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Episode Title
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Good
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Fair
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Bad
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The New House
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X
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The Dead We Leave
Behind
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X
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The Concrete
Captain
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X
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At the Cradle
Foot
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X
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Bad Connection
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X
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The Summer House
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X
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Alter Ego
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X
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Half-a-Death
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X
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House of Evil
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X
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Cry of the Cat
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X
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Elegy for a
Vampire
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X
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Touch of Madness
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X
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Creature of the
Canyon
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X
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Time of Terror
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X
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Death’s Head
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X
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Dark Vengeance
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X
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Earth, Air, Fire
and Water
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X
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Doorway to Death
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X
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Legion of Demons
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X
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The Graveyard
Shift
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X
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Spare Parts
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X
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The Ghost of
Potter’s Field
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X
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The Phantom of
Herald Square
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X
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Here’s
my final tally quality for Ghost Story/Circle of Fear. Although the horror anthology series started out as relatively
weak, it finished relatively strong. Overall, eleven episodes out of twenty-three
I would rate as good or great, which is a strong tally for a series.
The best
episodes -- and ones I highly recommend -- are:
“The
Dead We Leave Behind” (w/Jason Robards)
“Alter
Ego” (w/Helen Hayes)
“House
of Evil” (w/Jodie Foster)
“Time of
Terror” w/Patricia Neal)
“Earth,
Air, Fire and Water”
“The
Graveyard Shift” (w/John Astin)
“Legion
of Demons” (w/Shirley Knight)
“The
Phantom of Herald Square” (w/David Soul)
I must
confess, I am pleasantly surprised how well so many of these episodes hold up
after forty years. Also, the series
improved radically once Sebastian Cabot’s Winston Essex and Mansfield House
were jettisoned from the format and the program became Circle of Fear.
If you can only watch three episodes, my top episodes would include "Alter Ego," "House of Evil," and "Earth, Air, Fire and Water."
John the final tally for Ghost Story/Circle of Fear episodes was insightful. Your reviews brought back good memories of my young boyhood watching both this anthology series and The Night Gallery during their early '70s first-run on the networks.
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Love the tally graph! A lot of the early 'Ghost Story' episodes are on youtube, but not all. Thank you!
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