Is Examination Day in the list?
All spoofed in Simpsons Halloween Specials. Very funny indeed.
You Drive
On a rainy day, office manager Oliver Pope is driving home when he hits a newspaper boy with his car and promptly flees the scene. He puts the car in his garage but when his wife sees the lights flashing, she thinks they have an intruder. In fact, its just the car acting up. In the middle of the night, his car horn honks and when his wife takes it out the next day, it stops at the exact corner where the accident occurred. When his competitor at the office, Pete Radcliff, is arrested he thinks he’s home free. It’s apparent however that the car is going to continue acting up until Pope makes things right
Night Call
The elderly Elva Keene is not too happy when she begins receiving phone calls in the middle of the night. At first the calls are little more than static and her complaints to the local telephone operator, Miss Finch, seem to go unheeded. Over time however, she begins to hear a man’s voice but out of fear, tells whoever it is to go away. When Miss Finch reports they’ve found the problem, Elva visits the site only to realize the identity of the caller, and that regardless of anything she’s said, desperately wants the calls to continue.
Mr Garrity and the Graves
In the early 1890s Mr. Garrity arrives in Happiness, Arizona apparently knowing a great deal about some of the people who live there. He knows that Jensen the bartender’s brother died and that Gooberman the town drunk lost his wife. Garrity also reveals that he has a very peculiar gift - he can bring back the dead. When a dog is run down by a wagon in the street he resurrects it without any difficulty. When he offers to do the same for the town’s loved one’s, they realize they would rather he not bring back the dearly departed, something they are quite happy to pay him for. Garrity, a charlatan if ever there was one, is glad to accept their money - though he does seem to leave something behind.
There were no “scary” episodes of Twilight Zone.
It’s a cookbook........
I think at this point, none of them are really ‘scary’.
But they all carried a deep message, and that’s what I loved about the series, and miss in television today. None of it is really interesting anymore.
We just don’t seem to have the minds that we did back then.
The Invaders. Agnes Moorhead was the old lady.
I have always held a place for The Outer Limits, especially Season 1 episode 2:100 Days of the Dragon
A quick TZ story. My wife is younger than me, and grew up not watching B&W TV shows, or movies. She claimed the storylines of the ones she had tried to watch were ENTIRELY predictable. So, I pulled up an episode of TZ. We watched it to just before “the turn”, and I asked her “OK, what’s going on here, and what’s going to happen”. She gave me some predictable plot, and outcome. Then I unpaused it. She was more than a little shocked. Lesson learned. :D
The one about the guy who’s in search of a song and wanders into the woods, meeting a woman in black who sings predictions. The things she sings about keep happening and she finally sings a verse predicting his death. Which, of course, happens.
That one haunted me for awhile when I saw it at about 15 years old.
The episode listed in the article: THE DUMMY, was one of TWO versions that were on this show. The idea predates this show AND television! The movie THE GREAT GABO is the earliest movie or T.V. version of this kind of tale, was one of the very first "talkies", and starred Erich Von Stroheim as the ventriloquist. A much later/modern movie, MAGIC, starring Anthony Hopkins as the ventriloquist, is also well worth seeing.
I thought the only terrifying episode was the mannequins coming to life. Everything else was just hokey. Entertaining, yes. Watchable, yes. I really liked the Custer episode.
Eye of the Beholder is one of my favorites.
Not scary, but ‘Two’ is my favorite. Elizabeth Montgomery, delicious.
Do you recall the one where they bricked themselves into an unescapable small space? I was so young when I watched it. So I don’t remember much except I found it scary.
1. Monsters on Main Street. - Aliens manipulate the people on a street into suspecting each other of being aliens.
2. The Hitchhiker - A young woman drives across the country and continuously sees a “tramp” trying to hitchhike with her.
3. To Serve Man - A “benevolent” alien race comes to earth and takes volunteers on a ride back to their planet for a “vacation of a lifetime”.
And so many more ....
What I appreciate the most was each story was completely new and different each week. The set-up, plot and finale were new each week.
You don’t see that in TV now.
“It’s a Good Life” encapsulates the current college campus dynamic. Faculty are scared of what the kids say and think and do. The Admins praise the kids for everything they do. And the kids would totally send everyone to the cornfield if given the power. They get high enough on cancel culture. Imagine if they could send everyone to the cornfield.
Not scary but the episode called The Whole Truth is a fun favorite.
A used car salesman buys a haunted car that causes the owner to tell the truth.
He finally unloads the ancient jalopy on a rep for Kruschev, looking for a propaganda prop to use as the typical American car.