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01/02/1978 | 0762 | Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater | Peter Perkins is a loser. He is sidelined at work and pestered at home. He seeks refuge in daydreams where he isn't criticized by any, but such is his capacity for losing that even they turn against him and he starts to lose control over reality and illusion. However, it is the change in his real life that makes this story intriguing. | 13 | 282 |
01/04/1978 | 0763 | Family Album | A reporter is sent to Europe to work on the story of the death of an infamous gang member. But his behaviour seems strange soon after his arrival. He unearths some strange facts and is soon sucked into a mysterious world where the crook isn't dead yet but can soon be. | 11 | 118 |
01/13/1978 | 0764 | The Laughing Maiden | Three adventurous sailors set on a journey to recover Captain Kidd's treasure. But they must contend with odds far greater than they expect as they must save themselves from the Syndicate - a mysterious group hell bent on retrieving the treasure for themselves and the curse of the infamous dead Captain himself. | 23 | 115 |
01/16/1978 | 0765 | In Another Place | A rich young couple believe they they have gotten away with a crime executed faultlessly, but the police chief knows better although he doesn't have evidence. | 13 | 241 |
01/17/1978 | 0766 | A Model Murderer | A travelling merchant seems like the perfect criminal as he escapes suspicion from both his wife and the judiciary as he pretends to be a charming photographer and rapes young models. But things go astray one day and he has to progress to murder. Has he crossed the line? | 6 | 125 |
01/19/1978 | 0767 | Sophia and the Pilgrim | A strange mystic charms young women into following him on his trip. His mysterious influence makes them forget who they are, chant indecipherable doctrine, get depressed and die. A gentleman decides to interfere as his friend's daughter gets under the mystic's spell too. | 5 | 73 |
01/20/1978 | 0768 | The Enchanted Child | A young boy has the strange gift of killing people at will with the force of his thoughts. When anyone speaks positively about dying when he is about, the person under discussion invariably ends up dead. His parents get curious after the second death and get afraid that they might be next in line. | 13 | 109 |
01/23/1978 | 0769 | The Forgetful Ghost | A wacky story of a pleasant, forgetful ghost returned to the world for a purpose, but for the fact that he has forgotten it. A man finds him and they pair up to make a card hustle that will prove useful for the ghost's living daughter. But his real purpose is far broader in scope. | 6 | 191 |
01/24/1978 | 0770 | The Ranee of Rajputana | A copper figurine of the Indian "Queen of Thieves" traps an deceitful, mischievous stockbroker in a dangerous but prosperous career. A robber and then tries to get him to commit a murder. When he tries to step back, his good fortune evaporates and an investor asks for her money back. But she aids him in executing another crime that might cover all his previous misdemeanours. | 5 | 89 |
01/26/1978 | 0771 | The Safety Match | A young but gifted detective and a seasoned but pompous one come together to solve a mysterious murder. The only clue is a burnt safety match found at the scene of the crime. But even with that sparing bit of evidence they achieve an astonishing progress - until everything stops making sense all of a sudden. | 5 | 136 |
01/27/1978 | 0772 | The Defectors | A married senator is blackmailed by a spy who managed to take a photograph of the senator in an embarrassing position with another woman. The spy forces him to propose a legislation that might hurt the interests of the U.S. But the senator decides to fight back as he only lacks in moral, but not patriotic fervor. | 7 | 95 |
01/30/1978 | 0773 | Yesterday's Giant | After a nuclear exercise, two scientists discover a group of Neanderthals living in the strange jungles of Nevada desert. Each of them follow the remarkable discovery with their own means and goals. | 36 | 139 |
01/31/1978 | 0774 | The Ice Palace | A routine ice-breaking mission turns to be of vital importance when the sailors discover that the polar ice caps are melting. The pilot sent to discover more disappears, prompting the dispatch of another team to find him and more information. | 13 | 97 |
02/02/1978 | 0775 | Don't Look Back | A legendary country singer falls for the charm of a plain girl from a small town he met at a remote service station. But she does not dare reciprocate out of fear for his manager who might even murder her to get her out of the way. | 3 | 83 |
02/03/1978 | 0776 | The Postmistress of Laurel Run | A postmistress tries to save a man devoted to her who also happens to work in the postal service in the next town as he is subjected to the inquiry about the theft of small amounts of money transfer between the two towns. | 2 | 69 |
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. | 19 | 125 |
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. | 7 | 99 |
02/09/1978 | 0779 | All Unregistered Aliens | All illegal immigrants might not be what they seem like! A female doctor discovers this to her cost as she treats a wounded one, but his body vanishes after his death. And it is not a cheap trick to fool the immigration department as she suspects... | 4 | 97 |
02/10/1978 | 0780 | Reflected Terror | A quote from a Borges story says \"Mirrors and copulation are abominable as they increase the number of men\". The mysterious mirror takes a whole new form of terror in this Gothic tale of guilt and madness told by a young girl who enters into the service of a lord who will not allow mirrors in his manor. They force him to look at the face he once murdered - that of his wife. | 2 | 55 |
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. | 1 | 56 |
02/14/1978 | 0782 | Revenge Is Sweet | A life of crime, even in the past, can get you into trouble. A former swindler winds up in custody for a crime he did not commit. He tries to walk on the straight and the narrow once he is free by working in an athletic club. But a club member takes a dislike to him and frames him for stealing a purse. Finally driven over the edge, he is prepared to risk prison again to avenge himself. | 11 | 157 |
02/16/1978 | 0783 | Something in the Air | A father attempts to stop his young girl from consenting to what he deems to be a poor match with an older man with little financial standing. But a strange psychic link seems to bring the two together despite his best attempts, even with the couple helping! | 4 | 81 |
02/17/1978 | 0784 | The Church of Hell | A nasty surprise awaits a couple as they return from their blissful holiday to find their tenant and caretaker killed by supernatural forces. They must fight the forces of Satan to save their home and hearth. | 11 | 128 |
02/20/1978 | 0785 | Angel from England | The fabled story of a nurse who helped more than two hundred English soldiers escape Belgium in the first world war. Based on real events. | 4 | 66 |
02/21/1978 | 0786 | A Phantom Yesterday | A renowned German actress is captured by a Nazi war convict when she returns to her homeland after World War II. She must use her wartime espionage experience and guile to save herself. | 3 | 63 |
02/23/1978 | 0787 | Vanishing Lady | A man investigates the disappearance of his beloved with no help from the investigating officers and despite the girl's mother trying to dissuade him. He catches wind of a strange character taking care of the fish in her apartment and the intrigue increases. He starts to suspect a convoluted plot by virtually everyone he knows... | 6 | 105 |
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. | 2 | 90 |
02/27/1978 | 0789 | Second Sight | A vagabond called Larry Millard is convicted of a murder he did not commit. He is embroiled in a diabolic scheme by businessman Glen Paxton who is going blind and covets Millard's eyes after the execution. But mysterious events start happening to Paxton after the success of his scheme, things he never planned for. | 16 | 85 |
02/28/1978 | 0790 | A Message from Space | A journalist is hell bent on rubbishing the existence of UFOs. But there are a few surprises coming his way. | 7 | 137 |
03/02/1978 | 0791 | You Tell Me Your Dream | A professional attempt to help a rich man with his constant dreams about death turns unpleasant for a psychiatrist as she starts having them too. Her co-workers are not helping either. | 5 | 107 |
03/03/1978 | 0792 | The Assassin | In an ultimate proof of work ethics, a professional killer tries to carry out the most valuable contract job he ever received - despite an accident that wipes his memory clean. | 2 | 88 |
03/06/1978 | 0793 | The House and the Brain | The persistent appearance of a spirit at a local residence prompts two men to investigate into a mysterious tale spanning over a century. | 3 | 112 |
03/07/1978 | 0794 | The Red Scarf | Trouble brews between an adulterous couple as the woman ditches her paramour for murdering her husband. But he isn't about to let her go scot-free. | 4 | 114 |
03/09/1978 | 0795 | The Instant Millionaires | Moral qualms notwithstanding, three warehouse labourers decide to share a huge stash of three million dollars that find by accident. But it fails to bring them contentment. What's more, the real felon owner might be coming after them any time! | 7 | 107 |
03/10/1978 | 0796 | Who Is George Williams? | Deprived of his memory in an accident, a man stumbles into a cabin in Alaska. The residents take care of him and soon find him a job in the police force of the county. Nearly after a year, he is asked to solve a case about some bones found lying and he slowly comes to understand that he must have killed the person. | 8 | 150 |
03/13/1978 | 0797 | The Wheel of Life | An ex-soldier runs into a former colleague he believed dead in Vietnam. Now the friend is an influential leader of an upcoming political movement and asks him to participate. He finds out that his friend's stupendous ascent was fated by the cosmos. | 6 | 65 |
03/14/1978 | 0798 | The Impossible Is True | Spirits and the image of death stalks a young girl in the estate she comes to own as a heir. A police officer helps her to unravel the mystery. | 6 | 77 |
03/16/1978 | 0799 | The Time Fold | In this bizarre science-fiction tale, an ill-fated plane gets trapped in a space-time variance in 1979 and ends up with all its passengers in a space station a thousand years after. | 3 | 127 |
03/17/1978 | 0800 | Identified Flying Objects | Bizarre comedy where a broke alien is picked up for breaking traffic rules and his space vehicle is confiscated. But luck favours him finally as a young woman from Earth falls for him and lends him the required paltry fine amount. They then set off an a journey to his homeland in the stars to live happily ever after. | 7 | 92 |
03/20/1978 | 0801 | All Things Are Possible | Set in the picturesque town of Toledo, Ohio, this is the story of a man struggling to keep his faith in jail after he is framed and punished for murdering a co-worker. | 8 | 113 |
03/21/1978 | 0802 | The Golden Amulet | A classic ghost tale from Japan about a samurai's son falling for a spirit. | 8 | 67 |
03/23/1978 | 0803 | The Judas Kiss | A misogynistic clairvoyant witnesses a woman murdering her boyfriend and subsequently, her husband. | 4 | 102 |
03/24/1978 | 0804 | Wise Child | A kindly couple come across an abandoned toddler at a hotel after a heavy storm and adopt it. But the baby never seems to grow older... | 13 | 105 |
03/27/1978 | 0805 | The Pretend Person | A woman recovering from open heart surgery has imaginary friends who help her face the multiple crises she is confronted with in her life. | 13 | 107 |
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. | 6 | 96 |
03/30/1978 | 0807 | Big City Blues | A recently married couple find themselves the centre of attention in a metropolitan city as they get robbed soon after arriving and their story is picked up by the media. The public and the government are sympathetic for a time during which they receive aid. But things turn sour after are found to pass bad checks. | 5 | 86 |
03/31/1978 | 0808 | Shark Bait | An incorrigible gambler lays a diabolic plan to clear his debts by taking his bookie's aid to kill his own brother and aunt to get hold of their wealth. | 5 | 105 |
04/03/1978 | 0809 | Fortune's Favorite | An elderly unmarried woman smells deceit when she is receives random invitations for free holidays paid for by a rich sponsor. | 4 | 105 |
04/04/1978 | 0810 | Delusion of Reprieve | A police investigator, Jewish by descent, tries to solve the murder mysteries around former German Secret Service members expatriated to the United States. | 4 | 104 |
04/06/1978 | 0811 | A Tragedy of Error | A woman is forced to ask for the help of a mysterious boatman and a ghost in a graveyard to help resettle her life torn by the repulsion for her tyrant husband and diffident but gentle lover. | 1 | 61 |
04/07/1978 | 0812 | The Parasite | A doubtful professor is made to change his opinions about the might of hypnotism but he believes the hypnotist wants to seduce him. | 8 | 73 |
04/10/1978 | 0813 | Childish Laughter | A scientist finds himself isolated in a remote house after damaging his car in an accident in order to save a young girl. He finds himself trapped by his own memories and the haunting laughter of a young girl. | 1 | 82 |
04/11/1978 | 0814 | Blackmail | The daughter of a Hollywood star finds herself blackmailed with a photograph of her in the arms of an infamous gangster. She must find a way out of the scenario. | 3 | 86 |
04/13/1978 | 0815 | The Shriek of the Mandrake | A filming crew is disrupted in their actions when the spirit in the ancient manor house they were shooting in decides to attack the lead casts. | 6 | 79 |
04/14/1978 | 0816 | Chapter of Errors | A modest art dealer is robbed of a valuable Picasso painting. He puts an advertisement on a sign in the window and asks the robber to give it back. But more than one person responds which leads to disastrous consequences. | 1 | 55 |
04/17/1978 | 0817 | Murder at Troyte's Hill | A female investigator joins forces with a Scotland Yard officer to solve the murder of a gamekeeper and his dog in an ancient English manor. | 7 | 54 |
04/18/1978 | 0818 | Uncle Louis | A young police investigator attempts to gather proof against a known mobster and falls for a lady witness during it. The irate mobster discovers a secret from his past. | 4 | 103 |
04/20/1978 | 0819 | The Avocado Jungle | An aged actress is helped by a writer to pen down her memoirs. She ends up revealing a secret that gets taped. | 8 | 82 |
04/21/1978 | 0820 | Bet with Angels | An amiable advertising professional receives gambling advice from his deceased friend who happened to be a gambling addict. Soon he finds himself caught up in the frenzy. | 4 | 92 |
04/24/1978 | 0821 | The Grandee of Terra Loco | A writer journeys to a little town in Texas to write the life story of a righteous politician after his demise. The enigmatic figure was fabled for his leadership but mysterious notions surround his life and death. | 4 | 90 |
04/25/1978 | 0822 | International Dateline | This story revolves around a Machiavellian World War II fighter pilot who even cheats the good lieutenant who takes care of him after a severe injury lands him in coma. He romances her on work while maintaining a wife at home. Problems start when the two women meet and he begins to be chased by a malicious ghost. | 4 | 68 |
04/27/1978 | 0823 | The Queen of Palmyra | A private eye chases an enigmatic woman who is a self-declared messiah and the reincarnation of a queen of ancient Rome. She is acquainted with a financier whose young nephew takes her to be on a con job. | 11 | 86 |
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. | 41 | 205 |
05/01/1978 | 0825 | A Drink with Dionysius | A nuclear weapon poetically named after the Greek god of wine falls into the hands of a small-time robber and swindler. He tries to sell it to an offshore client. | 6 | 74 |
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. | 4 | 131 |
05/04/1978 | 0827 | Journey to Somewhere | A strange spectral tale of a train carrying lost souls to a wintry little town that they must return to for their unique purposes. | 2 | 106 |
05/05/1978 | 0828 | Cool Killer Karl | A bizarre story of the mother of a victimised family befriending an infamous killer who took them as hostages. | 7 | 68 |
05/08/1978 | 0829 | Death and Desire | Retired circus actors hit upon an ingenious scheme of conning people with a spirit-medium act. But trouble starts when the spirit dies. | 7 | 91 |
05/09/1978 | 0830 | Room 418 | A suave man talks his way into renting a reserved room at a fully-booked hotel. But problems creep up when the rightful owner unexpectedly turns up in the night. | 6 | 122 |
05/11/1978 | 0831 | The Guilt of the Innocent | A young and poor Russian falls under the influence of a master thief who works a seaport. A naive, and hard up Russian falls for the guiles of a master robber in a harbour town. | 3 | 63 |
05/12/1978 | 0832 | The Secret of Shen-Si | The tranquility of the abode of a college professor is severly impaired when his wife suddenly starts recounting personal experiences of the Titanic accident. And she has only started... | 3 | 73 |
05/15/1978 | 0833 | Edmund Orme | A young gentleman's amorous attempts are severely impeded by a spectral visitation every time he tries to propose to the lady. Her mother has some explanation. | 2 | 64 |
05/16/1978 | 0834 | Girl Talk | Two former schoolmates compare their present lives many years later. One has chosen to be a homemaker while another deals with bureaucratic politics in her capacity as a Senator. Even through the process of taking stock, one of them plans a murder. | 8 | 108 |
05/18/1978 | 0835 | Time Out of Mind | A young student is beset by his family history when he meets with an accident. In a bizarre twist, he seems to journey through time and replaces his uncle during WWII. He must fulfill a task to aid his father. | 5 | 73 |
05/19/1978 | 0836 | The Hundred Dollar Difference | A down-on-his-luck gambler enlists the help of his girlfriend to kill his wealthy aunt and get hold of her fortunes. Unfortunately, when he appears at the scene, he finds that the job has already been carried out for him. | 6 | 79 |
05/22/1978 | 0837 | The Girl He Left Behind | A soldier on leave from the Army is rejected by his girlfriend under pressure from her mother. When he is killed in a car accident, his spectre returns to haunt the girl. | 2 | 55 |
05/23/1978 | 0838 | Window to Oblivion | Thirty long years after the disappearance of a WWII aircraft pilot in a regular flight over the Bermuda Triangle, spirit mediums attempt to communicate with him to put him in touch with his wife. | 6 | 64 |
05/25/1978 | 0839 | The Spy and the Traitor | A fictional narration about the events surrounding Benedict Arnold's perfidy about West Point to Britain. | 5 | 46 |
05/26/1978 | 0840 | Arctic Encounter | A peculiar energy drain in an Arctic region forces two American and Russian fighter planes and their crew to crash consequently. The survivors are left to encounter a new, strange world. | 7 | 83 |
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. | 13 | 59 |
05/30/1978 | 0842 | The Bittersweet Honeymoon | A couple out on honeymoon think they have landed an amazing stroke of luck when a cruise-line mess-up ends up accommodating them in a super luxury suite on the ship. But their gladness soon disappears when a man with nine fingers breaks into their suite. | 3 | 82 |
06/01/1978 | 0843 | The Silent Woman | A woman goes into a silence for 27 years after being forced into a marriage against her wishes. | 11 | 70 |
06/02/1978 | 0844 | Diamond Cut Diamond | While on holiday in Monte Carlo, a wealthy man is swindled by a man who claims to be a psychic. A con posing to be a psychic pulls off a trick on a rich man holidaying in Monte Carlo. | 4 | 85 |
06/05/1978 | 0845 | The Undying Heart | A gambler puts himself in a tight corner when he ends up losing a bookie's percentage in a game. He plans to touch a wealthy aunt. | 4 | 65 |
06/06/1978 | 0846 | Miracle in Sharon City | An industrious mayor becomes a hero when he manages to get a leading chemical company to set up a manufacturing unit in his small town. But an encounter with an ex-chemist at the company reveals facts about the product(s) that leaves him having serious doubts. | 8 | 64 |
06/08/1978 | 0847 | Death Spell | An unemployed couple of an artist and an actress are forced to move in with a rich friend who is convinced his wife is trying to murder him using black magic. | 6 | 92 |
06/09/1978 | 0848 | A Long Way from Home | Two buddies from Ohio enlist in the Union Army during the Civil War. They agree to stay together and look after each other in battle. But when the fighting gets hot and heavy, one cuts and runs while the other remains, mortally wounded. The consequence of that cowardice is dire. | 20 | 70 |
06/12/1978 | 0849 | Alias Mr. Aladdin | A scheming woman and her incapable paramour repeatedly attempt to find out her deceased husband's money stash as his best friend tries to impede them. | 7 | 80 |
06/14/1978 | 0850 | Charlie, the Actor | Reverence gives way to fury and intrigue as a police officer ordered to protect the king of an obscure country finds him to be an escaped criminal from his former place of residence. | 1 | 65 |
06/16/1978 | 0851 | The Unholy Miracle | A cold war narrative about a couple realising that their adopted girl was a subject of a strange experiment in Russia conducted nearly two decades back. | 2 | 69 |
06/19/1978 | 0852 | Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde | A police sheriff is questioned by the prosecutor for defense to elucidate the mystery regarding a blackmail and a reported missing person. He narrates the story of a tortured marriage between an oppressed couple. | 4 | 52 |
06/21/1978 | 0853 | A Matter of Faith | A businessman finds his long lost beloved in a restaurant after years. But he remembers witnessing her execution when they were fellow revolutionaries in a small country. She remembers nothing of him, or her supposed past. | 1 | 56 |
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. | 18 | 108 |
06/26/1978 | 0855 | Lady Bluebeard | An insurance agent is sent to check on the widow beneficiary of six aged husbands, with all the marriages culminating under two years. Can he prove her culpability in murder while fearing to be her next victim at the same time? | 6 | 98 |
06/28/1978 | 0856 | The Quadruple | A trapeze artist trades his soul for the ability to perform the master stunt of all. | 4 | 38 |
06/30/1978 | 0857 | The Good Times Express | A snow storm in the middle of June forces a tradesman to abandon his flight and catch a train. But he finds himself amid weird fellow travellers journeying to strange places. | 13 | 186 |
07/03/1978 | 0858 | King Bankrobber | A regular lawful architect turns into a master bank-robber to avenge the leniency meted out by the judiciary to the young scoundrel who murdered his parents. | 2 | 86 |
07/05/1978 | 0859 | My Kingdom for a Horse | The strange tale of a gambler and the conversations he has with his horse companion. | 3 | 49 |
07/07/1978 | 0860 | The Four-Fifteen Express | A man meets an ex-acquaintance on a train journey who has apparently swiped 75,000 Pounds Sterling. The man is accused of complicity at first and then he is written off with a simple mistaken identity. | 1 | 58 |
07/10/1978 | 0861 | Sound Advice | A columnist finds himself honour bound to pursue the case of a woman whom she had advised to walk out on her husband and was found dead the very next day. | 5 | 81 |
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. | 5 | 53 |
07/13/1978 | 0863 | The Village of Fools | A delightful farce in which a man is sent on a task to find the hamlet of Helm. But on his arrival, he is given the duties of a magistrate and given the mission to save the moon. E.G. was delighted to present this comedy and the actors. | 8 | 74 |
07/14/1978 | 0864 | The Hanging Judge | An English shopkeeper accuses his assistant of theft and gets him arrested. But the alleged thief is permitted to go free by the judge due to lack of evidence. The criminal sets down on a chilling revenge spree both upon his employer and the judge who acquitted him. | 4 | 56 |
07/18/1978 | 0866 | The Absent-Minded League | A French investigator is requested to aid with a case of counterfeiting. The detective is a dead ringer in personality to Sherlock Holmes. | 2 | 87 |
07/20/1978 | 0867 | The Further You Go, the Less You Know | A spiritual guru persuades a professional deceiver to believe that he really is the reborn DaVinci and gets him to paint a modern Mona Lisa. | 3 | 57 |
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. | 11 | 134 |
07/24/1978 | 0869 | Close Shave | A professional deceiver dupes a lonely rich man to marry the empress of a South American country that does not exist. His blackjack dealing girlfriend dons the role of the empress. | 3 | 69 |
07/25/1978 | 0870 | The Stranger Inside | A blue-blooded lady is forced on a journey of self-discovery and culpability when her step-daughter ends up murdered. The police investigator helps her on her way. | 3 | 63 |
07/27/1978 | 0871 | The Cabinet of the Unsolved | A small-time actor becomes a deceiver when he uses his talents to dupe rich poker players. But he winds up dead in a railway compartment without a ticket. As Scotland Yard investigates the case, they receive a mail from a man involved in the crime detailing the murder. | 4 | 59 |
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. | 3 | 112 |
07/31/1978 | 0873 | The Vanishing Point | A thrilling Holocaust-based narrative about a visiting physics professor in Germany on the search for an aged German physicist who had been known for his work on an anti-matter device. Only he is impeded by accidentally coming across a scheme to restore the Nazis with a mysterious weapon - the anti-matter device! | 4 | 73 |
08/02/1978 | 0874 | The Devil's Brew | A baseball player leaves home to become a professional player in the big leagues. But the devil holds him ransom for shaming his parents. | 4 | 45 |
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. | 4 | 93 |
08/07/1978 | 0876 | The Sixth Commandment | An older brother lusts after the younger brother's wife even as they all try to survive on a decrepit farm. He also hides a dark past. | 6 | 101 |
08/09/1978 | 0877 | The Versegy Case | An investigation of theft in Hungary in the late 19th century leads the investigator to suspect the very professor whose safe was robbed. He also suspects him to be off his rocker. | 2 | 43 |
08/11/1978 | 0878 | Doctor Eduardo | A Mexican physician move into a little fishing village is welcomed by the villagers. But the chief's son takes an intense dislike towards him for having amorous intentions towards his sister. Will he end up killing him for it? | 4 | 68 |
08/14/1978 | 0879 | The Black Sheep and the Captain | A young man's missing uncle calls for his aid in his residence in the moors to ward off an ancient enemy who pursues him. | 3 | 75 |
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. | 2 | 77 |
08/18/1978 | 0881 | Our Own Jailer | A malcontent businessman ends up in the magical city of Xanadu where he is permitted to follow his passions. But did he kill someone to reach there? A young attorney investigates. | 2 | 71 |
08/21/1978 | 0882 | Cross Fire | A taxi driver finds himself embroiled in a murder mystery when he takes the fare of a rich man and transports him to a burnt out house in South Bronx. | 3 | 102 |
08/23/1978 | 0883 | The Eavesdropper | Myrtle Chapman, married to a bookish man who neglected her for eight years, stealthily listens to his telephonic conversations about Hermes with another woman. She gets her answers finally in a small statuette at a bar. | 8 | 103 |
08/25/1978 | 0884 | The Other Soul | On a trip to Greece, a young doctor is given a card with something written in Greek. When he attempts to get it deciphered by showing it to others, they get to know a dirty secret about him that they cannot divulge. | 10 | 101 |
08/28/1978 | 0885 | Will the Real Amy Stand Up? | A young, psychotic heiress must face up to the fact that her relatives in her own house are trying to murder her. But an imaginary friend from her early school days comes back to aid her. | 2 | 59 |
08/30/1978 | 0886 | The Biggest Fish in the World | A delightful farce centered around a woman who tries to enlist the help of the police to save her husband who has been accidentally swallowed by a whale at an amusement park. But an animal rights enthusiast impedes this rescue effort. | 7 | 64 |
09/01/1978 | 0887 | Flash Point | A photographer has an assignment at a steel mill but starts a passionate affair with the wife of a worker at the factory. Problems arise when that worker accompanies him on a tour of the factory. | 2 | 127 |
09/04/1978 | 0888 | Devil's Gold | A sailor is rewarded with a gold coin from Devil's Boutique after he catches a thief. But he can't seem to get the coin off his hand despite repeated attempts. | 4 | 90 |
09/06/1978 | 0889 | Dead Wrong | When a new appointee from Heaven gets the wrong man's soul, he attempts to fix things. But the correct person doesn't want to go with him. | 4 | 71 |
09/08/1978 | 0890 | Ignorant Armies | A timid mama's boy gets himself into trouble for fibs he told a young girl during military service. He must lie his way through again to get out of the situation. | 1 | 60 |
09/11/1978 | 0891 | End of a Memory | A visually-impaired man accidentally finds himself in a murder scenario and narrowly escapes becoming a victim himself. Many years later, he gets into an affair with a woman who had witnessed the same incident, but has no recollection of it. | 4 | 67 |
09/13/1978 | 0892 | High Caqueta | The mysterious disappearance of their only girl in a regular mountain climbing trip forces a couple to attempt a search and rescue mission in the Andes Mountains. But their guide seems to know a secret about the mountain he is not telling them know. | 3 | 72 |
09/15/1978 | 0893 | The Secret of Crow's Nest | A man takes a return journey back to a mountain dwelling that has a horrible surprise for him. | 7 | 118 |
09/18/1978 | 0894 | It's Hard to Be Rich | An affluent writer moves into an inexpensive apartment in order to write in peace. But his dreams are shattered by the blaring piano music from the nest door flat. But this isn't a story about a petty neighbourly quarrel - since the next door apartment is non-existent. | 4 | 60 |
09/20/1978 | 0895 | The Beheading | A woman called Joyce narrates her life experiences to another woman. She paints a grim picture of her family portrait and other incidents of her past and then goes on to calmly explain that she has signed a deal to be decapitated by her physician and become the subject of the world's first head transplant experiment. | 25 | 69 |
09/22/1978 | 0896 | The Conversion Factor | A mathematics thriller. A thrilling solution beyond mathematics. Are we talking about metaphysics here? A physicist is in dire need for the last element in his search for a new paradigm of mathematics - a conversion factor. The answer is apparently hidden with a waitress in a truck stop restaurant | 2 | 85 |
09/25/1978 | 0897 | A Table for Two | A blackguard threatens a restaurant manager to keep check on her clients so he can rob their homes while they enjoy dinner. | 2 | 60 |
09/27/1978 | 0898 | The Headhunters | A recently married couple, Tim and Mary Lang return to their native island in the Phillipines to meet Tim's irate grandma intent on having Mary's grandpa Dondoc's head on the chopping block for killing her husband, Tali. She tries to persuade Tim to kill Dondoc by telling him that Tali's spirit will never rest at peace until Dondoc's head is buried alongside Tali's body. When Tim dissents, Tali's spirit blackmails by threatening to harm Mary's unborn baby. | 1 | 41 |
09/29/1978 | 0899 | A Thousand-Year-Old Story | A tremendously wealthy man is killed aboard his own luxury yacht. The investigators believe the only possible culprit is his personal assistant. But the local physician who also happens to be the P.A.'s friend since childhood believes him innocent and tries to aid the unfortunate man. | 5 | 68 |
10/02/1978 | 0900 | The Forever Alley | A law-enforcement investigator tries to shame his bowling obsessed brother-in-law into paying heed to his family. But he is as yet unaware that the man is prepared to take his obsession to far greater heights. One day, the brother-in-law vanishes in a bowling alley and the investigator discovers that he might still be there - but in an alternate plane of consciousness. | 5 | 85 |
10/04/1978 | 0901 | Shadow of Love | Haunted by an unseen being that radiates pure love, a college professor disgusted by all human affection seeks the aid of a priest to exorcise the spirit. However, only the man's pet parrot can see and hear the being which unwittingly hinders their plans. | 8 | 65 |
10/06/1978 | 0902 | The Captain of the PoleStar | On a treasure-hunting quest in the North Pole, a Captain steers his ship through the thick, icy, waters. When the ship's physician and the rest of the crew overhear a one-sided conversation coming from their skipper's quarters, they begin to doubt his sanity. | 14 | 123 |
10/09/1978 | 0903 | The Triple Crown | Convinced that he has discovered the next \"Seabiscuit,\" a poor stable hand purchases a horse with the intention of entering him in the high stakes races. He meets all sorts of characters along his journey to find investors in his venture. | 2 | 56 |
10/11/1978 | 0904 | The Man in Black | After witnessing a murder in an area surrounding the embassies in Washington, D.C., a woman is pitched into an international conspiracy as the police seek to solve the crime. | 3 | 66 |
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. | 4 | 81 |
10/16/1978 | 0906 | The Winds of Time | A woman visits paranormal expert Bryce Bond to relieve her of the incessant and debilitating migraines she experiences. In order to cure her, she must travel through time and secure closure for things left unresolved in her past lives. | 7 | 65 |
10/18/1978 | 0907 | Never Answer an Advertisement | A small town physician answers a peculiar advertisement for a doctor specializing in entomology when he has trouble finding new clientele; and he finds himself captive to a crazed man with a penchant for the bizarre and unusual. | 2 | 71 |
10/20/1978 | 0908 | The Outside Girl | Living off his wealthy mother, a good for nothing alcoholic becomes unusually attached to his father's portrait which he painted years ago. Upon waking from an alcohol induced stupor, he awakens to find the portrait gone, together with the new cleaning lady. | 2 | 59 |
10/23/1978 | 0909 | The Lazarus Syndrome | A company aggressively starts retrenching the older employees in their roster in order to reinvent the organization into a young and edgy business. Fearing for his job, a fifty-year old manager starts acting youthful despite his doctor and wife's warnings not to overtax his already ailing heart. | 9 | 106 |
10/25/1978 | 0910 | Family Ties | After receiving a strange phone call, a woman's husband vanishes and her only clue is the address of an old recluse imprinted on a notepad. His peculiar and mysterious relations are slowly unmasked as she works to find him. | 2 | 111 |
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. | 6 | 83 |
11/01/1978 | 0912 | The Midas of Castle Hill | In order to discover the whereabouts of the family fortune hidden away by his rich father, a son enlists the aid of a famed French detective. Can acquiring wealth make up for his father's approval? | 2 | 57 |
11/03/1978 | 0913 | The Man with the Claret Mark | As the last surviving member of the DeLacy line during the Irish Rebellion, an Irish matron warns her youthful relatives of the man with the claret colored birthmark on his cheek that haunts their family. | 1 | 39 |
11/06/1978 | 0914 | Hit and Run | When a professional accident victim unexpectedly perishes after jumping in front of an oncoming car, his hired witness adds extortion to his list of transgressions when he blackmails the senator involved in the crime. | 2 | 63 |
11/08/1978 | 0915 | Second Sight | A psychiatrist recommends a grounded pilot to take up painting to help him loosen up. A strange series of events unfold when his paintings of death and destruction all come to pass the following day. | 10 | 78 |
11/10/1978 | 0916 | A Better Mousetrap | In order to secure an air-tight alibi, a man stages his own kidnapping to escape being investigated for the murder of his wealthy wife. | 4 | 93 |
11/13/1978 | 0917 | The Pilgrim Soul | During World War II, an American nurse travels to England to offer assistance to the local hospitals. Her friendly and open nature charm the patients and this causes British Intelligence to suspect her of espionage. A savior comes in the form of the mortally wounded officer she has fallen for. | 3 | 64 |
11/15/1978 | 0918 | The Conspiracy | After having been abandoned by her lover, a vengeful model plots the downfall of a hapless photographer who just happens to be her first love. | 7 | 58 |
11/17/1978 | 0919 | The Favor of Women | In the year 3039, Earth has long since depleted its natural resources and must import all requirements from other places. When the planet that provides them with Selco- the main source of the Earth's energy abruptly cancels all shipments, an astronaut is sent to initiate talks with the planet's queen. | 5 | 58 |
11/20/1978 | 0920 | The Thing at Nolan | When a father vanishes while digging a ditch in frontier Missouri, suspicions fall on the rebellious son who recently threatened him with bodily harm. His mother believes his claims of innocence, but the rest of the townsfolk do not. | 4 | 79 |
11/22/1978 | 0921 | The Grey Slapper | In this play about the prevalent corruption in society, a former student tries to save his teacher turned politician from selling his soul. At the same time, a nosy reporter throws sparks a scandal that the two are in a relationship. In the midst of the chaos, the media continues to search for a gray-clad woman that unexpectedly slapped a prominent politician. | 6 | 74 |
11/24/1978 | 0922 | Night Visitor | A scandal ensues when a supposedly deceased young lady turns up in her parents' visitor's bed! | 2 | 76 |
11/27/1978 | 0923 | Alien Presences | Witnessing the crash of an unidentified flying object, an elderly couple head to the location and find a bay amidst the wreckage. As the child grows older, he longs to return to his own planet and people. | 5 | 87 |
11/29/1978 | 0924 | The Romany Revenge | A local detective's suspicions arise when heirs to a $2 million fortune in diamonds disappear one after the other. Only the gypsies residing in the area can provide him with the answers he seeks. | 5 | 67 |
12/01/1978 | 0925 | Squaring The Triangle | After unwittingly spending time with the wife of one of his employees when he is stranded in a remote airport due to a snowstorm, he falls for her. Praying for his death, the CEO sends her husband on a dangerous assignment. | 3 | 87 |
12/04/1978 | 0926 | The Serpent of Saris | The god of athletics, Saris, exacts punishment on a pugilist. A retired police officer steps in to save him when another boxer's life is in danger. | 2 | 65 |
12/08/1978 | 0928 | The Exploding Heart | In the 1950's, while performing a complicated operation on his future brother-in-law, a young surgeon gets assistance from an unexpected source. | 8 | 55 |
12/11/1978 | 0929 | A Horror Story | In a commercial building, a master chef serves the most divine cuisine in a restaurant located at the second floor. On the first level, a shoemaker produces exceptional footwear. The secret resides in their raw materials, of which they share the same source. | 33 | 167 |
12/13/1978 | 0930 | Ward Six | In a dilapidated hospital in a Russian town, a young doctor joins as a staff member and soon becomes concerned over the state of the ward housing, as well as the mental well-being of the people residing there. | 1 | 79 |
12/15/1978 | 0931 | The Search for Myra | A wealthy industrialist seeks psychiatric counseling when he begins calling his wife, as well as his secretary by a strange name. Together, they delve deep into his conscience to discover who this \"Myra\" person really is. | 10 | 92 |
12/18/1978 | 0932 | The Familiar Ghost | When he begins to receive letters of a threatening sort, a retired ship captain about to be married becomes paranoid and believes he is being pursued by an invisible being. | 1 | 106 |
12/20/1978 | 0933 | It Has to Be True | When his gun and clothes are found in the apartment of the deceased, a traveling salesman is imprisoned for the death of a woman he has never met. He pleads innocence but the evidence against him is overwhelming. | 9 | 81 |
12/22/1978 | 0934 | The Power of Evil | A gambler residing in Hong Kong is plagued by the spirit of his past lover, and this time, she demands more than he is willing to give. | 3 | 46 |
12/25/1978 | 0935 | If I Can't Have You | The threat of the secret police keep a duo of rivals in check as they compete for the affections of a woman in this complex love triangle. | 6 | 50 |
12/27/1978 | 0936 | No Way Out | An elderly man becomes obsessed with the number 2172 when it repeatedly appears in random patterns during the course of his life. Despite the protests of his nephew's girlfriend of the figure's significance in numerology, his nephew brushes his theories aside. | 3 | 108 |
12/29/1978 | 0937 | The Dead House | In a visit with the evening caretaker of a morgue in a town in Germany, Twain hears a morbid story of how a man exacted revenge on the people who murdered his family. | 16 | 142 |