore Kingston.
Friday, January 2nd 200912:00 AM
A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTSTimid bank clerk Victor Pool discovers that a coin that lands on its edge as he pays for a paper leaves him with the power to read minds.CAST: Dick York, Dan Tobin, Hayden Rorke, June Dayton, Cyril Delevanti.
12:30 AM
THE AFTER HOURSA woman who buys a thimble on the ninth floor of a department store later discovers the floor doesn't exist, and makes a startling discovery after the store closes.CAST: Anne Francis, Elizabeth Allen, James Millhollin, John Conwell, Nancy Rennick.
1:00 AM
THE LONELYConvicted of murder and sent to a deserted asteroid for 40 years, a man is given a robot woman for company.CAST: Jack Warden, John Dehner, Jim Turley, Jean Marsh, Ted Knight.
1:30 AM
EXECUTIONAn outlaw in the Wild West of the 1880s is snatched from the hangman's noose by a modern scientist's time machine.CAST: Albert Salmi, Russell Johnson, Than Wyenn, George Mitchell, Jon Lormer, Fay Roope, Richard Karlan, Joe Howarth.
2:00 AM
I AM THE NIGHT - COLOR ME BLACKThe sun fails to rise on the morning that a town's "idealist" is due to be executed for killing one of his bigoted neighbors, and the community finds itself locked in the darkness of hate.CAST: Michael Constantine, Paul Fix, George Lindsey, Terry Becker, Ivan Dixon, Eve McVeagh, Douglas Bank, Ward Wood, Elizabeth Harrower.
2:30 AM
THE MIGHTY CASEYThe manager of a baseball team on a losing streak hires a robot pitcher called Casey.CAST: Robert Sorrells, Jack Warden, Don O'Kelly, Abraham Sofaer.
3:00 AM
THE JEOPARDY ROOMA KGB agent sent to kill a Russian defector plants a bomb in the man's hotel room and gives him three hours to find and disarm it and so win his freedom, or else fail and die.CAST: Martin Landau, John van Dreelen, Robert Kelljan.
3:30 AM
THE FOUR OF US ARE DYINGArch Hammer can change his face to look exactly like someone else, a talent that he depends on for a living.CAST: Harry Townes, Philip Pine, Don Gordon, Bernard Fein, Beverly Garland, Ross Martin, Peter Brocco, Milton Frome.
4:00 AM
THE MIRRORA victorious revolutionary is shown a mirror in the presidential office that is reputed to show the watcher his own assassins.CAST: Peter Falk, Richard Karlan, Tony Carbone, Val Ruffino, Arthur Batanides, Rodolfo Hoyos, Will Kuluva, Vladimir Sokoloff.
4:30 AM
NO TIME LIKE THE PASTA time traveler attempts to alter history by trying to wam the people of Hiroshima, assassinate Hitler and persuade the captain of the Lusitania to change course.CAST: Dana Andrews, Patricia Breslin, Malcolm Atterbury, Robert Comthwaite, John Zaremba, Robert F Simon, Lindsay Workman, Marjorie Bennett, Tudor Owen, James Yagi.