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Thriller Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
37 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 1
The Twisted Image
Tue, Sep 13, 196060 mins
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
Child's Play
Tue, Sep 20, 196060 mins
A lonely 11 year old boy, Hank, becomes perilously lost in fantasy, as his parents, Gale and Bart, spar over raising him, then debate separating. In a mountain cabin for the summer, the mother and son battle boredom, while the father pounds out magazine articles in his room. When the writer father is too busy to take his son hunting, Hank (Tommy Nolan of "Buckskin", later a magazine writer) sneaks out on his own with a loaded rifle pursuing the villain of his fantasies -- the wanted outlaw known as Black Bart. Back in the cabin, Hank's mother tells her husband, who just happens to be named Bart, that their son was booted from summer camp for shooting an apple off another camper's head.
Episode 3
Worse Than Murder
Tue, Sep 27, 196060 mins
A diary seems to reveal a murder, impelling a blackmail scheme. A wealthy man ravaged by a recurring nightmare dies, without leaving a will, infuriating his widowed niece-in-law, whose husband squandered everything. The suspicious niece-in-law grabs one of the elderly man's elaborate diaries before the executor can take control of it. The diary implies the nightmare is the murder of an elderly woman by her niece and nephew, via injection. The niece-in-law (Constance Ford) plans to carve a big chunk of the inheritance through blackmail.
Episode 4
The Mark of the Hand
Tue, Oct 4, 196060 mins
A young girl is accused of murder and refuses to speak to anyone ever again.
Episode 5
Rose's Last Summer
Tue, Oct 11, 196060 mins
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
The Guilty Men
Tue, Oct 18, 196060 mins
Syndicate turns almost legit, but debates its don's proposal to cease shipping narcotics, and go above board in 1960. In the Roaring 20's, the leader began by mugging a neighbor to get money to bury his father. Instead, his brother followed their father's advice, becoming a public health physician. Their childhood pal is the mob's lawyer, who struggles to mediate, as his brother's health fails, and the Feds close in.
Episode 7
The Purple Room
Tue, Oct 25, 196060 mins
Heir feels smug about a mandatory night in a haunted mansion - armed with .38 & New York attitude. Otherwise his cousins reap the valuable Bayou property they shared with the deceased. Duncan shrugs off the legend of an ancestor who went mad after accidentally killing her husband, when he fought a ghostly intruder. Duncan's smirky superiority immediately riles the country cousins he's never met, but Duncan feels equally prepared for any spooky tricks from them.
Episode 8
The Watcher
Tue, Nov 1, 196060 mins
Authorities in a resort community cover up the suspicious death of a teenager so tourism doesn't suffer. As summer fades, a deputy sheriff gains permission to quietly investigate the death. Meanwhile a rigid, controlling teacher visiting for the season, grows increasingly disturbed as he spies on the secret relationship between a young neighbor and a boatyard manager, who are both already squirming under the power of adults in the small town.
Episode 9
Girl with a Secret
Tue, Nov 15, 196060 mins
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
The Prediction
Tue, Nov 22, 196060 mins
An elderly stage mentalist makes no pretense that his clairvoyant act is purely for entertainment. But one night he is seized with a vision of a death in the boxing ring. He sends the father of his beautiful stage assistant to warn the manager of the ill-fated boxer, but the bounder makes a bet on his prediction instead and wins big. The whole thing has everyone in the theater spooked. Meanwhile, the mentalist has other visions of death and especially fears for the safety of his assistant, who wants to get married and leave town. Her skeptical fiancé thinks the old man has greedy motives for delivering a dire warning about a twisted road sign, but his predictions are all proving horribly true.
Episode 11
The Fatal Impulse
Tue, Nov 29, 196060 mins
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
The Big Blackout
Tue, Dec 6, 196060 mins
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
Knock Three-One-Two
Tue, Dec 13, 196060 mins
A man in need of money enlists the help of a serial killer to get the money from his wife.
Episode 14
Man in the Middle
Tue, Dec 20, 196030 mins
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
The Cheaters
Tue, Dec 27, 196060 mins
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
The Hungry Glass
Tue, Jan 3, 196150 mins
A married couple moves into a house that is haunted by images reflected in glass and mirrors.
Episode 17
The Poisoner
Tue, Jan 10, 196160 mins
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
Man in the Cage
Tue, Jan 17, 196160 mins
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
Choose a Victim
Tue, Jan 24, 196160 mins
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
Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook
Tue, Feb 7, 196160 mins
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
The Merriweather File
Tue, Feb 14, 196160 mins
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
The Fingers of Fear
Tue, Feb 21, 196160 mins
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
Well of Doom
Tue, Feb 28, 196160 mins
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
The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell
Tue, Mar 7, 196160 mins
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
Trio for Terror
Tue, Mar 14, 196160 mins
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
Papa Benjamin
Tue, Mar 21, 196160 mins
A composer in need of inspiration turns to Voodoo melodies, but finds himself the victim of a Voodoo curse by Papa Benjamin.
Episode 27
Late Date
Tue, Apr 4, 196160 mins
A brother helps his brother cover up the murder of his philandering wife by framing her lover.
Episode 28
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
Tue, Apr 11, 196160 mins
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
The Devil's Ticket
Tue, Apr 18, 196160 mins
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
Parasite Mansion
Tue, Apr 25, 196160 mins
A young woman is held captive in a mansion by a family of recluses hiding a supernatural secret.
Episode 31
A Good Imagination
Tue, May 2, 196160 mins
Bookstore owner Frank Logan has a problem with his wife, Louise, and her numerous marital flings. Fortunately, Frank believes he's found the perfect solution to his problem. His beloved collection of books give him ideas on how to take care of Louise and her paramours for good.
Episode 32
Mr. George
Tue, May 9, 196160 mins
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
The Terror in Teakwood
Tue, May 16, 196150 mins
Erratic, talented pianist Vladimir Vicek cuts short his honeymoon with his beautiful wife Leonie in order to attend the funeral of arch-rival Carnowitz. He bribes a caretaker to gain access to the dead man's crypt and desecrates the corpse. When the pianist's upcoming concert programme's announced in the states, Leoniie contacts Jerry Welch, a former lover and asks him to secretly help her find out what's actually going on with her husband. Jerry's able to secure a position as Vicek's tour manager. One highlight of Vicek's tour is he plans to perform a sonata, written by Carnowitz specifically for his oversized hands, and Vivek will play this hitherto unheard composition, which no one believes he's physically capable of playing. Just before the concert, the graveyard's caretaker appears and will tell Welch what he saw in the graveyard if he'll give him a lot of money. If not, he says what he's got to say will put Vicek on death row.
Episode 34
Prisoner in the Mirror
Tue, May 23, 196160 mins
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
Dark Legacy
Tue, May 30, 196160 mins
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
Pigeons from Hell
Tue, Jun 6, 196130 mins
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
The Grim Reaper
Tue, Jun 13, 196160 mins
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.