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Date | Episode | Title | Plot |
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04/16/1974 | 0075 | Men Without Mouths | A gangster adopts the daughter of a dead comrade and sees her off faithfully until her happy marriage. With approaching old age however, he is tormented with visions of men without mouths despite the sincere aid from his sworn daughter. |
05/23/1974 | 0096 | The Bleeding Statue | A magician disappoints his heirs by leaving his properties with his daughter and also promises to safeguard her against all harm through a statue in his estate courtyard. On her arrival in the estate, she finds his promise true to his word. |
07/04/1974 | 0114 | The Young Die Good | The relationship of a married couple is tested when they transfer next to a strange house and its mysterious resident. The wife sees her as a frail old lady, while her husband sees a beautiful temptress and their clashing views put a strain on their marriage. |
08/19/1974 | 0135 | The Hands of Mrs. Mallory | Shortly after the death of her husband, Mrs. Mallory loses control of both her hands mysteriously. She meets a woman in Central Park who seems to have lost her legs in a similar manner and decides to consult her doctor. The consequences are beyond her expectations. |
09/26/1974 | 0153 | The Spectral Bride | After having moved on with his life to the point of re-marrying, a man forces his former wife's father to bring her back to life using a self-made formula. |
12/05/1974 | 0183 | The Body Snatchers | A doctor meets a drunkard friend in a bar. They reminisce the times they defiled graves in order to sell the corpses to a medical school. |
12/30/1974 | 0193 | The Golem | A man tries to aid an elderly Jew and his granddaughter evade the Nazis tailing them. The old man begins to resurrect a mythical being from old Hebrew legend to save them. |
04/10/1975 | 0254 | The Death of Halpin Fraser | A nightmare journey through purgatory is in order for a man who is beset by the voices of his mother, father-in-law and the former wife whom he had murdered. |
04/24/1975 | 0262 | Bullet Proof | Rocky Stark is put in prison for the murder of hoodlum Johnny Mallory.But he is innocent and his gun was kept with him at all times. But the real murderer is soon found dead with Rocky's gun doing him in and he must now find a way to escape execution. His faithful wife sets out to probe the case herself. |
05/15/1975 | 0274 | Deadly Dilemma | A thriller up in the air. Someone among the passengers possess a bomb and the unlikely heroes of an attendant and a co-pilot must find him/ her out. |
06/30/1975 | 0300 | The Golden Cauldron | Three friends, a haunted manor and a ghastly crime is the perfect recipe for a murder mystery in this \"House on Haunted Hill\' meets \'Clue\' thriller set in the heart of an ancient castle overlooking the ruins of Stonehenge. |
07/28/1975 | 0316 | The Lady Is a Jinx | After falling for a woman with an unusual past, a police detective learns of the strange deaths that befell her previous lovers when the sister of her most recent victim requests his assistance in seeking justice for her brother. |
08/15/1975 | 0327 | The Unbearable Reflection | In order to claim her soul, the Devil, masquerading as her husband's campaign manager tricks the reprehensible and adulterous wife of a prominent politician into killing her husband. |
10/21/1975 | 0365 | Million Dollar Murder | A struggling businessman discovers his true nature and that of the people close to him when a rich woman asks him to dispose of someone for the sum of one million dollars. |
10/27/1975 | 0368 | A Living Corpse | In an attempt to thwart the grim reaper, a professional hypnotist convinces a young man into hypnotizing him on his death bed. However, behind the obvious scam lies a more sinister scheme. |
11/13/1975 | 0378 | Home Is Where the Ghost Is | In the midst of aiding a colleague in his desire to abandon his post, a scientist is haunted by the ghost of his dead wife. |
12/08/1975 | 0392 | How Quiet the Night | After learning that his former flame is pregnant with his child, a man resorts to violence in order to safeguard his current betrothal. Before long, he begins being haunted by his deceased lover's ghost. |
01/26/1976 | 0421 | The Ferret | Time and again the United States' plan to become independent of foreign energy sources falls short as their partner; Energy Exploration, Inc.'s resources are sabotaged. Amory Mills, EEI's hotshot lawyer sets up an elaborate scheme to entrap a corrupt EEI executive suspected of selling out the company. The clock is ticking as he zeroes in on Clem Ferris and finally comes close to unmasking "The Ferret." |
02/11/1976 | 0429 | You Owe Me a Death | Haunted by dreams and visions of the untimely death of her deceased twin, a woman desires to put the voices to rest. In order to do so, she must first unravel the mysteries surrounding her identical twin to find the truth. |
03/11/1976 | 0446 | Pandora | Years into the future, a perfect society is born-- a society without fear, hate and all other negative emotions. Pandora seeks to inflict her sorrow on others and Mara's obsessive love for Willis and their baby threatens to destroy Paradise. This leads to Mara being sentenced to death, but at the last moment she is sent to the past where she begins to appreciate the life she had. |
03/31/1976 | 0459 | The Spit and Image | His luck takes a turn for the better when an ex-football player lands an unusual job-- to be the stand in for an eccentric billionaire. |
05/17/1976 | 0483 | Blind Witness | When a blind woman unknowingly experiences the killing of an innocent pharmacist, she begins her life on the run. It's a race against time to save her from the shooter as the police scour the city for their main witness. |
06/07/1976 | 0489 | The Corpse that Would Not Die | To marry his lover, a man kills her husband despite being his best friend. Soon the weight of both their sins begins to slowly poison their love. |
07/01/1976 | 0496 | Loser Takes All | When Jake Alexander, the world's top agent first sets eyes on the beautiful Delphi Carr, he takes both a professional and personal interest in her. Before he can act out on either, she gets married and instead urges Jake to sign on her husband, actor Deke Roberts. Jake willingly agrees with the evil intention of murdering him. |
07/29/1976 | 0502 | Shotgun Wedding | Charlie, a man of about 30, is invited by his co-worker, Gus, to meet his daughter. Gus feels that Charlie will fall instantly in love with Elaine. When Charlie meets her, he does fall in love with her. Then things begin to get strange. Charlie goes back to visit his beloved, but he finds the house and its occupants gone. |
09/20/1976 | 0521 | A Very Dear Ghost Indeed | Traveling through Ireland late in the late 1800\'s, a man and his daughter are waylaid by a washed out bridge. In the old castle, they\'re told a story about the unfortunate happenings to a man who sold his child and his soul! |
10/01/1976 | 0528 | The Clairvoyant | A clairvoyant forsees an unexpected love in the life of a young, British aristocrat on the eve of World War II. |
10/14/1976 | 0535 | The Living Corpse | Henry Girard Flower Peabody VI, a member of Philadelphia society by birth and breeding, has always felt there was an element inside him that did not fit his sober side. As a young man, he kept his crazy, fun-loving girlfriend, Megan, a secret from his other friends and his strict but ailing mother. But when Megan suggests that Henry end his mother's lingering life or else, Henry realizes he can no longer lead a double life and must kill one of them. |
11/11/1976 | 0550 | Strike Force | Dr. Orville Sanderson Jr. was brought up by his step-father Bob Watson. His mother, Andrea, was married to Bob after Orville's father went missing during the war. When a man possibly having know Orville Sr. turns up in the morgue, Orville Jr. begins to question everything he believes about his real father. |
12/02/1976 | 0558 | How to Kill Rudy | A man discovers that his favorite detective novels predict true crimes. Then he finds a book about his future. The novel tells of how his boss and his wife plan to kill him so they can marry. He takes steps to pre-empt them. |
12/13/1976 | 0564 | Hit Me Again | A financial planner quits his job to pursue a career as a professional gambler who applies an actuarial system to counting cards in Blackjack. His wife fights to get him back from his new mistress: Lady Luck. |
12/28/1976 | 0573 | The Artist | A wealthy industrialist falls for a married knife throwing performer. He worries that her husband will find out and deliberately hit her with a knife. |
02/10/1977 | 0598 | The Recluse | A young son learns of the fate of his late father as well as the fortune that went missing together with his disappearance after his grandmother dies, leaving him to inherit the family inn as well as the host of secrets it keeps. |
02/22/1977 | 0605 | Jane Eyre | A low-born governess falls in love with the lord of the manor in this classic tale of love and loss set in 19th century England. When she discovers he is wed to another, the poor woman flees her master and the mansion to make a new life for herself. |
03/21/1977 | 0620 | The Eighth Deadly Sin | A famous writer falls in love with a seductive actress with a penchant for walking on the wild side. When she continues to risk her life and fortune in a high stakes gamble, it sparks a dangerous and downward spiral that ultimately leads to the death of their relationship. |
04/08/1977 | 0631 | Blood, Thunder, and a Woman in Green | A private detective in the 1940\'s stumbles into a murder investigation when his tabloid photographer friend is brutally slain over a controversial photo he took. |
05/31/1977 | 0657 | The Boscombe Pool Mystery | Sherlock Holmes solves the murder mystery of a young man who is accused of murdering his father. The evidence seems irrefutable, but Holmes dissects it. |
06/28/1977 | 0673 | The Adventure of the Speckled Band | Sherlock Holmes is hired by a young heiress to find out who killed her sister in a sealed room murder. |
08/22/1977 | 0698 | Return to Pompeii | An American widow tours Italy with her colleague. When their tour bus breaks down, they are forced to walk to Pompeii. There, the widow has a strange dream. |
10/19/1977 | 0726 | The Island on Silver Tree Lake | A lady is forced to catch a boat ride to an island resort after an accident with her car. The island has a strange name and she ends up as an unwilling participant in a mystery. |
11/08/1977 | 0737 | The Haunted Mill | A young voyager takes up a long journey lasting three years. His sweetheart back home falls for another man in his absence. But his subsequent return strokes her old passions much to the chagrin of her present beau who swears revenge. The traveller meanwhile is completely preoccupied with a decrepit, haunted mill. |
11/17/1977 | 0742 | Hunted Down | A man's beloved is killed in order to effect an insurance scam. He vows revenge and sets down on a hunt to bring the murderer to justice. |
12/16/1977 | 0755 | The Ghost with a Knife | Alleged to based on real-life incidents, this is the story of a family threatened by a knife-wielding spirit who kills their plants and repeatedly adjusts their thermostat. Ghost hunters try to talk to him and understand his strange behaviour. |
02/24/1978 | 0788 | Loser Take All | A young boy seems content to be out-shined by a friend who seems more capable at everything. But he does have a surprise up his sleeve. |
03/28/1978 | 0806 | The Ghost in the Well | An artist is obsessed with painting the portrait of the spirit of a woman as she recounts her tale. |
05/02/1978 | 0826 | The Figure in the Moonlight | A mysterious engraving of a residence shows a person re-enacting a crime of the past. The curious couple who inherit it decide to look for its portents, they stumble across an acquaintance's family secret. |
05/29/1978 | 0841 | The Rich Ostrich | An ostrich from a local circus makes off with a sizable diamond from an Arab delegate leading to a delicious farcical tale. |
07/21/1978 | 0868 | The Locked Trunk | A woman takes her revenge spree too far when she tries to get even with her sister who stole the man she had long cherished a crush on. She must pay a high price for it. |
07/28/1978 | 0872 | Double Take | Two women novelists write the same story without even being aware of the other's existence. Slowly, they realise they are also enacting the plot in their real lives. |
10/13/1978 | 0905 | How Much Land Does a Man Need? | An Indian chief offers the deal of a lifetime to a greedy aristocrat in Colonial America. For the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, he can purchase the expanse of land he can travel around in one day. |
10/27/1978 | 0911 | The Sound of Terror | The lover of a police detective becomes involved in a terrorist kidnapping when she unwittingly answers a call in a public pay phone. |
02/26/1979 | 0957 | Hickory, Dickory, Doom | A grandfather clock is the central piece in this gruesome and morbid tale. A young couple from Pennsylvania pick up a grandfather clock at an estate sale to give to the local minister. What they do not know is that the malfunctioning time piece does more than tell time, it is actually a gateway to the demon world. |
04/23/1979 | 0973 | The Glass Bubble | Believing it gives her the power to foresee death, a young woman isolates herself in a sterile glass room. |
08/13/1979 | 1003 | Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright | A woman comes to a psychiatrist complaining of unexplained anxiety and sickness. Under hypnosis, she reveals a concealed memory of a vicious and fatal tiger attack that took place more than a hundred years ago. |
01/10/1980 | 1048 | The Last Days of Pompeii (4 of 5) - Danger, Love and Death | Aware of his innocence, the lion refuses to attack Marcus. With his plans foiled, the High Priest kidnaps Orianna and the city is bathed in flames when Mount Vesuvius erupts. |
01/14/1980 | 1050 | The Better Half | Despite having murdered her in a fit of envious rage, a young ad agency executive continues to receive advice from his brilliant and deceased wife. |
01/28/1980 | 1054 | The God Machine | The cycle of procreation and the institution of marriage is regulated by a master computer in the future. Surprisingly, a young couple over-ride the system and fall in love. They rebel against the machine that tries to separate them. |
03/10/1980 | 1066 | You're Going to Like Rodney | A couple babysitting their young nephew are tortured and harassed by his malicious antics. They begin to suspect he is more than he seems when the nature of his pranks become more and more sinister. |
08/06/1980 | 1107 | The Mysterious Hanging of Squire Huggins | After embellishing the details of the death of a local squire, a young artist becomes the primary suspect in the crime. |
09/01/1980 | 1114 | The Power of Zeus | A pair of scientists is sent to the planet Zeus, and subsequently meets the planet's pompous and overbearing commander who sports a Texas drawl. On the alien world, they must discover a way to avert the world-wide threat of starvation caused by a massive hole in the Earth's ozone layer. |
10/08/1980 | 1125 | Portrait of an Assassin | This classic tale of intrigue and deception recounts the life of Charles Guiteau and his grandiose plan of getting President Garfield elected, as well as his subsequent assassination at a DC train station by Guiteau's hand. |
11/10/1980 | 1134 | The Dagger of Almohades | The tables are turned when a beautiful woman encounters a man with a possessed dagger. It seems that her usual feminine ploys will not work on the wily stranger. |
01/02/1981 | 1142 | Sins of the Fathers | A young reporter discovers that she was adopted while investigating a case of fraud and begins a search for the parents who seemingly abandoned her. |
02/09/1981 | 1157 | Transplant | When a local surgeon performs open heart surgery on their husbands, a group of wives are disturbed by the changes in they begin to manifest. Problems crop up when they look into the mystery. |
02/23/1981 | 1163 | The Frog Prince | In order to keep them safe while driving, a team of race driver's relies on the power of voodoo. Things begin to fall apart when the black magic goes wrong. |
05/18/1981 | 1199 | A Shocking Affair | A plot to assassinate a prominent political figure goes awry when the occupants of an apartment building return unexpectedly and foil his mission. |
06/19/1981 | 1213 | Henrietta's Revenge | After seducing a high-powered female executive on vacation and subsequently marrying her, a professional con man asks his new wife to help him pay off his gambling debts to the tune of $25,000. She exacts revenge upon him for his treachery in a most ingenious way. |
07/10/1981 | 1219 | A Man of Honor | On the verge of finally attaining his life-long dream, a college professor is struck by an unusual malady and melancholia before receiving his book award. He must set out to discover the secrets he has hidden in his subconscious. |
07/22/1981 | 1224 | Toy Death | Like her late mother, a young woman harbors an unusual fascination with dolls. When a voodoo doll arrives from India, her boyfriend and father becomes disturbed- especially when terrible things happen after the doll's arrival. |
01/04/1982 | 1273 | The Acquisition | After getting marooned on a mysterious island, a wealthy businessman discovers that his financial prowess is useless and cannot save him from becoming a slave to the island's inhabitants. |
02/08/1982 | 1287 | Change of Heart | Business magnate Roger Skipworth is rushed to the hospital for an open-heart surgery a few days after the end of his engagement. He recalls the parting words of his fiancée in which she likened him to a pig when he begins to exhibit swine-like tendencies after the heart valve replacement. |
05/07/1982 | 1325 | The Wedding Present | A duo of professional swindlers enlists the services of a hapless American painter in a plot to scam the king of a Balkan country. Determined to pull off the con of the century, the unlikely tag-team work together and in the process, learn that they share a great deal more in common than they realized. |
05/19/1982 | 1330 | The Brooch | A governess finds employment at the hand of a strange and extremely prosperous couple. The husband and wife each have their own unique brand of eccentricity. |
06/21/1982 | 1341 | Universe Hollow | In order to regain her lost credibility, Patricia Ellicott attempts to discredit the people of Universe Hollow when she is assigned to cover a U.F.O. sighting in the town. Phantoms in her past force her to take stock of her life and she must make a difficult choice. |
07/20/1982 | 1353 | Formula Z -- The Protector | The new wonder paint, Formula Z is the main ingredient in manufacturing the ink used in fingerprinting suspects and criminals. This becomes the focal point in a game of international intrigue and espionage. |
08/26/1982 | 1364 | Barn Burner | Chaos ensues when a pair of racehorse owner's substitutes ringers for their steeds in order to pull-of the scam of the century. |
09/09/1982 | 1368 | The Riddle | At an estate sale, a married couple purchases an old camera and a bunch of yellowed missives. They soon discover that the old letter and pictures in the camera contain clues that will lead them in a mysterious treasure hunt. |
09/16/1982 | 1370 | Two Sisters | In order to gain an edge against her more popular sister and win the affections of the doctor they are both in love with, the shy sibling is convinced by their Indian servant to impersonate her more gregarious twin. |
10/06/1982 | 1378 | The Abraham Lincoln Murder Trial | On trial for murder, circuit lawyer Abraham Lincoln works to ensure the freedom of a man wrongfully charged. Loosely based on the early years in the life of Lincoln. |
10/18/1982 | 1383 | Desert Maiden | In order to come up with a name for their latest fragrance, a middle-aged advertising agent seeks inspiration in the desert. He embarks on a journey of enlightenment when he bumps into a former lover in the sandy dunes. |
11/04/1982 | 1390 | The School Mistress | In pre-revolutionary Moscow, a beautiful Russian teacher sets the town ablaze with her torrid love affair. |
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