Horror shows (1946-1993)

"Lights Out" was a US narrated horror short story series.

Live plays featuring people who were in dangerous and threatening situations.

"Tales of Tomorrow" was a hosted science fiction anthology series running from 1951 until 1953.

Follows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.

TV comedy anthology series

A daily anthology show, featuring original material, as well as adaptations of literary classics.

Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.

Offers three minute plus eerie tales. Peter Williams narrates.

A short-lived anthology series narrated by Westbrook Van Voorhis. Each episode tells its own thriller story and featured its own unique cast.

A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.

"Target" was a 30-minute US television horror and suspense anthology series produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc. for first-run syndication.

An anthology series that appeared twice a week initially. Each episode was a short play covering the inexplicable, the supernatural, the occult or science fiction. Each episode had it's own writer, director, and actors.

An anthology of horror stories hosted by actor Boris Karloff.

"13 Demon Street" was a horror anthology series, set at decaying 13 Demon Street where the host, an unnerving Lon Chaney Jr., opened and closed each episode.

An anthology of three Edgar Allan Poe stories - "The Case of Mr. Valdemar", "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".

A collection of tales about paranormal events, horrifying folklore, and the world of the unknown.

A TV series of five plays, all adapted from the stories of W.W. Jacobs.

Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.

Hard-driven scientist David Whittaker finds himself battling for the survival of the world against a disease spreading from a tropical island caused by a legendary spider-goddess.

Anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff that originally told ordinary tales of crime and mystery, but later became a showcase for gothic horror stories, many of which were based on works by authors such as Cornell Woolrich , Robert Bloch, and Charlotte Armstrong.

The last regularly scheduled television series to be broadcast live in the U.S. was hosted by Frank Gallop, and featured dramatizations of ghost stories and other tales of the supernatural, many of which were adapted from stories by famous authors like Conrad Aiken and Edgar Allan Poe.

Supernatural drama series adapted from the short stories of Algernon Blackwood.