THE TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHON
Syfy, 8:00 a.m. ET
It’s one of TV’s more inexplicable yet wonderful annual traditions: a New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day marathon showing of The Twilight Zone on the Syfy network, selecting different episodes each year from the amazing canon of half-hours and hours from the Rod Serling canon. Because of this annual exposure, this program, more than any other Golden Age TV classic, retains familiarity among members of the new generation – at least if my students at Rowan University are any guide. Dive in any time, stay as long as you like, and look for the unfamiliar as well as the treasured. That’s always been the Twilight Zone sweet spot, after all…