Starring Boris Karloff
"The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse" was a 30-minute US television mystery anthology series, probably produced live. Boris Karloff hosted twelve episodes that aired from September to December 1949. All but five titles appear to be lost. Directors included Alex Segal. Amongst the actors appearing included: Mildred Natwick and Jean Muir. Known story titles: "Fake Face", "Five Golden Guineas", "Mad Illusion", "The Night Reveals", "The Shop at Sly Corner", and "Three O'Clock".
- 1949-1949
- 1 season
- ABC
- Drama
"The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse" was a 30-minute US television mystery anthology series, probably produced live. Boris Karloff hosted twelve episodes that aired from September to December 1949. All but five titles appear to be lost. Directors included Alex Segal. Amongst the actors appearing included: Mildred Natwick and Jean Muir. Known story titles: "Fake Face", "Five Golden Guineas", "Mad Illusion", "The Night Reveals", "The Shop at Sly Corner", and "Three O'Clock".
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1949
Episode 1
Five Golden Guineas
Thu, Sep 22, 1949
An English hangman unduly enjoys his work, which brings him payment of five guineas per hanging. When his pregnant wife discovers his true occupation, she leaves him. Twenty years later the hangman is called upon to execute a young man, which he does with pleasure, despite the fact that he has secret evidence that the youth is in fact innocent.
Episode 2
The Mask
Thu, Sep 29, 1949
Episode 3
Mungahra
Thu, Oct 6, 1949
After a prospector murders an indigenous Australian man named Mungahra, he is pursued by the man's curse.
Episode 4
Mad Illusion
Thu, Oct 13, 1949
A man escapes Devil's Island penal colony after 20 years to seek revenge against the evil woman and the seaman husband responsible for sending him there.
Episode 5
Perchance to Dream
Thu, Oct 20, 1949
A deranged scientist secretly drugs his son as part of an experiment intended to produce genius-level intelligence.
Episode 6
The Devil Takes a Wife
Thu, Oct 27, 1949
Episode 7
The Moving Finger
Thu, Nov 3, 1949
Episode 8
The Twisted Path
Thu, Nov 10, 1949
Episode 9
Fake Face
Thu, Nov 17, 1949
Episode 10
Cranky Bill
Thu, Nov 24, 1949
Episode 11
Three O'Clock
Thu, Dec 1, 1949
Based on Cornell Woolrich's suspense story: watch repairman Paul Stapp, enraged by his wife's infidelity, constructs a timed bomb in his basement to kill her—but his meticulously planned crime places him in unexpected danger.
Episode 12
The Shop at Sly Corner
Mon, Aug 1, 1949
Descius Heiss is a French expatriate, and former Devil's Island prisoner, with two passions; driving shrewd bargains in antiques at his Sly Corner Shop, and the care of his motherless, violin-playing daughter, Margaret. But, his comfortable wealth comes more from being a fence for stolen goods than it does buying-and-selling antiques. His secret is discovered by his shop assistant Archie Fellowes, a nasty, sniveling young rat, and he begins blackmailing Heiss. Heiss employs the usual solution to blackmailers, and the film ends in a London concert-hall where Margaret is playing the Mendelssohm Violin Concerto.
Episode 13
The Night Reveals
Thu, Dec 15, 1949
A fire or insurance investigator examining a series of suspicious fires begins to fear that the pyromaniac he is pursuing may be his own wife. The story was adapted from Cornell Woolrich.