The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a double compilation album by the Damned, released by MCA in 1987 as a retrospective collection.

The package was marketed as a greatest hits collection, but while it includes many of the band/s acknowledged standards, several of the songs were album tracks, while others were B-sides or other rarities.

MCA issued the Anything album track "In Dulce Decorum" as a single to support the release.

"Love Song", "Smash It Up Parts I & II", "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" and "Plan 9 Channel 7" were taken from the 1979 album Machine Gun Etiquette.

"Rabid (Over You)" was a remix of a track previously issued as a B-side to the "White Rabbit" single, also originally released in 1980.