ThrillerStagione 2
TV-PG
Hosted by Boris Karloff, this anthology series initially focused on ordinary crime and mystery tales but later delved into gothic horror stories adapted from works by Cornell Woolrich, Robert Bloch, Charlotte Armstrong, and others.
Dove guardare Thriller • Stagione 2
30 Episodi
- The Premature Burial
E3The Premature BurialAn aging millionaire survives being buried alive, but his devilish fiancée plans to take advantage of his next cataleptic seizure, by marrying him and then making sure he stays in his grave. Then the gorgeous Victorine will inherit his estate, and run off with her young lover, a painter. But the cataleptic millionaire and his loyal physician Dr. Thorn take every possible measure to allow him to survive another mistaken entombment. - The Weird Tailor
E4The Weird TailorWhen a scholar, Mr. Smith, inadvertently kills his son Arthur during a mystic magic ritual, he tries to make amends by turning to black magic to resurrect his child. Smith designs a unique suit of unearthly material, and hires a financially-stricken tailor to make it to the unique specifications. Meanwhile, the tailor's abused wife turns to a damaged mannequin for solace. - God Grante That She Lye Stille
E5God Grante That She Lye StilleIn 1661 Elspeth Clewer is burned as a witch, cursing her family with her dying breath. Three hundred years to the day afterward, Lady Margaret Clewer returns to her ancestral home to claim her inheritance and finds the ghost of Elspeth trying to seize her body so she can walk the Earth once more. - The Last of the Sommervilles
E7The Last of the SommervillesDragging a murder victim to burial is just one chore a servant undertakes to become the last Sommerville standing, to win a wealthy old woman's inheritance. As a distant relative, Ursula steps up her elimination contest when a closer, desperate Sommerville arrives to drain off some of his aunt's estate for a business bailout. - Letter to a Lover
E8Letter to a LoverAfter the murder of a London doctor, emotionally disturbed Sylvia Lawrence secretly sends a letter to her ex-lover Donald revealing that her husband Andrew is holding her a virtual prisoner at their remote vacation home; Andrew claims to be protecting her but what is he really hiding? And why is he being blackmailed by the late doctor's nurse? - A Third For Pinochle
E9A Third For PinochleOstensible milquetoast Maynard Thispin plans on killing his cold, overbearing and stingy wife, unaware a pair of nosy sisters across the street have just killed a man themselves. Maynard has a cozy love-nest planned for himself and a young paramour named Babs but his overbearing and penurious wife of 27 years is a hindrance to his plans. So the would-be Lothario hastens his plan of removing Mrs. Thispin from his life. - The Closed Cabinet
E10The Closed CabinetA medieval curse has hung over the Mervyn family for three hundred years, dictating that there will be a murder in the clan in every generation. A young visitor becomes obsessed with breaking the curse by solving the riddle of the mysterious locked cabinet in the murder room. - The Return of Andrew Bentley
E12The Return of Andrew BentleyWhite magic practitioner Amos Wilder kills himself after securing his nephew's sworn promise to guard his body against evil spirits. The nephew must never leave his uncle's mansion, to protect the shire from the return of black necromancer Bentley, cast back to Hell by Wilder. - The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk
E13The Remarkable Mrs. HawkCissy Hawk's farm keeps gaining massive blue ribbon hogs, while the passing drifters she hires magically disappear. Well-read grifter Jason Longfellow figures he'll last a lot longer at her Isle of Aiaie via blackmail, but seductive Cissy keeps local Sheriff Ulysses wound around her finger tighter than a pig's tail. - An Attractive Family
E15An Attractive FamilyFamily that kills together seeks to stay together in style, by icing the heir of one of their victims, before she comes into her inheritance. If the heiress audits the books, she'll discover that the family has already blown her share of the estate. Her newlywed sister was backed off a cliff while having her photo snapped, so the younger sister is understandably leery of heights, but not of her very understanding new in-laws. - La Strega
E17La StregaThree men try to drown a young woman, fearing she's a witch. A wandering painter pulls her from the river, refusing to believe in such rural superstition. The young artist shelters her, but her elderly aunt who rules the 18th Century Italian countryside via supernatural power, plots to keep her niece as a sorcerer's apprentice - no matter what. - The Storm
E18The StormWoman & her jumpy black cat Baba increasingly besieged by amorous loon of a cabbie, power outages, and menacing sounds throughout her isolated home during a devastating storm. The newlywed just returned early from 2 weeks caring for her sister. As she prays for her husband's arrival, she decides to confront strange sounds emanating from the storm cellar. - A Wig For Miss Devore
E19A Wig For Miss DevoreA washed-up actress selects for her comeback vehicle the story of a real woman who was accused of being a witch and susequently hanged. When she purchases the actual wig owned by the real woman an odd change occurs in the actress. It seems the wig holds a strange and hideous power. - Cousin Tundifer
E21Cousin TundiferA killer's descendant plots to quickly inherit what he thinks works rightfully be his, when his ill, rich uncle Pontifex, takes up with Queenie De Lyte, a stripper turned art fancier. Tundifer looks exactly like his evil ancestor, a portrait of whom hangs in the family home, whose expensive renovation may include a portal to a prior century. - The Incredible Doktor Markesan
E22The Incredible Doktor MarkesanA young couple go to stay with an uncle while they look for work in a new town. They find the house run-down and their visit unexpected. Locked in their room at night they become curious about the goings-on in the house, but they could never imagine the true horror of their uncle's nocturnal activities. - 'Til Death Do Us Part
E24'Til Death Do Us PartUndertaker Carl Somers murders his nagging wife so he can head west to marry a wealthy spinster. The joke's on him though: eloping with the old maid gets her disinherited, leaving him with another unwanted wife. A new doctor in town hiding from a murder charge comes in handy at this point. - Man of Mystery
E27Man of MysteryA public relations man writes a book exposing an ex-client, a secretive international financier, is murdered when it's finished. A reporter investigates, but everyone he tries to interview, dies under suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile, the financier gets a comic fired because he's obsessed with ensnaring the funny-man's girlfriend, a leggy nightclub singer.
