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LOL, reminds me of when my sister and I were little, we weren't allowed to watch those kinds of shows but our parents would tell us about them - specifically, one episode where a portal opened in a wall in a little girl's bedroom, and she disappeared into it, and her dad had to rescue her before the portal closed. Gave us nightmares for YEARS! Way to go, Mom & Dad!
Good Lord - my sister had screaming nightmares for years from that very episode.
I only remember all the early TZ episodes and if I see them on TV now, every word and image comes back to me.
I do remember that "Alfred Hitchcock" was on after TZ, and it was vaguely interesting but even then, I knew that it was limited to murder and trickery and such, and no speculation about meaning and reality and WW2 issues and so forth. I found it far less interesting than TZ. Rod Serling was a treasure.
I agree with your assessment of Alfred Hitchcock but there was one episode that scared my nine-year old self to pieces. It was called "The Monkey's Paw (Claw?)". I never did see the end because when the paw wiggled in the gypsy-woman's hand, I skedaddled off to bed. Under the covers.
To the OP, my guess is you're thinking of The Outer Limits. The intro was so dramatic. Whenever my mother heard it she made us change the channel. We started turning it down so she would hear but got busted and I never got to watch it; probably a good thing, lol.
I had to go to bed at "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" time. Made me a lifelong devotee of suspense.
My very favorite was "Thriller" hosted by Boris Karloff. It was the only night of the week that I was home alone and by the time it was over I'd usually be frozen to the davenport with the blanket up to my ears waiting for the 'rents to get home.
Oh, scare me. Please, please scare me. What is that?
Stephen King's theory is that it makes our real lives feel all the more safe in comparison.
I remember my pre-teens yelling down from upstairs, "Mom! Come up here and scare us. We can't get scared by ourselves."
I have vague memories of a b&w grownup-oriented sci-fi TV show (not the Twilight Zone).
It aired around the early-to-mid-1960s, but perhaps was produced prior to that.
If I remember correctly, the stories mostly took place on earth, not in outer space.
As the end-credits music played, what was on the screen was a science-lab ventilation fan turning.
Can't recall much more than that, do these few clues ring a bell with anyone?
It would be fun to find the shows, but if nothing else I'd like get a title, so I could hunt for that theme music.
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