Thriller - Season 1
Thriller - Season 1
1960
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
TV Season
Season 1 - Anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff that originally told ordinary tales of crime and mystery, but later became a showcase for gothic horror stories, many of which were based on works by authors such as Cornell Woolrich, Robert Bloch and Charlotte Armstrong. (imdb)
Directed by:
Ida Lupino
86 total credits
Credits include: High Sierra, The Hitch-Hiker and On Dangerous Ground
64 total credits
Credits include: The Twilight Zone, Hangover Square, The Lodger, The Locket and The Mad Magician
26 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, Winchester 73, The Light in the Forest, The Victim and The Door Without a Key
42 total credits
Credits include: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, One Step Beyond, Thriller and Crawlspace
Starring:
Boris Karloff
127 total credits
Boris Karloff, whose real name was William Henry Pratt, was an English-born actor who emigrated to Canada in 1909. Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939). His popularity following Frankenstein was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or "Karloff the Uncanny"... (wikipedia)
43 total credits
Credits include: The Great Dictator, Witness for the Prosecution, The Philadelphia Story, The Body Snatcher and Lust for Life
84 total credits
Credits include: The Sword in the Stone, Batman, Marnie, The Court Jester and Criss Cross
17 total credits
Credits include: Separate Tables, Titanic, Mr. Sardonicus, The Monster That Challenged the World and My Cousin Rachel
43 total credits
Credits include: The Time Machine, The Letter, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Tarzan the Ape Man and My Name Is Julia Ross
12 total credits
Credits include: 101 Dalmatians, Tales of Terror, Return of the Fly, Master of the World and Thriller
27 total credits
Credits include: Sea of Love, Kitten with a Whip, Playback, Crowhaven Farm and The Tattooed Stranger
26 total credits
Credits include: What's the Matter with Helen?, The Three Stooges in Orbit, Homebodies, The Balcony and The Four of Us Are Dying
9 total credits
Credits include: The Notorious Landlady, Judgment Night, Thriller, I Was a Teenage Thumb and Hill 256
13 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, The Brain Center at Whipple's, Pirates of Tripoli, Prisoners of the Casbah and Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am?
8 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, Static, Revenge and My Fair Ernest T. Bass
Ratings & Reviews
The Twisted Image (1960) - S1E1
Business 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. (imdb)
Child's Play (1960) - S1E2
An 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. (imdb)
Worse Than Murder (1960) - S1E3
When 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. (imdb)
The Mark of the Hand (1960) - S1E4
A young girl is accused of murder and refuses to speak to anyone ever again. (imdb)
Rose's Last Summer (1960) - S1E5
An aging actress is mysteriously found dead in a family's garden, and they may know more about her death than they will admit. (imdb)
The Guilty Men (1960) - S1E6
A mobster tries to get his syndicate out of the narcotics business, but his mouthpiece lawyer half-unwittingly betrays him to a rival. (imdb)
The Purple Room (1960) - S1E7
A 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. (imdb)
The Watcher (1960) - S1E8
A 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". (imdb)
Girl with a Secret (1960) - S1E9
A 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. (imdb)
The Prediction (1960) - S1E10
A sham mentalist starts having visions of death. One by one the predictions start coming true.
The Fatal Impulse (1960) - S1E11
Police are tasked with keeping a politician safe, but their job becomes much more difficult when a bomb is on the loose... in a woman's handbag.
The Big Blackout (1960) - S1E12
A recovering alcoholic grapples with his past when he realizes he may have gotten himself into a lot of trouble during a few drunken years.
Knock Three-One-Two (1960) - S1E13
A man with gambling debts gets desperate enough to perhaps kill his own wife. But, he'll need an alibi.
Man in the Middle (1960) - S1E14
A man overhears a kidnapping plot, but is discovered. He has to decide what, if anything, to do with this information.
The Cheaters (1960) - S1E15
A pair of glasses (cheaters) allows someone to see the truth about themselves or those around them, but is the truth something you really want to know?
The Hungry Glass (1961) - S1E16
Tragedy befalls a woman in a mansion obsessed with herself and her room of mirrors. A young couple buys the house, which has had its mirrors removed. They husband is a Korean war vet struggling with PTSD. When he starts seeing things he can't tell if the house is haunted or it's just his own mind that is fracturing.
The Poisoner (1961) - S1E17
A writer, painter, and all-around artist starts dabbling in poison to solve his problems.
Man in the Cage (1961) - S1E18
A man comes to Morocco to try to find his brother, but finds himself mixed up in several plots. They want THE LETTER. Who can he trust?
Choose a Victim (1961) - S1E19
A beach carny looks to first con a girl, then opts for a much riskier crime: murdering the girl's uncle to protect their secret romance.
Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook (1961) - S1E20
On 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.
The Merriweather File (1961) - S1E21
Someone is trying to murder Ann Merriweather. Her husband, meanwhile, has to worry about being framed for a successful murder.
The Fingers of Fear (1961) - S1E22
The 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.
Well of Doom (1961) - S1E23
Fiendish 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.
The Ordeal of Mr. Cordell (1961) - S1E24
In 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.
Trio for Terror (1961) - S1E25
3 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?
Papa Benjamin (1961) - S1E26
A composer in need of inspiration turns to Voodoo melodies, but finds himself the victim of a Voodoo curse by Papa Benjamin.
Late Date (1961) - S1E27
A brother helps his brother cover up the murder of his philandering wife by framing her lover.
70 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.
The Devil's Ticket (1961) - S1E29
An 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.
Parasite Mansion (1961) - S1E30
A young woman is held captive in a mansion by a family of recluses hiding a supernatural secret.
A Good Imagination (1961) - S1E31
A bookworm uses his good imagination and some storylines from Poe to dispose of his cheating wife's paramours.
Mr. George (1961) - S1E32
Priscilla, a young girl, lives with her scheming relatives who are trying to get hold of her inheritance... and a ghostly protector, Mr. George.
The Terror in Teakwood (1961) - S1E33
A 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.
Prisoner in the Mirror (1961) - S1E34
A 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.
Dark Legacy (1961) - S1E35
A 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.
Pigeons from Hell (1961) - S1E36
Two 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.
The Grim Reaper (1961) - S1E37
Celebrity 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.
Cast & Info
Directed by:
Ida Lupino 86 total credits
Credits include: High Sierra, The Hitch-Hiker and On Dangerous Ground
64 total credits
Credits include: The Twilight Zone, Hangover Square, The Lodger, The Locket and The Mad Magician
26 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, Winchester 73, The Light in the Forest, The Victim and The Door Without a Key
42 total credits
Credits include: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, One Step Beyond, Thriller and Crawlspace
Starring:
Boris Karloff 127 total credits
Boris Karloff, whose real name was William Henry Pratt, was an English-born actor who emigrated to Canada in 1909. Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939). His popularity following Frankenstein was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or "Karloff the Uncanny"... (wikipedia)
43 total credits
Credits include: The Great Dictator, Witness for the Prosecution, The Philadelphia Story, The Body Snatcher and Lust for Life
84 total credits
Credits include: The Sword in the Stone, Batman, Marnie, The Court Jester and Criss Cross
17 total credits
Credits include: Separate Tables, Titanic, Mr. Sardonicus, The Monster That Challenged the World and My Cousin Rachel
43 total credits
Credits include: The Time Machine, The Letter, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Tarzan the Ape Man and My Name Is Julia Ross
12 total credits
Credits include: 101 Dalmatians, Tales of Terror, Return of the Fly, Master of the World and Thriller
27 total credits
Credits include: Sea of Love, Kitten with a Whip, Playback, Crowhaven Farm and The Tattooed Stranger
26 total credits
Credits include: What's the Matter with Helen?, The Three Stooges in Orbit, Homebodies, The Balcony and The Four of Us Are Dying
9 total credits
Credits include: The Notorious Landlady, Judgment Night, Thriller, I Was a Teenage Thumb and Hill 256
13 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, The Brain Center at Whipple's, Pirates of Tripoli, Prisoners of the Casbah and Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am?
8 total credits
Credits include: Thriller, Static, Revenge and My Fair Ernest T. Bass
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