Sebastian cabot ghost story
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If you’re a classic TV fan you probably have a few go-to shows that are fun to pull up around Halloween.
Perhaps it’s a seasonal sitcom episode, like “Halloween Party” (The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet) or “The Ghost of A. Chantz” (The Dick Van Dyke Show). Maybe you prefer legit scares to Halloween humor, with something like “An Unlocked Window” (Alfred Hitchcock Presents) or “The Incredible Doktor Markesan” (Thriller).
I’ll watch some of those again this year, but I also wanted to check out something different. That’s what led me to Ghost Story, a short-lived supernatural anthology series that debuted on NBC in 1972.
I was never a fan of scary stuff growing up, so watching this series at age 8 would have been out of the question. My appreciation for the genre has grown since then, as long as it’s not just maniacs chopping up teenagers with hatchets. At the risk of offending some of my readers, I can’t even begin to understand why anyone finds that entertaining.
So I was ready for my first look at this 47 year-old series, hosted by Sebastian Cabot as Winston Essex, owner of the elegant hotel Mansfield House. The introductions were shot on location at San DiegoR
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GHOST STORY “The New House.” NBC. Pilot episode, 60m, 17 March 1972. Sebastian Cabot (host), David Birney, Barbara Parkins, Sam Jaffe, Jeanette Nolan, Caitlin Wyles. Written by Richard Matheson. Producer: William Castle. Director: John Llewellyn Moxey.
As the pilot film for a proposed series, Ghost Story: The New House was aired in the spring of 1972, paired up, I am told, with the pilot for another series, the name of which I do not know, nor of course do I know whether the other would-be series was successful or not. [LATER: But see the first comment!] Ghost Storywas picked up, however, with the first episode of its first and only season airing on 15 September 1972.
There were in total 23 episodes in this anthology series with a supernatural slant, including the pilot, but it ran into difficulty 13 shows into the run. The series went off the air briefly on 22 December 1972, and when it came back on 5 January 1973 under the title Circle of Fear. Sebastian Cabot as the host was dropped, and the emphasis was no longer on ghost stories.
Ghost Story came along a year before Thriller, a somewhat similar series created by Brian Clemens appeared in the UK, and even though the shows
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Sebastian Cabot (actor)
English actor (1918–1977)
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