Buffy the Vampire Slayer's secret to success was its restraint. But sometimes, as in the case of this Giles-centric episode, more was preferable to less.
Series finales face enormous challenges in any genre, but when it comes to paying off the long-running dread of a horror story, some shows really drop the ball.
The censors forced Rod Serling to tweak an element of the Judgment Night episode of The Twilight Zone, but the reason wasn't because of anything salacious.
The Twilight Zone was a pioneering series, and one episode from the first season perfectly encapsulates how important technical craft was to its success.
The lesser-known Twilight Zone episode 'Number 12 Looks Just Like You' inspired the great Daniel Kaluuya-starring Black Mirror episode 'Fifteen Million Merits.'
Rod Serling insisted on reshooting the Twilight Zone episode 'The Mighty Casey' when co-star Paul Douglas died just a couple of days after filming wrapped.
The Alien movies traditionally feature the same cycle: eggs, facehuggers, and full-on xenomorph aliens. But Noah Hawley's TV show will refresh that a bit.
James Marsters, who played the bad boy vampire Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, can still recall the worst day he ever had while shooting the series.
Horror TV shows face a lot of challenges in finding their audience, but those fans are fiercely devoted - and frustrated when their favorites get canceled.
Edgar Allan Poe's dark tale 'The Masque of the Red Death' influenced not only Prospero's episode of The Fall of the House of Usher, but the entire show.
The Fall of the House of Usher contains lots of gruesome violence and twists, but one was done in such a clever way it won Mike Flanagan a unique award.
Cordelia Chase didn't get to actually stake a vampire until her final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, despite frequent appeals from Charisma Carpenter.
It was always Team Spike or Team Angel when it came to debating the perfect match for Buffy on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What about Alyson Hannigan's Willow?