Thriller

Season 2 (30 Episodes)

2 Seasons1961TV-PG50m8.2

Now available for the first time, experience the complete series hailed as the most frightening ever created for television.

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 .

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 What Beckoning Ghost?

1. What Beckoning Ghost?

Aired: Sep 18, 1961

When a concert pianist envisions her own coffin in her drawing room, she begi...

Episode 2 Guillotine

2. Guillotine

Aired: Sep 26, 1961

France, 1875. A condemned man learns of a legal loophole allowing him to be p...

Episode 3 The Premature Burial

3. The Premature Burial

Aired: Oct 2, 1961

An aging millionaire survives being buried alive, but his devilish fiancée pl...

Episode 4 The Weird Tailor

4. The Weird Tailor

Aired: Oct 16, 1961

A man seeks to resurrect his son by using a suit crafted using black magic.

Episode 6 Masquerade

6. Masquerade

Aired: Oct 29, 1961

A family of cannibalistic thieves menace a married couple, the Denhams, but M...

Episode 8 Letter to a Lover

8. Letter to a Lover

Aired: Nov 12, 1961

After the murder of a London doctor, emotionally disturbed Sylvia Lawrence se...

Episode 9 A Third for Pinochle

9. A Third for Pinochle

Aired: Nov 19, 1961

Milquetoast Maynard plans on killing his wife, unaware that a pair of nosy si...

Episode 10 The Closed Cabinet

10. The Closed Cabinet

Aired: Nov 26, 1961

A medieval curse has hung over the Mervyn family for three hundred years, dic...

Episode 11 Dialogues with Death

11. Dialogues with Death

Aired: Dec 3, 1961

Two tales of terror centering on communicating with the dead. In the first, a...

Episode 15 An Attractive Family

15. An Attractive Family

Aired: Dec 31, 1961

Family that kills together seeks to stay together in style, by icing the heir...

Episode 16 Waxworks

16. Waxworks

Aired: Jan 7, 1962

A murder outside a traveling wax museum attracts the attention of the police-...

Episode 17 La Strega

17. La Strega

Aired: Jan 14, 1962

After a young woman and her penniless lover defy her her grandmother's wishes...

Episode 18 The Storm

18. The Storm

Aired: Jan 21, 1962

Woman & her jumpy black cat Baba increasingly besieged by amorous loon of a c...

Episode 20 The Hollow Watcher

20. The Hollow Watcher

Aired: Feb 11, 1962

An Irish mail-order bride marries into a family in North Carolina, with a sch...

Episode 21 Cousin Tundifer

21. Cousin Tundifer

Aired: Feb 18, 1962

A killer's descendant plots to quickly inherit what he thinks works rightfull...

Episode 23 Flowers of Evil

23. Flowers of Evil

Aired: Mar 4, 1962

A faithless wife and her lover murder her husband and sell his skeleton to a ...

Episode 26 Kill My Love

26. Kill My Love

Aired: Mar 25, 1962

Family man Guy Guthrie murders his mistress when she threatens to expose him,...

Episode 27 Man of Mystery

27. Man of Mystery

Aired: Apr 1, 1962

A public relations man writes a book exposing an ex-client, a secretive inter...

Episode 29 The Lethal Ladies

29. The Lethal Ladies

Aired: Apr 15, 1962

2 twisted tales of timid people hitting their breaking point. A philandering ...

Episode 30 The Specialists

30. The Specialists

Aired: Apr 30, 1962

An elite team of federal agents is formed to take down an international ring ...


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Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Genres:Drama, Crime, Thriller, Horror, Mystery