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The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling's spooky black-and-white serial that ran on CBS from 1959-1964. Since then, this psychological thriller has become the go-to program for holiday marathons on the Syfy network, specifically New Year's Eve. If you're a Broadway fan watching this year, keep an eye out for these stars, who, once upon a time, trod the boards before (or after) crossing over into [dramatic pause]
The Twilight Zone.
William Shatner has the distinction of being in two
Twilight Zone episodes that will air: "Nick of Time" (January 1 at 1:05am ET), where he plays a man obsessed with a fortune-teller machine, and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (January 1 at 10pm ET), where he stars as a jittery fellow who thinks he sees a gremlin on the wing of the airplane he's on. Shatner is no stranger to Broadway, having appeared in the 1950s and '60s in