Overview of 'Thriller' Season 2 - Movie Intelligence

Thriller (1960)

Crime

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.

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Release Date: 1960-09-13
Seasons: 1 2

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Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 50

Season 2 Episode List

Episode 1 - What Beckoning Ghost?
Release Date: 1961-09-18
An ailing pianist fears she is losing her mind when she begins seeing what she thinks is her own funeral.
Episode 2 - Guillotine
Release Date: 1961-09-26
To save the life of her husband who is to be executed, a young woman attempts to murder the executioner.
Episode 3 - The Premature Burial
Release Date: 1961-10-02
When a man is accidentally buried alive and then saved he becomes paranoid that it might happen again - and he has good reason to be scared - his new wife is anxious to become a widow.
Episode 4 - The Weird Tailor
Release Date: 1961-10-16
A man attempts to bring his dead son back to life with the use of black magic and an unusual suit of clothes.
Episode 5 - God Grante That She Lye Stille
Release Date: 1961-10-23
A 300-year-old witch seeks to possess the last of her family line, beautiful young Lady Margaret.
Episode 6 - Masquerade
Release Date: 1961-10-30
A young couple take refuge in a spooky house on a stormy night and are terrorized by the strange family who occupy it. But do the young honeymooners have a secret of their own?
Episode 7 - The Last of the Sommervilles
Release Date: 1961-11-06
Two cousins scheme to kill their aunt for her money - but trust is hard to come by when you're the last of the Sommervilles.
Episode 8 - Letter to a Lover
Release Date: 1961-11-13
When a doctor is murdered two of the chief suspects, a husband and wife, seem to be accusing each other of insanity - which one of them is correct?
Episode 9 - A Third For Pinochle
Release Date: 1961-11-20
A man plans to murder his wife using his nosy neighbors for an alibi - but the eccentric ladies across the street may have a trick or two up their sleeve.
Episode 10 - The Closed Cabinet
Release Date: 1961-11-27
A young woman visiting an ancient English castle learns a thing or two about the family curse. Will she be able to remove it by finding a way to open the closed cabinet?
Episode 11 - Dialogues With Death
Release Date: 1961-12-04
Two separate tales: a morgue attendent seems to be able to talk to the corpses, and get an answer; a young couple arrive at the home of their aunt and uncle who seem to believe the pair are dead no matter how much they protest.
Episode 12 - The Return of Andrew Bentley
Release Date: 1961-12-11
A man inherits his uncle's estate on the condition that he spend twenty-four hours a day in the house and guard his uncle's grave against a supernatural intruder.
Episode 13 - The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk
Release Date: 1961-12-18
Mrs. Hawk has a talent for raising prize hogs - but the secret of her success is more sinister than anyone could imagine.
Episode 14 - Portrait Without a Face
Release Date: 1961-12-25
After a dispicable artist is murdered his last painting seems to be completing itself and revealing the artist's killer - or is it?
Episode 15 - An Attractive Family
Release Date: 1962-01-01
An attractive family of serial murderers plan the death of another victim - their young sister-in-law.
Episode 16 - Waxworks
Release Date: 1962-01-08
A traveling exhibit of wax figures of murderers seems to be the cause of some more recent deaths - are the wax figures real or is their creator a madman?
Episode 17 - La Strega
Release Date: 1962-01-15
A young woman accused of being a witch goes to her young lover for protection against both her accusers and her grandmother, who really is a witch.
Episode 18 - The Storm
Release Date: 1962-01-22
A woman returns home after two weeks and must spend the evening by herself during a raging storm. She is terrorized by strange sounds and the feeling she is not alone.
Episode 19 - A Wig For Miss Devore
Release Date: 1962-01-29
A washed-up actress selects for her comeback vehicle the story of a real woman who was accused of being a witch and susequently hanged. When she purchases the actual wig owned by the real woman an odd change occurs in the actress. It seems the wig holds a strange and hideous power.
Episode 20 - The Hollow Watcher
Release Date: 1962-02-12
A scheming wife who murders her father-in-law is tormented by a strange being, a scarecrow.
Episode 21 - Cousin Tundifer
Release Date: 1962-02-19
A man tries to dispose of his uncle's body in a strange house that goes back in time everytime he sets foot in the living room.
Episode 22 - The Incredible Doktor Markesan
Release Date: 1962-02-26
A young couple go to stay with an uncle while they look for work in a new town. They find the house run-down and their visit unexpected. Locked in their room at night they become curious about the goings-on in the house, but they could never imagine the true horror of their uncle's nocturnal activities.
Episode 23 - Flowers of Evil
Release Date: 1962-03-05
The skeleton of a man seems much more alive than those responsible for his death had hoped - it laughs, screams and even moves!
Episode 24 - 'Til Death Do Us Part
Release Date: 1962-03-12
A henpecked undertaker disposes of his wife along with one of his customers then moves on to a new town and a new wife. But this one won't be so easy to get rid of.
Episode 25 - The Bride Who Died Twice
Release Date: 1962-03-19
A general is forced to give his daughter's hand in marriage to his corrupt commanding officer but the marriage only results in her death.
Episode 26 - Kill My Love
Release Date: 1962-03-26
An adulterer tries to remove every obstacle in his life by way of murder - will his son be another victim?
Episode 27 - Man of Mystery
Release Date: 1962-04-02
A mysterious and powerful man is keeping many secrets and everytime someone gets close to the truth, they are murdered. Will a beautiful young singer survive her relationship with the man of mystery?
Episode 28 - The Innocent Bystanders
Release Date: 1962-04-09
A pair of nineteenth centure body snatchers take their business too far by murdering innocent bystanders to further their profits.
Episode 29 - The Lethal Ladies
Release Date: 1962-04-16
Two separate tales: a woman deals with her unfaithful husband; a mousy librarian takes revenge on her tyrannical boss.
Episode 30 - The Specialists
Release Date: 1962-04-30
A group of special detectives try to capture international jewel thieves and save the life of an innocent young woman who has become entangled in their web.