Name an episode of a TV show, (doesn't matter how old,) that still scares the crap out of you...

[Archae]

From the older "Outer Limits," the episode "It Crawled Out OF The Woodwork."
Scared the shit out me back when I was a kid, and still does!

[Proud liberal 80]

1. All of Unsolved Mysteries

Even the ones that weren’t even supposed to scary (like the missing loved ones) were scary.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Twilight Zone, "It's a Cookbook" episode.

I first saw it when I was about 8 yrs old and it scared the crapola out of me.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. I think the title is "To Serve Man"

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yes you are right, "To serve man" is the correct title. Thanks!

[lastlib]

41. There was a TZ episode with Telly Savalas

where his daughter's doll starts talking to him--and he cannot kill it, no matter what he does. He took a power saw to cut off its head, and only grinds the blade down, no cut. That doll (and its voice) is absolutely creepy.

[Awsi Dooger]

43. Talking Tina

I didn't have to look it up. That was one of the chilling episodes, given the doll's warning at the end.

The one that spooked me was the Billy Mumy episode in which he controls the television channels and anyone who has bad thoughts about him is turned into a jack o lantern and then wished away into the cornfield. It's as close to a Donald Trump character as anything in TV history, IMO.

[Irish_Dem]

44. Yes I remember....there was another episode similar to that one...

An old lady (Agnes Morehead) is tormented by small figures coming out of a tiny spaceship. The entire episode as I recall, is about her fighting the creatures who are causing fear, and pain.

At the end of the episode, we see the markings on the space ship and it says something like US AIR FORCE space program....

It blew my mind.

Watching Twilight Zone helped me learn to think outside the box, and not to take anything for granted, to go beyond conventional wisdom.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The one about the earwig. I think it was also an episode of the Outer Limits.

And just about all of the Twilight Zone episodes.

[Cartoonist]

6. I recall that

I'm pretty sure it was a Night Gallery episode.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. You're right; it was Night Gallery.

They had some really creepy shows.

[Cartoonist]

4. Several Twilight Zone episodes

I'm sure others may mention them.

Other than TZ, there was a show I can't recall the name of but the memory still creeps me out.

It was a play on the theme of a mad uncle in the attic. Just typing that sent sent me into that dark space. Shudder!

[MFM008]

5. An episode of

'One Step Beyond'.
A couple notice a stain on the wall under a picture
they can't clean off...it forms into a picture of a screaming woman.
Freaked me out. I didnt move pictures for years...

[Hoyt]

7. Episode of Criminal Minds that is based somewhat on true story -- "Pig Farm Killer"

It's about this creep who kidnaps people and feeds them to the pigs on his farm in Canada.

[hermetic]

39. Robert Pickton!

That is one for real evil dude. I remember when his trial was going on.

[mucifer]

8. The Twilight Zone Episode in a small town where all the neighbors

think there is a nuclear war and they all go after each other. So creepy.

[sarge43]

12. Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Conclusion: For the record, prejudices can kill -- and suspicions can destroy -- and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has fallout ... And the pity of it is -- these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

[earthshine]

13. Star Trek: The Next Gen - The Best of Both Worlds

The Borg are the scariest thing I had ever seen -- just terrifying in concept.

Then the movie "First Contact" came out, which introduced the Borg queen. At that point, the Borg were reduced to ordinary, unscary Star Trek villains.

[Runningdawg]

14. The X-Files "Home"

"When a deformed baby's body is found buried in a baseball field, Mulder and Scully investigate a family suspected of inbreeding. ... A woman, later identified as Mrs. Peacock, gives birth to a highly deformed child ."
That is a very mild description. You won't look under your bed for a while....
Fun facts:
“Home” was the first episode of The X-Files to get a viewer discretion warning. In fact, it was the first network television episode in America to ever receive a TV-MA rating.
Fox only aired “Home” once. It was banned from being re-aired on Fox and, in fact, wasn’t seen again until 1997 during a marathon on cable network, FX.

[yallerdawg]

32. That WAS terrifying!

When they flipped over that mattress within the first couple minutes...

[Zorro]

15. A couple of X-Files shows were pretty unnerving

"Tooms" -- a serial killer that reappears every several generations.

"Home" -- Johnny Mathis sings as the Peacock family do their thing.

I get the creeps just thinking about them now.

[Paladin]

16. All manner of episodes of "Thriller" from the early 60's.

Hosted by Boris Karloff.

I remember one show where an aspiring concert pianist went to a graveyard and hacked off the hands of a recently-interred master performer, in order to use the hands of the decedent to acquire his skills. I think the grave robber ended up strangled by those hands, instead. Pretty raw stuff.

[irisblue]

17. Twilight Zone, Time Enough at Last

1st shown Nov 1959. an introverted book lover survives nuclear war, can read to his hearts delight,then his glasses break. I started wearing glasses @ 6, this ep freaked me out so much, that when I finally earned enough money, I buy 2 pairs of glasses & keep one of the last pairs....just in case.

[Leith]

18. Trilogy of Terror in 1975

When the doll was chasing Karen Black around her apartment.

I saw Trilogy of Terror II and turned it off half way through because it was pathetically bad. The original was terrifying.

[Still Blue in PDX]

46. When my daughter was a toddler she was a biter. She crept up behind me one day . . .

and I had a flashback of that show.

Creeped me out for quite a while. Getting gooseflesh remembering it now.

[retread]

19. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet". I still refuse a window seat when flying.

[First Speaker]

20. A Christmas episode of *Tales From the Crypt*...

...about a woman who murdered her husband, I think...and how her daughter let "Santa Claus" into the house, for a little lethal retribution. The ending of that show still spooks me out...

[JonLP24]

21. Better Call Saul scares the hell out of me

It would take too long to explain why but that is why I enjoy the show. Very dark show imo. But enjoyable as well. That & The Americans are my 2 favorite active shows.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

22. Anything from Outer Limits - recently checked out a couple episodes to

see if they would still scare me... and yep, 50 yrs later, they still did. Even the creepy opening credits/music scared me! There was the astronaut that went up in space and came back a monster, that thing from Venus, the neighborhood that gets transported to another planet and experimented upon by hideous aliens.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

23. There was an episode of Hill Street Blues that I can't watch anymore. Too intense.

Lt Buntz and another cop (Rodriguez) are chasing down a psychopath Buntz put away once before. They're caught by the psychopath who ties them up and fastens a shotgun to the head of Rodriguez and tells him to beg for his life. Buntz says not to do it because that's what the psychopath wants-- if Rodriguez begs, the psycho will kill him.

Guess what happens?

[Archae]

24. The psycho does kill Rodriguez.

I saw one episode from that show where Buntz has his finger chopped off by a loan shark.

[rogerballard]

25. "The Gloating Place"

"Alfred Hitchcock Presents"

[Mike Nelson]

26. Love most of the shows...

...mentioned, especial "Twilight Zone", but that show was more thought-provoking than scary, to me... The scariest TV series was "Outer Limits" with many shows giving me the creeps. The original "Trilogy of Terror" episode with the Voodoo Doll coming to life and chasing Karen Black around is ultra-creepy on its own.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

27. THE OUTER LIMITS - "THE ZANTI INVADERS" and also one with Karen Black n/m

[Buckeye_Democrat]

28. Salem's Lot (TV movie) -- the window scene

Wind made a bush scrape against my bedroom window later that night too.

Edit: It's not really scary to me now, but still creepy.

[exboyfil]

30. I plan to watch that and Christine

with my daughter this October. The only two good Stephen King horror adaptations she hasn't yet watched.

[exboyfil]

29. Everyone I can think of has been listed

except perhaps the episode of Outer Limits with the land sharks. The Invisible Enemy.

I am going through a retro horror phase right now. Trying to read/listen to a Top 100 list of best horror novels. Also getting back into the old Warren/Skywald/Eerie black and white horror magazines. Watching plenty of classic horror movies with my just graduated daughter before she starts her first job.

[samnsara]

31. any episode with a damned doll in it scares me to death...

..I didnt even give my dtr dolls nor my grand daughters. They actually think dolls are creepy too.

[Stuart G]

33. The first part of a original Star Trek Episode .."The Arena"

An outpost is attacked and the Enterprise has to find the attacker to prevent war. Capt Kirk ends of fighting an alien captain, "Gorn" on a desolate planet. He is told he must defeat the Gorn captain, or the Enterprise will be destroyed. The fight between the Gorn captain and Kirk is exceptional in my opinion. and scary too.

[CanonRay]

34. Omnibus about the Salem witch trials

I can't find the episode name, it was season 7 or 8 so about 1959 or so. Scared the crap out of me.

[Loyd]

35. News on the Night of Nov 8, 2016

Any network!

[LeftInTX]

36. Lately it has been CNN....

[GallopingGhost]

48. lmao

so true!

[oswaldactedalone]

37. Twilight Zone episode

called "Night Call" about the elderly, bed-ridden lady who receives mysterious phone calls at night. The terror on her face when the phone rings is palpable. I had to ask my wife to remove that very ring-tone from her cell phone as it gave me the creeps to hear it. Won't watch that episode if there's no one else in the house.

[hermetic]

38. This really scares me now

Twilight Zone, Examination Day. In the far future, twelve-year-old Dickie must take the government intelligence test. . Remember back when we would all say, "That could never happen here."

[Skittles]

40. Twilight Zone "And When the Sky Was Opened"

don't you remember? THERE WERE *THREE* OF US!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_When_the_Sky_Was_Opened

[UTUSN]

42. Whatever "Twilight Zone" was when I was a kid, refuse to see any of it on re-runs

[Dave Starsky]

45. An episode of Starsky and Hutch, called "The Fix".

I am not kidding.

A mobster kidnaps Detective Hutchinson and forcibly injects him with heroin repeatedly to get him to reveal the location of the mobster's girlfriend. After a week of this, Hutch is hopelessly addicted, but he manages to escape. Detective Starsky finds him lying in an alley--a shivering, frightening mess. The rest of the episode takes place over the next two days as Starsky and friends try to help Hutch through withdrawal.

That episode scared the living shit out of me. I have never tried heroin in my life and have never even been tempted, JUST because of that episode. I will not even take opiates/oids for pain, JUST because of that episode. I can't tell you how many friends over the years have told me they have also seen that show and that it affected them in exactly the same way.

BTW, I watched that episode again just a few years ago. I wanted to see if it was still as frightening. It was. Even my wife, who wasn't that familiar with the show, was freaked out. She asked me, "Your parents were okay with you watching this?"

[TeamPooka]

47. Rockford Files S4E21 The House on Willis Avenue

In this prescient episode of The Rockford Files, Jim uncovers a domestic surveillance operation that is collecting intelligence on U.S. citizens by means of data centers located in suburban homes protected by remote surveillance systems and monitored with military efficiency by ruthless corporate agents.
The show ends with a didactic warning from the U.S. Privacy Protection Commission (created by Congress via the Privacy Act of 1974) stating that such operations are being carried out in the real world, in violation of citizens' rights to privacy and due process.

[trueblue2007]

49. TWILIGHT ZONE ..... the pig people. EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.