Your Guide to Every Episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’ Airing in Decades TV’s July 4 Weekend Marathon

July 4, 2020

12:00 p.m.: “Time Enough at Last” — A badgered bank teller dreams of being alone, until his wish comes true. 

12:30 p.m.: “The Hitchhiker” — Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.

1:00 p.m.: “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 like him!

1:30 p.m.: “The Trade-Ins” — An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.

2:00 p.m.: “On Thursday We Leave for Home” — A man named Benteen leads a colony of Americans stranded on a desert planet for 30 years.

3:00 p.m.: “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” — Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

3:30 p.m.: “To Serve Man” — When aliens arrive, scientists attempt to decipher their secret language to see if peace is really their objective.

4:00 p.m.: “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.

4:30 p.m.: “A Stop at Willoughby” — Frustrated with his high pressure job, an executive contemplates living in his dream world, not realizing where it really leads.

5:00 p.m.: “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.

5:30 p.m.: “The Masks” — A dying man demands his money-hungry family wear peculiar masks in order to receive their just inheritance.

6:00 p.m.: “The Obsolete Man” — In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.

6:30 p.m.: “The After Hours” — A woman searches for a department store floor which doesn’t exist anymore.

7:00 p.m.: “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 famous killers.

7:30 p.m.: “Where is Everybody?” — A man with no memory awakes in a town that’s completely empty.

8:30 p.m.: “A Game of Pool” — Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.

9:00 p.m.: “The Shelter” — When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.

9:30 p.m.: “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 support!

10:00 p.m.: “The Odyssey of Flight 33” — A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

10:30 p.m.: “A Nice Place to Visit” — A small time crook wakes up in his own personal heaven with a mysterious jovial man.

11:00 p.m.: “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.

11:30 p.m.: “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.

12:00 a.m.: “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. Nothing is that easy.

1:00 a.m.: “Night Call” — Mysterious phone calls haunt a disabled woman.

1:30 a.m.: “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.

2:00 a.m.: “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 “hear.”

2:30 a.m.: “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 with this forced retirement, he becomes convinced that his life’s work has had no meaning. That is, until the spirits of his former students come to visit.

3:00 a.m.: “People Are Alike All Over” — When a space exploration crashes on Mars, the surviving passenger is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and very friendly, but are they?

3:30 a.m.: “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.

4:00 a.m.: “The Lonely” — A man wrongfully accused is sent to live on an isolated planet.

4:30 a.m.: “Two” — A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.

5:00 a.m.: “A World of His Own” — A playwright brings his characters to life.

5:30 a.m.: “The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross” — A man finds that he can trade anything he has, including youth and personality, with anybody else.

6:00 a.m.: “Long Distance Call” — A young boy finds he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.

6:30 a.m.: “The Long Morrow” — Before leaving on his mission, an astronaut meets a woman. They fall in love.

July 5, 2020

7:00 a.m.: “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 are dead, but the captain refuses to see the truth.

8:00 a.m.: “The Parallel” — An astronaut arrives back on Earth, then notices several differences.

9:00 a.m.: “The Invaders” — An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.

9:30 a.m.: “Mirror Image” — A woman discovers her exact double at a bus terminal.

10:00 a.m.: “Walking Distance” — A man accidently travels back in time to his childhood hometown.

10:30 a.m.: “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.

11:00 a.m.: “The Silence” — A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.

11:30 a.m.: “The Chaser” — A desperate man turns to a love potion after his sweetheart rejects him.

12:00 p.m..: “And When the Sky Was Opened” — Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight.

12:30 p.m..: “The Midnight Sun” — The Earth’s orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.

1:00 p.m.: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” — A man recovering from a breakdown sees a gremlin on the wing of the airplane.

1:30 p.m.: “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.

2:00 p.m.: “In His Image” — A scientist creates an android that has the qualities which he feels he’s lacking.

3:00 p.m.: 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.

3:30 p.m.: “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.

4:00 p.m.: “Nothing in the Dark” — A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting “Mr. Death”.

4:30 p.m.: “What You Need” — A thug attempts to use a psychic salesman’s gift for his own gain.

5:00 p.m.: “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.

5:30 p.m.: “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!

6:00 p.m.: “The Eye of the Beholder” — A woman undergoes experimental treatments in an attempt to make her appear “normal” again.

6:30 p.m.: “The Little People” — An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.

7:00 p.m.: “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.

8:00 p.m.: “Long Live Walter Jameson” — A professor suspects his daughter’s fiance of leading a double-life with a connection to the past.

8:30 p.m.: “Queen of the Nile” — A columnist’s expose on a movie actress takes a turn when her mother warns not to return.

9:00 p.m.: “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.”

9:30 p.m.: “Mr. Garrity and the Graves” — Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.

10:00 p.m.: “Twenty-Two” — A recovering dancer has a reoccurring dream that leads her to a morgue.

10:30 p.m.: “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 the world, I want to get off.”

11:00 p.m.: “A World of Difference” — Businessman Arthur Curtis discovers that life as he knows it doesn’t really exist.

11:30 p.m.: “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 on to her individuality.

12:00 a.m.: “Valley of the Shadow” — A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things.

1:00 a.m.: “One for the Angels” — A jovial salesman attempts to elude Death.

1:30 a.m.: “The Old Man in the Cave” — A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.

2:00 a.m.: “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.

2:30 a.m.: “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 the street. Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and Ivan must find it within three hours or be blown to bits.

3:00 a.m.: “The 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.

3:30 a.m.: “The Rip Van Winkle Caper” — Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars’ worth of gold bara.

4:00 a.m.: “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 the dimensions closes forever. 

4:30 a.m.: “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.

5:00 a.m.: “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 they’ve never heard of.

5:30 a.m.: “Elegy” — Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left–only all of the people seem frozen in time.

6:00 a.m.: “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, he has moved back to April 14, 1865 – the date of Lincoln’s assassination. He tries to warn everyone at Ford’s Theater, but ends up being arrested. Mr. Wellington asks that Corrigan be remanded to his custody. Wellington is actually John Wilkes Booth, and he wants no interference. He drugs Corrigan, and when he wakes up it’s too late. He returns to the present, ready to tell his friends that the past really can’t be changed. But he is shocked to find that William, formerly the attendant, is now rich. His great-grandfather was the only person to believe Corrigan, and made a name for himself trying to stop the assassination.

6:30 a.m.: “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.