"Thriller" - 1960s TV Show.
Some great episodes from "Thriller," including a few moments that are genuinely creepy! Boris Karloff is okay as the show's host but he lacks the entertainment factor that Alfred Hitchcock provides.
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- StarsBoris KarloffRichard PeelHenry DaniellExperience the complete series of the show that was hailed as the most frightening ever created for television--now available for the first time.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsBoris KarloffLeslie NielsenGeorge GrizzardBusiness 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.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsBoris KarloffFrank OvertonBethel LeslieAn 11-year-old boy neglected by his father gets so caught up in his fantasy world that he takes a real rifle to hunt down his made-up enemy, the evil Black Bart.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsBoris KarloffConstance FordJohn BaragreyWhen her dead husband's late uncle fails to leave her any money, a scheming temptress uses his diary to blackmail her sick mother-in-law, who may have committed murder.
- DirectorPaul HenreidStarsBoris KarloffMona FreemanJessie Royce LandisA young girl is accused of murder and refuses to speak to anyone ever again.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsBoris KarloffMary AstorLin McCarthyAn aging actress is mysteriously found dead in a family's garden, and they may know more about her death than they will admit.
- DirectorJules BrickenStarsBoris KarloffEverett SloaneJay C. FlippenA mobster tries to get his syndicate out of the narcotics business, but his mouthpiece lawyer half-unwittingly betrays him to a rival.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsBoris KarloffRip TornPatricia BarryA practical-minded skeptic must stay in the spooky Baton Rouge mansion his brother willed to him for one night or forfeit it to his cousin and her husband, who warn him of ghosts.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffMartin GabelStuart ErwinA schoolteacher and religious hypocrite takes a creepy interest in a handsome 20-year-old and the girl supposedly corrupting him. He murders her, but then discovers the young man has a more serious interest in another "corrupter".
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsBoris KarloffFay BainterPaul HartmanA 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.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffAudrey DaltonAlexander DavionA fake mentalist suddenly has visions of people's violent deaths and attempts to stop them from coming true.
- DirectorGerald MayerStarsBoris KarloffRobert LansingWhitney BlakeA 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.
- DirectorMaurice GeraghtyStarsBoris KarloffJack CarsonCharles McGrawA 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.
- DirectorHerman HoffmanStarsBoris KarloffJoe MarossBeverly GarlandA man in need of money enlists the help of a serial killer to get the money from his wife.
- DirectorFletcher MarkleStarsBoris KarloffMort SahlWerner KlempererA 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.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffMildred DunnockHarry TownesA 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.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsBoris KarloffWilliam ShatnerJoanna HeyesA married couple moves into a house that is haunted by images reflected in glass and mirrors.Excellent.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffMurray MathesonSarah MarshallLondon 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.
- DirectorGerald MayerStarsBoris KarloffPhilip CareyDiana MillayAn American comes to Tangier to search for his missing brother and becomes embroiled in the search for a missing cache of heroin.
- DirectorRichard CarlsonStarsBoris KarloffLarry BlydenSusan OliverA 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.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffKenneth HaighAudrey DaltonOn 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.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffJames GregoryBethel LeslieAfter 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.
- DirectorJules BrickenStarsBoris KarloffNehemiah PersoffRobert MiddletonThe 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.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffRonald HowardHenry DaniellFiendish 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.
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsBoris KarloffRobert VaughnKathleen CrowleyIn 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.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsBoris KarloffReginald OwenJohn Abbott3 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?
- DirectorTed PostStarsBoris KarloffJohn IrelandJeanne BalA composer in need of inspiration turns to Voodoo melodies, but finds himself the victim of a Voodoo curse by Papa Benjamin.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffLarry PennellEdward PlattA brother helps his brother cover up the murder of his philandering wife by framing her lover.
- DirectorRay MillandStarsBoris KarloffJohn WilliamsDonald Woods70 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.Does justice to Robert Bloch's story.
- DirectorJules BrickenStarsBoris KarloffMacdonald CareyPatricia MedinaAn 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.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffPippa ScottJeanette NolanA young woman is held captive in a mansion by a family of recluses hiding a supernatural secret.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffEdward AndrewsPatricia BarryA bookworm uses his good imagination and some storylines from Poe to dispose of his cheating wife's paramours.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsBoris KarloffVirginia GreggHoward FreemanPriscilla, a young girl, lives with her scheming relatives who are trying to get hold of her inheritance... and a ghostly protector, Mr. George.
- DirectorPaul HenreidStarsBoris KarloffGuy RolfeHazel CourtA concert pianist, so obsessed by the death of an arch-rival that he desecrates his grave, announces he will play a sonata written especially for the dead man's oversized hands.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffLloyd BochnerMarion RossA 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.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffHarry TownesIlka WindishA 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.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsBoris KarloffBrandon De WildeCrahan DentonTwo 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.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffWilliam ShatnerNatalie SchaferCelebrity 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.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsBoris KarloffJudith EvelynTom HelmoreA woman sees her own coffin and questions her sanity. No one else sees it or hears a phantom organ in their spooky mansion. Housebound with a weak heart, tended by her sexy younger sister and ne'er-do-well husband, nothing is as it seems.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsBoris KarloffRobert MiddletonDanielle De MetzFrance, 1875. A condemned man learns of a legal loophole allowing him to be pardoned if the executioner dies before his execution. He then enlists his wife in a scheme to make sure that this improbable scenario comes to pass.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsBoris KarloffSidney BlackmerScott MarloweAn 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.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffHenry JonesGeorge MacreadyA man seeks to resurrect his son by using a suit crafted using black magic.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffRonald HowardSarah MarshallIn 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.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffElizabeth MontgomeryTom PostonA family of cannibalistic thieves menace a married couple, the Denhams, but Mr. Denham (Tom Poston) laughs off the scary Southern hotel as a joke. The Denhams became lost on a second honeymoon and sought shelter in a spooky hotel, but were quickly locked in by the Carta family. Beautiful Rosamond Denham (Elizabeth Montgomery) is appalled to find the Cartas have a private jail cell, containing haggard female relative Ruth Carta, who pleads for Rosamond to release her.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsBoris KarloffPhyllis ThaxterMartita HuntDragging 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.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffAnn ToddMurray MathesonAfter 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?
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffEdward AndrewsDoro MerandeMilquetoast Maynard plans on killing his wife, unaware that a pair of nosy sisters across the street have just killed one of their husbands. Maynard has a cozy love-nest for himself and his paramour Babs but his penurious wife interferes with these philandering ways, so the would-be Lothario hastens his plan of removing his wife from his life.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsOlive SturgessDavid FrankhamJennifer RaineA 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 American visitor is determined to break the curse by solving the riddle of the mysterious locked cabinet in the murder room.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffNorma CraneEd NelsonTwo tales of terror centering on communicating with the dead. In the first, an elderly morgue attendant can speak to the cadavers in his charge and he learns the identity of the gunman who killed a noted racketeer. In the second story, a greedy nephew returns to his family home in the Lousiana bayou to claim his inheritance but why does his dotty old aunt insist that he is dead?
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsBoris KarloffJohn NewlandAntoinette BowerWhite 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.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffJo Van FleetJohn CarradineCissy 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.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsBoris KarloffJane GreerRobert WebberSix months after an artist is mysteriously murdered, a blank canvas in his studio begins filling itself in, portraying the crime and building up to the revelation of the killer's identity.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffRichard LongLeo G. CarrollFamily 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.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffOscar HomolkaMartin KosleckA murder outside a traveling wax museum attracts the attention of the police--and a European detective who claims that the wax figures of murderers are brought to life by black magic so they can kill again.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsBoris KarloffUrsula AndressAlejandro ReyAfter a young woman and her penniless lover defy her her grandmother's wishes, the old lady uses witchcraft to make their lives unpleasant
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffNancy KellyDavid McLeanWoman & 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.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffPatricia BarryJohn BaragreyAn aging actress tries for a comeback in a film about a witch hanged for murder. As a stunt she insists on wearing the historical woman's wig, which turns out to be cursed, changing her into a literal man-killer.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsBoris KarloffAudrey DaltonSean McCloryAn Irish mail-order bride marries into a family in North Carolina, with a scheme to steal their hidden fortune. She murders her autocratic father-in-law and hides his body inside a scarecrow--but the vengeful scarecrow is now stalking her.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffEdward AndrewsSue Ane LangdonA 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.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsBoris KarloffDick YorkCarolyn KearneyPenniless Fred Bancroft, along with his new wife Molly, visits a sinister uncle he hasn't seen in years in hopes of living rent-free in his musty, decaying mansion.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffLuciana PaluzziKevin HagenA faithless wife and her lover murder her husband and sell his skeleton to a medical school. The skeleton keeps returning, however--and screaming.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffHenry JonesJim DavisUndertaker 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.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsBoris KarloffMala PowersEduardo CiannelliIn a Latin American country, a sinister Colonel forces the Governor's daughter to marry him but she dies on their wedding night-or does she?
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffRichard CarlsonPatricia BreslinFamily man Guy Guthrie murders his mistress when she threatens to expose him, and then his wife when she figures out what he's done. But what will he do about his beloved teenage son when the boy begins to figure out his father had killed his mother?
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsBoris KarloffMary Tyler MooreJohn van DreelenA 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.
- DirectorJohn EnglishStarsBoris KarloffJohn AndersonGeorge KennedyJacob Grant and John Paterson, a pair of Victorian-era bodysnatchers, turn to murder to supplement their income. First they take Grant's visiting sister-in-law, then set their sights on the unsuspecting boarders.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsBoris KarloffHoward MorrisRosemary Murphy2 twisted tales of timid people hitting their breaking point. A philandering investor dreams of independence from his wife, a wealthy, bold geologist, but when his latest scheme plummets down the big board, Myron plots murder. Alice Quimby's entire life is her work at a university library, but she's passed over to be chief librarian, in favor of Dr. Wilford Bliss, a martinet who's going to clean house, forcing her out before she can collect her pension.
- DirectorTed PostStarsBoris KarloffLin McCarthyRobert DouglasAn elite team of federal agents is formed to take down an international ring of jewel thieves.