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32 Episodes 1963 - 1964
Episode 1
Fri, Sep 27, 196351 mins
A patient at a mental hospital kills the head doctor and takes over, replacing the staff with fellow patients. Things get complicated when the niece of the real doctor makes an unexpected visit.
Episode 2
Fri, Oct 4, 196360 mins
A successful Hollywood actor convinces his lover to kill her abusive husband, then makes a phone call.
Episode 3
Fri, Oct 11, 196360 mins
A small town is rocked by a series of murders which begins with the killing of a local farmer's son.
Episode 4
Fri, Oct 18, 196360 mins
A woman becomes the target of her murderous spouse after she finds a button from one of his victims.
Episode 5
Fri, Oct 25, 196348 mins
Racketeer Harney gives Derry a contract to eliminate Breech whose wife Connie is paraplegic. Derry meets Connie in a bar, helping her to play a tune on the jukebox. Sympathizing with Connie, Derry decides, for a price, to fake Breech's death by buying a mortuary corpse and staging an automobile accident. Derry then expects Breech and Connie to abscond to Mexico City.
Episode 6
Fri, Nov 8, 196360 mins
A small town sheriff investigates the disappearance of the wife of a man who has been acting suspiciously according to his nosy neighbors.
Episode 7
Fri, Nov 15, 196348 mins
Miles Crawford, a former movie star, is now a successful attorney. When his young son Tod is charged with first-degree murder, he hires the best criminal lawyer, but then convinces Tod that he should represent him at trial. His closing argument is an impassioned performance, bringing applause from spectators. Then the judge calls the attorneys into his chambers. The prosecutor has discovered some startling new evidence that may affect the case.
Episode 8
Fri, Nov 29, 196360 mins
Medical student Doc Carroll decides to play a practical joke on his drunken roommate, Skip. He plants a cadaver from the medical school in Skip's bed and convinces him he killed their friend, Ruby. The joke works much better than Doc had hoped.
Episode 9
Fri, Dec 6, 196360 mins
A wall separating the innocent from the guilty is perilously breached when ex-cons mistakenly steal radioactive cobalt, then abandon it. Thinking the cobalt container hides industrial diamonds, they open it in their front, an auto repair shop, endangering the neighborhood. As they lie low, before fleeing to Mexico, only the youngest of the trio is concerned about the neighbors, especially a female shopkeeper he cares for. Fear mounts, as the mechanic who pried open the Pandora's box, grows ill, and the FBI tracks the radioactivity.
Episode 10
Fri, Dec 13, 196360 mins
The husband of a successful actress suddenly returns after being thought dead for years. He demands again to become a part of her life, now that she's a success. Things get complicated when she accidentally kills him after he attacks her.
Episode 11
Fri, Dec 20, 196348 mins
Gerald Swinney's wife Edith is a termagant who refuses to agree to a divorce, so he devises a scheme to get rid of her. He becomes so desperate that friends and neighbors are concerned that he might commit suicide. To irritate his wife, he buys a couple of rats to put in the kitchen. When Edith buys rat poison, Gerald gives her a note that seems suicidal, enticing her to try poisoning him. After adding rat poison to his hot cocoa drink one night, she reports his death the next morning, but the police are surprised to find him asleep in bed. After Edith is prosecuted for attempted murder and sentenced to five years in prison, Gerald visits a stripper named Rosie Feather who has been the object of his desire since first planning to rid himself of Edith and they make a date for a romantic evening. Unfortunately, before the date can take place, Gerald is approached by the lonely woman who sold him the rats as she has her own plans for him.
Episode 12
Fri, Jan 3, 196448 mins
Raymond Brown has wives in Baltimore, Newark, Hartford, and Boston. His wealthiest wife, Marion, is also the oldest. She visits the other wives using subterfuges but based on the bigamy. Seemingly befriending the innocent younger women, she kills each by lacing a drink with cyanide so Mr. Brown will be all hers. When he discovers she is responsible, he threatens to tell the police, but she reminds him that he is a bigamist with motive for the murders. She also reminds him there's a creepy deep hole excavated in their basement into which he has fallen once before. She tells him the choice is his.
Episode 13
Fri, Jan 10, 196460 mins
Steven Grainger gives his son Tony money for his birthday, and takes the little boy to a remote magic store in town, where Tony can spend his money. The owner, Mr. Dulong, sees a promising future in the youngster, and offers to teach him all he knows about "real" magic. Tony's eyes fill with delight and stepping into a cabinet, he promptly disappears. Dulong then vanishes as well, leaving Mr. Grainger stranded in the streets, searching for his son. Strangely enough, the magic shop has vanished, along with Tony.
Episode 14
Fri, Jan 24, 196460 mins
An heiress finally finds a young man who loves her for herself instead of her money. After he dies in a Bolivian mine explosion, she tries to regain contact with him through an Indian mystic.
Episode 15
Fri, Jan 31, 196448 mins
Marcia Fowler is sunbathing on her patio when she spots a new neighbor, Roy Bullock, staring at her. Frightened, she calls the police, who take her to the Bullock house and warn Roy to stay away from her. She also asks her husband, Jack, to admonish Roy, but Jack finds Roy to be a nice fellow. Roy befriends their son, 12-year-old Stevie Fowler. Marcia begins getting obscene telephone calls and blames them on Roy. When Jack and Stevie take a flight to San Francisco, Roy visits Marcia to leave a gift for Stevie and to chide her for her infidelity. Panicked, she overreacts, and soon regrets her rashness.
Episode 16
Fri, Feb 7, 196448 mins
A woman and her accomplice scan the news for the names of the war's recent dead or missing. She contacts those families whose addresses indicate wealth, assuring them that she can communicate with their lost loved ones. One rich man is so appreciative of the medium's ability to "speak" with his dead son that he invites her to move into his home so that she can be available for sessions at any time. While her accomplice presses her to finish milking the man so that they can move on, the scam artist decides to urge the man to thoughts of marriage. The grieving father does indeed have in mind a more permanent union of the medium, himself, and his son.
Episode 17
Fri, Feb 14, 196448 mins
A carnival barker sells a jar containing a mysterious, hairy, octopus-like mass to Charlie Hill of Wilder's Hollow for $12.25. He shows it to his wife Thedy, who hates it. Soon everyone from miles around comes to look at the jar and wonder what is inside. Thedy and her paramour, Tom Carmody, conspire with Jahdoo, paying him $1 to steal the jar and shatter it at Heron Swamp. Charlie hurries to the swamp, but gets trapped in quicksand. Jahdoo speculates on the contents of the jar before rescuing Charlie and returning the jar. When Charlie gets home, Thedy tries to break the jar with a spoon. Charlie grabs the spoon and nearly attacks Thedy with it, so she runs away. When she comes back, she says that she visited the carnival, and the carny boss told her the jar is full of junk--wire, clay, paper, cotton, yarn, inner tube, doll's eyes, and silk. Thedy says she will tell everyone, but Charlie likes his new popularity.
Episode 18
Fri, Feb 21, 196460 mins
A prisoner at a state prison work camp plans a clever escape with the help of the aging, alcoholic, cigarette-smoking fellow convict who's in charge of making coffins and burying the camp's deceased.
Episode 19
Fri, Mar 6, 196460 mins
A struggling actor auditioning in London learns that the actress-girlfriend who dumped him is now married to the play's backer, a rich diamond merchant. They soon rekindle their romance and conceive a plot to get her out of her marriage.
Episode 20
Fri, Mar 13, 196448 mins
James Parkerson is a professor and dean of psychology. He places a classified ad in the newspaper offering to help husbands and wives who want to be relieved of their spouses, ostensibly to conduct research. The editor calls him into the newspaper office for a meeting with a police detective, who suspects him of offering murder for hire. The ad is discontinued, but he receives 20 responses. The first responder is Bingham, a real hit man, who wants all of Parkerson's referrals. The second responder is Robert Johnson, with whom Doris Parkerson is having an adulterous affair. Bingham plans to kill Mrs. Parkerson, but Johnson gets in the way.
Episode 21
Fri, Mar 20, 196460 mins
An attorney helps a client threatened by an unstable woman who blames her for a broken wedding engagement.
Episode 22
Fri, Mar 27, 196448 mins
Dave Snowden elopes with wealthy Bonnie Daniels, and Mr. Spencer sees them break into the abandoned old estate where Bonnie lived until age six. Mr. Spencer informs Bonnie's mother, Mrs. Daniels, who finds Snowden struggling to open a mysterious locked door on the upper floor. Mrs. Daniels annuls the marriage, because Bonnie's true age is only 17, not 19, as Dave was told. Three weeks later, when Bonnie reaches majority, she rejoins Dave, and they consummate nuptials, but Mrs. Daniels will not release Bonnie's trust fund until she is 25.
Episode 23
Fri, Apr 3, 196460 mins
A notorious but ethical auto thief and his gang steal a Rolls-Royce, unaware that the trunk contains the body of a woman who was murdered by her husband.
Episode 24
Fri, Apr 10, 196448 mins
Gerald Musgrove shoots and kills a night watchman while stealing $100,000 from a bank. On the street nearby, while eluding police, he meets elderly Emmy Rice, and befriends her. Since he is on parole, he must launder the loot, so he stows it in some of Emmy's old magazines. Gerald then prods impoverished Emmy into writing a will, awarding all money found in her apartment to himself. He tries to murder Emmy three times, but she survives, and arranges for the arrest of Milly Musgrove for attempting to gas her to death. Gerald is apprehended too, when he realizes that Emmy gave all her magazines to a junk collector, and blurts admissions of guilt. Emmy, however, kept one magazine in cold storage, containing all of the purloined bills.
Episode 25
Fri, Apr 17, 196448 mins
Bruce Richmond marries Lorna, niece of wealthy Adelaide Snow. Lorna must wait another year for her inheritance, so Bruce forges several checks from Adelaide's account to cover his gambling debts. When Adelaide finds out, Bruce locks her in her home's walk-in safe (which has a limited air supply), and tells Lorna that her aunt went to Connecticut to visit a friend for the weekend. Lorna accepts his explanation, but wonders who is taking care of Adelaide's cats.
Episode 26
Fri, May 1, 196448 mins
The Commissioner of Recreation & Parks receives three life-threatening letters in one week, complaining about the method by which art is selected for museum display. When James Bellington enters City Hall with a breadbox-sized package and runs from a lobby policeman, he is apprehended, but the parcel only contains an alarm clock. Bellington is sent to Dr. Glover, a psychiatrist, who labels him a paranoid with homicidal or suicidal tendencies. Bellington delivers two shoeboxes to the art museum, but shows the bomb squad that they only contain art supplies. In a bistro, he tells an undercover policewoman that he plans to bring a dangerous device to the museum. When he arrives with his finger on a button atop a box possibly filled with explosive, police clear the museum. Then Bellington rendezvous with his confederates, art thieves, who have already replaced five paintings with his forgeries.
Episode 27
Fri, May 8, 196448 mins
A group of studio executives and a leading lady (Gia Scala) view a screening of a black mass, and are impressed by the performance of Karl Jorla. They want him for the lead in their next horror picture, so they fly him into Hollywood from France. They need to arrange for publicity but Jorla refuses, saying that the film they observed was of him as the real-life arch-priest of a group of devil worshipers who will track him down and kill him. The studio tries to protect him, but he trusts no one. He disappears, then suddenly emerges three days later in a scene with the leading lady, cryptically mumbling the address in Topanga Canyon where he may be located. The police find his murdered corpse, but an autopsy reveals that he has been dead for at least three days.
Episode 28
Fri, May 15, 196448 mins
Eddie Turtin discovers that his friend and business partner, Charlie Osgood, has fraudulently defalcated at least $60,000 from their company, and warns him that if he does not repay the money promptly, criminal charges will be pressed that should result in a 35-year prison sentence. Charlie concocts a plan with his girlfriend Danielle to fake his death, placing a dummy in public view on a pier. The dummy appears to jump suicidally, then a violent explosion destroys the body. Charlie and Danielle plan to abscond with $89,000 stowed in a company filing cabinet. But the best laid plans often don't go as planned.
Episode 29
Fri, May 22, 196448 mins
George Maxwell takes a cab for a late-night meeting with his old girlfriend, showgirl Adele Beaumont, only to discover that she is dead. The next morning her murder is front-page news. The cab driver, Sam Kirby, remembers Maxwell, because he couldn't break a $20 bill. Kirby comes to his office, and makes a blackmail demand. He tells his wife Mavis about the threat, and she tells him to set up a meeting with Kirby at the house. When she offers Kirby a molasses cookie, she pulls a pistol from the plate, and kills Kirby. George and Mavis plant Kirby's body in a new rose tree bed. Then Mavis reveals that she killed Adele. Next morning in his office, his secretary, Ms. Hinchley, asks for a raise, and for more personal attention. She has a tape recording of Maxwell's conversation with Kirby, because Mavis' father, company president Alva Hardwicke, put a bug in the office. Maxwell immediately calls his wife, and tells her to prepare the garden for another bed of roses.
Episode 30
Fri, May 29, 196448 mins
Attorney Ned Murray wins traveling salesman Lew Rydell a not guilty verdict in a murder trial. An hour later, Rydell tells Murray that he murdered the victim, a delivery boy, because he flirted with his wife, Melanie. Murray wants justice and threatens to go to the D.A., contrary to the admonishment of his senior partner, H.E. Osterman, and Osterman's daughter, Karen, Murray's fiancée. Murray also confronts Melanie about Lew's guilt, inflaming Lew's jealousy. Murray has a rather shady friend, Tony Hardeman, who offers to personally administer capital punishment to Lew. Murray discusses the case with Judge Arthur, and decides to leave Lew alone, but rushes to the Rydell apartment, only to discover that Lew has killed Tony. Murray offers to defend Lew at his next murder trial.
Episode 31
Fri, Jun 5, 196460 mins
After serving a prison sentence, a man romances the woman whose false testimony got him convicted.
Episode 32
Fri, Jul 3, 196448 mins
A domineering wife is suspected of murdering her husband when the body of an unrecognizable man is found buried in her barn.