"Boris Karloff's Thriller" TV series 1960-1962 DVD

Title: "Boris Karloff's Thriller" TV series 1960-1962 DVD starring Boris Karloff Runtime: 51 min (67 episodes) Color: Black and White Format: DVD Region ALL (Playable on any DVD player World Wide) Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1 Genre: Horror / Thriller Language: English

18 DVD Set / All Episodes / Uncut

Boris Karloff ... Himself / ... (66 episodes, 1960-1962) Richard Peel ... Charlie / ... (6 episodes, 1960-1962) Henry Daniell ... Count Alexander Cagliostro / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1961) Paul Newlan ... Joe Henshaw / ... (4 episodes, 1960-1961)  Doris Lloyd ... Dame Alice Mervyn / ... (4 episodes, 1961-1962) Ed Nelson ... Brundage / ... (4 episodes, 1960-1961) J. Pat O'Malley ... First Pub Patron / ... (4 episodes, 1961-1962) David Frankham ... Alan Mervyn / ... (4 episodes, 1961-1962) Peter Brocco ... Major Domo ("A Terribly Strange Bed") / ... (4 episodes, 1961-1962) Edward Andrews ... Frank Logan / ... (3 episodes, 1961-1962) Audrey Dalton ... Meg O'Danagh Wheeler / ... (3 episodes, 1960-1962)  Patricia Barry ... Louise Chase Logan / ... (3 episodes, 1960-1962) Ronald Howard ... Dr. Edward Stone / ... (3 episodes, 1961-1962) Alan Napier ... Attorney Pinchot / ... (3 episodes, 1960-1961) Linda Watkins ... Arabella Foote / ... (3 episodes, 1960-1962) Alan Caillou ... Police Superintendent / ... (3 episodes, 1960-1962) Bernard Fein ... Lester Clyne / ... (3 episodes, 1961-1962) Ken Lynch ... Joe Thorp / ... (3 episodes, 1961-1962) Mollie Glessing ... Agnes / ... (3 episodes, 1960-1961) Ottola Nesmith ... Old Laura Bellman / ... (3 episodes, 1961) Kendrick Huxham ... Andrews / ... (3 episodes, 1961-1962) Ralph Clanton ... Doctor John Grail / ... (3 episodes, 1960-1962) Audrey Swanson ... Nurse / ... (3 episodes, 1960-1961) Richard Reeves ... Truck Driver / ... (3 episodes, 1960-1961) Pamela Curran ... Gloria / ... (3 episodes, 1961-1962) Iris Bristol ... Helen Tate / ... (3 episodes, 1960-1961) Chet Stratton ... Alfred Marvin / ... (3 episodes, 1961-1962)  William Shatner ... George Craig / ... (3 episodes, 1961) Henry Jones ... Carl Somers / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962)  Lin McCarthy ... Frank Clyde / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Harry Townes ... Mario Asparos / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Murray Matheson ... Andrew Lawrence / ... (2 episodes, 1961) John Baragrey ... Dr. Ralph Mitchell / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Bethel Leslie ... Ann Merriweather / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Olive Sturgess ... Bess Pettit / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Antoinette Bower ... Annette Jacquelin / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Alejandro Rey ... Robert Lamont / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Patricia Medina ... Nadja / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Charles Aidman ... George Mikos / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Constance Ford ... Connie Walworth / ... (2 episodes, 1960) James Griffith ... Ed Brandies / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Tom Nolan ... Hank Hattering / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Vaughn Taylor ... Pontifex Tundifer / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Joan Tetzel ... Marian Farrington / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Jennifer Raine ... Helen Abercrombie / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Sean McClory ... Patrick Galt / ... (2 episodes, 1962)  Joanna Heyes ... Caroline Vale Ransom / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961)  Richard Hale ... Lars Eisenhart / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Vladimir Sokoloff ... Prof. Glockstein / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) K.T. Stevens ... Mrs. Virginia Grant / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Elizabeth Allen ... Dorothy Lyndon / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Ken Renard ... Jacob / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Avis Scott ... Mrs. Estelle Webber / ... (2 episodes, 1961) George Mitchell ... Doc Mulloy / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Peter Forster ... George Mervyn / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Walter Burke ... Croxton / ... (2 episodes, 1962) Alan Baxter ... Sergeant Dane / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) David Whorf ... Johnny Branner / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Jocelyn Brando ... Emma Snyder / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Dayton Lummis ... Clarence Kramer / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Billy Beck ... Cyril the Chauffeur / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Henry Hunter ... Larry Kirt / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Reggie Nalder ... Andrew Bentley / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Robert Cornthwaite ... Mr. Phillips / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Jean Engstrom ... Anne Grant / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Basil Howes ... Librarian / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Sam Gilman ... Officer Pat Dutton / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Seymour Green ... Harcourt / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Clem Bevans ... Obed / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Eve McVeagh ... Bonnie / ... (2 episodes, 1962) Joan Tompkins ... Ellen Grimm / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Mary Grace Canfield ... Ally Rose / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Maurice Dallimore ... Bokor #1 / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Than Wyenn ... Jean Duval / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Victor Buono ... Carolik / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Jim Bannon ... Sheriff / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Clancy Cooper ... Chief Constable / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Lillian O'Malley ... Landlady / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Fred Sherman ... Buddy / ... (2 episodes, 1960) Lucy Prentis ... Peggy Duncan / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Jack Greening ... Inspector Rogers / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Anthony Jochim ... Alex / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Louis Mercier ... Monsieur Armand / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Russ Bender ... Arresting Officer / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Booth Colman ... Hotel Desk Clerk / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Gil Perkins ... Henchman Eddie / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Hurley Bell ... The Cowhand / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Ray Montgomery ... Bill Purdy / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Barry Bernard ... Chester #1 / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Robert Middleton ... Monsieur de Paris / ... (2 episodes, 1961) John Newland ... Ellis Corbett / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Eduardo Ciannelli ... General De La Varra / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Jeanette Nolan ... Granny Harrod / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962)  Sarah Marshall ... Elspeth Clewer / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Abraham Sofaer ... Gus Kostopulas / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Richard Flato ... Croupier ("A Terribly Strange Bed") / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Terence de Marney ... Amos Wilder / ... (2 episodes, 1961)  Norman Leavitt ... Charlie, first Bartender / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Terry Burnham ... Joan Wilson / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961) Robert Stevenson ... Dr. Lascoe (2 episodes, 1961) George Kane ... Harry Jervis / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Nelson Welch ... Doctor / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Diki Lerner ... Hans the Dummy / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) Gilchrist Stuart ... Second Soldier / ... (2 episodes, 1961) Pitt Herbert ... Fred the Bartender / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961)  Mary Tyler Moore ... Mary Snyder / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Warren Oates ... Benny / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Jack Weston ... Edward Dean / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1962) Kevin Hagen ... Arno Lunt / ... (2 episodes, 1961-1962) John Carradine ... Jason Longfellow / ... (2 episodes, 1961)

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: The Twisted Image Original Air Date—13 September 1960 Business executive Alan Patterson's [Leslie Neilsen] 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.

Season 1, Episode 2: Child's Play Original Air Date—20 September 1960 A lonely boy becomes perilously lost in fantasy, as his parents spar over raising him, then debate separating. In a mountain cabin for the summer, the mother and son battle boredom, while the father pounds out magazine articles in his room. When the father's too busy to take his son hunting, the boy (Tommy Nolan of "Buckskin", later a magazine writer) sneaks out on his own with a loaded rifle, pursuing the villain of his fantasies - Black Bart. Back in the cabin, the mother reveals that the son was booted from summer camp, for shooting an apple off another camper's head.

Season 1, Episode 3: Worse Than Murder Original Air Date—27 September 1960 A diary seems to reveal a murder, impelling a blackmail scheme. A wealthy man ravaged by a recurring nightmare dies, without leaving a will, infuriating his widowed daughter-in-law, whose husband squandered everything. The suspicious daughter-in-law grabs one of the elderly man's elaborate diaries before the executor can take control of it. The diary implies the nightmare is the murder of an elderly woman by her son and daughter, via injection. The daughter-in-law (Constance Ford) plans to carve a big chunk of the inheritance through blackmail. Superb performance by Ford (who had to care for her late uncle's robot in the Twilight Zone's "Uncle Simon") as the glamorous, aggressive daughter-in-law.



Season 1, Episode 4: The Mark of the Hand Original Air Date—4 October 1960 A young girl is accused of murder and refuses to speak to anyone ever again.

Season 1, Episode 5: Rose's Last Summer Original Air Date—11 October 1960 An aging actress is mysteriously found dead in a family's garden, and they may know more about her death than they will admit.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Guilty Men Original Air Date—18 October 1960 Syndicate turns almost legit, but debates its don's proposal to cease shipping narcotics, and go above board in 1960. In the Roaring 20's, the leader began by mugging a neighbor to get money to bury his father. Instead, his brother followed their father's advice, becoming a public health physician. Their childhood pal is the mob's lawyer, who struggles to mediate, as his brother's health fails, and the Feds close in.

Season 1, Episode 7: The Purple Room Original Air Date—25 October 1960 Heir feels smug about a mandatory night in a haunted mansion - armed with .38 & New York attitude. Otherwise his cousins reap the valuable Bayou property they shared with the deceased. Duncan shrugs off the legend of an ancestor who went mad after accidentally killing her husband, when he fought a ghostly intruder. Duncan's smirky superiority immediately riles the country cousins he's never met, but Duncan feels equally prepared for any spooky tricks from them.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Watcher Original Air Date—1 November 1960 Authorities in a resort community cover up the suspicious death of a teenager so tourism doesn't suffer. As summer fades, a deputy sheriff gains permission to quietly investigate the death. Meanwhile a rigid, controlling teacher visiting for the season, grows increasingly disturbed as he spies on the secret relationship between a young neighbor and a boatyard manager, who are both already squirming under the power of adults in the small town.

Season 1, Episode 9: Girl with a Secret Original Air Date—15 November 1960 A newlywed bride must hide a secret about her husband's whereabouts. She is blackmailed by an eavesdropping maid and pressured by others to tell her secret.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Prediction Original Air Date—22 November 1960 A fake mentalist suddenly has visions of people's violent deaths and attempts to stop them from coming true.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Fatal Impulse Original Air Date—29 November 1960 A 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. Watch for young Mary Tyler Moore as one of the women in the elevator.

Season 1, Episode 12: The Big Blackout Original Air Date—6 December 1960 A recovering alcoholic who can not remember his past finds himself confronted by criminals and killers looking for a man who may or may not be him.

Season 1, Episode 13: Knock Three-One-Two Original Air Date—13 December 1960 A man in need of money enlists the help of a serial killer to get the money from his wife.

Season 1, Episode 14: Man in the Middle Original Air Date—20 December 1960 A 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.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Cheaters Original Air Date—27 December 1960 A 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.

Season 1, Episode 16: The Hungry Glass Original Air Date—3 January 1961 A married couple moves into a house that is haunted by images reflected in glass and mirrors.

Season 1, Episode 17: The Poisoner Original Air Date—10 January 1961

Season 1, Episode 18: Man in the Cage Original Air Date—17 January 1961

Season 1, Episode 19: Choose a Victim Original Air Date—24 January 1961

Season 1, Episode 20: Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook Original Air Date—7 February 1961

Season 1, Episode 21: The Merriweather File Original Air Date—14 February 1961

Season 1, Episode 22: The Fingers of Fear Original Air Date—21 February 1961

Season 1, Episode 23: Well of Doom Original Air Date—28 February 1961

Season 1, Episode 24: The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell Original Air Date—7 March 1961

Season 1, Episode 25: Trio for Terror Original Air Date—14 March 1961 3 stories in this episode. First, a young man kills his uncle, not realizing that his uncle was a warlock. In the second tale, a man breaks the bank at a casino, but may not live through the night. In the third tale, a sculptor/artist shows off his "Chamber of Horrors" of killers, but are they actually sculptures?

Season 1, Episode 26: Papa Benjamin Original Air Date—21 March 1961 A composer in need of inspiration turns to Voodoo melodies, but finds himself the victim of a Voodoo curse by Papa Benjamin.

Season 1, Episode 27: Late Date Original Air Date—4 April 1961 A brother helps his brother cover up the murder of his philandering wife by framing her lover.

Season 1, Episode 28: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper Original Air Date—11 April 1961 70 years after the Jack the Ripper killings in London, Sir Guy (John Williams) convinces the police that Jack may still be alive, eternally young, and still killing, currently in New York.

Season 1, Episode 29: The Devil's Ticket Original Air Date—18 April 1961 A artist "pawns" his soul to the devil and must retrieve it by painting a portrait of another person whose soul will be exchanged for his.

Season 1, Episode 30: Parasite Mansion Original Air Date—25 April 1961 A young woman is held captive in a mansion by a family of recluses hiding a supernatural secret.

Season 1, Episode 31: A Good Imagination Original Air Date—2 May 1961 A bookworm uses his good imagination and some storylines from Poe to dispose of his cheating wife's paramours.

Season 1, Episode 32: Mr. George Original Air Date—9 May 1961 Priscilla, a young girl, lives with her scheming relatives who are trying to get hold of her inheritance... and a ghostly protector, Mr. George.

Season 1, Episode 33: The Terror in Teakwood Original Air Date—16 May 1961 A concert pianist, so obsessed by the death of an arch-rival that he desecrates his grave, announces he will play a sonata written especially for the dead man's oversized hands.

Season 1, Episode 34: The Prisoner in the Mirror Original Air Date—23 May 1961 A professor studying the depraved sorcerer Count Cagliostro, brings to the U.S. the mirror which was instrumental in the Count's murder spree. The looking glass was blacked over to entrap Cagliostro, but Prof. Harry Langton, obsessed with the magician's secrets, scrapes off the paint and installs the mirror in his residence.

Season 1, Episode 35: Dark Legacy Original Air Date—30 May 1961

Season 1, Episode 36: Pigeons from Hell Original Air Date—6 June 1961

Season 1, Episode 37: The Grim Reaper Original Air Date—13 June 1961

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: What Beckoning Ghost? Original Air Date—18 September 1961 When a concert pianist envisions her own coffin in her drawing room, she doubts her sanity. No one else sees it or hears a phantom organ's funeral music in the isolated, haunted mansion. Wealthy, but plain Mildred's been housebound with a weak heart, tended by her sensual sister and ne'er-do-well husband, who Mildred dangles on a short financial leash.

Season 2, Episode 2: Guillotine Original Air Date—26 September 1961

Season 2, Episode 3: The Premature Burial Original Air Date—2 October 1961

Season 2, Episode 4: The Weird Tailor Original Air Date—16 October 1961

Season 2, Episode 5: God Grante That She Lye Stille Original Air Date—23 October 1961

Season 2, Episode 6: Masquerade Original Air Date—30 October 1961 A family of cannibalistic thieves menace a young couple, but the husband laughs off their scary Southern hotel as a joke. The lovebirds became lost on a second honeymoon and sought shelter in the spooky Baits Hotel, but were quickly locked in by the Carta Family. The gorgeous wife Rosalynn is appalled to find the Cartas have a private jail cell, containing haggard female relative Ruth Carta, who pleads for the young woman to release her.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Last of the Sommervilles Original Air Date—6 November 1961 Dragging a murder victim to burial is just 1 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.

Season 2, Episode 8: Letter to a Lover Original Air Date—13 November 1961

Season 2, Episode 9: A Third for Pinochle Original Air Date—20 November 1961 Milquetoast plans bumping off his spouse, unaware the nosy sisters across the street just killed one's husband. Layabout Maynard has a cozy love nest for his kept woman Babs, but his stingy wife severely cramps his cheating style, so the would-be bon vivant accelerates his scheme.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Closed Cabinet Original Air Date—27 November 1961

Season 2, Episode 11: Dialogues with Death Original Air Date—4 December 1961

Season 2, Episode 12: The Return of Andrew Bentley Original Air Date—11 December 1961 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.

Season 2, Episode 13: The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk Original Air Date—18 December 1961 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.

Season 2, Episode 14: Portrait Without a Face Original Air Date—25 December 1961

Season 2, Episode 15: An Attractive Family Original Air Date—1 January 1962 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.

Season 2, Episode 16: Waxworks Original Air Date—8 January 1962

Season 2, Episode 17: La Strega Original Air Date—15 January 1962 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.

Season 2, Episode 18: The Storm Original Air Date—22 January 1962 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.

Season 2, Episode 19: A Wig for Miss Devore Original Air Date—29 January 1962

Season 2, Episode 20: The Hollow Watcher Original Air Date—12 February 1962

Season 2, Episode 21: Cousin Tundifer Original Air Date—19 February 1962 Mass murderer's descendant plots quicker inheritance options when his ill, rich uncle Pontifex, takes up with Queenie De Lyte, a stripper turned art fancier. A psychologist cured Pontifex's obsession with restoring ancient family homes, destroying nephew Tundifer's hope of having Pontifex declared incompetent. Tundifer looks exactly like his evil ancestor, a portrait of whom hangs in one family mansion, whose expensive renovation may include a portal to a prior century.

Season 2, Episode 22: The Incredible Doktor Markesan Original Air Date—26 February 1962 Penniless 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.

Season 2, Episode 23: Flowers of Evil Original Air Date—5 March 1962

Season 2, Episode 24: 'Til Death Do Us Part Original Air Date—12 March 1962

Season 2, Episode 25: The Bride Who Died Twice Original Air Date—19 March 1962

Season 2, Episode 26: Kill My Love Original Air Date—26 March 1962

Season 2, Episode 27: Man of Mystery Original Air Date—2 April 1962 An author is murdered when his book exposing an ex-employer, a secretive international financier, is to be published. A reporter tracks the case, 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 chanteuse.

Season 2, Episode 28: The Innocent Bystanders Original Air Date—9 April 1962

Season 2, Episode 29: The Lethal Ladies Original Air Date—16 April 1962 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.

Season 2, Episode 30: The Specialist



Plot Summary: 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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