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Date | Episode | Title | Plot |
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01/12/1974 | 0007 | I Warn You Three Times | A daring attempt to clear their car windows during a snowstorm leads to the mysterious disappearance of a woman's husband. The reasons turn out to be increasingly intriguing. |
02/06/1974 | 0032 | After the Verdict | An upcoming attorney discovers to his dismay that the man he acquitted of homicide is indeed culpable. Now he must find a way to straighten out the facts. |
06/17/1974 | 0106 | Three Times Dead | A store-keeper shows his gratitude to the police officer that saves them by giving his wife a magical figurine able to grant three boons. |
09/09/1974 | 0145 | Double Exposure | A cop dies in an accident. His wife is mistakenly taken to be someone else by two people. Her friend tries to probe the facts as one of those people thinks that she is his former wife who left him and his children a decade ago. |
01/13/1975 | 0204 | The Witness Is Death | A young man witnesses an assassination by a gang and is fatally wounded in the process. Though he survives, he is now too scared to testify. The police need information but can't get anything out of him. They finally resort to an inventive method with the help of a hospital to get him to speak. |
02/14/1975 | 0223 | The Shadow of the Past | A doctor and his wife escape the clutches of the Nazi death camps and illegitimately migrate to the US. Later, the doctor recognizes one of the camp guards among his patients and kills him to exact his revenge. But he must cover up the act as an intelligent investigator probes the case. |
04/15/1975 | 0257 | My Own Murderer | Joe Vinacelli is obsessed with murdering Joe Vincent. The latter goes into therapy to seek help as we slowly understand that the pursuer and the pursued are the same individual. But things get creepy when Vincent gives both his therapist and himself - the slip. |
06/20/1975 | 0295 | Can You Trust Your Husband? | In an attempt to disprove the drug trafficking charges against her husband, a wife investigates on her own. She soon becomes tormented with misgivings upon learning that she did not know husband as well as she previously believed. |
07/16/1975 | 0309 | Goodbye, Karl Erich | After taking in a shell-shocked casualty of war, a German doctor teaches the young orphan to speak again and face the horrors he experienced during World War I head on. The boy soon becomes confident and grows up to be a Nazi terrorist. |
09/05/1975 | 0339 | Sleepwalker | Desperate to end her husband's miserable life, a woman starts to plot his demise in her slumber. |
02/02/1976 | 0424 | First Prize -- Death | Despite being co-director of the Sociological Advisory Institute and a celebrated sociologist in his own right, time and again John Desmond is overlooked and the Parkhurst Medal awarded to his colleagues. When Mr. Strickland approaches John with an intriguing proposition-- the next Parkhurst Medal it seems almost surreal. However, the offer comes with a heavy price. Now, it is up to John to make a decision. |
02/25/1976 | 0437 | General Laughter | In lieu of a suicide confession, a distressed actress chooses to record her final breath as well as the motives for her actions. Being a consummate actress, she sets the perfect scene but quickly learns that even the best laid plans can go awry. |
04/09/1976 | 0466 | Fool's Gold | Wreck-diving for sunken treasure has always been his greatest obsession. A new adventure seduces a hapless college professor with the possibility of a huge haul that comes with a heavy price- cursed gold. |
04/29/1976 | 0478 | Two Plus Two Equals Death | A young architect is pulled into the maddening rush of the circus when he falls for an enchanting dancer. His troubles begin when he learns his lover has an equally beautiful but heartless identical twin sister. Can he have one without the other? |
05/24/1976 | 0485 | A Mexican Standoff | An upstanding citizen finds himself the recipient of an all-expense-paid trip to Mexico from a mysterious sponsor and thinks it's too good to be true. Hell breaks loose when he is suddenly charged with fraud and even worse-- murder. |
06/28/1976 | 0495 | Forty-Five Minutes to Murder | Inconsistencies in the official statement given by a businessman regarding his wife's murder move a brilliant defense attorney to scrutinize it further. All evidence point towards foul play and the answers he seeks can be found in poison. |
01/07/1977 | 0579 | Conquest of Fear | While traveling through Spain, a bandit abducts a world-renowned actress. The beauty recognizes the desperado as one of Spain’s most skilled bull fighters that mysteriously vanished. She works to convince him to leave his life of crime and return to the professional arena. |
07/08/1977 | 0679 | The Gift | Rita Holland and Walter Powers accomplish a murder they have been planning for some time. They go to Rita's apartment and after she turns up the hi-fi to its loudest pitch, Walter shoots her husband, Dennis. Their explanation to the police is that Dennis was killed by a burglar trying to steal his valuable coin collection. The police begin a routine investigation, so routine that Walter, subject to hallucinations, starts believing they know he's guilty. |
07/26/1977 | 0689 | The Rocket's Red Glare | A scientist working on a top secret weapons project commits suicide in front of coworkers. A local cop suspects it was foul play and runs headlong into a case of espionage. |
08/31/1977 | 0702 | The Reunion | An American war veteran meets a fellow soldier in Paris, a decade after the D-day at Utah Beach during World War II. He discovers that his friend leads a Jekyll and Hide life. |
02/06/1978 | 0777 | The Talking Women | An unscrupulous man decides to see the error in his ways. He becomes attentive to his wife, stops cheating on her with his mistress and even stops billing his company for unnecessary visits. But is he too late? As his mistress winds up dead in New York, a blackmailer appears in the troubled scene. |
02/13/1978 | 0781 | Night Eyes | A horse-tender winds up killed after he finds out that a slow horse has been replaced by a similar looking one. But miraculous coincidences reveal the plan and forces the owner's wife to search for the facts. |
04/28/1978 | 0824 | The House on Chimney Pot Lane | A modern couple buy a home infamous for the disappearance of its former inhabitants. But a strange painting that seems to come to life on occasions starts to scare them too. |
08/04/1978 | 0875 | The Avenging Ghost of Kitty Morgan | A woman takes a terrible vow to haunt the residence she made for her cheating beloved and all his sons and grandsons. In a couple of generations, she comes across the perfect chance to get the ultimate revenge. |
08/16/1978 | 0880 | Raptures of the Deep | The search of a sunken Spanish galleon fabled for its treasures leads a Greek diver to find the mythical city of Atlantis and know of its strange history. |
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. |
03/19/1979 | 0963 | The Unseen Watcher | A gambler dreams up a desperate scheme to "off" his bookie in order to escape his huge debts. To fund his addiction, he kills his wife and commits arson in an attempt to claim insurance. |
09/07/1981 | 1240 | Episode of the Terror | Set during the Reign of Terror, Balzac narrates the horrific brutality of the French Revolution as seen through the eyes of a priest. |
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. |
03/19/1982 | 1304 | The Magic Stick of Manitu | In order to establish ties with a musical race from another galaxy, the assistant of an interstellar diplomat becomes enchanted with the alien nation; meanwhile her boss devises the best way to exploit them. |
07/09/1982 | 1349 | Come Back Next Week | In order to discover the man who ordered her husband's death, a woman makes a weekly visit to the state prison in order to talk with his killer. In the midst of her investigation, she learns about her husband's many secrets. |
07/22/1982 | 1354 | Yearbook | Convinced that she has witnessed a felony, a reclusive widow revisits her high school yearbook for clues. |
10/01/1982 | 1376 | Escape from Anzio | After being shot down over occupied Italy during World War II, an army pilot and his companions must evade being captured by the German soldiers and make it back to neutral territory. |
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