Zee Horror Show is a TV series presented by Ramsay Brothers on Zee TV

Zee TV

Zee TV is an India-based satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, which broadcasts various programmes in Hindi and other regional languages of India. Broadcasting is also present in various nations of South Asia, Europe, the Middle East,...

 in the period 1993-1998. Ramsay Brothers were famous in Bollywood

Bollywood

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 for churning out low budget horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

s in the 70s and 80s. In 1993, they turned their interest towards Indian Television. Zee Horror Show was a very popular program in the 90s. It featured short stories in the form of 4 to 5 episodes, each one based on spine-chilling suspense and horror. The first episode was titled "Dastak

Dastak

Dastak is a classic Hindi film made in 1970, it was written and directed by Rajinder Singh Bedi, and was his directorial debut....

" which was telecast in 1993 & featured Pankaj Dheer

Pankaj Dheer

Pankaj Dheer is an Indian television and film actor originally from Punjab. His best known role was as Karna in epic TV series, Mahabharata , which became a famous Indian television series, and as Shivdutt in Chandrakanta...

 and Archana Puran Singh

Archana Puran Singh

Archana Puran Singh is an Indian television presenter and film actress. She is most known for comedy roles, and as a judge on comedy shows, like Sony TV India's Comedy Circus.-Career:...

 in the lead.

One of the episodes, "Jeevan Mrityu", based on female infanticide (featuring Pallavi Joshi

Pallavi Joshi

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) gained so much popularity that it was re-telecast on popular public demand.Another episode called "Saaya" is till date remembered for the ferocious & scary ghost Vikranta Jabbar played by actor Surendra Pal Singh.Some episodes were inspired (or remade) from cult Hollywwod films like Tehkhana from Evil Dead,Dehshat from Fright Night & Gudiya from Child's Play.
Some of the episodes that gained popularity were:

• "Dastak"-Pankaj Dheer,Archana Puran Singh,Shagufta Ali
• "Saaya"-Balbinder Dhami,Surendra Pal, Prabha Sinha
  Prabha Sinha
  Prabha Sinha is an Indian film and television actress actress. She entered the television scene around the same time there was a boom of soap operas. She gained popularity with her performance in Mahesh Bhatt's Swabhimaan written by Shobha De....
  
  ,Gajendra Chauhan
• "Raat"- Javed Khan, Sripradha
• "Raaz"- Javed Khan, Prajakta Kulkarni
• "Jadu Tona"- Ajinkya Deo, Poonamdas Gupta, Nishigandha Wad
• "Siskiyaan"- Rishabh Shukla, Channa Ruparel
• "Gehrayee"- Harsha Mehra, Siraj Mustafa, Shiva
• "Dehshat"- Siraj Mustafa, Resham Tipnis, Raju Shrestha
• "Jeevan Mrityu"- Pallavi Joshi, Tina Ghai,Mayur
• "Gudiya"- Neelam Mehra, Sudhir, Baby Sana

Zee Horror Show's popularity is proved by the various communities created in its memory on social networking communities like Facebook & Orkut by its fans.