Does anyone remember the episode where some guy accidentally kills his wife and buries her in the shed and then she comes back to life and they show her hands coming up out of the ground ? That was horrifying for me being that I was only 6 or 7 =)
shareNot counting the Pilot Episode, this would be the first episode. It was call "The Dead We Leave Behind.
Synopsis:
Ranger Elliot Brent has just purchased a TV set for his wife Joanna, a TV set that can predict the future. The TV begins showing images of Joanna being unfaithful and in a rage Elliot kills & buries her. One stormy night who should appear but Joanna’s lover, so Elliot kills and buries him too. He seems to go completely insane when the TV shows images of the corpses rising from their shallow graves and approaching the house!
I saw that episode too. I was about 7 or 8 in 1972 and I had the same reaction. My grandparents (which happens to be where I saw this show)had a garage with a dirt floor. I was scared to go in there in the dark for years thinking that someone weould rise from the ground. I have been trying to figure out what show this was for a decade. Thanks!
shareSame here, I was about 9 when that episode aired, and made a similar impression on me.
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I was also 9 years old, and "The Dead We Leave Behind" was the first episode I saw of the show. I was scared, and instantly HOOKED after that. I was so sad when it was cancelled a year later.
I would say that it was probably one of the scariest. Another one that scared me was "Dark Vengence" (Circle of Fear). Although, watching that one now, it seems a little silly.
Still, the atmosphere in ALL of these episodes was so eerie. An atmosphere that was indigenous to scary movies made in the early & mid 70's.
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I was also 7 years old and would hide under the living room couch to watch the shows. And yes, this was one of the scariest shows ever. Never forgot this episode, in particular: her hand coming up through the sandy floor as he watched on the television....It has stayed with me for forty years. That's a good thriller. Still gives me chills.
shareI had nightmares about the "lightning man" in "The Concrete Captain" episode for years when I was a kid. I guess I was about 5 when I saw it. For years I remembered details of that show but never knew what the name of the show was, or if it was from a movie, or what. And I didn't know where to look it up because this was before the internet. Anyway, I almost decided I'd dreamed the whole "concrete captain" thing... until one day I was watching an old TV channel called The Nostalgia Channel, and they said Circle of Fear was next. I like horror stuff, so I decided to start recording it in case it was something good... and damn if it wasn't "The Concrete Captain." That was really surreal, just happening across something on TV that I thought I'd dreamed years before.
Anyway, that episode's not terribly scary now, but when I was a kid it was a major deal, and haunted me for decades.
I've since tracked down the short story by Elizabeth Walter, which oddly has almost no similarity with the TV episode.
I was terrified by this episode also. I was 12.
shareEarth, Air, Fire, and Water I still think of this episode often, the dialogue
from it and the wonderful actors who were in it.
Agreed. Creepiest episodes for me are "The Dead We Leave Behind"; "Legion of Demons"; "House of Evil"; "Earth, Air, Fire and Water" and "Creatures of the Canyon."
shareOh yes, this episode terrified me! I was seven and it really got to me. Over the years I always remembered the hands coming up from the graves in the shed, but over time I forgot what show it was. (I have several of those mystery movie memories.) About 5 years ago I bought this series hoping it might solve one of those memories. Lo and behold, there it was! It still holds up today.
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