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Supernatural Shows

Ghost Whisperer is just one of our favorite supernatural television shows.

May 27, 2008

by Scott Harris

Everyone has different tastes when it comes to television shows. Some people like family dramas or soap operas. Some folks enjoy watching reality contestant humiliate themselves in a desperate plea for attention and greenbacks. Some like mindless sitcoms, some like sporting events. And with today's vast cable options, you're likely to those options with ease.

Here at UGO, though, we like our TV to deliver something a little different - say, a severed head, spectral baby or blood drinking mutant. And while Larry King Live often offers the equivalent of all three, even with the recent upswing in offbeat programming our DVRs are struggling to find shows like Ghost Whisperer and Most Haunted that can provide us with our much needed supernatural feedings.

With that in mind, then, we've decided to put together a viewing guide that you at home can use to satisfy your own alternate universe vampire needs. So take note of our Top 11 Supernatural Television Shows and check your local listings, but be warned: in some nearby, dark dimension, those very listings... are checking you!

The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

Air Dates: The Twilight Zone aired on CBS from 1959-1964.

Cast and Characters: Rod Serling did the narration; otherwise, it was a new cast every episode, which allowed scads of sweet guest stars to appear. Kind of like The Love Boat, only with time travel, gremlins and inexplicable deaths. Though a Charo appearance would have been awesome.

Series Overview: When The Twilight Zone started, folks in the television industry were skeptical. Science fiction, horror, creepiness? On television? Tish tosh. Based on the explosion of supernatural movies and comic books during the 1950s, though, that skepticism seems a bit hard to understand in retrospect. And sure enough, for five years folks watched in droves, every week a new morality play filled with unexpected twists and dark conjurings that paved the way for the myriad copycat shows to follow.

Why We Love It: Everything that came after springs in part from the television loins of The Twilight Zone. Even if that were not the case, though, the original still holds up surprisingly well today, so much so that Rod Serling's scripts are still being reused and refilmed for contemporary audiences. It just goes to show: classics are classics.

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