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Alternate History of Horror. Part XI. The Idiot Box

League of Gentlemen managed to do a serial, an anthology, and 'ghost story for Christmas' in one go with their Xmas Special, with three visitors telling quasi-canon tales of known characters before we learn the recurring flashbacks (which IIRC had Gatiss say shocked  him on rewatch as being grimmer than he'd thought they were doing) are about Papa Lazarous and the reverend is missing thereafter
 
Alex Richards said:
Love Death and Robots also offers a recent example of mixed Sci-Fi/Horror anthologies - though how good the horror is going to be in 10-20 minute shorts is up to the viewer of course.
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Considering how drawn out television content tends to be it's just refreshing to see a bit of brevity.
Charles EP M. said:
League of Gentlemen managed to do a serial, an anthology, and 'ghost story for Christmas' in one go with their Xmas Special, with three visitors telling quasi-canon tales of known characters before we learn the recurring flashbacks (which IIRC had Gatiss say shocked  him on rewatch as being grimmer than he'd thought they were doing) are about Papa Lazarous and the reverend is missing thereafter
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The three series Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have worked on have run the gamut of episodic vs. serialised vs. anthology. The first two series of The League of Gentlemen are episode albeit with some serialised elements (the road building in the first and the nosebleeds in the second); the Christmas special as you say is an anthology; and the third series leans far more heavily into a serial despite each episode still being its own standalone. Both series of Psychoville are almost pure serials, though they also did a Halloween special which was a standalone anthology. Then with Inside No. 9 they went in the complete opposite direction in a pure anthology.
 
One of the most effective TV horror films I've seen, although I'm not really a fan of the genre, was Nigel Kneale's 'The Stone Tape'.
 
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