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Anthology series such as Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits

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I watched the whole original series of The Twilight Zone fairly recently and really enjoyed it. Then I tried The Outer Limits and didn't make it through the first season. I might give it another try or I might just skip ahead to Night Gallery.

Can anyone recommend or comment on these 80s anthologies?

Tales from the Darkside
Twilight Zone
Amazing Stories

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Here's a list I had handy if you are looking for others twist:

 Science Fiction Theatre  (1955-1957)
 The Twilight Zone  (1959-1964)
 The Outer Limits  (1963-1965)
 Night Gallery  (1969-1973)
 Tales from the Darkside  (1983-1988)
 The Twilight Zone  (1985-1987)
 Amazing Stories  (1985-1987)
 The Outer Limits  (1995-2002)
 The Twilight Zone  (2002-2003)
 The Dead Zone  (2002-2007)

Also, this thread should be called "TALES OF INTEREST!" :P

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I can't believe no one has mentioned The Scary Door.

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twister111 said:

So recently I've been getting into watching some of the old Anthology series. Started randomly going through episodes of the Outer Limits on Hulu. For some reason I kept randomly picking episodes with Star Trek actors in them. Kind of weird sort of pattern to happen there.


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The episode with Shatner as an astronaut for "Project Vulcan" is one of those kooky coincidences, isn't it?

"The Zanti Misfits" episode scared the crap out of me when I was little. I was convinced those little alien creatures from hell were going to show up and get me when I least expected it.

Where were you in '77?

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SilverWook said:

The episode with Shatner as an astronaut for "Project Vulcan" is one of those kooky coincidences, isn't it?

I actually hadn't gotten to watching that eppy when I made that post. I had heard about it though. Watched it this night. Pretty good. Funnily enough when I was watching it the stream momentarily froze just at the moment at the start when he mentions project Vulcan. It's like my computer couldn't take the coincidence!

Anyways what I meant was that I randomly watched "The Quality of Mercy" which has a Star Trek actor in it. Then I watched "The Voyage Home" which just so happened to have another Star Trek actor in it. Then I jumped to the Season 2 Episode 16 The Deprogrammers lo and behold another Star Trek actor! Then I found out that the previous "Quality of Mercy" eppy has a follow up episode called "The Light Brigade" so I watched that and what do you know a Star Trek actor is there too! Then I watched at random again "The Conversion" well, well the streak continued and another Star Trek actor was in there too. Then I randomly went to the episode "Inconstant Moon" and that broke the random Star Trek actor findings in the Outer Limits episodes for me.

By the way here's a link to the episode with Shatner if anyone wants to watch it.

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doubleKO said:


I watched the whole original series of The Twilight Zone fairly recently and really enjoyed it. Then I tried The Outer Limits and didn't make it through the first season. I might give it another try or I might just skip ahead to Night Gallery.

Can anyone recommend or comment on these 80s anthologies?

Tales from the Darkside
Twilight Zone
Amazing Stories


Well I haven't watched too much of the 60's Outer Limits episodes. I'm mostly going in random in the 90's series. Though there are a few episodes that are sequels to previous episodes in the 90's series. So it kind of pays to go in order unlike what I'm doing... So I don't know. Maybe I'll list some good completely standalone episodes for you to check out. Later on though got some other stuff I want to watch soon.

As for the 80's Twilight Zone I've seen a couple of episodes where they basically took the script from an original Twilight Zone episode and just shot it in color with worse acting. Either that or they changed the ending that changed the whole idea of the episode itself. For the most part I'd suggest making sure the episode you're going to watch wasn't already done in the first Twilight Zone. Granted though I haven't seen much of the 80's Twilight Zone. I've been mostly watching the original.


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As mentioned elsewhere I recently finished watching the anthology series The Hunger.

Made by Scott Free with some fine directors and acting talent, it was however mostly softcore porn scenarios with a horror or Sci-Fi twist.

The highlight of the series for me was Margot Kidder in The Sloane Men.

It's a brilliant story and it's perfectly balanced.