Zee Horror Show
The Zee Horror Show is an Indian horror weekly television series presented by Ramsay Brothers on Zee TV from 1993 to 2001.
The first episode was titled "Dastak" which was telecast on 9 August 1993 and featured Pankaj Dheer, Shagufta Ali and Archana Puran Singh. Initially it was a 24 episode deal with Subhash Chandra which later ran for 9 years.
Episodes
The Zee Horror Show
Anhonee
| Title | Year | No. Of Episodes | Cast |
| Jaal | 1997 | 6 | Nayantara Dutta, Rajesh Sharma |
| Mangalsutra | 1997 | 5 | Resham Tipnis, Sanjeev Seth |
| Ittefaq | 8/1997 | 5 | Ajinkya Deo, Varsha Usgaonkar, Raman Kapoor, Jaya Mathur, Arun Bali, Prem Rishi, Sulabha Deshpande, Goga Kapoor |
| Saazish | 4 | Deepak Deulkar, Nishigandha Wad, Adi Irani, Prashant Jaiswal, Sagar Salunke | |
| Doosra Aadmi | 1997 | 2 | Pankaj Dheer, Priyanka, Sunil Dhawan, Swati Verma, Vinod Tripathi, Deep Dhillon |
| Abhishaap | 1998 | 5 | Nawab Shah, Sangeeta Ghosh, Shiva Rindani, Sagar Salunke, Ashok Sharma, Santosh Kaushik, Rajita Kochhar, Nivedita Bhattacharya |
| Hospital | 1/1998 | 2 | Dharmesh Vyas, Sejal Shah, Asha Sharma, Kavita Ved, Chitra Kopikar, Prashant Jaiswal, Vinod Tripathi, Ramesh Tiwari, Sunil Dhawan, Fatima Sheikh |
| Saamri | 2/1998 | 5 | Neena Softa, Achyut Potdar, Ashwin Kaushal, Faqira, Vinod Tripathi, Arun Mathur |
| Pyaas | 3/1998 | 4 | Sanjeev Seth, Resham Seth, Adi Irani, Liyaqat Ali, Pramod Kapoor, Anirudh Agarwal, Damini |
| Musafir | 1998 | 2 | Malay Chakraborty, Usha Nadkarni, Mahesh Raj, Vijaya Aidasani, Rakhee Malhotra |
| Musafir | 1998 | 3 | Imran Khan, Afshan, Lalit Tiwari, Tarakesh Chauhan, Vicky Ahuja, Ashwin Kaushal, Subiraj |
| Deewar | 1998 | 1 | Ashwin Kaushal, Amita Nangia, Vinod Tripathi, Chitra Kopikar, Ballee Grover |
| Aatma | 1998 | 5 | Sudhir Mittoo, Neelam Sagar, Pankaj Berry, Shiva, Sumukhi Pendse, Ashwin Kaushal, Sunil Dhawan, Rana Jang Bahadur, Sudhir, Kalpana Iyer |
| Junoon | 1998 | 3 | Gajendra Chauhan, Nishigandha, Anil Nagrath, Ballee Grover, Vinod Tripathi, Aroop Pal |
| Guest House | 6/1998 | 4 | Eva Grover, Rubeena Khan, Shruti Ulfat, Nawab Shah, Lalit Tiwari, Rajita Kochhar, Anant Jog, Bharat Kapoor |
| Achanak | 7/1998 | 3 | Raju Kher, Deep Shikha, Vijay Aidasani, Sudhir, Sunil Dhawan, Balee Grover, Meenakshi Saini, Faquira |
| Daayan | 1998 | 4 | Damini, Prithvi, Ballee Grover, Goga Kapoor, Tej Sapru, Dinesh Kaushik |
| Woh Kaun Thi | 2/1998 | 1 | Dharmesh Vyas, Neelam Sagar, Ramesh Tiwari, Ballee Grover, Ashwin Kaushal, Sulbha Deshpande |
| Inteqam | 4/1999 | 4 | Dharmesh Vyas, Varsha Usgaonkar, Param Vir, Shalini Kapoor, Renuka Israni, Adi Irani, Afshan Khan Sumit Sehgal |
| Tijori | 3 | Sanjeev Seth, Vijaya Aidasani, Channa Ruparel, S. M. Zaheer | |
| Woh Phir Aayegi | 12/5 to 9/6/1999 | 5 | Harsh Chaya, Usha Bachani, Rajesh Khera, S. M. Zaheer, Madan Jain, Ballee Grover |
| Veerana | 11/1999 | 5 | Sooraj Thapar, Neelam Sagar, Sunil Dhawan, Rubeena Khan, Noopur Aliza, Harjit Walia, Ashwin Kaushal, Deepshikha, Ballee Grover |
| Junoon | 1999 | 5 | Niki Aneja Walia, Akshay Anand, Anju Mahendru, Raju Kher, Nawab Shah, Eva Grover |
| Darr | 1999 | 2 | Prithvi, Ashwin Kaushal, Ballee Grover, Vinod Tripathi, Ramesh Tiwari, Anil Nagrath, Sulbha Deshpande |
| Anguthi | 1999 | 2 | Imran Khan, Suresh Chatwal, Rituraj Singh, Ramesh Tiwari, Achyut Potdar, Arun Mathur, S. Madan |
| Cheekh | 1999 | 3 | Prithvi, Fatima Sheikh, Baby Meenakshi Saini, Vilas Raj, Ashwin Kaushal, Prashant Jaiswal, Ballee Grover |
| Intezaar | 1999 | 4 | Pankaj Berry, Vinod Tripathi, Sonam Malhotra, Param Vir, Rajeev Verma, Anil Nagrath, Anuraag, Kalpana Iyer Sumet Sehgal Reena Kapoor |
| Kismat | 3 | Madan Jain, Damini, Vinod Tripathi, Ballee Grover, Prithvi, Sonam Malhotra | |
| Vapsi | 1 | Mahavir Shah, Brij Gopal, Vinod Tripathi, Gajendra Chauhan | |
| Khauff | 5 | Madan Jain, Rubeena Khan, Shradha Sharma, Suresh Chatwal, Aryan Vaid, Avinash Sahijwani, Rita Bhaduri, S. Madan, Ramesh Tiwari, Achyut Potdar, Sudhir Dalvi | |
| Amaanat | 1 | Resham Seth, Uma Khosla, Vinod Tripathi, Jaya Mathur | |
| Post•Mortem | 4 | Suraj Thapar, Durga Jasraj, Himayat Ali, Ali Khan, Sahiba, Brij Gopal, Browney, Vijay Aidasani, Deep Dhillon | |
| Shraap | 5 | Javed Khan, Sheela Sharma, Amarnath Mukherjee, Tarakesh Chauhan, Kanchan Rawal, Jeet Atal, Vinod Tripathi, Ramesh Tiwari, Rajesh Vivek | |
| Cafe 18 | 2 | Paramvir, Eva Grover, Sharmilee, Arun Bali, Nawab Shah | |
| Kabar THE GRAVE | 5 | Javed Khan, Ramesh Tiwari, Imran Khan, Rajeeta Kochhar, Neelam Sagar, Subbi Raj | |
| Tadap | 3 | Rajeeta Kochhar, Prashant Jaiswal, Rubeena Khan, Renuka Israni, Ramesh Tiwari, Santosh Kaushik | |
| Raaz | 3 | Pankaj Berry, Vilas Raj, Ashwin Kaushal | |
| Murti | 3 | Rajeeta Kochhar, Ramesh Tiwari, Sheela Sharma, Santosh Kaushik, Gajendra Chauhan, Neelam Sagar | |
| Telephone | 5/2000 | 3 | Waqar, Usha Bachani, Mac Mohan, Ashok Sharma, Suresh Chatwal, Santosh Kaushik, Ballee Grover, Anirudh Agarwal, Surendra Pal |
| The Party | 2000 | 1 | Pankaj Berry, Jaya Mathur, Ramesh Tiwari, Dinesh Kaushik, Vaishnavi, Ballee Grover |
| The Invitation | 2000 | 3 | Imran Khan, Shalini Kapoor, Adi Irani, Poonam Das Gupta, Sudhir, Vijay Aidasani, Anirudh Agarwal, Rajeeta Kochhar, Ashwin Kaushal |
| Shraap | 2000 | 3 | Javed Khan, Sanjeev Seth, Sonia Kapoor, Malay Chakraborty, Rubeena Khan, Arun Mathur, Rajeeta Kochhar |
| Raat | 2000 | 2 | Prithvi, Usha Bachani, Kaushal Kapoor, Vinod Tripathi, Gajendra Chauhan |
| Ghar | 2001 | 4 | Eva Grover, Rituraj Singh, Karan Trivedi |
| Haadsa | 2001 | 3 | Niki Aneja Walia, Shaukat Baig |
| The Fatal Love | 2001 | 3 | Rohit Roy, Deepshikha Nagpal |
Soundtrack
The opening theme was composed by Ajit Singh and Uttam Singh. The tune was earlier the background score for several movies of Ramsay Brothers with the first one being Purana Mandir which was rearranged.Broadcast
regularly telecasted the episodes of 1993-94 in movie format. On 9 August 1997, Taveez was telecast. Rajesh Cable recorded them and Zee Cinema had several reruns of those episodes like Khauf and Taveez under the title Chills & Thrills till 2004.Zee Café aired Season 1 episodes in UK with English subtitles from 2 January 2012 till 22 April 2012.
Zee Smile started airing Anhonee from May 2015 until the closedown of the channel.
A Pakistani channel Apna Channel started to broadcast Season 1 episodes under the title Apna Horror Show from June 2015. In October 2016 Pakistan government banned Indian shows and this show stopped airing. The show returned in August 2017 and got shut down in November 2018 again for the same reason.
Thriller Active Channel available only on Dish TV and Videocon D2H aired some episodes of Season 1 from 30 September 2018 to 20 October 2019.
The series aired on The Horror TV available only on Airtel Digital TV showing episodes of Season 1 from 10 May 2019 to 1 November 2019.
Reception
In July 1997 a petitioner in Punjab and Haryana high court argued that horror shows promoted superstitions which was affecting the youth. He requested that shows should be aired only after midnight. Women and children were a significant part of its viewership base so at the urging of Colgate, the show's sponsor, the show's name was changed to Anhonee with the words The Zee Horror Show written below it. Soon the serial name changed to simply "Anhonee" from September 1997.Ashok Surana was made the co producer of the show along with Ramsay brothers in November 1997. His episodes were directed by Indranil Goswami and would alternate with those made by Ramsay brothers. Some episodes produced by Ashok Surana were Jaal, Aaina and Aakhri Shikar.