# What was this fantasy/horror anthology series?
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**Created:** [June 19, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-fantasy-horror-anthology-series/1019861 "2025-06-19T19:17:44Z")
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-fantasy-horror-anthology-series/1019861/1 "2025-06-19T19:17:44Z")
The only episode I remember was one wherein a woman had a lover who would turn into a cat. I think the cat guy betrayed her, so while he was in cat form, she took him to the vet to get fixed.
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### Author:  [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-fantasy-horror-anthology-series/1019861/2 "2025-06-19T19:30:45Z")
I have to credit ChatGPT for recognizing this.
_Twilight Zone_ (Series 2 from the 1980s). Season 3 episode 24 “Cat and Mouse”.
I found a review that summarizes the plot.
> **[Twilight Zone – Cat and Mouse (03/04/89)](https://genresnaps.com/twilight-zone-cat-and-mouse-03-04-89/)**
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> The title is clever, referring to a tom-cat of a man and a mousey young woman. Unfortunately, it sets up an expectation for an episode of suspense and thrills. This is not that, and that is not t…
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-fantasy-horror-anthology-series/1019861/3 "2025-06-19T19:38:41Z")
> [@gnoitall](#):
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> _Twilight Zone_ (Series 2 from the 1980s). Season 3 episode 24 “Cat and Mouse”.
I knew I’d seen it, but I checked everything BUT TZ because I was sure the OP would have known it was TZ.
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-fantasy-horror-anthology-series/1019861/4 "2025-06-19T19:42:03Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> I was sure the OP would have known it was TZ.
I figured it was one of those also-ran fantasy series.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-fantasy-horror-anthology-series/1019861/5 "2025-06-19T19:46:15Z")
I think I watched them all
Amazing Stories (A-snoozing I called it)
Ray Bradbury Theater
Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected (has a very good version of Man From The South)
Night Gallery
Tales From the Darkside
Plus, the one responsible for Cat and Mouse
The New Twilight Zone (still my favorite incarnation)
But not Tales From The Crypt. I never got that one.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-fantasy-horror-anthology-series/1019861/6 "2025-06-19T19:55:37Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> Tales From the Darkside
Season 1, episode 10 of _Tales From The Darkside_ featured one of my favorite little Harlan Ellison stories, “Djinn, No Chaser”.
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-fantasy-horror-anthology-series/1019861/7 "2025-06-20T03:17:36Z")
No Outer Limits?
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-fantasy-horror-anthology-series/1019861/8 "2025-06-20T14:04:27Z")
I am too young for first run, and we didn’t get too many episodes in syndication (or my folks thought I shouldn’t watch “that crap”.). But oh my the ones I did see, I remember! The Zanti Misfits (shudder!), It Crawled out of the Woodwork, The invisible Enemy. I heard the show wes poor overall, but those episodes stick with me 60 years later.
Plus I get a kick out of seeing Vic Perrin doing regular acting, like in Adam-12. The voice doesn’t match the look.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-fantasy-horror-anthology-series/1019861/9 "2025-06-20T15:42:21Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> I think I watched them all
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> Amazing Stories (A-snoozing I called it)
> Ray Bradbury Theater
> Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected (has a very good version of Man From The South)
> Night Gallery
> Tales From the Darkside
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> Plus, the one responsible for Cat and Mouse
> The New Twilight Zone (still my favorite incarnation)
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> But not Tales From The Crypt. I never got that one.
Have you seen
- Masters of Horror
- The outer limits
- Black Mirror
- Into the dark
- American horror stories (stories, not story)