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The Twilight Zone Podcast

TZ Advent Calendar – Day Twenty Three

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8615 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

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

“What is your favorite Twilight Zone set in the past…”

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0:00.0

Day 23 of the Twilight Zone podcast Advent Calendar and our friend Emma comes back and she says

0:14.6

Twilight Zone episodes are set in various eras. Pick your favourite episodes set in the past, 1960s present, and in the future, and explain why.

0:25.6

So we're just going to stick to the past on this one for the moment.

0:30.1

But yeah, Zach, you want to go first on this one?

0:33.2

What's your favorite historical twilight tone?

0:37.0

So by set in the past, we mean it's a period piece. There's

0:40.1

no time travel, right? It's just this is where we are before 1960s time, right? That was my

0:46.8

understanding. That's how I interpreted it. Okay. I've already broken one of those rules.

0:52.6

Good. Good. Well, I'll stay sure of the rules.

0:55.9

I got to be honest, the ones set in the past are probably my least favorite

0:59.0

Twilight Zone episodes.

1:01.0

It's like on the list of my, on the hierarchy of what are my least favorite Twilight Zone episodes,

1:05.8

comedy episodes are number one, episode set in the past are number two.

1:11.7

Because it was kind of hard to just, the ones that are just entirely in the past, right?

1:15.4

Because there are some great time travel ones.

1:16.9

But going through it, I'm going to go with the grave.

1:20.3

Okay.

1:20.7

It's the one with Lee Marvin and the Old West, and there's a lot of talk about, you know, a ghost.

1:27.4

If you go to this grave, a guy's going to pull you into it.

1:29.9

And it's one of those ambiguous endings, which are so rare, but I like so much on the show, right? Where he's like, he dies to the grave, but it's like, oh, well, the wind blew and he stabbed it and he got stuck. and that it's like, okay, like, if you're a skeptic, you could believe that, or you could believe, like, you know, a ghost pulled him into the, into the grave.

1:48.0

So. got stuck. And it's like, okay, like if you're a skeptic, you could believe that or you could

1:44.4

believe, like, you know, a ghost pulled him into the, into the grave. So, you know, Lee Marvin,

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