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The Twilight Zone Podcast

TZ Advent Calendar – Day Nineteen

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8615 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Day nineteen of the Twilight Zone Advent Calendar – play along in the comments…    

“What if you could step into the Twilight Zone and change the outcome of one episode, which one would it be and what would you change…”

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather?

0:25.5

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.6

Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Day 19 of the Twilight Zone podcast Advent Calendar and Emma asks,

0:44.6

what if you could step into the Twilight Zone and change the outcome of one episode?

0:49.9

Which one would it be and what would you change?

0:54.6

So for me, Zach, this one was quite easy because maybe a bit of recency bias in here,

1:03.0

but it's going to be the end of the long morrow.

1:06.3

Probably one of the most tragic Twilight Zone episodes where, you know,

1:10.2

two people find each other,

1:12.6

but circumstances and situation mean that things just don't work out, you know,

1:20.5

and they end up in this heartbreaking situation, which there's really no coming back from.

1:27.3

So, yeah, you you know neither of those

1:29.7

people probably deserve that fate it's not one of those comic justice

1:34.0

things I guess it was just the twilight zone given us a lesson that sometimes

1:40.0

things don't work out so lesson learned so if So if I could change it, let let them have the relationship

1:48.8

that they should have had. What about you? Yeah, I think tragedy is the name of the game here,

1:55.3

because I'm going to go with time enough at last. Easy to have a happy ending. He finds a library and thus a reason to live, right? Could it easily been one of those happy ending episodes. Like, that's the twist. Oh, look, he wanted to read it. There's a library. Ah, ha, ha, ha, right? But then it wouldn't be near as good or memorable or iconic, right? I mean, that's the thing about tragedies. That's why we remembered them. That's why they stick with those, right? The thing is, it's funny as well.

2:20.6

On one of the previous days, we were talking about turnarounds, and I remember, you know, one of the

2:25.6

things that I probably thought too much about was this, this Twilight Zone calmic justice, that there's

2:33.4

got to be a reason. If something bad happens to someone that there's got to be a reason

2:34.3

if something bad happens to someone

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