Anthology Television Part 2

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Continuing on with our essay,  we present -  Vintage Screams: Anthology Television Part 2. If you missed the first part you can access Vintage Screams: Anthology Television Part 1 directly here.

DARKROOM aired from 1981 to 1982, each hour-long episode featuring two or more stories of varying length hosted by actor James Coburn. Starring Steve Allen, David Carradine, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, June Lockhart and Esther Rolle, in stories of suspense and terror which … Continue reading

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Anthology Television Part 1

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An anthology television series is a program that presents a different story with a different set of characters in each episode. These normally have different actors each week but some employed a permanent ensemble of actors who would appear in a different drama each week (like Four Star Playhouse). Others would have different actors and stories set in the same ‘shared world’ (like Welcome To Paradox). Many anthology shows would have a … Continue reading

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Rare British Television (part 2)

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Come the seventies and the imbedding of colour television, through the eighties and the viral spread of home video, such one-off plays have not been so difficult to find, although fewer one-off television plays were being produced than during the first two decades of television. Although there is so much more material now available on DVD, there are nevertheless many eighties video releases that have yet to find distribution on DVD, and … Continue reading

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Rare British Television (part 1)

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There’s an old adage that says “Television is a medium, as it is neither rare nor well-done.” But this hasn’t always been the case. Long before The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, Britain was producing fantastic television written and produced specifically for adult audiences. Many of these English productions were one-off single plays, often performed live. You may notice that nuclear holocaust becomes a recurring theme, almost to obsession. Not only … Continue reading

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