It's a Thriller - Top 25 Thriller Episodes
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsBoris KarloffWilliam ShatnerJoanna HeyesA married couple moves into a house that is haunted by images reflected in glass and mirrors.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorHerman HoffmanStarsBoris KarloffJoe MarossBeverly GarlandA man in need of money enlists the help of a serial killer to get the money from his wife.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBoris KarloffAudrey DaltonAlexander DavionA fake mentalist suddenly has visions of people's violent deaths and attempts to stop them from coming true.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.