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Date | Episode | Title | Plot |
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02/21/1974 | 0043 | The Walls of Jericho | A modest attender at a men's club discovers his extraordinary gift of bringing characters to life from his imagination - literally. But they do exhibit a tendency of being out of control. |
03/21/1974 | 0061 | Ordeal by Fire | A millionaire and his daughter are subjected to third degree burns when they refuse to pay a million dollars to a man with a mysterious control over elemental fire. The daughter asks her beau to aid her father who has become paranoid about security and changed their home to a fortress. |
04/24/1974 | 0080 | The Hand | A postal surprise in the form of a human hand leaves a man convinced of its apocalyptic portents. |
05/01/1974 | 0084 | The Death Bell | Family genealogy research gets a man into trouble with the IRA who believe he is from the police. |
07/08/1974 | 0115 | Too Many Women Can Kill You | An ambitious maid blackmails her employer after witnessing him murder his wife. The man is plagued by the women in his life when even the spirit of his deceased spouse begins to torment him at night. |
07/11/1974 | 0117 | The Devil-God | After inheriting a sprawling ranch, a young couple discover that the estate is home to a wild and beautiful Palomino stallion. What they don't know is that the horse belongs to a powerful deity who is angered by their attempts to claim the steed as their own. |
08/05/1974 | 0127 | I Thought You Were Dead | After murdering her husband and partner, an authoress begins to get phone calls from her deceased spouse. She is tormented by his reminders about who possesses the real talent between them. |
09/16/1974 | 0148 | What Happened to Mrs. Forbush? | The ghost of a sea captain's wife plagues an abandoned house by the sea, and the water nearby is haunted by the spirit of the captain. A frail child and his family are caught in the tempest. |
10/28/1974 | 0166 | Possessed by the Devil | A young boy who happens to be a minister's son is admitted to a hospital with fatal wounds. Though his health improves, he has lost his soul forever. |
01/06/1975 | 0197 | The Premature Burial | A doctor helps his friend dig up the corpse of his loved one who married a wicked man. They find her to be alive, and now her evil husband wants her back! |
01/07/1975 | 0198 | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | In order to solve the case of a vicious attack on a young girl in a locked room, an ambitious police investigator enlists the services of a newbie detective. The man makes a unique suggestion. |
01/14/1975 | 0205 | Faith and the Faker | A converted swindler turned faith healer learns that he can heal anyone in his island except his lame wife. He soon realizes that only one thing stands between him and the ability he desperately seeks to acquire. |
03/13/1975 | 0238 | Death Pays No Dividend | A group of failed Wall Street financiers try to arrange their own deaths at the hands of a professional assassin so their families can collect on their life insurances. But an unexpected stroke of good fortune comes to them, though their appointment with death is still on! |
04/25/1975 | 0263 | Till Death Do Us Join | Set in old Prussia, this is a truly Gothic tale of romance between an art student and his professor's niece. Fate intervenes when her hand is sold off in marriage with a local wealthy man. But one life isn't enough for eternal lovers, is it? |
05/23/1975 | 0279 | Markheim: Man or Monster? | Karl Markheim is the ultimate anti-hero as he manipulates and swindles everyone around him to get his ends. He is left out from the will of his rich uncle and decides to torture his wife and her father for money, blithely unaware of the strange figure who witnesses all from behind a mirror. |
06/13/1975 | 0291 | Stairway to Oblivion | In order to visit a distant relative, Julia Stephens travels to his remote mountain top estate named Oblivion. During her stay she attempts to unravel the mysteries surrounding the fate of the manor's previous visitors. |
08/05/1975 | 0321 | Hung Jury | A mediocre accountant leading a double life is romantically entangled with a prostitute and knee-deep in gambling debt outside his normal world. When the bookies come knocking at his door, his real life is threatened. He comes across the solution to his problems when he is asked to serve jury duty for a crime he actually committed! |
08/28/1975 | 0334 | Night of the Howling Dog | While on a camping trip on a deserted island with a minister and his daughter, a group of friends are horrified to learn that a werewolf is among them. |
10/06/1975 | 0358 | Five Ghostly Indians | While walking along the Atlantic shoreline, a professor and an inn keeper from Maine come across an unusual Indian arrowhead. Soon after, a dream of five Indians begins to plague them. |
10/29/1975 | 0370 | Ghost Powder | Upon finding that their home in France is haunted, John and Abigail Adams attempt to discover what type of spirit they must deal with. Meanwhile, his budding competition with presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson flourishes. |
10/31/1975 | 0372 | It's Hell to Pay the Piper | When his landlord suddenly drops dead in the middle of paying his rent, a man must convince the proprietor's son that he settled his dues indeed. |
12/18/1975 | 0398 | Fireball | When strange things start happening around the newly hired blacksmith, a military contractor's wife begins to suspect that he is the incarnation of the fire god, Vulcan. Her husband is inclined to believe her when he is suddenly crippled by a freak accident. |
01/30/1976 | 0423 | Castle Kerfol | On a tour of a British castle, an American tourist is suddenly attacked by a pack of dogs. She is sheltered by a neighbor and there discovers the castle's history and the origins of its strange guardians. |
03/02/1976 | 0441 | Afterward | When her husband suddenly goes missing, a woman soon discovers just how much appearances can be deceiving and misleading. |
03/29/1976 | 0457 | The Saxon Curse | A fortune teller foretells that he will carry out the perfect crime in order to safeguard his betrothed. Armed with that knowledge, the haughty nobleman picks his target. |
04/08/1976 | 0465 | Sleeping Dogs | A widow continues to search for the identity of the man who betrayed her husband to the Nazis despite repeated warnings from her new husband and their friends to let go of the past. |
04/21/1976 | 0472 | The Love Song of Death | Love and hate are two sides of the same coin. In this tale of bigotry and hatred, two young lovers are sacrificed to end a blood feud between two noble houses. |
04/26/1976 | 0477 | The Three Elders of Lifeboat Landing | Lifeboat Landing seems to be the perfect community, where there is no crime and everything is peaceful. When a young reporter starts snooping into the communities past, he discovers more than what he was prepared for. |
06/24/1976 | 0494 | Child of Fate | Threatened by the entrance of new and real-life companions, a child's imaginary friend manifests and attacks them in a battle to exist beyond their make-believe world. |
09/13/1976 | 0517 | The Tell-Tale Corpse | Ernie and Sid, just out of prison, visit the Aunt of ex prison-mate Ted because she has a key that opens the second lock of a chest that contains $100,000. They have the other key. Complications occur after they kill Aunt Grace to get her half of the loot -- she refuses to stay dead. |
09/27/1976 | 0525 | The Ghostly Private Eye | A 19th century ghost buster meets his match in a violent and aggressive poltergeist in an American mansion. |
11/08/1976 | 0548 | The Graveyard | A man mourns for his lost love who died after riding out into a rain storm to buy a new dress. He learns the truth about her in a hard way. |
11/09/1976 | 0549 | The Colony | Michael and Mary just want to spend some quiet time away with nature. After spotting a UFO, they stop in the sleepy town of Colony, New Hampshire to report it but find themselves in deep trouble with the law. |
12/16/1976 | 0566 | The Doctor's Evidence | A shallow man who is having an affair with his secretary catches a lucky break when his wife dies in an accidental fall. But her son suspects that his wife sent him a message by telepathy saying she was going to be murdered. |
05/17/1977 | 0649 | The Child's Cat Paw | A child and a strange cat weave a spell on an old man and a gold digger to put them together. The girl's motives are pure, the cat's are not. |
09/09/1977 | 0706 | The Woman in the Green Dress | An apparition of a lady in a green dress haunts a visitor in his friend's residence. Things get interesting when he finds her mentioned in a coat of arms in the architecture of a derelict, local church. Further enquiry with the old church sexton reveals a strange murder committed nearly eighty years back. Can he solve the mystery now? |
02/07/1978 | 0778 | Dr. Heidegger's Experiment | An aged and somewhat eccentric doctor invites some schoolmates to his residence for a scientific experiment. His experiment involves offering them all the magical waters from the fabled Fountain of Youth and examine if they will make the same mistakes as he did when he regained his youth. |
06/23/1978 | 0854 | The Black Door | A 21 year old man is made to stay in an ancient mansion in order to procure his inheritance. The key apparently is behind a strange black door on the topmost floor. |
07/11/1978 | 0862 | Guardian Angel | A rising entrepreneur falls in love with a young woman who says she has been reborn and that she can communicate with animals. When she is sent off to an asylum, he tries to throw away everything else so he can live with her. |
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