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Thriller Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
What Beckoning Ghost?
Mon, Sep 18, 1961 60 mins
Mildred Beaumont, just getting over a heart ailment, begins to have visions of a casket---and hears the ominous sounds of a dirge. Beaumont: Tom Helmore. Lydia: Adele Mara. Detective: Frank Wilcox. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 2
The Guillotine
Tue, Sep 26, 1961 60 mins
Robert Lamont, sentenced to die by guillotine, has one chance: he will live---if his executioner dies. Babette: Danielle de Metz. De Paris: Robert Middleton. Prison Director: Gregory Morton. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 3
The Premature Burial
Mon, Oct 2, 1961 60 mins
"The Premature Burial," Poe's tale of a man buried alive---who survives. Dr. Thorne: Boris Karloff. Stapleton: Sidney Blackmer. Boucher: Scott Marlowe. Victoria: Patricia Medina. March: William Gordon. Friar: Richard Flato.
Episode 4
The Weird Tailor
Mon, Oct 16, 1961 60 mins
Arthur Smith is dead. But his father, who dabbles in black magic, decides to bring him back to life. Erik Borg: Henry Jones. Smith: George Macready. Arthur: Gary Clarke. Nicolai: Abraham Sofaer. Written by Robert Bloch ("Psycho"). Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 5
God Grante That She Lye Stille
Mon, Oct 23, 1961 60 mins
Lady Margaret Elspeth returns to her ancestral home and faces the hostile spirit of an ancestor burned for witchcraft. Stone: Ronald Howard. Van de Velde: Victor Buono. Weatherford: Henry Daniell. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 6
Masquerade
Mon, Oct 30, 1961 60 mins
The honeymooning Denhams (Tom Poston, Elizabeth Montgomery) are held hostage by a man in a Southern mansion. Carta: John Carradine. Lem: Jack Lambert. Ruthie: Dorothy Neumann. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 7
The Last of the Somervilles
Mon, Nov 6, 1961 60 mins
Two things separate Rutherford Somerville from his aunt's money: the aunt herself, and a distant and most unfriendly cousin. Celia: Martita Hunt. Rutherford: Peter Walker. Ursula: Phyllis Thaxter. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 8
Letter to a Lover
Mon, Nov 13, 1961 60 mins
That his wife should have an affair was no surprise to Andrew Lawrence---but he never expected her to end it all with murder. Sylvia: Ann Todd. Lawrence: Murray Matheson. Estelle: Avis Scott. Corey: Felix Deebank. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 9
A Third for Pinochle
Mon, Nov 20, 1961 60 mins
The Pennaroyd sisters don't seem to be able to hold on to their pinochle partners for very long. Melba: Doro Merande. Dierdre: June Walker. Babs: Barbara Perry. Gomez: Ken Lynch. Mrs. Thispin: Ann Shoemaker. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 10
The Closed Cabinet
Mon, Nov 27, 1961 60 mins
In 1580, Dame Alice Mervyn pronounced a grim curse upon her family that threatens the lives of its modern-day members. Eve: Olive Sturgess. Alan: David Frankham. George: Peter Forster. Alice: Doris Lloyd. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 11
Dialogues with Death
Mon, Dec 4, 1961 60 mins
Two one-act dramas: a morgue attendant talks with a murder victim; and a fleeing convict visits his hostile family. Boris Karloff, Ed Nelson, Norma Crane, Estelle Winwood, George Kane.
Episode 12
The Return of Andrew Bentley
Mon, Dec 11, 1961 60 mins
A man inherits his uncle's mansion, on the condition that he check the burial vault daily---to scare away ghosts. Corbett: John Newland. Sheila: Antoinette Bower. Jacob: Ken Renard. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 13
The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk
Mon, Dec 18, 1961 60 mins
Hog breeding comes easy to Cissy Hawks---who has a talent for turning men into pigs. Cissy: Jo Van Fleet. Longfellow: John Carradine. Willetts: Paul Newlan. Johnny: Bruce Dern. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 14
Portrait Without a Face
Mon, Dec 25, 1961 60 mins
Artist Robertson Moffat was murdered, but his last canvas is being completed---from the grave. Ann: Jane Greer. Moffat: John Newland. Henshaw: Robert Webber. Fairchild: Brian Gaffiman. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 15
An Attractive Family
Mon, Jan 1, 1962 60 mins
Dick Farrington and his sister Marian always do everything together---including murder. Bert: Otto Kruger. Major Downey: Leo G. Carroll. Jinny: Joyce Bulifant. Walker: Will Wright. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 16
Waxworks
Mon, Jan 8, 1962 60 mins
A traveling waxworks exhibit seems to attract a fiendish murderer---and the interest of the police. Jacquelin: Oscar Homolka. Annette: Antoinette Bower. Bailey: Booth Colman. Hudson: Ron Ely. Written by Robert Bloch ("Psycho"). Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 17
La Strega
Mon, Jan 15, 1962 60 mins
Tonio, a penniless artist, falls in love with the granddaughter of a vindictive witch. Luana: Ursula Andress. The Witch: Jeanette Nolan. Woman: Rita Conde. Giuliano: Ramon Novarro. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 18
The Storm
Mon, Jan 22, 1962 60 mins
Janet Willsom arrives at her country house during a storm, and is warned that she's in danger if she stays. Willsom: David McLean. Brandies: James Griffith. Woman: Jean Carroll. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 19
A Wig for Miss Devore
Mon, Jan 29, 1962 60 mins
A fading movie queen attempts a comeback with the aid of a wig that transforms the appearance---and character---of its wearer. Meg: Pamela Searle. Sheila: Patricia Barry. Machik: John Baragrey. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 20
The Hollow Watcher
Mon, Feb 12, 1962 60 mins
Ortho Wheeler has a fight with his son Hugo. Hugo is knocked out---and Ortho disappears. Meg Wheeler: Audrey Dalton. Ian O'Danagh: Sean McClory. Mason: Sandy Kenyon. Boris Karloff hosts. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 21
Cousin Tundifer
Mon, Feb 19, 1962 60 mins
Old Pontifex Tundifer plans to stay youthful by marrying Queenie DeLyte---and by moving into a house that plays odd tricks with time. Miles: Edward Andrews. Pontifex: Vaughn Taylor. Queenie: Sue Ane Langdon. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 22
The Incredible Doktor Markesan
Mon, Feb 26, 1962 60 mins
Fred and Molly, a penniless couple, come to live at his uncle's run-down estate, where the old man is involved in sinister experiments. Fred: Dick York. Molly: Carolyn Kearney.
Episode 23
Flowers of Evil
Mon, Mar 5, 1962 60 mins
There's something odd about the skeleton at the medical academy where Madalena works: it bites. Madalena: Luciana Paluzzi. Lunt: Kevin Hagen. Reynard: Jack Weston. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 24
Till Death Do Us Part
Mon, Mar 12, 1962 60 mins
When his shrewish wife threatens to ruin him for his infidelity, an undertaker starts building an oversize casket. Celia: Reta Shaw. Doc: Edgar Buchanan. Myrtle: Jocelyn Brando. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 25
The Bride Who Died Twice
Mon, Mar 19, 1962 60 mins
The Mexican government is rocked by the power play of a psychotic colonel, who wants the president's throne---and his daughter. Consuela: Mala Powers. Vibora: Carl Don. Fernandez: Robert Colbert. De la Varra: Eduardo Ciannelli. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 26
Kill My Love
Mon, Mar 26, 1962 60 mins
Guy Guthrie's mistress Anthea wants him to divorce his wife and marry her. But Guy opts for the status quo---and a scheme to keep Anthea quiet. Dinah: Patricia Breslin. Olive: K.T. Stevens. Anthea: Kasey Rogers. Boris Karloff is the host.
Episode 27
Man of Mystery
Mon, Apr 2, 1962 60 mins
Shady financier Joel Stone intends to make certain that writer Harry Laxer doesn't publish the exposé on him. Sherry: Mary Tyler Moore. Waters: William Windom. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 28
The Innocent Bystanders
Mon, Apr 9, 1962 60 mins
Two men (George Kennedy, John Anderson) have a knack for providing plenty of corpses for research. Evans: Steve Terrell. Elsie: Janet Lake. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 29
The Lethal Ladies
Mon, Apr 16, 1962 60 mins
Two dramas, both dealing with female attempts to exact revenge on men who ill-treated them. Rosemary Murphy, Howard Morris, Marjorie Bennett, Henry Brandt. Host: Boris Karloff.
Episode 30
The Specialists
Mon, Apr 30, 1962 60 mins
Someone wants to question Ray Coleman very much, but someone else wants to prevent it even more: Coleman is dead. Duncan: Lin McCarthy. Gresham: Ronald Howard. Helen: Suzanne Lloyd. Galt: Sean McClory. Boris Karloff is the host. Host: Boris Karloff.
