Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
Season 2 episodes
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The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?
51m9.0 / 10
A phenomenally successful young seer suddenly refuses to make further predictions. A vignette about a babysitter and her latest client. A desperate man seeks a surgeon's help when he discovers a presence that controls his right hand. The Phantom of the Opera gets the shock of his life when he menaces a beautiful young singer.
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Directed by John Meredyth Lucas, John BadhamWritten by Jack Laird, Rod SerlingGuest stars Ellen Weston, Rance Howard, Clint Howard, Joseph Campanella, Michael Constantine, Sue Lyon, George Maharis, Leslie Nielsen
A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast
51m
Taking refuge in a funeral home, a wounded killer encounters a gentle undertaker with a strange secret. Bricks and mortar figure in a wife's plan to end her husband's suffering. A graduating class of the future takes a particularly revealing final exam. An employment agency official has difficulty trying to fill a position for an extremely particular customer.
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Directed by Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Jack Laird, Rod SerlingGuest stars E.G. Marshall, Lenore Kasdorf, Vincent Price, Imogene Coca, Fran Ryan, King Donovan, Brandon De Wilde, Randolph Mantooth
Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan
51m
A college professor suspects that his visiting aunt is an ancient witch--with designs on inhabiting his wife's body. Dr. Jekyll tries out a new potion. A callous disc jockey is offered up as a hellish sacrifice at a deserted radio station.
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Directed by Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Jack Laird, Malcolm MarmorsteinGuest stars Jack Laird, James Farentino, Jonathan Harris, Jeanette Nolan, Michele Lee, Adam West, Arte Johnson, Charles Seel
A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy
51m
An arachnophobic gourmet columnist seeks help from a woman he spurned when he discovers a hairy, and obstinate, little guest crawling in his kitchen sink. A mother and father learn the hardships of parenting. A careless braggart foolishly exaggerates his meager talents to a crackpot surgeon. A widower investigates an unusually strict military academy for his delinquent son.
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Directed by Theodore J. Flicker, Jeff Corey, John Astin, Jerrold FreedmanWritten by Jerrold Freedman, Rod SerlingGuest stars Kim Stanley Robinson, Wally Cox, Leif Erickson, Patrick O'Neal, Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Pat Boone, Tom Pedi
A psychiatrist finds himself falling for a mysterious woman whose last visitor was killed, so police conclude, by wild animals. A boy's fascination with snow begins to draw him into a beautiful fantasy world.
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Directed by Jeannot Szwarc, Gene R. KearneyWritten by Gene R. Kearney, Halsted Welles, Seabury QuinnGuest stars Orson Welles, Jason Wingreen, David McCallum, Lonny Chapman, Linda Marsh, David Carradine, Ford Rainey, Bill Quinn
An intrepid mercenary accepts a $15,000 bet to stay overnight in a haunted house. A Nazi general hunting for resistance fighters gets a strangely warm welcome at a Balkan castle.
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Directed by Jack LairdGuest stars Fritz Weaver, Helmut Dantine, Francis Lederer, Leslie Nielsen, Jack Bannon, Ivan Bonar
A motorist and a marine hitchhiker experience an uncanny sensation that they've shared previous experiences. A love story about a friendless teenager and the strange creature she traps in an abandoned quarry.
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Directed by Allen Reisner, Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Douglas Heyes, Rod SerlingGuest stars Susan Strasberg, Robert Karnes, Glenn Corbett, Robert F. Lyons, Robert Hogan, Joseph V. Perry, Barbara Babcock
The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture
51m
A vicious gossip columnist receives a gift diary that appears to write its own fearful entries--before the events occur. Count Dracula visits a blood bank. An eccentric farmer promises a "big surprise" to a group of boys if they dig for it. While debunking ancient cults, an academic unwisely scoffs at the wrong god.
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Directed by Jerrold Freedman, Jeannot Szwarc, Jack LairdWritten by Jack Laird, Richard Matheson, Rod SerlingGuest stars Virginia Mayo, Patty Duke, John Carradine, E.J. Peaker, Vincent Van Patten, David Wayne, Cesar Romero, Carl Reiner
House, with Ghost / A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank / Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator / Hell's Bells
51m
A philandering husband schemes to murder his wife with the aid of a ghost. A thirsty vampire visits a young woman, with disappointing results for him. An unscrupulous medicine man in the Old West promises to heal a poor farmer's dying daughter. A recent initiate is surprised to find that Hell is a little tame for his liking.
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Directed by Theodore J. Flicker, Jerrold FreedmanWritten by Jack Laird, Theodore J. Flicker, Rod SerlingGuest stars Bob Crane, Bernard Fox, Don Pedro Colley, Murray Hamilton, Forrest Tucker, Jack Laird, Alan Napier, Trisha Noble
The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something
51m
A schoolteacher in a frontier town tries to reach a timid, hauntingly strange fourth grader. A distraught musician asks the police to help him find an elusive woman.
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Directed by John AstinGuest stars Elizabeth Hartman, Gale Sondergaard, Hope Summers, Alex Cord, Michael Baseleon, Joanna Pettet
Pickman's Model / The Dear Departed / An Act of Chivalry
51m
A young woman of Victorian Boston finds herself drawn to a reclusive artist obsessed with ghouls. Bad luck follows a phony spiritualist and his assistant's unfaithful wife after an auto accident. A vignette about elevator manners.
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Directed by Jeff Corey, Jack LairdWritten by Alvin Sapinsley, Jack Laird, Rod SerlingGuest stars Donald Moffat, Bradford Dillman, Louise Sorel, Steve Lawrence, Deidre Hall, Rose Hobart, Stanley Waxman
A haunting love story of a young woman and her late father's colleague, a man clinging desperately to life in a refrigerated apartment. A heartless moneylender gets his just desserts with the help of a client's unusual telescopic device. Edgar Allan Poe receives some unwanted coaching during a bout with writer's block.
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Directed by Jeff Corey, Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Jack Laird, Rod SerlingGuest stars Beatrice Kay, Barbara Rush, René Auberjonois, Ross Martin, Marty Allen, Henry Darrow, Larry J. Blake, Mel Blanc
Desperate to stay alive for the sake of his nine-year-old grandson, an elderly, near-penniless Jew on the brink of death pins his hopes for salvation on the coming of the Messiah. A mirror reflecting an alien landscape figures into an antique dealer's scheme to rid himself of a hateful business partner.
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Directed by Don TaylorWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Edward G. Robinson, Yaphet Kotto, Ricky Powell, Arthur O'Connell, Tony Roberts, Joseph Ruskin, Rosemary DeCamp, Zsa Zsa Gabor
The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads
51m
In a rigidly conformist future society, an anguished father agrees to send his deformed son to a distant planet. A chance encounter with a strange couple convinces a young woman that she has had a glimpse of the future. Searching for a lost explorer in Africa, British authorities accuse a powerful witch doctor of his murder.
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Directed by John Meredyth Lucas, Jeff Corey, Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Robert Bloch, Rod SerlingGuest stars Monica Lewis, Dana Andrews, Jared Martin, Zara Cully, Denise Nicholas, Sandra Dee, Brock Peters, Patrick Macnee
Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe
51m2.0 / 10
An unscrupulous tycoon takes drastic steps to force an old widow off her land. A vampire plans his belated, lavish -and noisy-final obsequy. A couple stopping at a roadside diner encounter a jukebox that plays only one song, a tune connected with a tragic romance.
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Directed by John Meredyth Lucas, John BadhamWritten by Richard Matheson, Rod SerlingGuest stars Elsa Lanchester, Bill Quinn, Michael Bell, Cameron Mitchell, Susan Oliver, Joe Flynn, Harvey Jason, Pernell Roberts
Lindemann's Catch / The Late Mr. Peddington / A Feast of Blood
51m
A captured mermaid awakens emotions in a coldhearted sea captain, who desperately seeks a way to keep her alive. A businesslike widow goes shopping for the cheapest funeral she can buy for her husband. A repulsive suitor evens the score with a calculating beauty by presenting her with an unusual gift: a brooch that seems almost alive.
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Directed by Jeff Corey, Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Jack Laird, Rod SerlingGuest stars Jack Aranson, Harry Townes, Michael Stanwood, Stuart Whitman, Randy Quaid, Harry Morgan, Kim Hunter, Pat O'Hara
The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place
51m
An insurance swindler stages a miraculous recovery from his fake paralysis at a Mexican shrine. An American drifter protects a Scottish widow from the specter of her late husband.
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Directed by Ralph SenenskyWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Ray Danton, Harry Guardino, Julie Adams, Richard Kiley, Jill Ireland
A gunfighter's final reckoning awaits him in a frontier saloon. When a woman buys a statue bearing an uncanny resemblance to her husband, he soon feels the influence of its model: an ancient druid sorcerer.
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Directed by Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Lex Barker, Steve Forrest, Gilbert Roland, Buddy Ebsen, Albert Salmi, Jim Davis, Donna Douglas
Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight
51m
A ghastly shocker about a surgery instructor unconcerned about the source of his cadavers. Convinced that her husband is trying to worry her to death, a distraught housewife files a complaint with the police. A gangster on the lam engages the services of a compliant exporter.
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Directed by Jeff Corey, Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Jack Laird, Rod SerlingGuest stars Cornel Wilde, Peter Whitney, Bobby Darin, James Gregory, Jack Albertson, Larry D. Mann, Peter Brocco, Marjorie Bennett
I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes
51m1.0 / 10
The wife of a loathsomely ill farmer decides to force nature's hand with the help of an old crone skilled in the black arts. A sorcery student invokes an ancient spirit to rid himself of a bothersome uncle.
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Directed by John Newland, Daniel HallerWritten by Jack LairdGuest stars Lois Nettleton, Mark Hamill, Joel Grey, Royal Dano, John Saxon, Darrell Larson
The Sins of the Fathers / You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore
51m6.0 / 10
A devastating famine forces a young man to play the part of a sin-eater at a dead man's wake. An abusive couple find that their latest robot maid is developing survival instincts.
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Directed by Jeff Corey, Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Alan Napier, Geraldine Page, Richard Thomas, Michael Dunn, Cloris Leachman, Broderick Crawford, Lana Wood, Barbara Steele
A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice, an earwig, in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival. Military strategists unwittingly plant the seeds of the apocalypse when they humor a scientific genius unbalanced by his daughter's death.
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Directed by Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Laurence Harvey, John Williams, Joanna Pettet, Ed Nelson, William Windom, Ivor Francis, Tom Helmore, John Lasell
