Thriller
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
Season 1 Episodes
E1
When the paths of a disturbed young man (consumed with the idea of taking over the life of his boss) and a disturbed you…
E2
A young boy with an unhappy homelife gets dangerously absorbed in his imagination.
E3
A man dies and leaves a diary describing how he and his sister murdered a woman. The sister's unscrupulous daughter-in-l…
E4
An eight-year-old girl is accused of murdering a man and then trying to kill again.
E5
When an aging film actress dies under mysterious circumstances a friend and her former husband try to find out what happ…
E6
The inner workings of a crime syndicate are examined as their mouthpiece lawyer wrestles with his conscience over the fu…
E7
A man who inherits a house from his brother has one night to decide whether or not to stay - if he leaves, his cousins w…
E8
A twisted zealot seeks to kill all those he feels are sinners.
E9
When the wife of a government agent inadvertently discovers the details of one of his missions she becomes a girl with a…
E10
A phony clairvoyant suddenly starts having genuine premonitions. Will he be able to save those closest to him when he se…
E11
A canidate for Mayor is told he won't live through the next day. The police are sent to protect him and we follow their …
E12
A former alcoholic is haunted by a past he can't remember. Will he be able to stay alive long enough to unravel the myst…
E13
A man desparate for money decides to enlist the help of a serial killer in getting the cash he needs from his wife.
E14
A man overhears the kidnapping and murder plot of two unsavory characters and tries to prevent it from being carried out…
E15
A pair of very unusual glasses allow the wearer to see the absolute truth about whatever they look upon. We see what hap…
E16
A young couple buy a run-down, old mansion surrounded with legends about the lack of mirrors and the deaths of many form…
E17
A man in nineteenth century England disposes of his family members one by one - his weapon of choice? - an undetectable …
E18
A man arrives in Tangier looking for his missing brother who seems to have been involved in some shady dealings.
E19
A wealthy girl takes up with a mercenary beachbum. Together they plot to kill her uncle for his money
E20
A young detective is sent to the English countryside to investigate a strange murder. His wife, who has accompanied him,…
E21
When a man discovers a body in the trunk of his car the harder he tries to prove his innocence the more guilty he looks.…
E22
A child murderer is on the loose. A mentally disturbed man is arrested for the crimes, but a determined police lieutenan…
A man is kidnapped on the eve of his wedding and held prisoner by a ghoulish creature claiming to be the devil himself.
E24
A research scientist accidentally discovers a strange gas that penetrates his gas mask and the effects are most bizarre …
E25
Three separate tales: a man murders his uncle for the inheritance, but the uncle is no oridinary man; a man wins a fortu…
E26
A musician tells a strange tale of involvement in a voodoo cult.
E27
When a man murders his adulterous wife his brother attempts to conceal the crime by disposing of the body - but it won't…
E28
A series of brutal murders in the modern-day U.S. mirror those of Jack the Ripper. Sir Guy informs the police of his the…
E29
A starving artist goes to a pawn shop with one of his paintings and ends up pawning his soul to the devil. Will he be ab…
E30
A young teacher is lost during a storm and wakes up to find herself held prisoner in a run-down mansion inhabited by a s…
E31
A book dealer turns to murder over his adulterous wife - taking his methods for killing from classic literature.
E32
A little girl is the sole heir to her mother's fortune and her greedy relatives are out to kill her for her money. What …
E33
A young man's former girlfriend comes to him for help; her husband, a famous pianist, is being terrorized by an unknown …
E34
A professor researching an eighteenth century murderous magician purchases a mirror in Paris only to find the magician's…
E35
The patriarch of a family of magicians dies and leaves his nephew his book of secrets - and it is indeed a dark legacy i…
E36
Two young brothers attempt to spend the night in an abandoned southern plantation and encounter some birds that seem to …
E37
An eccentric mystery writer purchases a ghoulish painting of the grim reaper which happens to have a curse on it - almos…
Cast