Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~30 min/episode
- Length
- 3 seasons · 65 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-14
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.
- anthology
- psychological thriller
- psychotronic
- plot twist
- science fiction
- horror
- thriller
- suspense thriller
The bill
- George Wendt
- Cedric Smith
- Lorna Luft
- William Schallert
- Robert Duncan McNeill
- Bruce Willis
- Sherman Hemsley
- Al Leong
- Ted Shackelford
- Jeff Yagher
- Charles Martin Smith
- Directed
- Robert Downey Jr., Jim McBride, Tommy Lee Wallace, Gus Trikonis, Claudia Weill, Paul Lynch & 41 more
- Created
- Rod Serling
- Written
- Haskell Barkin, J. Michael Straczynski, William F. Wu, Henry Slesar, David Gerrold, Joe Haldeman & 42 more
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 258 ratings
- Network & studio
- CBS, London Films Productions, Atlantis Films, Persistence of Vision Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
