Is there a TV show better suited for late night viewing than this one?
Maybe "Twin Peaks." Or the more recent "Stranger Things."
shareNot saying it's better but Night Gallery is good for late night.
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Not better, but to my way of thinking, Alfred Hitchcock Hour/Presents is just as good.
shareLike all the shows mentioned "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" has a way of being both eerie and relaxing at the same time.
shareEqually suited for late night: Alfred Hitchcock Presents/Hour; The Outer Limits [TOS]; One Step Beyond.
shareThe Ray Bradbury Theater?
shareAlfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour are equally as good, in my opinion.
shareI like black and white, vastly prefer it to color, so I think that there are many old black and white shows as good or close to The Twilight Zone for late night viewing. Leaving aside the already late night perennial Perry Mason: The Fugitive, Checkmate, Dragnet (either version); and the color Kraft Suspense Theater, very good, not great. One Step Beyond is a maybe. Arguably too intense for the average viewer, it's badly in need of restoration and they seldom show good prints. Thriller is another good one but maybe best suited for a very late hour or once a week, as its being a horror series limits its appeal. The Untouchables is another that's so-so, not as to quality but appeal. Its extreme violence works against it. Most people want to kick back a bit late at night, not watch burning cars going over cliffs, people mowed down by machine guns.
shareLet me see… “Peter Gunn” is quite good for late-night, as is “The Defenders.” Depending on events of the day, I might even pull out some classic Jay Ward cartoons, "Fractured Flickers," or watch a few episodes of the ‘80s British cartoon “Danger Mouse.”
sharePeter Gunn, fuh sure, Doug. MeTV had Peter Gunn and its sister (brother?) show, also produced by Blake Edwards, Mr. Lucky, on their late night line-up for a few years. They're both, sad to say, gone from Me now, where color is king and black and white on its way out...
Also good for late night viewing, and which I ought to have mentioned: Richard Diamond, featuring a pre-Fugitive David Janssen in the lead. Just about any one of the Warner detective series would do for me, with my favorite being 77 Sunset Strip; and speaking of me, or rather Me, I believe they ARE running it,--but like at the crack of dawn.
Conrad Hall's crisp black and white cinematography for "The Outer Limits" maiden season truly can leave one speechless; it alone catapults "Limits" to the front ranks of shows best enjoyed late at night.
shareI actually bought "Peter Gunn" on dvd a few years back. It was running on MeTV, but the lateness of the hour when it came to the timeslot (plus their "trimming" to fit modern editing practices you might say) made buying the dvd's a virtual no-brainer, since it was a complete series set priced at just over $50.
The Diamond show I've actually never seen, although I do have quite a number of the Richard Diamond radio shows somewhere that I listen to occasionally. The radio version was great.
"Checkmate" I've seen one or two episodes of but not much to date. I enjoyed the episodes I saw - but I've been a sucker for Sebastian Cabot since the days of "Family Affair" and his voice work at Disney.
Years ago I used to enjoy watching other stuff too on basic cable late nights too - like "I Married Joan" (Jim Backus was in that one) Groucho, Jack Benny, Bob Cummings - tons of the older stuff.
TZ is great late night viewing along with Alfred Hitchcock and Thriller.
Many years ago I loved One Step Beyond as a late night show. Pure goose bump music when they were rolling the final credits. ha! I bought a "best of" DVD of One Step Beyond last year and it's still as scary as I remember.
The Night Stalker TV movie and episodes are great for late nights, especially if there if a big thunderstorm brewing!
Many excellent choices already listed, but here’s a mostly obscure blast from the past that many seem to have forgotten about:
Creature Features, with Bob Wilkins.