About this season
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
Episodes (15)
1. The Return of the Sorcerer
1.0Aired 24 September 1972 • 26 min
A sorcerer hires a translator to divine the meaning of an ancient Arabic manuscript that has some grisly connection with his twin brother's death.
2. The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
Aired 1 October 1972 • 26 min
A photographer hires a mysterious model whose eyes burn with a seductive, yet frightening, glow.
3. Rare Objects
Aired 22 October 1972 • 26 min
A gangster marked for death engages a specialist who guarantees him sanctuary, but at a precipitous cost.
4. Spectre in Tap-Shoes
Aired 29 October 1972 • 26 min
After witnessing her twin sister's suicide, a young woman begins to see and hear evidence of her continuing presence.
5. You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan / Smile Please
Aired 12 November 1972 • 26 min
A bungling inventor and his forgetful wife pool their ineptitude for an experiment in immortality. A vignette about a woman who tries to photograph a vampire.
6. The Other Way Out
1.0Aired 19 November 1972 • 26 min
Lured to a secluded house, a murderer is made to pay for his crimes by a cold and calculating avenger.
7. Fright Night
Aired 10 December 1972 • 26 min
Unseen terrors await a young couple who inherit a farmhouse.
8. Finnegan's Flight
Aired 17 December 1972 • 26 min
A prisoner for life yearning for freedom submits to a cellmate's experiments in mind over matter, with tragic results.
9. She'll Be Company for You
Aired 24 December 1972 • 26 min
After his invalid wife dies, a relieved widower finds himself under the watchful eye of a strangely menacing cat.
10. The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
Aired 7 January 1973 • 26 min
The new heavyweight champion of the world discovers that he has one more unscheduled bout before he can claim his title.
11. Something in the Woodwork
Aired 14 January 1973 • 26 min
A lonely alcoholic plots revenge against her ex-husband by calling on a reluctant ghost she finds in her attic.
12. Death on a Barge
2.0Aired 4 March 1973 • 26 min
A dockside merchant ignores the warnings of his friends when he falls desperately in love with a wraith-like young woman.
13. Whisper
Aired 13 May 1973 • 26 min
A young wife in a remote country house finds herself in thrall to strange and insistent voices of the dead.
14. The Doll of Death
Aired 20 May 1973 • 26 min
A spurned plantation owner in the British West Indies enlists the power of voodoo to avenge himself against a romantic rival.
15. Hatred unto Death / How to Cure the Common Vampire
Aired 27 May 1973 • 26 min
Blood memories surface when an anthropologist responds in kind to a captive gorilla's primeval hatred. Two men debate the best way to kill vampires.