When you get older, it’s the "landscape" of your youth that you miss. The familiar faces of distinctive character actors, the clothing styles, the music… so many things about these old shows recall that landscape.
I'm having the time of my life viewing these again after all these decades! The eerie sounds they used in the 70's used to send chills down my spine especially at only 10 years old! I'm loving this & so glad someone took the time to put them on here. It's great!
Same here at 8 it really scared 😱 me. I wasn't allowed to watch this, but I would sneak it at my grandparents house, were I wasn't under the watchful eye of my parents. Philly viktor 1965.
1973 wasn't a simpler time, but we were children back then when we didn't have to worry about mortgages and health care. in 1973 we had Vietnam, the Watergate hearings, an OPEC oil embargo, terrorism (Munich happened the previous year), a meat shortage and out-of-control inflation. OTOH, network TV was better then.
@@Gobear1 I remember everything but the meat shortage. Had to look that one up. I was only six, so it probably just sounded like yet more talk of inflation to me. Oh, and I thought Watergate was about water.
No matter what was going on, it was a simpler time because we didn’t have internet, cell phones, texting, GMO’s and everything else. Problems seemed solvable back then, unlike today. We also had just reached peak oil, but the coal and steel industry were still keeping on.
Here again after finding these last year....i can't get over the memories and feelings of better times while watching these..i wish I could go back ....2 when things were happier 4 me when things were more simple and life was not so heavy and sad....
I remember watching this show when it first came on television, I always had to have every light in the house on. The creepy nervous sounding music with the synthesizer always gave me the chills.
I know! So true! Much scarier then the crap that came out later with blood and gore. This made my young mind think! Also, even though just a show I noticed how people came together more then... now it's all about the darn cell phone... communication is not the same for sure. We are losing something. : (
How come the quality of these old shows is so great? There's a richness in the sounds, the look, the atmosphere. It helps to have a high quality recording.
Truly a viewing pleasure to see these familiar actors I used to enjoy on TV shows in the 1970s. I think all of them must have been on Hawaii 5-0 at least once or twice. These shows are great!
Shows like this, Night Gallery, Tales from the Dark Side. Not big on special effects but great creepy stories. They don't make them like this anymore. I loved this show as kid and still do.
So true: we didn't need special effects telling ghost stories by camp fires and making everyone afraid to budge and these writers knew the same tricks.
Agreed. Amazing what a good story-line can do. Most (but not all, thankfully) horror film makers today tend to miss the point & go overboard with the gratuitous stuff - they forget to to "tell the tale".
Damn,damn,damn! Great episode! Good story line, the fate of the dog was left to the imagination. Far more scary than the excessive violence and meaningless sex junk that is produced today.Great ending! I loved the 70s! Wish I had a time machine to go back! But these shows will certainly do and remind me of a simpler and less stressful time in my life.
Wait a minute -- Ms. Daly was honored with half a dozen Emmy Awards and a Tony -- how in the world does that equate to "under-rated"?! . . . Yes, it is "a pleasure." I would add her co-leads Scott Marlow, Joan Blackman, Brooke Bundy, Frank Converse and Tim McIntire are all performing 'at the top of their game,' and with Ms. Daly make a superb, memorable ensemble. . . . . Kinda sad to think that with over three dozen film and TV credits this is so close to the end of Ms Blackman's career.
Oh my God!! I remember being in jr. high at this time and just barely getting through the school day so I could home and watch shows like this, night gallery, the sixth sense, the night stalker, nbc mystery movie snd abc movie of the week had a lot of spooky/eerie/horror, too! If I recall correctly , abc added a tuesday movie of the week that was dedicated to the spooky/eerie in particular. I'd give anything for a time machine, I'd go back in a second!! These shows don't scare me like they used to, I'm older now and the world jaded the hell out of me!! But, looking back, these low budget, tacky shows were the greatest things to appear on TV, ever!! A simpler, cooler time. A trillion times better than these days!! Thanks for taking the time and effort to put this all together, it is TRULY APPRECIATED!! You've had an effect on a great number of people!!
@@paulfleming715 Aside from Dark Shadows all of the Dan Curtis network series attempts resulted in failure . Nightstalker however almost lasted a Single Season
Thanks for adding these episodes, Winston Essex! This show attracted terrific actors (I've loved Frank Converse since his "Coronet Blue" days), and great writers like Harlan Ellison, who wrote this episode, with help from D. C. Fontana. Truly eerie.
i still don't know how i missed this series when it originally aired. this is my favorite genre, and i was (am) a true TV junkie. thank you for your vids!
I saw part of the original broadcast in 1973, but not the last third. Strangely the story stayed with me. I never knew what this series was, and just found out in 2020. Thanks for posting this so I can see the full episode. The ending was more bizarre than I imagined. Harlan Ellison was a freaking genius.
I remember watching this as a kid and being so scared now it seems really campy.If I really want to scare myself now all I have to do is open up my property tax bill.
Ohhhh,lookie who's there @ 1:55....Dabbs Greer,probably,best known for his role as Rev. Alden on "Little House....". Unmistakable voice;great character actor.
I love how this episode centers around artists ensnared by their craft and their enchantment with the material world; it really gets under your skin if you know anything first-hand about the creative process.
thanks for that upload always nice to randomly stumble upon a great vintage tv show I had no previous idea about. Effectively creepy, despite the studio setting nice production values. 1970s rocked in every way. Loved this one, the grrovy artsy community and what an ending!
I always watched this show as a kid in the 70s, but I missed this one. Good thing, too; had I seen this at the age of ten, I wouldn't have slept for months.
Stephen King is not one of our more quotable writers, but he was spot on when he lambasted the limp tv horror genre with "sometimes you have to have a little steak with your sizzle." Typically, we get a reaction shot to some grand reveal we never see...but this episode has some steak cubes in the bottom. That horrible metal face! Wilhem-quality screamage! What a pleasure this show is. I missed this episode the first time around; I was only seven, and without draws like Jodie foster and her voodoo cookies, I could be off by the second reel.
Lets all have an evil jar party. Everyone bring your demonic jars to dinner and lets talk about our new arts and craft hobbies no one wants to buy. I am currently working on a pair of wooden shoes with gravel inlay. What's your new craft? :)
This was a show I never saw (I was only 12 and my Mom probably wouldn't have let me), but they're GREAT! Well-written, a little melodramatic, but good acting and story telling...thanks for posting!
even though i was 5 when this came out i remember how good 70s tv was ..reminds me of staying at my graamie and grandpas eating homade cookies n milk while they watched these great shows...miss those days
I saw this when I was only 5. I could hardly remember the story I could just recall bits and pieces. It scared the crap out of me. Now I want to see other episodes.
I was 10 and I barely remember it I tried to Google the storyline, but a horror story about lava lamps was to vague. Like I said I remember bits and pieces of it. Than in a comment section of a circle of fear episode someone mentioned a story about six hippies getting their souls devoured inside jars, that really rang a bell. Than googled that same sentence and it brought me here.
This episode is really all about the loneliness and poverty of being a co-op artist, which is quite clever, when you think about it. They all die (or are absorbed) as they become total artists and end up disappearing into the matmos. A perfect metaphor for the dilemma of the artist.
I like this series. The music and effects were truly scary. Simply things like the toy horse(dark vengence) and Kim's dreams with the wheels rolling by in the darkness, (doorway to death) with the creepy scene in the closet of the guy chopping wood in front of his cabin as well as his muddy footprints in Peg's (Susan Day's) room, the jars in this episode and the guy's voice becoming distorted and his face at the end, the miniture woman in a jar in (legion of demons), the surreal accident scene with Patrica Neal, and the cookie voodoo dolls in the doll house starring Jodie Foster still scare me after 50 years. I have the DVD set of Ghost story/Circle of Fear and Night Gallery.
And the talent to 'pull it off' -- Tim McIntire, Tyne Daly, Brooke Bundy, Joan Blackman, Frank Converse, Scott Marlowe. A very generous helping of oh-so-familiar guest stars of the era.
I remember watching this program with my mother (she enjoyed horror) when it was first broadcast. I have the series on DVD, though I preferred the episodes introduced by Sebastien Cabot. Nevertheless, I have always considered this particular episode the most terrifying of the show's entire run.
This was a scary episode. I had a vague recollection of this one. But it it stuck in my mind forever. I was spooked and all I could remember was the lava lamps and people were stuck inside them.
This was definitely one of the scariest episodes in "Circle of Fear," which was actually superior to the earlier "Ghost Stories" semi-series. They filmed on celluloid film back then, so you did not hsve those garbage colors of digital cameras that we are stuck with today.
When I was a kid show like this did scare me too, but today... To quote 25531"I remember watching this as a kid and being so scared now it seems really campy.If I really want to scare myself now all I have to do is open up my property tax bill."
Just came across this channel. Thanks, Winston, for uploading these. I remember some from when I was a very little girl, I think on Friday nights, probably when my sister was babysitting. It seems that there aren’t creepy spine-tingling series like this today. Everything is special effects, gore and fight scenes. Does anyone know of any? It seems there would be an audience for it.
Tales of the unexpected, half hour British TV series, hammer House of horror, 13 stand-alone 1 hour episodes, also British TV, Amicus anthology horror films are good, Tales from the crypt, From beyond the grave, amicus made 5 films in total, I think? Some on UA-cam and elsewhere, info available on Wikipedia etc etc etc don't have nightmares! PS a good American film is The Norless tapes with Angie Dickinson, TV movie, seen it back in the 70s, too young for that then, frightening scary stuff ❤
Good old school days proper movies back then , not like today on lockdown still, but I got old movies to watch ⌚ and me green and beers , God bless evrey one
I LOVE that UK series/there was one featuring Roddy MacDowell and Barry Evans that was seriously a psychological thriller! It was called The Kill Bottle!
This is a good series. Could do without all the "it doesn't hold up" "camp"& "cringe" comments. It's no wonder as the cast is all over 12 years old, and if modern audiences don't "see themselves" in everything they consume they consider it crap.
+tapeduk I love Tim McIntire - especially in the 'Gunsmoke' episode "The Storm", where he carried the show and made it almost a teag-jerker in the end. Sad that he had to die too soon.
Their daughter, Tim's sister Holly, was a fine actress doing episodic guest shots the '60s. Among them, she 'broke our hearts' as a French farm girl Louise in a "Combat!" episode Louise' and made its co-lead Rick Jason a 'hero of the hour.' Tim's early death due to widely known, widely reported recreational drug use and alcoholism surely shattered Holly, John and Jeanette.-- in addition to his many, many friends in the acting and music communities. . . . Tim and his co-leads in this "Circle of Fear" outing are all 'at the top of their game'. . . . Suggestions for further Tim-McIntire-'shines' credits: "The Virginian" 'The Death Wagon' and "Harry O" opposite Susan Strasberg and David Janssen.
So, would you rather switch her with Joan Blackman or Brooke Bundy? Remember, Janet Leigh's iconic starring role in "Psycho" **** SPOILER ALERT **** who died decades before a natural death in the FIRST 30 MINUTES? How many times have we heard: "Ms. Leigh was 'robbed' -- she should have had Vera Miles' part [which survives through the final reel]." Ed. - NEVER. Tim McIntire fans, as impressed as they are with his work here, could have the same grievance as you do about Ms Daly.. But, who do you switch him with -- Scott Marlowe or Frank Converse? The point is: this is an ensemble where one by one fine actors' and actresses' characters meet their demise long before 'fade-out' -- you know, like Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians". Most importantly, MOST viewers are impressed with the story, setting, 'scares,' performances and direction -- resulting in a good time.
When you get older, it’s the "landscape" of your youth that you miss. The familiar faces of distinctive character actors, the clothing styles, the music… so many things about these old shows recall that landscape.
All of it, so nostalgic
Good point. It just looks 'right' in a way that modern/smarter/ up to date stuff doesn't.
Great and very insightful comment
Couldn't agree more, there is a certain warmth and familiarity with these old classics that the sterile shows of today lack.
It's sucks getting old!😢
I'm having the time of my life viewing these again after all these decades! The eerie sounds they used in the 70's used to send chills down my spine especially at only 10 years old! I'm loving this & so glad someone took the time to put them on here. It's great!
Same here at 8 it really scared 😱 me. I wasn't allowed to watch this, but I would sneak it at my grandparents house, were I wasn't under the watchful eye of my parents. Philly viktor 1965.
I love the community. It reminds me of a much simpler time..... oh do I miss those days. Miss this era.
1973 wasn't a simpler time, but we were children back then when we didn't have to worry about mortgages and health care. in 1973 we had Vietnam, the Watergate hearings, an OPEC oil embargo, terrorism (Munich happened the previous year), a meat shortage and out-of-control inflation. OTOH, network TV was better then.
@@Gobear1 I remember everything but the meat shortage. Had to look that one up. I was only six, so it probably just sounded like yet more talk of inflation to me. Oh, and I thought Watergate was about water.
No matter what was going on, it was a simpler time because we didn’t have internet, cell phones, texting, GMO’s and everything else. Problems seemed solvable back then, unlike today. We also had just reached peak oil, but the coal and steel industry were still keeping on.
At the end " Call me Dr. Doom !!!".
Me too, I've never felt I belong since year 2000.😕😢
This used to be one of my favorite shows I can't wait to rediscover it ❤❤❤
Here again after finding these last year....i can't get over the memories and feelings of better times while watching these..i wish I could go back ....2 when things were happier 4 me when things were more simple and life was not so heavy and sad....
I remember watching this show when it first came on television, I always had to have every light in the house on. The creepy nervous sounding music with the synthesizer always gave me the chills.
Farley Boy I'm glad they kept the music in from the first incarnation of the series.
I know! So true! Much scarier then the crap that came out later with blood and gore. This made my young mind think! Also, even though just a show I noticed how people came together more then... now it's all about the darn cell phone... communication is not the same for sure. We are losing something. : (
too scary to watch yet I watch as am brave
How come the quality of these old shows is so great? There's a richness in the sounds, the look, the atmosphere. It helps to have a high quality recording.
35 mm film -- not digital. Rich, rich, RICH 35 mm film.
Truly a viewing pleasure to see these familiar actors I used to enjoy on TV shows in the 1970s. I think all of them must have been on Hawaii 5-0 at least once or twice. These shows are great!
The man outside the store washing the sidewalk was one of Bob Newharts patients on the Bob Newhart show.
lol i liked the way you put it said it...lol
I knew he looked familiar. I saw him in a few minor roles on other shows. Can't recall which though?😊
Shows like this, Night Gallery, Tales from the Dark Side. Not big on special effects but great creepy stories. They don't make them like this anymore. I loved this show as kid and still do.
I agree!!
Oh, so spot on you are. I was 13 at home in Brooklyn, NY. when this aired. Oh, the memories re-watching these shows bring back!
So true: we didn't need special effects telling ghost stories by camp fires and making everyone afraid to budge and these writers knew the same tricks.
Agreed. Amazing what a good story-line can do.
Most (but not all, thankfully) horror film makers today tend to miss the point & go overboard with the gratuitous stuff - they forget to to "tell the tale".
Loved Night Gallery!
Damn,damn,damn! Great episode! Good story line, the fate of the dog was left to
the imagination. Far more scary than the excessive violence and meaningless sex junk that is produced today.Great ending! I loved the 70s! Wish I had a time machine to go back! But these shows will certainly do and remind me of a simpler and less stressful time in my life.
Michael Gallegos I totally agree, my kids gave me subscriptions for Netflix and amazon prime, this is better than 99% of those combined.
Richard Matheson was truly great horror stories writer. His tales were always compelling with twist emdings
Welcome to the shallow needy entitled two second thrills and wonders of this algorithm prison future
@@paulfleming715 yes and Harlan Ellison was pretty good too
@@sigmasix3719 WTF is your point???????
A pleasure to see Tyne Daly in this. She was a wonderful, highly under-rated actress!
Was? She's still with us, AFAIK.
Wait a minute -- Ms. Daly was honored with half a dozen Emmy Awards and a Tony -- how in the world does that equate to "under-rated"?!
. . . Yes, it is "a pleasure." I would add her co-leads Scott Marlow, Joan Blackman, Brooke Bundy, Frank Converse and Tim McIntire are all performing 'at the top of their game,' and with Ms. Daly make a superb, memorable ensemble.
. . . . Kinda sad to think that with over three dozen film and TV credits this is so close to the end of Ms Blackman's career.
@@scvandy3129 people are addicted to calling everyone "underrated" it's very bizarre, it's like their minds have been taken over.
@@scvandy3129you can be honored and still be underrated
I like the fact that the main characters aren’t kids. It’s refreshing. Thanks, these are great! :’
Nothing like being absorbed in your work.
thats the only laugh i had from the entire show!
Oh my God!! I remember being in jr. high at this time and just barely getting through the school day so I could home and watch shows like this, night gallery, the sixth sense, the night stalker, nbc mystery movie snd abc movie of the week had a lot of spooky/eerie/horror, too! If I recall correctly , abc added a tuesday movie of the week that was dedicated to the spooky/eerie in particular. I'd give anything for a time machine, I'd go back in a second!! These shows don't scare me like they used to, I'm older now and the world jaded the hell out of me!! But, looking back, these low budget, tacky shows were the greatest things to appear on TV, ever!! A simpler, cooler time. A trillion times better than these days!! Thanks for taking the time and effort to put this all together, it is TRULY APPRECIATED!! You've had an effect on a great number of people!!
Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis also tried horror anthology tv series, Dead of Night. But, it didn't get pickup by any of networks.
@@paulfleming715 Aside from Dark Shadows all of the Dan Curtis network series attempts resulted in failure . Nightstalker however almost lasted a Single Season
I remember seeing this the 1st time I came to this country.I must have been 7 years old. The end still freaks me out.
Thanks for adding these episodes, Winston Essex! This show attracted terrific actors (I've loved Frank Converse since his "Coronet Blue" days), and great writers like Harlan Ellison, who wrote this episode, with help from D. C. Fontana. Truly eerie.
i still don't know how i missed this series when it originally aired. this is my favorite genre, and i was (am) a true TV junkie. thank you for your vids!
One of the best episodes in an uneven series IMHO... very eerie.
Landlord was on the Little House on the Prairie! these series are great - thanks for the upload!
Yes he was Reverend Alden
He also played an old Tom Hanks character in The Green Mile
My mother-in-law has a red set of those jars in varying sizes on her kitchen window shelf. And yes, she does resemble the herbalist...
She still have them?!
@@OikPoinFive I thought you'd never ask. Yes!
I Love those jars ! I am in Vancouver BC 🇨🇦 any chance those jars are available for sale? 🤓🪶🇨🇦👋❤️🍬
@@jan-margaret6970 Yes. First we'll need a time machine and a briefcase full of jack.
I had completely forgotten about this series ty for uploading I will enjoy these
I think I was about ten when I first saw this on TV. I had nightmares for a week.
gonna be alright.. jeez
Ok. I am going to finish watching it
They cling to those jars like we do with our smart phones
The Japanese seem have quite a few horror films about evil spirits possessed cellphones.😀😄
True 😮
Who can go anywhere nowdays without their cellphone
I saw part of the original broadcast in 1973, but not the last third. Strangely the story stayed with me. I never knew what this series was, and just found out in 2020. Thanks for posting this so I can see the full episode. The ending was more bizarre than I imagined. Harlan Ellison was a freaking genius.
I remember watching this as a kid and being so scared now it seems really campy.If I really want to scare myself now all I have to do is open up my property tax bill.
I just had to re-quote this here and give you credit of course-this is so true!
Try watching "The Sixth Sense", that should make you feel better about paying your bills. ;)
Good one😂😂😂😂
@@jaymesguy239 Why???
Thank you for posting these, somehow missed them as a youngster but am really enjoying them now :)
Ohhhh,lookie who's there @ 1:55....Dabbs Greer,probably,best known for his role as Rev. Alden on "Little House....". Unmistakable voice;great character actor.
I love how this episode centers around artists ensnared by their craft and their enchantment with the material world; it really gets under your skin if you know anything first-hand about the creative process.
I was hoping he would break all the jars and set everyone free.
Love it! Verryy interesting, this one............
I must sleep but these are too exciting to watch ..
thanks for that upload always nice to randomly stumble upon a great vintage tv show I had no previous idea about. Effectively creepy, despite the studio setting nice production values. 1970s rocked in every way. Loved this one, the grrovy artsy community and what an ending!
I must admit, I didn't see THAT ending coming. Well done!
1970s hippies are the equivalent of 1950s farmers who poke meteors with sticks.
"meteor shit!"
I love these old shows where you can practically predict the opening scene by the music. ♥️
I always watched this show as a kid in the 70s, but I missed this one. Good thing, too; had I seen this at the age of ten, I wouldn't have slept for months.
Stephen King is not one of our more quotable writers, but he was spot on when he lambasted the limp tv horror genre with "sometimes you have to have a little steak with your sizzle." Typically, we get a reaction shot to some grand reveal we never see...but this episode has some steak cubes in the bottom. That horrible metal face! Wilhem-quality screamage! What a pleasure this show is. I missed this episode the first time around; I was only seven, and without draws like Jodie foster and her voodoo cookies, I could be off by the second reel.
Anyone watching in 2019/20.
Yup! Feb 2020 and these episodes are still scary!!!!
January 2021 and I agree. They are still scary
February ‘21 & still great!!
2021. Wish there were more of them!!!
Feb 23 2021. Time sure flies, luv fi ding gems like this. I'm a sixties soul.
Ultra hip. All that's missing is a lava lamp and "Inscense and Peppermint" playing in the background.
I’m going to start carrying a jar everywhere and see if anyone notices unlike this guy with his friends.
That tree got back at the dog for using it as a rest room.
So they get absorbed by jars of evil, then what?.
Dorothy Fontana is one of my favorite Star Trek writers.
Yes! Glad someone else noticed!
Really good episode! Loved how the the buildings rent was only 300.00/month I like old show that show the downtown of a city before gentrification!
This Episode gave me Nightmares the first time I'd seen it,at age 14!
Lets all have an evil jar party. Everyone bring your demonic jars to dinner and lets talk about our new arts and craft hobbies no one wants to buy. I am currently working on a pair of wooden shoes with gravel inlay. What's your new craft? :)
I'm making Christmas stuff toadstool s line with asbestos...
Right-o! Didn't know they still made cruel shoes.
Toilet paper lined with tiny spikes... 😈
working on a wooden toilet
we actually had jars like those in our house...flour, sugar etc
these shows were the greatest, they had all the stars of tv in them... why can't they do this again????
I remember seeing this one a long long time ago but I forgot that it was a Circle of Fear episode thank you for posting this
This was a show I never saw (I was only 12 and my Mom probably wouldn't have let me), but they're GREAT! Well-written, a little melodramatic, but good acting and story telling...thanks for posting!
even though i was 5 when this came out i remember how good 70s tv was ..reminds me of staying at my graamie and grandpas eating homade cookies n milk while they watched these great shows...miss those days
Great story and characters thanks for posting this mister Essex thumbs up
Really good episode, thanks
I saw this when I was only 5. I could hardly remember the story I could just recall bits and pieces. It scared the crap out of me. Now I want to see other episodes.
I was 10 and I barely remember it I tried to Google the storyline, but a horror story about lava lamps was to vague. Like I said I remember bits and pieces of it. Than in a comment section of a circle of fear episode someone mentioned a story about six hippies getting their souls devoured inside jars, that really rang a bell. Than googled that same sentence and it brought me here.
@@jerryvan-hees7130 kind of did the same thing. Did a lot of searching until I found circle of fear. I thought it was something from night gallery.
This episode is really all about the loneliness and poverty of being a co-op artist, which is quite clever, when you think about it. They all die (or are absorbed) as they become total artists and end up disappearing into the matmos. A perfect metaphor for the dilemma of the artist.
The soundscape from the 70's is awesome...
I like this series. The music and effects were truly scary. Simply things like the toy horse(dark vengence) and Kim's dreams with the wheels rolling by in the darkness, (doorway to death) with the creepy scene in the closet of the guy chopping wood in front of his cabin as well as his muddy footprints in Peg's (Susan Day's) room, the jars in this episode and the guy's voice becoming distorted and his face at the end, the miniture woman in a jar in (legion of demons), the surreal accident scene with Patrica Neal, and the cookie voodoo dolls in the doll house starring Jodie Foster still scare me after 50 years. I have the DVD set of Ghost story/Circle of Fear and Night Gallery.
Is that Tyne Daily pre Cagney and Lacy years?
AZ Desert Yep!!!
alvin jones my evil mom's name was Vork Howry.....
I always thought that she had a beautiful smile.
@@geographicoddity9444
Me too ... Nice smile
✨🌼🕊️❣️🕊️🌼✨
Love Tyne Daly! Great actor!
Anyone ever feel like your now able to find everything that you have spent years looking for, but now it's too late?
Gives new meaning to the term "jar head".
Hey, watch it. 76-78 Jarhead here. Ha ha. Semper Fi
A really good ensemble episode. One fabulous jump-scare...and that ending!!!!
And the talent to 'pull it off' -- Tim McIntire, Tyne Daly, Brooke Bundy, Joan Blackman, Frank Converse, Scott Marlowe. A very generous helping of oh-so-familiar guest stars of the era.
thank you great show
Well, at least they seem happy to be in the jars.
Where can I find that kind of jars? 😞
... I wanna be haPpy! 😆
I remember watching this program with my mother (she enjoyed horror) when it was first broadcast. I have the series on DVD, though I preferred the episodes introduced by Sebastien Cabot. Nevertheless, I have always considered this particular episode the most terrifying of the show's entire run.
The show with Sebastien Cabot ( Mr. French) was a different series, entirely, It was called Ghost Story, and thier on you-tube too. Your welcome.....
@@peterdejong5857 it was still but connected to ghost story
This was a scary episode. I had a vague recollection of this one. But it it stuck in my mind forever. I was spooked and all I could remember was the lava lamps and people were stuck inside them.
This was definitely one of the scariest episodes in "Circle of Fear," which was actually superior to the earlier "Ghost Stories" semi-series. They filmed on celluloid film back then, so you did not hsve those garbage colors of digital cameras that we are stuck with today.
This was definitely hideous, not going to sleep after this episode! 😝😖
Digital cameras have bad colors? Not familiar with that theory.
This story kinda has an H.P. Lovecraft vibe to it.
A VERY STRANGE ERRIE STORY BUT GOOD.
Frank Converse is very handsome. #😍
Yes! He's in a double episode of Starksy and Hutch I like. Nice to find him in this series too.
You should see him with a bushy mustache!
What he gay
Thank you for the upload
Thanks for uploading these. I remember watching this series when I was in middle school
I watched this series back in the day.
I hope my kombucha jars don't start doing that.
Oh yeah. I remember this one. About the hippie dippie people and jars. Saw this when I was a kid.
This is deep!! Somebody was high as F**k when they wrote this-good show though!!!
That seems to be the case for most of these episodes .Check out Legions of Demons
My grandmother left me a trunk exactly like this one, including inner tray.
I have some of those jars. A gold one, and a red one.
That was a spooky episode...thanks for the upload
A true classic..dc Fontana and harlan..priceless
Just imagine how much scarier that story would have been had this been a Night Gallery episode. 👻
What a creepy episode.someone was smoking something.haha
very freaky and scary :) , good theme with artists!
When I was a kid show like this did scare me too, but today... To quote 25531"I remember watching this as a kid and being so scared now it seems really campy.If I really want to scare myself now all I have to do is open up my property tax bill."
Just came across this channel. Thanks, Winston, for uploading these. I remember some from when I was a very little girl, I think on Friday nights, probably when my sister was babysitting.
It seems that there aren’t creepy spine-tingling series like this today. Everything is special effects, gore and fight scenes. Does anyone know of any? It seems there would be an audience for it.
Tales of the unexpected, half hour British TV series, hammer House of horror, 13 stand-alone 1 hour episodes, also British TV, Amicus anthology horror films are good, Tales from the crypt, From beyond the grave, amicus made 5 films in total, I think? Some on UA-cam and elsewhere, info available on Wikipedia etc etc etc don't have nightmares! PS a good American film is The Norless tapes with Angie Dickinson, TV movie, seen it back in the 70s, too young for that then, frightening scary stuff ❤
@@michaelhall596 wow! Thanks
Nothing says ancient cursed jars than glass canisters with plastic seals. I used to have one of those canisters.
The ending's cool...it reminds me of The Masks episode of Twilight Zone
I don't reckon there's cookies in them there jars... :0
Good old school days proper movies back then , not like today on lockdown still, but I got old movies to watch ⌚ and me green and beers , God bless evrey one
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Oh my God, that was actually really weird and disturbing... *shudder*
Did anyone spot the younger Tyane Dayly?and the series reminds me of the UK show Tales of the Unexpected.
I LOVE that UK series/there was one featuring Roddy MacDowell and Barry Evans that was seriously a psychological thriller! It was called The Kill Bottle!
This is a good series. Could do without all the "it doesn't hold up" "camp"& "cringe" comments. It's no wonder as the cast is all over 12 years old, and if modern audiences don't "see themselves" in everything they consume they consider it crap.
Exactly. I dont listen to anyone who consumes 10 Marvel, 5 star wars, and 3 batman franchise movies per year.
Man I thought this was a music video from that musical group from the 70's.
Bodyah bodyah/bodyah eee odyah eee odyah/ba daa bah bah bah
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On no jive turkey i thought this was earth wind and fire 🔥the group well guess I'll boogie on down the line.
Lmao 😂
Thanks for posting.
Always loved this one!
Tim McIntire was the son of Jeanette Nolan and John McIntire---love this episode
+tapeduk I love Tim McIntire - especially in the 'Gunsmoke' episode "The Storm", where he carried the show and made it almost a teag-jerker in the end. Sad that he had to die too soon.
tapeduk Knew him from Brubaker with Robert Redford.
Their daughter, Tim's sister Holly, was a fine actress doing episodic guest shots the '60s. Among them, she 'broke our hearts' as a French farm girl Louise in a "Combat!" episode Louise' and made its co-lead Rick Jason a 'hero of the hour.'
Tim's early death due to widely known, widely reported recreational drug use and alcoholism surely shattered Holly, John and Jeanette.-- in addition to his many, many friends in the acting and music communities.
. . . Tim and his co-leads in this "Circle of Fear" outing are all 'at the top of their game'.
. . . Suggestions for further Tim-McIntire-'shines' credits: "The Virginian" 'The Death Wagon' and "Harry O" opposite Susan Strasberg and David Janssen.
Always thought that Tyne Daly could pass for Karen Carpenter's sister! 🎶🎤👩
To some, but the 40 lb. weight difference would throw most.
I love Brooke Bundy's 'Laugh' in this
Clearly Tyne Daly was underutilized. I understand it was a ensemble story, but she is just so damned good.
She did a couple of episodes of Quincy, M.E., That she ripped your heart out in. This was a lesser role for her.
So, would you rather switch her with Joan Blackman or Brooke Bundy?
Remember, Janet Leigh's iconic starring role in "Psycho" **** SPOILER ALERT **** who died decades before a natural death in the FIRST 30 MINUTES?
How many times have we heard: "Ms. Leigh was 'robbed' -- she should have had Vera Miles' part [which survives through the final reel]." Ed. - NEVER.
Tim McIntire fans, as impressed as they are with his work here, could have the same grievance as you do about Ms Daly.. But, who do you switch him with -- Scott Marlowe or Frank Converse?
The point is: this is an ensemble where one by one fine actors' and actresses' characters meet their demise long before 'fade-out' -- you know, like Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians".
Most importantly, MOST viewers are impressed with the story, setting, 'scares,' performances and direction -- resulting in a good time.
at 9:40 when Holly was in the studio and she says she knocked over a vase... you can see a prop person behind the table who knocks over the vase.
Beautiful colors on those jars, now I know what to ship to Nancy Pelosi for Christmas.
Hey crusty, you could buy those jars at the dollar store back in the day, they were very popular back then
Ty for posting. Liked and shared!
Thank You!
This episode reminds me of "Dont Be Afraid of the Dark"; the 1973 tv movie; with Kim Darby
I’m pretty sure that if I had seen this as a kid, I would’ve had nightmares.
I remember watching this as a youngster and almost keeching ma breeks at the ending bit...