• 1960
  • TV-PG
  • 50m
Thriller

Summary Hosted by Boris Karloff, this anthology series initially focused on ordinary crime and mystery tales but later delved into gothic horror stories adapted from works by Cornell Woolrich, Robert Bloch, Charlotte Armstrong, and others. View more details

  • 1960
  • TV-PG
  • 50m

Thriller

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Boris Karloff Henry Daniell Richard Peel Lillian O'Malley

All cast & crew

8.2

Details

Genres : Thriller Mystery Horror Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 12, 1960

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Revue Studios, Universal City, California, USA

Production companies : National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Hubbell Robinson Productions

Summary Hosted by Boris Karloff, this anthology series initially focused on ordinary crime and mystery tales but later delved into gothic horror stories adapted from works by Cornell Woolrich, Robert Bloch, Charlotte Armstrong, and others. View more details

Details

Genres : Thriller Mystery Horror Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 12, 1960

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Revue Studios, Universal City, California, USA

Production companies : National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Hubbell Robinson Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 12, 1960
The Twisted Image
Business executive Alan Patterson's life takes a surreal turn when two mentally disturbed people independently wind up with fixations on his life. One wants to marry him, and the other wants to be him.
Episode 2 • Sep 19, 1960
Child's Play
An 11-year-old boy neglected by his father gets so caught up in his fantasy world that he takes a real rifle to hunt down his made-up enemy, the evil Black Bart.
Episode 3 • Sep 26, 1960
Worse Than Murder
When her dead husband's late uncle fails to leave her any money, a scheming temptress uses his diary to blackmail her sick mother-in-law, who may have committed murder.
Episode 4 • Oct 03, 1960
The Mark of the Hand
A young girl is accused of murder and refuses to speak to anyone ever again.
Episode 5 • Oct 10, 1960
Rose's Last Summer
An aging actress is mysteriously found dead in a family's garden, and they may know more about her death than they will admit.
Episode 6 • Oct 17, 1960
The Guilty Men
A mobster tries to get his syndicate out of the narcotics business, but his mouthpiece lawyer half-unwittingly betrays him to a rival.
Episode 7 • Oct 24, 1960
The Purple Room
A practical-minded skeptic must stay in the spooky Baton Rouge mansion his brother willed to him for one night or forfeit it to his cousin and her husband, who warn him of ghosts.
Episode 8 • Oct 31, 1960
The Watcher
A schoolteacher and religious hypocrite takes a creepy interest in a handsome 20-year-old and the girl supposedly corrupting him. He murders her, but then discovers the young man has a more serious interest in another "corrupter".
Episode 9 • Nov 14, 1960
Girl with a Secret
A newlywed bride must hide a secret about her husband's whereabouts. She is blackmailed by an eavesdropping maid and pressured by others to tell her secret.
Episode 10 • Nov 21, 1960
The Prediction
A fake mentalist suddenly has visions of people's violent deaths and attempts to stop them from coming true.
Episode 11 • Nov 28, 1960
The Fatal Impulse
A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a woman in an elevator. The police spend the evening looking for the mystery girl and the bomb.
Episode 12 • Dec 05, 1960
The Big Blackout
A recovering alcoholic who can not remember his past finds himself confronted by criminals and killers looking for a man who may or may not be him.
Episode 13 • Dec 12, 1960
Knock Three-One-Two
A man in need of money enlists the help of a serial killer to get the money from his wife.
Episode 14 • Dec 19, 1960
Man in the Middle
A man overhears a plot for kidnapping and murder. At first, he doesn't want to do anything about it, but eventually he gets caught in the middle of the plot.
Episode 15 • Dec 26, 1960
The Cheaters
A man invents a pair of glasses that can see the truth in others and oneself. They lead to a series of suicides, murders, and tragedies for the wearers.
Episode 16 • Jan 02, 1961
The Hungry Glass
A married couple moves into a house that is haunted by images reflected in glass and mirrors.
Episode 17 • Jan 09, 1961
The Poisoner
London critic and wit Thomas Edward Griffith finds himself in need of funds and saddled with abrasive in-laws and a disapproving uncle. The solution to his problems lies in his collection of rare poisons.
Episode 18 • Jan 16, 1961
Man in the Cage
An American comes to Tangier to search for his missing brother and becomes embroiled in the search for a missing cache of heroin.
Episode 19 • Jan 23, 1961
Choose a Victim
A beach bum locks onto a wealthy young woman whose sadness is as obvious as her flashy jewels and sports car. At first Ralphie Teal only desires a quick score, but when the comely Ms. Landers forgives his larceny in exchange for his serious attention, the heel sees a much bigger payoff looming, via her only relative, a harsh uncle who's loaded.
Episode 20 • Feb 06, 1961
Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook
On the Welsh Border, an old man suspected of witchcraft is gruesomely murdered with a hay-fork and bill-hook. The Scotland Yard inspector investigating has to wade through a morass of superstition to uncover the killer, but when his wife starts having visions of the Black Dog, harbinger of death, the locals focus their suspicions on her.
Episode 21 • Feb 13, 1961
The Merriweather File
After a mysterious intruder fails to kill Ann Merriweather in her home, her husband ,Charles is framed for murder, leaving their lawyer Howard Yates to unravel a twisted scheme of revenge.
Episode 22 • Feb 20, 1961
The Fingers of Fear
The police manhunt for a serial killer of children ends with the arrest of a mentally-challenged brute named Ohrback, but the detective in charge of the case begins to wonder if they have the wrong man.
Episode 23 • Feb 27, 1961
Well of Doom
Fiendish Moloch and his huge creature Styx kill a chauffeur and kidnap his passengers, who are en route to a bachelor party. The 2 abductees (a bridegroom, who's heir to an English country estate, and the estates overseer), are forced to slog through foggy moors to an ancient Gothic fortress. As dawn approaches, the diabolic pair push their captives to speed up, because the demonic creatures fear the coming of dawn's light.
Episode 24 • Mar 06, 1961
The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell
In a lab mishap, chemist Dr. Frank Cordell is exposed to an experimental gas that causes him to turn into a homicidal maniac when he hears the sound of ringing bells.
Episode 25 • Mar 13, 1961
Trio for Terror
3 stories in this episode. First, a young man kills his uncle, not realizing that his uncle was a warlock. In the second tale, a man breaks the bank at a casino, but may not live through the night. In the third tale, a sculptor/artist shows off his "Chamber of Horrors" of killers, but are they actually sculptures?
Episode 26 • Mar 20, 1961
Papa Benjamin
A composer in need of inspiration turns to Voodoo melodies, but finds himself the victim of a Voodoo curse by Papa Benjamin.
Episode 27 • Apr 03, 1961
Late Date
A brother helps his brother cover up the murder of his philandering wife by framing her lover.
Episode 28 • Apr 10, 1961
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
70 years after the Jack the Ripper killings in London, Sir Guy tries to convince the police that Jack may still be alive, eternally young, and still killing, currently in New York.
Episode 29 • Apr 17, 1961
The Devil's Ticket
An artist "pawns" his soul to the devil and must retrieve it by painting a portrait of another person whose soul will be exchanged for his.
Episode 30 • Apr 24, 1961
Parasite Mansion
A young woman is held captive in a mansion by a family of recluses hiding a supernatural secret.
Episode 31 • May 01, 1961
A Good Imagination
A bookworm uses his good imagination and some storylines from Poe to dispose of his cheating wife's paramours.
Episode 32 • May 08, 1961
Mr. George
Priscilla, a young girl, lives with her scheming relatives who are trying to get hold of her inheritance... and a ghostly protector, Mr. George.
Episode 33 • May 15, 1961
The Terror in Teakwood
A concert pianist, so obsessed by the death of an arch-rival that he desecrates his grave, announces he will play a sonata written especially for the dead man's oversized hands.
Episode 34 • May 22, 1961
Prisoner in the Mirror
A professor studying the depraved sorcerer Count Cagliostro brings to the U.S. the mirror which was instrumental in the Count's murder spree. The looking glass was blacked over to entrap Cagliostro, but Prof. Harry Langton, obsessed with the magician's secrets, scrapes off the paint and installs the mirror in his residence.
Episode 35 • May 29, 1961
Dark Legacy
A second-rate nightclub magician inherits a genuine book of sorcery from his occultist uncle. He uses it to summon a demon to create impossible magic feats for his act but there is a price to pay.
Episode 36 • Jun 05, 1961
Pigeons from Hell
Two stranded motorists and a local sheriff battle evil forces that inhabit a run-down, abandoned mansion in the middle of a swamp in the middle of nowhere.
Episode 37 • Jun 12, 1961
The Grim Reaper
Celebrity author Beatrice Graves purchases a cursed painting of the Grim Reaper; her nephew Paul warns her that most of its previous owners have died violently but she scoffs-until blood appears on the Reaper's blade.
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