"Person Unknown" (season 3, episode 20).
Watching that mean military guy get choked by an invisible assailant (the Aztec warrior), Newland's interview with the witness and that death mask clinch it for me.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0507800/
Going by the First season only, I would say 'The Dead Part Of The House' was the best; good acting and story.
shareI just saw The Dead Part Of The House today. I didn't really think that it was scary. A bit sad, but it had a great ending. I was touched by it.
It sort of reminded me of that Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode, Where The Woodbine Twineth. The little girl who went to stay with her aunt after her parents had died.
Both episodes had the same feel to it.
wasn't scary, the ghost was friendly
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I saw that episode last night and it really creeped me out too.
I was afraid to look into a mirror, lol.
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The Clown.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
Hewwo.
The Clown, mentioned by others, is up there for me.
I find The Last Round always gets to me for some reason.
"The Clown". And also what seems to be a lost episode inwhich a woman dreams her husband is trapped inside a box. The husband assures her it's nothing to be concerned about, then goes away on business to an empty house which has an elevator. When he steps inside the elevator it stops, trapping him between floors. The place is remote and he's not expected home for weeks, and so the episode ends with him screaming for help that will never arrive, just like in his wife's dream.
*shudder*
Called "The Villa", original air date 6/6/1961.
The scariest one for me is "Premonition". The young girl has a vision of a hugh chandelier falling on her while she dances beneath it. Her vision comes true two generations later when it falls on her granddaughter and namesake. But the way it's filmed, much of it from the vantage point of the chandelier, even through it, looking at the people below. The chandelier becomes almost like a living thing, watching and waiting to pounce on it's prey.
A heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beatin' just the same.
Called "The Villa", original air date 6/6/1961.
A group of Britons are holidaying at an Italian villa where young medical student Tony Hudson hypnotizes his friend's wife, Mary Low. Whilst in a trance Mary becomes hysterical, claiming that she can sense a young woman trapped in a lift, and efforts are made to locate the woman.
I saw this episode once.....eons ago.
As best as I recall..........
A husband and wife are on vacation in Europe.
(Their marriage is shaky due to husband's womanizing.)
While at a party, the woman looks into what appears to be an old-style kine-scope machine.
The young men who encourage her to check it out say that different people see different things.
(Though we don't see what they see, it sounds as if it's nothing more than a harmless parlor-trick....flashing lights and patterns......nothing supernatural.)
But she sees a vision of her husband (or a man) trapped in a cage, and she freaks out.
The young men are apologetic.
Her husband thinks she's being dramatic.
Later, while traveling, she sees the same location she'd seen in her vision....a villa.
The manager informs her that the villa will be closing for the season, but she insists on looking around.
The manager agrees to give her a quick tour.
She reluctantly rides the elevator (a cage-style elevator) with the manager to the top floor, but she refuses to get back on that elevator.
They both to walk back down.
(I think the manager also mentions how the elevator is old, and it gets stuck now & then....)
Back at the hotel, she tells her husband she's found the place she'd seen in her vision.
She shows him some brochures, but he's not interested.
He tells her he's leaving her for another woman, and then he leaves.
Heartbroken, she decides to pack her bags and return home alone.
Later that evening, the husband returns to the hotel, looking for his wife.
He sees the brochures for the villa.
He drives to the now-empty villa and looks for his wife.
Alone at the villa, he takes the stairs to the top, looks around for his wife, then decides to leave.
He gets onto the elevator (still at the top floor from earlier that day) and it descends a few feet before shutting down.
...........and the villa is closed for the season..........
The episode ends with a shot of the villa in darkness......the man screaming for his life.
This episode creeped me out for weeks when I saw it.
I don't remember the part about the kine-scope machine, but otherwise that sure sounds like the one I saw. And this was definitely a "One Step Beyond" episode, msmith40?
shareI only saw this episode once, back in the early 1970's.....so my memory might not be 100%. But it was definitely 'One Step Beyond'. I just now remembered that (at the end of that episode) John Newland made some reference to what the villa staff found when they re-opened the following season.
Like I said.......it was more than 40 years ago.......here's how I recall it:
That episode was set in the present-day (for that time.....late 1950's/early 1960's) and the wife & husband were at a party/social event. There were some young men gathered around the device, which resembled an old-style 'peepshow' kine-scope machine. They were going on about the bizarre images one would see when looking in the device. They coax the woman to take a look. The woman looks in, begins screaming, and faints. But I don't recall that we ever see what they're seeing in the machine.
I can't be 100% positive that she specifically said she saw a man trapped in an elevator......I don't recall that she gave much detail about what she saw. Basically, she saw someone trapped and unable to free themselves.
But I'm sure she must have seen the villa in her vision, because she spots it from the car she's later traveling in. I also recall that she reacts when she goes inside and sees the same elevator/cage she'd seen in her vision. She's very reluctant to get onto the elevator, and only does so at the urging of the villa caretaker. She refuses to get back on and chooses to walk all the way down to the ground floor, much to the caretaker's annoyance.
Again, that final scene of the husband screaming in the dark and shaking the elevator cage stayed with me for a long time. When he got onto the elevator, closed the cage, hit the 'down' button, and it stopped between floors......I remember thinking: *beep*
I found this online:
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Future "Phantom of the Opera" star Michael Crawford) appears in this episode as Tony Hudson, a young medical student who conducts an after-dinner experiment by hypnotizing Mary Low (Elizabeth Sellars), wife of his best friend Jim Low (Geoffrey Toone). While under Tony's spell, Mary sees and hears a woman trapped in an elevator, and becomes hysterical. Now the only way that Mary can preserve her sanity is to locate that mysterious elevator--and the woman inside. This is one of several One Step Beyond episodes filmed in England.
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.....found this one, too....
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A group of Britons are holidaying at an Italian villa where young medical student Tony Hudson hypnotizes his friend's wife, Mary Low. Whilst in a trance Mary becomes hysterical, claiming that she can sense a young woman trapped in a lift, and efforts are made to locate the woman.
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(I would love to see this episode again just to determine how good my memory is.)
Again, that final scene of the husband screaming in the dark and shaking the elevator cage stayed with me for a long time. When he got onto the elevator, closed the cage, hit the 'down' button, and it stopped between floors......I remember thinking: *beep*
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One more thing.............
That final scene of the husband screaming in the dark and shaking the elevator cage.....when he got onto the elevator, closed the cage, hit the 'down' button, and it stopped between floors....and he realized he was trapped....
.............this began playing............
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWg1a5ybyE
Yes, Harry Lubin's music is quite effective in this series, and in particular the theme ("Fear") that plays whenever Newland introduces an episode.
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That sounds very like the Roald Dahl story The Way Up To Heaven, which was filmed as part of the Tales Of The Unexpected series.
Hi. That one is called "The Villa". Very scary.
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