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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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. : (
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 was married in 1973, the year this apparently came out. The rest of you commenters seem to have been children at most. 1973 wasn't really a great time. The truth is it was the beginning of the end. I have seen the entire picture unfold, from the mid forties whe I was born. It hasn't been a pretty picture, and its getting uglier all the time.
I was age 12 in 1973, so yes a child. Now down of the track from then and so much older I can understand what you mean. Kinda glad I've headed over the hill, I wouldn't want to be a young one in this day and age.
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....
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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 am making a huge assumption here but perhaps they were meant to be some sort of 'witch jar'. Originally used as protection against negative energies by absorbing and trapping them. Once they were place and activated they were not really suppose to be disturbed.
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.
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.
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."
This is a very Lovecraftian story, a bunch of arty types move into an old abandoned building, I'm writing a back story in my head, the shop was built upon the ruins of a pre-Incan type temple that housed / imprisoned ancient Gods that yearn to be free... Ia Ia!
But what does it MEAN? Actually, it had style. I suppose it was just a thing like a Mummy's curse, and it's always dramatic when beautiful people are made ugly.
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.
The contents of those jars are like opium. Everyone was giddy with delight in the beginning but after awhile they start getting sleazed out,lazy,no motivation then before you know it the landlords asking if the check is any good. All junkies leave you in the end and then you sort of crawl inside your own jar or wind up wearing the metal mask of shame....oh well.
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.
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!
The extremely creepy part was that each one virtually became a part of art and craft objects they were making. Had to complete each object before disappeared
+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.
Oh what perfect timing.... in the middle of this & a nasty storm is going on! The works! Update: I reached the end of it & came to the conclusion it is a bad LSD trip! Lol
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.
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!😢
Gives new meaning to the term "jar head".
Hey, watch it. 76-78 Jarhead here. Ha ha. Semper Fi
I hope my kombucha jars don't start doing that.
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
Someone must have been on acid when they wrote this~
Teleplay by D.C. Fontana of Star Trek fame.
Always the witchcraft...
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!
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.
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???????
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 😮
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.😕😢
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 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???
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?😊
Nothing like being absorbed in your work.
thats the only laugh i had from the entire show!
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.
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Me too ... Nice smile
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Love Tyne Daly! Great actor!
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
Ultra hip. All that's missing is a lava lamp and "Inscense and Peppermint" playing in the background.
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
I was married in 1973, the year this apparently came out. The rest of you commenters seem to have been children at most. 1973 wasn't really a great time. The truth is it was the beginning of the end. I have seen the entire picture unfold, from the mid forties whe I was born. It hasn't been a pretty picture, and its getting uglier all the time.
I was age 12 in 1973, so yes a child. Now down of the track from then and so much older I can understand what you mean. Kinda glad I've headed over the hill, I wouldn't want to be a young one in this day and age.
Hey Alan, I was 10 years old in 1973, I miss the 70s, everything back then was carefree and good times :-)
1973 tipping point year for sure. Watergate, oil crisis, end of post war prosperity....
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?.
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....
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.
1970s hippies are the equivalent of 1950s farmers who poke meteors with sticks.
"meteor shit!"
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.
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.
This used to be one of my favorite shows I can't wait to rediscover it ❤❤❤
What a creepy episode.someone was smoking something.haha
Oh my God, that was actually really weird and disturbing... *shudder*
I don't reckon there's cookies in them there jars... :0
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.
Well, at least they seem happy to be in the jars.
Where can I find that kind of jars? 😞
... I wanna be haPpy! 😆
Great episode but it really winds me up when people salt and pepper their food before tasting it. Yeah, I know, I need to get a life.
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.
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 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.
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
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
A VERY STRANGE ERRIE STORY BUT GOOD.
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!
"You're not going to get me ", falls into the Ivy.
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!
I must sleep but these are too exciting to watch ..
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.
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
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
I like the fact that the main characters aren’t kids. It’s refreshing. Thanks, these are great! :’
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.
One of the best episodes in an uneven series IMHO... very eerie.
I must admit, I didn't see THAT ending coming. Well done!
very freaky and scary :) , good theme with artists!
On no jive turkey i thought this was earth wind and fire 🔥the group well guess I'll boogie on down the line.
Lmao 😂
I had completely forgotten about this series ty for uploading I will enjoy these
Dorothy Fontana is one of my favorite Star Trek writers.
Yes! Glad someone else noticed!
This Episode gave me Nightmares the first time I'd seen it,at age 14!
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
Just does not have the charm of British Gothic Horror ,but fun to watch , bad music and plastic leaves did not help .
Thank you for posting these, somehow missed them as a youngster but am really enjoying them now :)
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
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!
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!
Nothing says ancient cursed jars than glass canisters with plastic seals. I used to have one of those canisters.
Love it! Verryy interesting, this one............
Weird one! Now that imdb disabled their message boards, there is no one to discuss what this episode was all about! Maybe you can explain it?
I am making a huge assumption here but perhaps they were meant to be some sort of 'witch jar'. Originally used as protection against negative energies by absorbing and trapping them. Once they were place and activated they were not really suppose to be disturbed.
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
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.
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.
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."
Always thought that Tyne Daly could pass for Karen Carpenter's sister! 🎶🎤👩
To some, but the 40 lb. weight difference would throw most.
This is a very Lovecraftian story, a bunch of arty types move into an old abandoned building, I'm writing a back story in my head, the shop was built upon the ruins of a pre-Incan type temple that housed / imprisoned ancient Gods that yearn to be free... Ia Ia!
****Spoiler alert***
Notice Frank Converse's sculpture has no head
I tell you one thing A. Alberts, that Frank Converse was one good looking man, that dude was HOTTTT!!!
But what does it MEAN? Actually, it had style. I suppose it was just a thing like a Mummy's curse, and it's always dramatic when beautiful people are made ugly.
same here....just a bunch of evil spirits, i guess.
Just imagine how much scarier that story would have been had this been a Night Gallery episode. 👻
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.
The contents of those jars are like opium. Everyone was giddy with delight in the beginning but after awhile they start getting sleazed out,lazy,no motivation then before you know it the landlords asking if the check is any good. All junkies leave you in the end and then you sort of crawl inside your own jar or wind up wearing the metal mask of shame....oh well.
I don't understand the ending, can someone please explain it to me?..........
As someone above explained, he couldn't end up in the jar because he broke his.
When he broke the jar the god was free and able to possess his body.
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.
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!
Anyone ever feel like your now able to find everything that you have spent years looking for, but now it's too late?
Frank Converse never seems to get much done on His sculpture.
And what is up with them plants moving? Is that Dog Wood?
his friends start disappearing one by one yet he's still there?
Bri G. Sam is condemned to walk (or prance) the earth as the monster from the jar because he broke his jar. Remember?
The extremely creepy part was that each one virtually became a part of art and craft objects they were making. Had to complete each object before disappeared
Can I have some of what their smoking .
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.
Oh what perfect timing.... in the middle of this & a nasty storm is going on! The works! Update: I reached the end of it & came to the conclusion it is a bad LSD trip! Lol
the fat dude with the glasses looks like Josh Gad. omg. if they do a remake, please cast him
The soundscape from the 70's is awesome...
Some of the music had the same orchestrations as Columbo.
Took me half-hour to figure out where I know Frank Converse from. Anne of Green Gables.
Really good episode, thanks
The ending's cool...it reminds me of The Masks episode of Twilight Zone
Soundtrack very like columbo
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.
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.
these shows were the greatest, they had all the stars of tv in them... why can't they do this again????
I love these old shows where you can practically predict the opening scene by the music. ♥️
Some of the music had the same orchestrations as Columbo.
Harlin Ellison!
Always was so good.
The creepy part is that they don't seem sad about it😕
None of them even realized anything was happening until to late do anything about it
50 dollars bed and board. God be with the days !