TV Gothic: The Golden Age of Small Screen Horror (Paperback)

Introduction
Section One. In the Beginning: Horror in Television's Stone Age (the 1930s and 1940s)
    Live from Ally Pally  5
    The Big Apple Bites Back  10
    The Rise of Poe  14
    Picture Perfect  18
    Questions in the House  23
    The Pepsi Challenge  25
Section Two. The Monsters Arrive (the 1950s)
    Cue Frankenstein  29
    Enter Professor Quatermass  34
    Vamping It with Vampira  40
    A Hitch in Time  43
    The Great Beyond  50
    Entering the Zone  54
Section Three. The Genre Takes Hold (the 1960s)
    Beloved Boris  60
    Who?  73
    Canned Laughter  75
    Mysterious Imaginings  83
    Tales from Europe  89
    A Rum Collins  92
    A Fateful Whistle  97
    Strange Journeys  100
    Scooby and the Gang  104
    And Now the Gallery  108
Section Four. The American TV Movie Comes of Age (the 1970s)
    Movie of the Week  112
    Kolchak Scores a Hit  120
    The Devil to Pay  128
    Creature Feature  136
    A Fetish for Horror  143
    MTM Goes for the Jugular  151
    The True Story  159
    Bringing In the Harvest  171
    Gargoyles  181
    Up at the Marsten House  191
    Meet the Hardy Boys  201
    More Tales from Europe  210
Section Five. Enter the Brits (the 1970s)
    The Doomsday People  216
    The Play's the Thing  217
    Festive Frissons  225
    Dead of Night  243
    Country Matters  250
    A Party with Barty  259
    Teatime Terrors  266
    What Music They Make  274
    Mrs. Amworth Pays a Visit  279
    An Old Master  286
Section Six. New Realms (the 1980s)
    Hammer Has Risen from the Grave  291
    Venturing into the Darkside  304
    The Spielberg Touch  308
    Ready for Freddy  317
    Tut, Tut  323
    The Music of the Night  328
    Raising Caine  337
    Further Tales from Europe  343
Section Seven. The End of an Era (the 1990s)
    The Anthology Lives On  349
    Duped by Auntie  356
    The X Factor  358
    The Color Purple  361
    It  366
    Corman Quickies  373
    King of the Airwaves  378
Epilogue: A New Era (the 2000s and 2010s)
Bibliography
Index