When I was young, I had one of those leashes with wire threaded throughout the ropes so you could pretend you were walking an invisible dog. I couldn’t help but think of it when the characters in “The Deadly Visitor,” the final of our Classic Ghosts TV-movies, captured a ghost. I also couldn’t help thinking…

“The House & the Brain”(1973) is “inspired” by a novella by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton called, “The Haunted & the Haunters; or, The House & the Brain,” which is why the only thing they have in common is a house. In the TV-movie version, the house isn’t even haunted. Instead, it’s occupied by a young woman…

“The Haunting of Rosalind” (1973) has perhaps the strongest cast of any tale yet from The Classic Ghosts. The character of Dita is played by Academy Award winner, Susan Sarandon. The character of Mother is played by Academy Award winner, Beatrice Straight. And the character of Dr. Soames is played by the man who portrayed…

Mr. Shim (Herbert Berghof) is being evicted from his home for an urban renewal project… and he doesn’t want to leave. All his friends and neighbors have gone and one is even used by the developers to try to convince him. Most of “And the Bones Came Together” is a drama about the battle of…

I’ve never seen The Screaming Skull (1958) and didn’t realize it was an adaptation of the short story by F. Marion Crawford. Of course, now that I’ve seen the 1973 version from “The Classic Ghosts” that I  knew was an adaptation, I’ll have to watch it. I’m curious if it shares the same flaws, although…

We’ve mentioned The Wide World of Mystery several times as we’ve discussed the TV movies The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr.Hyde, The Invasion of Carol Enders, and The Werewolf of Woodstock. Also buried within the first year of ABC’s efforts to counter program Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show was a set of five…