# Top three horror TV episodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 16, 2022, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323 "2022-10-16T05:20:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323/21 "2022-10-17T02:24:16Z")
So this was done THREE times?? Two Alfred Hitchcocks and a Ray Bradbury Theatre. Also…what does Bradbury have against carnival sideshows? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323/22 "2022-10-17T13:32:31Z")
I just have to say that I love threads like this – lots of interesting mentions of things that I haven’t seen before, and that sound ideal just in time for Halloween! Keep 'em coming! 😱 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323/23 "2022-10-17T15:21:11Z")
On the flip side, you have The Simpsons’ _Treehouse of Horror_ episodes. The first ten years or so were almost brilliant. You sometimes get the feeling they kept making weekly episodes just so they could put all their “oomph” into the Hallowe’en stories. Mr. Burns: Hmm… that’s odd, usually the blood gets off at the second floor! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323/24 "2022-10-17T15:47:06Z")
I saw this when I was in college and it spooked the hell outta me. > **[The After Hours](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_After_Hours)** > > "The After Hours" is episode thirty-four of the American television anthology series, The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on June 10, 1960, on CBS. > Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store, carrying Miss Marsha White on a most prosaic, ordinary, run-of-the-mill errand. The opening narration involves Marsha White riding an elevator to the ninth floor. Then the rest of the narration is heard. > Miss Marsha White on the ninth floor, specialties department, looking for a gold thim... ---
**Author:** ![SlipperyPete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@SlipperyPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlipperyPete)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323/25 "2022-10-18T19:33:42Z")
Doctor Who – Blink – the original weeping angels episode. Angel statues that move (and kill) whenever you’re not looking directly at them. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323/26 "2022-10-29T01:07:08Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > **The Bent-Neck Lady** - You will need to watch the four previous episodes of Haunting of Hill House, but this episode is an all-time great. I’m getting there – just finished the second episode. So far it seems like a very good series and has apparently won awards, but it also seems like a complete departure from the Shirley Jackson book or the 1963 film which was very faithful to the book. That’s fine with me, but it’s odd seeing it billed as “based on the book by Shirley Jackson”. Indeed there is almost nothing in the first two episodes that resembles the book. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323/27 "2022-10-29T01:23:44Z")
A grave robbery goes poorly. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xvQQ55O2Uvk/hqdefault.jpg "DARK SHADOWS (TV SERIES) Barnabas Is Freed From His Coffin In 1967") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvQQ55O2Uvk) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323/28 "2022-10-29T01:36:49Z")
We felt like it really picked up around the fourth episode, to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323/29 "2022-10-29T02:04:47Z")
I’ll go with another Twilight Zone episode, _Twenty Two_. Watching Spock’s fiance saying “Room for one more, honey” still scares the crap out of me. Here’s the condensed version [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/96pYL_UaQDE/maxresdefault.jpg "The Twilight Zone Did It! - Episode 6 - "Final Destination" and "Twenty-Two"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96pYL_UaQDE) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323/30 "2022-10-30T23:29:27Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@Mahaloth](#): > > > > **The Bent-Neck Lady** - You will need to watch the four previous episodes of Haunting of Hill House, but this episode is an all-time great. > > I’m getting there – just finished the second episode. So far it seems like a very good series and has apparently won awards, but it also seems like a complete departure from the Shirley Jackson book or the 1963 film which was very faithful to the book. That’s fine with me, but it’s odd seeing it billed as “based on the book by Shirley Jackson”. Indeed there is almost nothing in the first two episodes that resembles the book. Just to add, I’ve now watched “The Bent-Neck Lady”, and it really is very well done and (if I may use the term) haunting. As an added bonus, I watched episodes 3, 4, and 5 in sequence last night, and by the time episode 5 started it was about 3 AM – a perfect time for one of the great episodes of an extraordinary horror series. For those interested in seeing it, I’d advise starting at the first episode and moving through sequentially. First of all the whole series is excellent, and secondly, it’s quite a complex plot, with shifts back and forth through different time periods, and you really need the background to understand and appreciate “The Bent-Neck Lady”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-three-horror-tv-episodes/973323.md?page=1)