What were your favorite scary tv shows when you were growing up ?

A lot of the shows weren’t exactly horror; some straddled the categories of Sci-Fi and Paranormal…
One Step Beyond…predated The Twilight Zone but supposedly based upon actual events
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This show scared the heck out of me when I was a teenager. And I hated that it only lasted one season !
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If you can find intros please share them 😃

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ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

Don't know if it qualifies as a show, but CHILLER THEATER -- with that 6-fingered hand rising from the swamp in the logo.

robingoodfellow · M

@ChipmunkErnie [media=https://youtu.be/sc15kjGG4nU?si=eRVN6d4V7_6IIj3J]

bijouxbroussard · F

@ChipmunkErnie @robingoodfellow
Woah, I’ve never seen that one, I wonder if it’s available on streaming services ? It looks really scary ! 😊

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@bijouxbroussard It was on for decades, usually at midnight, and generally featured really old or really low-budget horror movies in syndication.

robingoodfellow · M

@bijouxbroussard not exactly a tv show, they showed old horror movies using this as the opening. Every kid who grew up with it remembers it.

bijouxbroussard · F

@ChipmunkErnie @robingoodfellow
Like "Creature Features" ? That was a similar format.

robingoodfellow · M

@bijouxbroussard yes, that kind of thing

AngelUnforgiven · 51-55, F

@ChipmunkErnie omg that's creepy

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@robingoodfellow There were quite a few of those movies-on-TV formats when I was a kid: CHILLER THEATER, CREATURE FEATURES, MYSTERY THEATER, ORIENTAL THEATER (CHARLIE CHAN and MR MOTO films), EAST SIDE KIDS/BOWERY BOYS, and every Sunday on WPIX either TARZAN or ABBOTT AND COSTELLO.

robingoodfellow · M

@ChipmunkErnie remember the Mighty Sons of Hercules? They would show all those Italian Maciste and Hercules films.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@robingoodfellow Not one of my favorites, but yes, I remember them. And way back in the 1960s the local NYC TV channel (WOR 9?) broadcast some in widescreen as a special event and felt they had to keep flashing disclaimers for the audience to understand what a letterbox format was or viewers would think there was something wrong with their TV or with the broadcast..