Thriller Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Thriller: Season 2 (1961 - 1962)

• Season 2 Episode 30: The Specialists

  Diamond smugglers use an innocent girl as a pawn in an international operation. With Lin McCarthy, Sean McClory.

• Season 2 Episode 29: The Lethal Ladies: Murder on the Rocks; Goodbye Dr. Bliss

  A clever woman plots revenge on her adulterous husband; a librarian targets the dictatorial boss who fired her.

• Season 2 Episode 28: The Innocent Bystanders

  Providing corpses for medical research in 1830s New England takes a toll on the population.

• Season 2 Episode 27: Man of Mystery

  A singer (Mary Tyler Moore) discovers the truth about a financier who kills to protect his identity. With William Windom.

• Season 2 Episode 26: Kill My Love

  A man who killed his mistress and wife turns on his only son when the boy learns the truth.

• Season 2 Episode 25: The Bride Who Died Twice

  A woman (Mala Powers) feigns death to escape an arranged marriage but is found out. Directed by Ida Lupino.

• Season 2 Episode 24: Till Death Do Us Part

  An enterprising undertaker (Henry Jones) uses extra-big coffins to dispose of his murdered wives.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Flowers of Evil

  The headmaster (Jack Weston) of France's Academy of Arvonne suspects a skeleton used by medical student belonged to a murder victim.

• Season 2 Episode 22: Incredible Doktor Markesan

  A man (Dick York) observes his sinister uncle (Boris Karloff) reanimating corpses with a secret fluid.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Cousin Tundifer

  A mystical old mansion, already the site of one murder, dispenses justice to a would-be killer.

• Season 2 Episode 20: The Hollow Watcher

  A rural superstition does not stop lovers from using murder to obtain money. With Sean McClory, Warren Oates, Denver Pyle.

• Season 2 Episode 19: A Wig for Miss Devore

  An English witch's wig gives an aging actress (Patricia Barry) youth, beauty and power over her enemies.

• Season 2 Episode 18: The Storm

  On a stormy night, a woman's only companions are her cat and the body of a blonde in the cellar.

• Season 2 Episode 17: La Strega

  A bitter witch (Jeanette Nolan) curses her granddaughter (Ursula Andress) and the girl's lover (Alejandro Rey). Directed by Ida Lupino.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Waxworks

  Two detectives probe deaths that seem to coincide with the arrival of a traveling waxworks.

• Season 2 Episode 15: An Attractive Family

  A family that survives by murder discovers the last victim is more than she appears. With Joyce Bulifant, Leo G. Carroll.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Portrait Without a Face

  An empty canvas fills with a painting of the crossbow slaying of a famous artist. With Jane Greer.

• Season 2 Episode 13: The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk

  The owner (Jo Van Fleet) of an unusual hog farm outwits a trio of hobos and a local sheriff. With John Carradine, Bruce Dern.

• Season 2 Episode 12: The Return of Andrew Bentley

  A demon conceals the remains of a murder victim, then tries to possess the killer. With Antoinette Bower.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Dialogues With Death: Friend of the Dead; Welcome Home

  A morgue attendant's (Boris Karloff) ability to speak to the dead solves a murder; a fugitive reported dead comes home for his loot.

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Closed Cabinet

  An American girl confronts a 300-year-old curse plaguing the descendants of English aristocrats. Directed by Ida Lupino.

• Season 2 Episode 9: A Third for Pinochle

  Eccentric sisters (Doro Merande, June Walker) learn a neighbor's (Edward Andrews) murderous secret and devise a punishment.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Letter to a Lover

  A jealous husband (Murray Matheson) imprisons his wife (Ann Todd), whom he suspects of infidelity and murder.

• Season 2 Episode 7: The Last of the Sommervilles

  Cross and double-cross result when heirs use murder to secure future fortunes. With Boris Karloff.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Masquerade

  Two people (Tom Poston, Elizabeth Montgomery) prove more than a match for a vampire clan. With John Carradine.

• Season 2 Episode 5: God Grante That She Lye Stille

  The spirit of a witch, burned 300 years before, tries to claim the a descendant's body. With Victor Buono.

• Season 2 Episode 4: The Weird Tailor

  A bereaved father (George Macready) tries to resurrect his dead son with black magic.

• Season 2 Episode 3: The Premature Burial

  A gold-digger's plans to marry an elderly man (Sidney Blackmer) yield surprising results.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Guillotine

  In 19th-century France, a wife plans to poison the executioner to save her husband (Alejandro Rey) from the guillotine.

• Season 2 Episode 1: What Beckoning Ghost?

  A husband (Tom Helmore) conspires with his sister to cause his recovering wife's death. Directed by Ida Lupino.

Thriller: Season 1 (1960 - 1961)

• Season 1 Episode 37: The Grim Reaper

  The nephew (William Shatner) of a mystery writer (Natalie Shafer) warns his aunt about the legend of a macabre painting.

• Season 1 Episode 36: Pigeons From Hell

  Brothers (Brandon DeWilde, David Whorf) find terror and death when they shelter in an abandoned Southern mansion.

• Season 1 Episode 35: Dark Legacy

  A nightclub illusionist (Harry Townes) inherits a book containing a formula for summoning demons.

• Season 1 Episode 34: The Prisoner in the Mirror

  An evil magician (Henry Daniell) trapped in a mirror uses the body of a researcher (Lloyd Bochner) to commit murder.

• Season 1 Episode 33: Terror in Teakwood

  An insane pianist (Guy Rolfe) becomes a target for revenge after desecrating his rival's grave.

• Season 1 Episode 32: Mr. George

  A friendly spirit protects a rich girl (Gina Gillespie) from her avaricious relatives.

• Season 1 Episode 31: A Good Imagination

  A betrayed husband (Edward Andrews) plans murder to take revenge on his wife (Patricia Barry) and her lovers.

• Season 1 Episode 30: Parasite Mansion

  A woman (Pippa Scott) discovers the truth about a teenage girl supposedly possessed by an evil spirit. With Jeanette Nolan.

• Season 1 Episode 29: The Devil's Ticket

  An artist (Macdonald Carey) agrees to pawn his soul to the devil for three months, then provide another in exchange.

• Season 1 Episode 28: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

  A man (Guy Williams) theorizes Jack the Ripper still lives, then predicts his next murder.

• Season 1 Episode 27: Late Date

  A man (Larry Pennell) schemes to protect his guilty brother (Edward Platt), who killed his unfaithful wife.

• Season 1 Episode 26: Papa Benjamin

  A musician (John Ireland) stalks the voodoo priest who cursed him for using a voodoo melody as his own.

• Season 1 Episode 25: Trio for Terror

  An heir's murder plan backfires; a gambler has trouble holding on to his winnings; a fugitive finds terror in a wax museum.

• Season 1 Episode 24: The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell

  A brilliant scientist (Robert Vaughn) becomes the tragic victim of his own discovery. With Marlo Thomas.

• Season 1 Episode 23: Well of Doom

  A bachelor party turns into a night of terror for a soon-to-be-wed couple (Ronald Howard, Fintan Meyler).

• Season 1 Episode 22: The Fingers of Fear

  A police lieutenant (Nehemiah Persoff) has doubts about the disturbed suspect in the murders of three little girls.

• Season 1 Episode 21: The Merriweather File

  After a woman is nearly killed, her philandering husband finds a dead body in his car trunk.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Hay-Fork & Bill-Hook

  A Scotland Yard investigator (Kenneth Haigh) encounters Druid rituals when he probes the witchcraft-related murder of a hedge-cutter.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Choose a Victim

  The affair between a handsome beach-bum (Larry Blyden) and an unhappy heiress (Susan Oliver) ends in murder and deception.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Man in the Cage

  An American (Philip Carey) finds danger and political intrigue when he searches for his brother (Guy Stockwell) in Tangiers.

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Poisoner

  An art-loving perfectionist (Murray Matheson) murders his wife's relatives to protect his expensive lifestyle.

• Season 1 Episode 16: The Hungry Glass

  A couple (William Shatner, Joanna Heyes) see faint images in the glass of their old home.

• Season 1 Episode 15: The Cheaters

  Antique eyeglasses that can reveal truth causes madness and death to those who wear them.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Man in the Middle

  A TV writer (Mort Sahl) is an unwitting accomplice in a kidnapping he tried to prevent. With Werner Klemperer, Sue Randall.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Knock Three-One-Two

  A desperate gambler (Joe Maross) sets up his wife (Beverly Garland) as the target of a killer.

• Season 1 Episode 12: The Big Blackout

  A recovering alcoholic (Jack Carson) fears he may have killed someone during a blackout.

• Season 1 Episode 11: The Fatal Impulse

  Police search for a woman unknowingly carrying a bomb. With Mary Tyler Moore. Story by John D. MacDonald.

• Season 1 Episode 10: The Prediction

  An engaged couple (Audrey Dalton, Alex Davion) ignores a psychic's (Boris Karloff) warning of death.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Girl With a Secret

  A bride (Myrna Fahey) faces danger to prevent enemy agents from obtaining her husband's secrets.

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Watcher

  A psychopathic killer (Martin Gabel) stalks two teenage lovers picnicking near their small resort community.

• Season 1 Episode 7: The Purple Room

  Money-hungry cousins (Richard Anderson, Patricia Barry) try to frighten a man (Rip Torn) out of his inheritance.

• Season 1 Episode 6: The Guilty Men

  The head (Frank Dana) of a crime syndicate tries to force his associates to stop dealing in drugs.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Rose's Last Summer

  Avaricious heirs offer a has-been movie actress (Mary Astor) a final role that may end in her death.

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Mark of the Hand

  When a man is fatally shot, the 8-year-old girl found holding the weapon refuses to speak.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Worse Than Murder

  A penniless widow (Constance Ford) is determined to exact revenge against her hated mother-in-law.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Child's Play

  A neglected child (Tommy Nolan) who lives in a fantasy world takes out a real rifle to hunt down a fictional foe.

• Season 1 Episode 1: The Twisted Image

  An advertising executive (Leslie Nielsen) commits two innocent blunders that nearly ruin his life.