Season 2

1971 · 22 episodes · 18h 42m in all · 8.5/10

1. The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes / Miss Lovecraft Sent Me / The Hand of Borgus Weems / Phantom of What Opera?
15 Sept 1971 · 51 min · 8.3/10
A phenomenally successful young seer suddenly refuses to make further predictions. A vignette about a babysitter and her latest client. A desperate man seeks a surgeon's help when he discovers a presence that controls his right hand. The Phantom of the Opera gets the shock of his life when he menaces a beautiful young singer.
2. A Death in the Family / The Merciful / Class of '99 / Witches' Feast
22 Sept 1971 · 51 min · 8.0/10
Taking refuge in a funeral home, a wounded killer encounters a gentle undertaker with a strange secret. Bricks and mortar figure in a wife's plan to end her husband's suffering. A graduating class of the future takes a particularly revealing final exam. An employment agency official has difficulty trying to fill a position for an extremely particular customer.
3. Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay / With Apologies to Mr. Hyde / The Flip-Side of Satan
29 Sept 1971 · 51 min · 7.5/10
A college professor suspects that his visiting aunt is an ancient witch--with designs on inhabiting his wife's body. Dr. Jekyll tries out a new potion. A callous disc jockey is offered up as a hellish sacrifice at a deserted radio station.
4. A Fear of Spiders / Junior / Marmalade Wine / The Academy
6 Oct 1971 · 51 min · 7.5/10
An arachnophobic gourmet columnist seeks help from a woman he spurned when he discovers a hairy, and obstinate, little guest crawling in his kitchen sink. A mother and father learn the hardships of parenting. A careless braggart foolishly exaggerates his meager talents to a crackpot surgeon. A widower investigates an unusually strict military academy for his delinquent son.
5. The Phantom Farmhouse / Silent Snow, Secret Snow
20 Oct 1971 · 51 min · 7.5/10
A psychiatrist finds himself falling for a mysterious woman whose last visitor was killed, so police conclude, by wild animals. A boy's fascination with snow begins to draw him into a beautiful fantasy world.
6. A Question of Fear / The Devil Is Not Mocked
27 Oct 1971 · 51 min · 7.3/10
An intrepid mercenary accepts a $15,000 bet to stay overnight in a haunted house. A Nazi general hunting for resistance fighters gets a strangely warm welcome at a Balkan castle.
7. Midnight Never Ends / Brenda
3 Nov 1971 · 51 min · 10.0/10
A motorist and a marine hitchhiker experience an uncanny sensation that they've shared previous experiences. A love story about a friendless teenager and the strange creature she traps in an abandoned quarry.
8. The Diary / A Matter of Semantics / Big Surprise / Professor Peabody's Last Lecture
10 Nov 1971 · 51 min · 10.0/10
A vicious gossip columnist receives a gift diary that appears to write its own fearful entries--before the events occur. Count Dracula visits a blood bank. An eccentric farmer promises a "big surprise" to a group of boys if they dig for it. While debunking ancient cults, an academic unwisely scoffs at the wrong god.
9. House, with Ghost / A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank / Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator / Hell's Bells
17 Nov 1971 · 51 min · 10.0/10
A philandering husband schemes to murder his wife with the aid of a ghost. A thirsty vampire visits a young woman, with disappointing results for him. An unscrupulous medicine man in the Old West promises to heal a poor farmer's dying daughter. A recent initiate is surprised to find that Hell is a little tame for his liking.
10. The Dark Boy / Keep in Touch, We'll Think of Something
24 Nov 1971 · 51 min · 10.0/10
A schoolteacher in a frontier town tries to reach a timid, hauntingly strange fourth grader. A distraught musician asks the police to help him find an elusive woman.
11. Pickman's Model / The Dear Departed / An Act of Chivalry
1 Dec 1971 · 51 min · 7.5/10
A young woman of Victorian Boston finds herself drawn to a reclusive artist obsessed with ghouls. Bad luck follows a phony spiritualist and his assistant's unfaithful wife after an auto accident. A vignette about elevator manners.
12. Cool Air / Camera Obscura / Quoth the Raven
8 Dec 1971 · 51 min · 9.0/10
A haunting love story of a young woman and her late father's colleague, a man clinging desperately to life in a refrigerated apartment. A heartless moneylender gets his just desserts with the help of a client's unusual telescopic device. Edgar Allan Poe receives some unwanted coaching during a bout with writer's block.
13. The Messiah on Mott Street / The Painted Mirror
15 Dec 1971 · 51 min · 8.5/10
Desperate to stay alive for the sake of his nine-year-old grandson, an elderly, near-penniless Jew on the brink of death pins his hopes for salvation on the coming of the Messiah. A mirror reflecting an alien landscape figures into an antique dealer's scheme to rid himself of a hateful business partner.
14. The Different Ones / Tell David... / Logoda's Heads
29 Dec 1971 · 51 min · 10.0/10
In a rigidly conformist future society, an anguished father agrees to send his deformed son to a distant planet. A chance encounter with a strange couple convinces a young woman that she has had a glimpse of the future. Searching for a lost explorer in Africa, British authorities accuse a powerful witch doctor of his murder.
15. Green Fingers / The Funeral / The Tune in Dan's Cafe
5 Jan 1972 · 51 min · 5.0/10
An unscrupulous tycoon takes drastic steps to force an old widow off her land. A vampire plans his belated, lavish -and noisy-final obsequy. A couple stopping at a roadside diner encounter a jukebox that plays only one song, a tune connected with a tragic romance.
16. Lindemann's Catch / The Late Mr. Peddington / A Feast of Blood
12 Jan 1972 · 51 min · 10.0/10
A captured mermaid awakens emotions in a coldhearted sea captain, who desperately seeks a way to keep her alive. A businesslike widow goes shopping for the cheapest funeral she can buy for her husband. A repulsive suitor evens the score with a calculating beauty by presenting her with an unusual gift: a brooch that seems almost alive.
17. The Miracle at Camafeo / The Ghost of Sorworth Place
19 Jan 1972 · 51 min · 10.0/10
An insurance swindler stages a miraculous recovery from his fake paralysis at a Mexican shrine. An American drifter protects a Scottish widow from the specter of her late husband.
18. The Waiting Room / Last Rites for a Dead Druid
26 Jan 1972 · 51 min · 10.0/10
A gunfighter's final reckoning awaits him in a frontier saloon. When a woman buys a statue bearing an uncanny resemblance to her husband, he soon feels the influence of its model: an ancient druid sorcerer.
19. Deliveries in the Rear / Stop Killing Me / Dead Weight
9 Feb 1972 · 51 min · 10.0/10
A ghastly shocker about a surgery instructor unconcerned about the source of his cadavers. Convinced that her husband is trying to worry her to death, a distraught housewife files a complaint with the police. A gangster on the lam engages the services of a compliant exporter.
20. I'll Never Leave You - Ever / There Aren't Any More MacBanes
16 Feb 1972 · 51 min · 4.0/10
The wife of a loathsomely ill farmer decides to force nature's hand with the help of an old crone skilled in the black arts. A sorcery student invokes an ancient spirit to rid himself of a bothersome uncle.
21. The Sins of the Fathers / You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore
23 Feb 1972 · 51 min · 8.0/10
A devastating famine forces a young man to play the part of a sin-eater at a dead man's wake. An abusive couple find that their latest robot maid is developing survival instincts.
22. The Caterpillar / Little Girl Lost
1 Mar 1972 · 51 min · 9.5/10
A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice, an earwig, in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival. Military strategists unwittingly plant the seeds of the apocalypse when they humor a scientific genius unbalanced by his daughter's death.