It

About It

In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.

It is a mystery, science fiction, and fantasy series made for ABC. Tim Curry appears as Pennywise, Harry Anderson as Richie Tozier, Dennis Christopher as Eddie Kaspbrak, and Richard Masur as Stan Uris.

It reached one season of 2 episodes from November 1990. The story is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under halloween, suicide, supernatural horror, and haunted house. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 3,406 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.

IT: Welcome to Derry, American Horror Story, and The Haunting of Hill House make useful companions to It, all filed under 1960s, clown, and creepy house.