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Thriller Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
What Beckoning Ghost?
Mon, Sep 18, 196160 mins
When a concert pianist envisions her own coffin in her drawing room, she begins questioning her sanity. No one else sees it or hears a phantom organ's funeral music in the isolated, haunted mansion. Wealthy, but plain, Mildred has been housebound with a weak heart, tended by her sensual younger sister and ne'er-do-well husband, whom Mildred dangles on a short financial leash.
Episode 2
Guillotine
Tue, Sep 26, 1961
France, 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.
Episode 3
The Premature Burial
Mon, Oct 2, 196160 mins
An 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.
Episode 4
The Weird Tailor
Mon, Oct 16, 196160 mins
When 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.
Episode 5
God Grante That She Lye Stille
Mon, Oct 23, 196160 mins
In 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.
Episode 6
Masquerade
Mon, Oct 30, 196160 mins
A family of possible cannibals or vampires or just plain murdering thieves menace a married couple, the Denhams, but Mr. Denham (Tom Poston) laughs off the scary Southern hotel as a joke. The Denhams got lost on their second honeymoon and sought shelter in a spooky hotel, but got locked in. Beautiful Rosamond Denham (Elizabeth Montgomery) is appalled to find the Carta family home has a private jail cell, containing haggard female relative Ruthie Carta, who pleads for Charlie and Rosamond to release her.
Episode 7
The Last of the Sommervilles
Mon, Nov 6, 196160 mins
Dragging 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.
Episode 8
Letter to a Lover
Mon, Nov 13, 196160 mins
After 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?
Episode 9
A Third for Pinochle
Mon, Nov 20, 196160 mins
Ostensible 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.
Episode 10
The Closed Cabinet
Mon, Nov 27, 196160 mins
A 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.
Episode 11
Dialogues with Death
Mon, Dec 4, 196160 mins
Two 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?
Episode 12
The Return of Andrew Bentley
Mon, Dec 11, 196160 mins
White 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.
Episode 13
The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk
Mon, Dec 18, 196160 mins
Cissy 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.
Episode 14
Portrait Without a Face
Mon, Dec 25, 196160 mins
Six 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.
Episode 15
An Attractive Family
Mon, Jan 1, 196260 mins
Family 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.
Episode 16
Waxworks
Mon, Jan 8, 196260 mins
A 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.
Episode 17
La Strega
Mon, Jan 15, 196260 mins
Three 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.
Episode 18
The Storm
Mon, Jan 22, 196260 mins
Woman & 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.
Episode 19
A Wig for Miss Devore
Mon, Jan 29, 196260 mins
An 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.
Episode 20
The Hollow Watcher
Mon, Feb 12, 196260 mins
An 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.
Episode 21
Cousin Tundifer
Mon, Feb 19, 196260 mins
A 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.
Episode 22
The Incredible Doktor Markesan
Mon, Feb 26, 1962
Fred and Molly Bancroft, a pair of penniless newlyweds, are so desperate that they visit Fred's mysterious uncle Konrad Markesan, whom he hasn't seen in over twenty years. They are hoping to live in with him rent free until they can find jobs and be self-sufficient. The once-beautiful mansion is in a decrepitly musty state, filled with dust, cobwebs, and rats while Fred's once-kindly uncle is now a disheveled, cadaver-like figure who offers them shelter on condition that they never leave their room after dark, a condition that Markesan insures by locking them in at night.
Episode 23
Flowers of Evil
Mon, Mar 5, 196260 mins
A faithless wife and her lover murder her husband and sell his skeleton to a medical school. The skeleton keeps returning, however--and screaming.
Episode 24
'Til Death Do Us Part
Mon, Mar 12, 196260 mins
Undertaker 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.
Episode 25
The Bride Who Died Twice
Mon, Mar 19, 196260 mins
In 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?
Episode 26
Kill My Love
Mon, Mar 26, 196260 mins
Family 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?
Episode 27
Man of Mystery
Mon, Apr 2, 196260 mins
A 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.
Episode 28
The Innocent Bystanders
Mon, Apr 9, 196260 mins
Jacob 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.
Episode 29
The Lethal Ladies
Mon, Apr 16, 196260 mins
2 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.
Episode 30
The Specialists
Mon, Apr 30, 196260 mins
An elite team of federal agents is formed to take down an international ring of jewel thieves.
