Once again – and for the twentieth year – Syfy has announced its annual year end Twilight Zone Marathon. This year, the Twilight Zone Marathon will run beginning at 8am/7C on Wednesday, December 31st through 5am/4C, then resume on Thursday, January 1st at 6am/5C and going for another 24 hours.
Episodes will include classics like Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, To Serve Man, Time Enough at Last and Eye of the Beholder.
Christmas Icetastrophe will be broadcast on December 20th (9/8C); December 23rd will see a marathon of Wizard Wars’ first season, beginning at 6/5C, and Christmas Day will feature a full day of cold weather-themed movies. For further details, follow the jump.
SYFY CELEBRATES THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH 20TH ANNUAL NEW YEAR’S EVE THE TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHON
ORIGINAL MOVIE CHRISTMAS ICETASTROPHE
NEW YORK – December 1, 2014 – Syfy will celebrate the holiday season with the Original Movie Christmas Icetastrophe, a Christmas Day disaster film marathon, and the 20th annual New Year’s Eve celebration of Rod Serling’s legendary series The Twilight Zone, which will take viewers into a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.
Among the iconic episodes airing during this year’s marathon will be Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, To Serve Man, Time Enough at Last and Eye of the Beholder.
Syfy began transporting viewers into that middle ground between science and superstition on December 31, 1995.
In Christmas Icetastrophe, premiering Saturday, December 20 at 9PM (ET/PT), an asteroid strikes a small town preparing for Christmas, triggering an explosive wave of ice crystals that threatens to freeze all life on Earth. The movie stars Victor Webster (Continuum), Jennifer Spence (Stargate Universe) and Richard Harmon (Bates Motel).
On Tuesday, December 23, Syfy will present a season one marathon of Wizard Wars from 6PM to 12AM. Wizard Wars returns Thursday, January 29 at 10PM.
The holiday programming festival heats up on Christmas Day with a full day of cold weather-themed movies.
Syfy will close out 2014 with The Twilight Zone marathon, which runs Wednesday, December 31 from 8AM until 5AM, concluding Thursday, January 1 from 6AM to 6AM.
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