This episode provides a decent enough finale for "Ghost Story/Circle of Fear"---though it's a pity the series didn't last longer! We start out with a mystery this time around---who is that old man in the park? And what's the deal with the creepy executive in the office? But very soon the viewer will get a feel for what's going on and where the plot is headed.
I confess I wasn't spot-on in guessing what was going to happen, however. I was thinking that this might be a story about a sort of psychic vampire, feeding off the life-force of the victims (though I couldn't figure how the executive fit into that scenario). But late in the episode it turns out that nope, the fellow in the office is in fact the devil (or perhaps a lesser demon) who grants youth in return for a souls. And once that was revealed, the episode fell flat---it's a tired old chestnut, a clichéd plot device that's been used far too often before. (I prefer the psychic youth-sucking vampire idea---and even that plot is none too fresh.) Oh well... Still, not a terrible episode by any means.
Fun to see several long-time character actors in this one; those viewers of a certain age will most likely recognise many of the players here.
I did like the very pretty guitar-and-vocal arrangement used for the background score in this episode; it gave me a sense of the time and place of this episode (college life in the early 70's). That is---I liked it for the first few times I heard it, but after it was played about ten times throughout the episode it got a bit tiresome!
I confess I wasn't spot-on in guessing what was going to happen, however. I was thinking that this might be a story about a sort of psychic vampire, feeding off the life-force of the victims (though I couldn't figure how the executive fit into that scenario). But late in the episode it turns out that nope, the fellow in the office is in fact the devil (or perhaps a lesser demon) who grants youth in return for a souls. And once that was revealed, the episode fell flat---it's a tired old chestnut, a clichéd plot device that's been used far too often before. (I prefer the psychic youth-sucking vampire idea---and even that plot is none too fresh.) Oh well... Still, not a terrible episode by any means.
Fun to see several long-time character actors in this one; those viewers of a certain age will most likely recognise many of the players here.
I did like the very pretty guitar-and-vocal arrangement used for the background score in this episode; it gave me a sense of the time and place of this episode (college life in the early 70's). That is---I liked it for the first few times I heard it, but after it was played about ten times throughout the episode it got a bit tiresome!