The Horror Gallery Season 1 ANTHOLOGY REACTION Line-Up

Submitted for approval of The Target Audience... Amazing Stories - "Mirror, Mirror" (Writer: S. Spielberg, Director: M. Scorcese) available on Amazon Ray Bradbury Theater - "Playground" (Starring William Shatner) streaming on Peacock Evil - "Genesis 1" (Starring Mike Colter aka Luke Cage, & Katja Herbers from Westworld) streaming on Paramount+ Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (all-star horror anthology w/ Christian Slater, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi & James Remar) Based on the '83 series of the same name, movie streams on Paramount+ I declare this meeting of The Horror Gallery... closed.

TZ episode 81. Nothing in the Dark is profound

Outer Limits: Zanti Misfits is my undoing....pure night-terror fuel

Kolchak: The Night Stalker I won't give episode titles since those give the 'monster of the week' away (spoilers), but I'll just say Episode 1, 4, and 5. Outer Limits I echo episodes that have already been mentioned here, including: The Zanti Misfits Demon with a Glass Hand Soldier I, Robot Cold Hands, Warm Heart The Sixth Finger

60s Twilight Zone: Time enough at Last, The Obsolete Man, A Kind of Stopwatch, People are alike all over, Living Doll, A Stop in Willoughby, To Serve Man

All of THE OUTER LIMITS would be great but since that probably can’t happen, how about… The Galaxy Being The Architects of Fear The Sixth Finger The Man Who Was Never Born Nightmare The Zanti Misfits The Bellero Shield Cold Hands, Warm Heart Demon With A Glass Hand Among many others! Very excited that you’re doing this series. It’s a real favourite.

Night Gallery: "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar", "The Messiah on Mott Street". The Outer Limits: "Controlled Experiment", "Production and Decay of Strange Particles", "The Forms of Things Unknown", "Soldier", "Cold Hands, Warm Heart", "Expanding Human", "Demon with a Glass Hand", "I, Robot". Twilight Zone 60s: "Where Is Everybody?", "And When the Sky Was Opened", "A Quality of Mercy", "Valley of the Shadow", "In Praise of Pip", "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms", "The Encounter", "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". Top pick: "The Encounter". Twilight Zone 80s: "Shatterday"/"A Little Peace and Quiet" (segments of the same episode), "Wordplay", "Nightcrawlers", "A Message from Charity", "Paladin of the Lost Hour", "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", "Her Pilgrim Soul", "The Star", "Gramma", "Dead Run", "Profile in Silver"/"Button, Button" (segments of the same episode), "A Day in Beaumont"/"The Last Defender of Camelot" (segments of the same episode), "The Once and Future King"/"A Saucer of Loneliness" (segments of the same episode), "Lost and Found", "The Toys of Caliban", "The Road Less Traveled", "The Cold Equations", "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich". Top pick: "Her Pilgrim Soul".

Man, that's a pretty tough order to fill. I can't think of any specific episodes to recommend. You should also include the 1990's "The Outer Limits" reboot. There were some good episodes in that as well. Night Gallery had a few good ones, but it started suffering from "production hell" halfway through it's first season, and the series suffered accordingly.

Night Gallery, The Cemetery, Green Fingers. Tales FTD, inside the Closet, Strange Love. Outer Limits, The Zanti Misfits. TZ 60s, The Hitchhiker, The Howling Man, The Masks, Living Doll, Escape Clause, A Nice Place to Visit.

Outer Limits season 2 episode 2, Shatner!

I remember the 80s revival of Twilight Zone fondly... but I recently watched it again and I don't think it's AS GOOD as I thought back in the day. Still way better than the next two attempts to revive the series, though. Night Gallery is VERY dated... and you have to get over that in order to get anything out of it. My favorite Night Gallery story was the one with Rodney McDowell and Ozzie Davis. Tales From The Crypt is a hoot. Freddy's Nightmares could be considered "problematic" at this point since the Freddy Krueger character was subtlety retconned over the years into a former child molester and not "just" a child murderer. So laughing at his jokes is harder to do now than back in the day.

I loved Friday the 13th the series and Freddy's nightmares when I was little, though found the latter to be kind of sillier and less attached to as it was an anthology shot. The former usually takes itself more seriously, and I liked that followed a small central cast and had spooky vibes. A couple recommends from anthology series that aren't on this list are: * Night Visions (a tv show hosted by Henry Rollins), season 1 ep 3 "A View Through the Window/Quiet Please" * Monsters season 1 ep 4 "The Vampire Hunter"

Night Gallery pilot, fire 🔥 Night Stalker episode 5 scared the crap out of me as a kid

Goodness, that's a LOT of material. You're doing surveys of a season at a time? If you need even MORE (obviously you do!) ... Tales from Tomorrow, One Step Beyond, Hammer House of Horror ... two very old school suggestions and one from the UK!

Where Friday the 13th the series is concerned the best episodes are anything to do with the compact I.e Vanitys mirror or Face of evil, Dr Jack is a good one, the scarecrow is a good one, and the root of all evil is another excellent episode. As well as the pilot.

I don't know how many of these I'll look at considering I'm not much into horror, especially gory horror. All I have on disc is the original Twilight Zone and Kolchak. Your post did just now trigger a memory of something I saw back in the late 70s. It was a science fiction anthology series but the one episode I saw did have horror elements like Twilight Zone frequently did, and the guest star of the week just happened to be Majel Barrett. Looking at her IMDb page the series was called The Next Step Beyond, and the episode is called "Drums at Midnight". The main thing I remember about it is the ending, which I will of course not spoil.