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In 1973, with Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show on NBC dominating the late-night television ratings wars, ABC launched a bold experiment in counter-programming, offering a slate of low-budget horror telefilms produced on videotape. Airing under the anthology title, The Classic Ghosts, this ambitious series of five made-for-TV movies was imbued with an eerie, gothic aesthetic perfectly suited to a midnight-hour timeslot. Effectively combining the foreboding atmosphere of the cult-favorite ABC soap opera, Dark Shadows (1966-71) with the frights of classic B-movie horror, The Classic Ghosts distinguished itself as an off-kilter attempt to expand original genre programming beyond prime time. While the series was not a ratings success, the original broadcasts (mostly unseen since their original airings) have achieved a minor cult-status among classic TV horror fans.

In terms of the history of the medium, The Classic Ghosts is noteworthy as an early production featuring a creative and technical team largely led by women, a number of whom were pioneers in television. Produced by Emmy-winner Jacqueline Babbin (Sybil), the series employed highly-accomplished, prolific directors, Lela Swift (Dark Shadows) and Gloria Monty (General Hospital) – both of whom had long worked in numerous capacities in TV, ultimately producing and helming hundreds of hours of network programming in their groundbreaking careers. As a February 10, 1973 article in the New York Times (“Distaff Production Team More Than Tokenism”) notes, the crew of The Classic Ghosts included women working on all facets of the production—as grips, assistant directors, production supervisors and more. Charged with a grueling six-week production schedule to complete each telefilm, producer Babbin summed up her crew hiring choices by stating “I just had to get together the best possible team.”

https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2...creaming-skull

The discussion that accompanied the October 7, 2021 one-time live screening of "The Haunting Of Rosalind" at Vimeo:

Post-screening conversation with Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler, author of Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema, and Amanda Reyes, editor of Are You in the House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999 and host of the podcast Made for TV Mayhem.

https://vimeo.com/611053584

A February 10, 1973, article in The New York Times ("Distaff TV Production Team That's More Than Tokenism"):
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/10/a...-possible.html

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https://archive.ph/cH2qJ