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The Twilight Zone Marathon - KTLA Channel 5 Los Angeles Television Commercial (2013)

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KTLA 5 Television Los Angeles spot for their annual Thanksgiving Day Twilight Zone marathon from 2013.

PromaxBDA Local 2013, Program Promotional Campaign "Twilight Zone/Outer Limits Marathon" Gold

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KTLA-DT 5.1 / Los Angeles

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"KTLA airs "Twilight Zone" fests every Thanksgiving and Independence Day. "The first one we did was on Thanksgiving in 1980," said KTLA program director Mark Sonnenberg. "The July 4th marathon started in 1983. It's become a Southern California tradition. It's right up there with your other Fourth of July activities: barbecues, picnics, and fireworks."

Sonnenberg and his staff always attempt to schedule different episodes for each marathon. "There are 150 episodes of the series," Sonnenberg said. "Basically, we have kept track of what has aired before. We try to keep it fresh. We try to pick episodes that are fresh and new that we think fans are going to enjoy."

Because the series isn't airing regularly on KTLA, Sonnenberg said, "It gives a specialness to the marathon. People look forward to it."

This marathon features such episodes as "The Lonely," starring Jack Warden, Jean Marsh and Ted Knight; "Walking Distance," with Gig Young and Ronny Howard; Jim Hutton and Rod Taylor in "And When the Sky Was Opened"; Julie Newmar and Albert Salmi in "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville," and Burt Reynolds and Jack Weston in "The Bard."

"You get to see stars in featured roles in 'Twilight Zone' prior to achieving fame," Sonnenberg said.

Sonnenberg believes the marathon is such a success because "the format is viewer-friendly. We are on from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. We are not asking people to watch 13 straight hours. But people can turn on their TV sets and do their different activities and check out the marathon." ~ Los Angeles Times - Susan King (June 30, 1991)

About The Twilight Zone:
"The Twilight Zone is an American science-fiction, fantasy, psychological-supernatural horror anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consists of unrelated dramas depicting characters dealing with paranormal, futuristic, Kafkaesque, or otherwise disturbing or unusual events; characters who find themselves dealing with these strange, sometimes inexplicable happenings are said to have crossed over into "The Twilight Zone". Each story typically features a moral and a surprise ending.

The series is notable for featuring both established stars and younger actors who would become more famous later on. Serling served as executive producer and head writer; he wrote or co-wrote 92 of the show's 156 episodes. He was also the show's host and narrator, delivering monologues at the beginning and end of each episode. Serling's opening and closing narrations usually summarize the episode's events encapsulating how and why the main character(s) had entered the Twilight Zone.

In 1997, the episodes "To Serve Man" and "It's a Good Life" were respectively ranked at 11 and 31 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time; Serling himself stated that his favorite episodes of the series were "The Invaders" and "Time Enough at Last," In 2016, it was ranked No. 8 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest shows of all time. In 2002, The Twilight Zone was ranked No. 26 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the third best-written TV series ever and TV Guide ranked it as the fifth greatest show of all time." ~ wikipedia.org

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