List of Ghost Story episodes
Ghost Story (later titled Circle of Fear) is a television anthology series that aired on NBC. The one-hour pilot episode of the show was broadcast on March 17, 1972 as part of a Friday night double feature.[1] NBC picked up Ghost Story for a full season; the premiere was broadcast on September 15.[2] After 13 episodes, the program was renamed Circle of Fear beginning with the January 5, 1973 episode.[3] The series lasted an additional nine episodes before being cancelled. The final new episode was broadcast on March 30, 1973.[4]
The series originally involved supernatural beings such as ghosts, vampires, and witches.[3] Each episode of Ghost Story featured Sebastian Cabot as host in the role of Winston Essex, owner of an eerie hotel.[2] When the series was retitled Circle of Fear, Cabot's character was dropped and the show attempted to remain suspenseful while focusing less on the occult.[3]
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Season premiere | Season finale | DVD release date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region 1 | Notes | |||||
| 1 | 22 | September 15, 1972 | March 30, 1973 | May 1, 2012[5] | Pilot episode included on DVD; titled Ghost Story (a.k.a. Circle of Fear) - The Complete Series | |
Episode list
Pilot
| Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The New House" | John Llewellyn Moxey | Richard Matheson | March 17, 1972 | |
| A young family purchases a house that is standing on a site where an innocent woman was unjustly hanged. The woman's spirit eventually takes over the family's newborn daughter. | ||||
Ghost Story episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Dead We Leave Behind" | Paul Stanley | Robert Specht | September 15, 1972 |
| A forest ranger (Jason Robards) and his wife (Stella Stevens) have a television that can predict the future, including the wife's accidental death. | ||||
| 2 | "The Concrete Captain" | Richard Donner | Teleplay: Jimmy Sangster Story: Elizabeth Walter | September 22, 1972 |
| The spirit of a dead sea captain buried in concrete on the seashore haunts two tourists (Gena Rowlands, Stuart Whitman). | ||||
| 3 | "At the Cradle Foot" | Don McDougall | Anthony Lawrence | September 29, 1972 |
| A father (James Franciscus) learns that changing events because he dreams that his daughter is murdered twenty years later makes things even worse. | ||||
| 4 | "Bad Connection" | Walter Doniger | John McGreevey | October 6, 1972 |
| A young widow (Karen Black) receives warnings from her dead husband over the telephone. | ||||
| 5 | "The Summer House" | Leo Penn | Seeleg Lester | October 13, 1972 |
| A woman (Carolyn Jones) is trapped in a strange world between reality and nightmare—a vacation home possessed of its own malevolent personality. | ||||
| 6 | "Alter-Ego" | David Lowell Rich | Teleplay: Stanley Ellin Story: D. C. Fontana | October 27, 1972 |
| Robert, a bored, ill boy stuck in a wheelchair, creates his own double. Robert soon loses control of the evil doppelgänger, who grows stronger as Robert grows weaker. Helen Hayes guest stars. | ||||
| 7 | "Half a Death" | Leslie H. Martinson | Henry Slesar | November 3, 1972 |
| Christina (Pamela Franklin) is a young woman distressed to learn of the death of her twin sister Lisa, whose spirit begins to haunt Christina. | ||||
| 8 | "House of Evil" | Daryl Duke | Robert Bloch | November 10, 1972 |
| A deaf-mute girl (Jodie Foster) has telekinetic powers along with her evil grandfather (Melvyn Douglas), who uses the child as a pawn in his quest for revenge against his family. | ||||
| 9 | "Cry of the Cat" | Arnold Laven | William Bast | November 24, 1972 |
| Rodeo cowboy Dan Hollis (Doug McClure) is delighted about his new marriage to the beautiful Mariah (Lauri Peters). When a cougar brutally attacks a bull that had thrown and trampled Dan in the arena, Dan's stallion, and his former girlfriend, the other cowboys suspect that the legendary cat "Big Red" has returned while Mariah fears that she's possessed. | ||||
| 10 | "Elegy for a Vampire" | Don McDougall | Mark Weingart & Elizabeth Walter | December 1, 1972 |
| A college professor (Hal Linden) becomes a vampire and preys on his female students. | ||||
| 11 | "Touch of Madness" | Robert Day | Halsted Welles | December 8, 1972 |
| A young woman (Lynn Loring) inherits a house after her mother dies in a mental institution. Her aunt (Geraldine Page) and uncle (Rip Torn) welcome her warmly, but neither they nor the house are not what they seem. | ||||
| 12 | "Creatures of the Canyon" | Walter Doniger | Del Reisman | December 15, 1972 |
| A woman (Angie Dickinson) is troubled by a dog which turns vicious after its master dies. | ||||
| 13 | "Time of Terror" | Robert Day | Jimmy Sangster | December 22, 1972 |
| Ellen (Patricia Neal) wakes up alone in a hotel room with no sign of her husband, Harry. She learns at the front desk that he has checked out without her, and further inquiries lead her to a man (Craig Stevens) who helps her discover really happened to Harry. | ||||
Circle of Fear episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | "Death's Head" | James Neilson | Rick Blum | January 5, 1973 |
| Carol (Janet Leigh), the wife of a lawyer and devout entomologist (Gene Nelson), dislikes insects and has eyes for her husband's partner (Rory Calhoun). She is susceptible when she meets a gypsy with a potion to offer, and after her husband's "heart attack" she figures to take up with the lawyer friend—until the legend of the Death's Head moth begins to come true. | ||||
| 15 | "Dark Vengeance" | Herschel Daugherty | Peter L. Dixon | January 12, 1973 |
| A construction worker (Martin Sheen) unearths a curious box, takes it home and opens it. His wife (Kim Darby) begins to be terrorized by the object it contains: a toy wooden horse that grows into something more. | ||||
| 16 | "Earth, Air, Fire and Water" | Alexander Singer | Harlan Ellison & D. C. Fontana | January 19, 1973 |
| Six young artists discover ancient, mysterious bottles in a warehouse which wield an abnormal influence over them. | ||||
| 17 | "Doorway to Death" | Daryl Duke | Jimmy Sangster | January 26, 1973 |
| When a family moves into a new apartment in San Francisco, young Robert (Leif Garrett) starts exploring and discovers an empty apartment upstairs. He opens a door that leads to a cabin in the woods, and sees a wood-chopping man who beckons to him. Robert brings his younger sister (Dawn Lyn) to meet the man upstairs, the spirit of an ax murderer who expresses an interest in meeting their older sister, Peggy (Susan Dey). | ||||
| 18 | "Legion of Demons" | Paul Stanley | Anthony Lawrence | February 2, 1973 |
| A young secretary (Shirley Knight) from a small town joins her more experienced friend in the city only to be baffled by the office's witch-like happenings. | ||||
| 19 | "The Graveyard Shift" | Don McDougall | Mann Rubin | February 16, 1973 |
| The unborn child of a couple (John Astin, Patty Duke) appears to be threatened by ghosts from an old horror picture studio. | ||||
| 20 | "Spare Parts" | Charles Dubin | Jimmy Sangster, Seeleg Lester, Paul Mason | February 23, 1973 |
| A transplant specialist (Don Knight) dies prematurely but donates his eyes, hands, and voice to three patients, all of whom suddenly take on his characteristics and seek vengeance on the his widow (Susan Oliver), who he believes murdered him. | ||||
| 21 | "The Ghost of Potter's Field" | Don McDougall | Bill S. Ballinger | March 23, 1973 |
| A magazine journalist (Tab Hunter) is almost destroyed by his doppelgänger until he finds out the true identity of a hit man (Darwin Joston) buried in a potter's field. | ||||
| 22 | "The Phantom of Herald Square" | James H. Brown | Seeleg Lester, Jimmy Sangster, Ed DeBlasio | March 30, 1973 |
| Holly (Sheila Larken) is charmed by James (David Soul) and begins seeing him, but as soon as she does, she finds herself terrorized by an old man (Victor Jory). As her relationship with James grows, she is surprised to discover the connection between James and the old man. | ||||
References
- ↑ Buck, Jerry (1972-03-01). "Television Shows on Supernatural Lure Viewers; More Due Next Season". The Telegraph. p. 26.
- 1 2 "Brian Keith, Sebastian Cabot Back in 2 New Series". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 1972-09-15. p. 10.
- 1 2 3 Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present (9 ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 533. ISBN 978-0345497734.
- ↑ Clute, John; Grant, John (1999). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 408. ISBN 978-0312198695.
- ↑ Lambert, David (2012-03-26). "'Ghost Story' - The Show Also Known as 'Circle of Fear' is Getting a 'Complete' Release!". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
External links
- List of Ghost Story episodes at the Internet Movie Database
- List of Ghost Story episodes at TV.com
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