Thriller
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Thriller

6.7/10 1960 2 Seasons 67 Episodes Ended

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 2

Season 1 Episodes

S1E1
E1
The Twisted Image
50 min 1960

When the paths of a disturbed young man (consumed with the idea of taking over the life of his boss) and a disturbed you…

S1E2
E2
Child's Play
50 min 1960

A young boy with an unhappy homelife gets dangerously absorbed in his imagination.

S1E3
E3
Worse Than Murder
50 min 1960

A man dies and leaves a diary describing how he and his sister murdered a woman. The sister's unscrupulous daughter-in-l…

S1E4
E4
The Mark of the Hand
50 min 1960

An eight-year-old girl is accused of murdering a man and then trying to kill again.

S1E5
E5
Rose's Last Summer
50 min 1960

When an aging film actress dies under mysterious circumstances a friend and her former husband try to find out what happ…

S1E6
E6
The Guilty Men
50 min 1960

The inner workings of a crime syndicate are examined as their mouthpiece lawyer wrestles with his conscience over the fu…

S1E7
E7
The Purple Room
50 min 1960

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…

S1E8
E8
The Watcher
50 min 1960

A twisted zealot seeks to kill all those he feels are sinners.

S1E9
E9
Girl With a Secret
50 min 1960

When the wife of a government agent inadvertently discovers the details of one of his missions she becomes a girl with a…

S1E10
E10
The Prediction
50 min 1960

A phony clairvoyant suddenly starts having genuine premonitions. Will he be able to save those closest to him when he se…

S1E11
E11
The Fatal Impulse
50 min 1960

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 …

S1E12
E12
The Big Blackout
50 min 1960

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…

S1E13
E13
Knock Three-One-Two
50 min 1960

A man desparate for money decides to enlist the help of a serial killer in getting the cash he needs from his wife.

S1E14
E14
Man in the Middle
50 min 1960

A man overhears the kidnapping and murder plot of two unsavory characters and tries to prevent it from being carried out…

S1E15
E15
The Cheaters
50 min 1960

A pair of very unusual glasses allow the wearer to see the absolute truth about whatever they look upon. We see what hap…

S1E16
E16
The Hungry Glass
50 min 1961

A young couple buy a run-down, old mansion surrounded with legends about the lack of mirrors and the deaths of many form…

S1E17
E17
The Poisoner
50 min 1961

A man in nineteenth century England disposes of his family members one by one - his weapon of choice? - an undetectable …

S1E18
E18
Man in a Cage
50 min 1961

A man arrives in Tangier looking for his missing brother who seems to have been involved in some shady dealings.

S1E19
E19
Choose a Victim
50 min 1961

A wealthy girl takes up with a mercenary beachbum. Together they plot to kill her uncle for his money

S1E20
E20
Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook
50 min 1961

A young detective is sent to the English countryside to investigate a strange murder. His wife, who has accompanied him,…

S1E21
E21
The Merriweather File
50 min 1961

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.…

S1E22
E22
The Fingers of Fear
50 min 1961

A child murderer is on the loose. A mentally disturbed man is arrested for the crimes, but a determined police lieutenan…

E23
Well of Doom
50 min 1961

A man is kidnapped on the eve of his wedding and held prisoner by a ghoulish creature claiming to be the devil himself.

S1E24
E24
The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell
50 min 1961

A research scientist accidentally discovers a strange gas that penetrates his gas mask and the effects are most bizarre …

S1E25
E25
Trio for Terror
50 min 1961

Three separate tales: a man murders his uncle for the inheritance, but the uncle is no oridinary man; a man wins a fortu…

S1E26
E26
Papa Benjamin
50 min 1961

A musician tells a strange tale of involvement in a voodoo cult.

S1E27
E27
Late Date
50 min 1961

When a man murders his adulterous wife his brother attempts to conceal the crime by disposing of the body - but it won't…

S1E28
E28
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
50 min 1961

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…

S1E29
E29
The Devil's Ticket
50 min 1961

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…

S1E30
E30
Parasite Mansion
50 min 1961

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…

S1E31
E31
A Good Imagination
50 min 1961

A book dealer turns to murder over his adulterous wife - taking his methods for killing from classic literature.

S1E32
E32
Mr. George
50 min 1961

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 …

S1E33
E33
Terror in Teakwood
50 min 1961

A young man's former girlfriend comes to him for help; her husband, a famous pianist, is being terrorized by an unknown …

S1E34
E34
The Prisoner in the Mirror
50 min 1961

A professor researching an eighteenth century murderous magician purchases a mirror in Paris only to find the magician's…

S1E35
E35
Dark Legacy
50 min 1961

The patriarch of a family of magicians dies and leaves his nephew his book of secrets - and it is indeed a dark legacy i…

S1E36
E36
Pigeons From Hell
50 min 1961

Two young brothers attempt to spend the night in an abandoned southern plantation and encounter some birds that seem to …

S1E37
E37
The Grim Reaper
50 min 1961

An eccentric mystery writer purchases a ghoulish painting of the grim reaper which happens to have a curse on it - almos…

Cast

Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff
Self - Host

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