Thriller : The Complete Series 1 Season
Thriller Season 1 (1960 - 1961)
50min | Crime, Drama, Horror | TV Series (1960–1962)
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IMDB Rating : 8.5/10
Horror legend Boris Karloff guides you through unforgettable episodes of
suspense, murder and relentless terror from the minds of such masterful
writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch and Cornell Woolrich.
Starring : Boris Karloff
Thriller Guide
Season 1 (1960 - 1961)
The Twisted Image
Child's Play
Worse than Murder
The Mark of the Hand
Rose's Last Summer
The Guilty Men
The Purple Room
The Watcher
Girl with a Secret
The Prediction
The Fatal Impulse
The Big Blackout
Knock Three-One-Two
Man in the Middle
The Cheaters
The Hungry Glass
The Poisoner
Man in the Cage
Choose a Victim
Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook
The Merriweather File
The Fingers of Fear
Well of Doom
The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell
Trio for Terror
Papa Benjamin
Late Date
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
The Devil's Ticket
Parasite Mansion
A Good Imagination
Mr. George
Terror in Teakwood
The Prisoner in the Mirror
Dark Legacy
Pigeons from Hell
The Grim Reaper
Boris Karloff - THRILLER
Sixty Minutes
Black & White
Thirty-Seven Episodes
First Telecast : Sept 13, 1960
Last Telecast of a First-run Episode : Apr 30, 1962
Last Telecast of the Original Network Run : Jul 9, 1962
Host : Boris Karloff
Executive Producer : Hubbell Robinson
Producers : Fletcher Markle; William Frye and Maxwell Shane
Music : Jerry Goldsmith, Pete Rugolo, and Morton Stevens
Thriller (aka Boris Karloff's Thriller) is an hour-long TV horror
anthology series that originally aired on NBC from 1960 to 1962. At
the beginning of each Thriller hour, Hollywood's original master of
the macabre, Boris Karloff, sets the tone and primes viewers for
frightful and chilling dramas based on the works of some of the
horror genre's greatest writers: Robert E. Howard, August Derleth,
Cornell Woolrich, Richard Matheson, and Robert Bloch, to name just a
few. Shot in eerie black and white, each episode offers at least one
complete drama—a few episodes divide the hour between two or three
shorter plays—and many feature notable guest stars such as William
Shatner, Elizabeth Montgomery, Leslie Nielsen, John Carradine, Tom
Poston, Edward Andrews, and even host Boris Karloff himself.
During the years since its original run, the series has garnered a
huge base of fans, some of whom are themselves big names in the
entertainment industry or the horror subculture. For example,
Lawrence Rapchak, musical director for the Northbrook Symphony
Orchestra in the Chicago area, says he loves Thriller because it
perfectly embodies "that spooky, exciting, 1950s Halloween-type
zeitgeist that [he] experienced as a kid." Famed splatterpunk author
and genre historian David J. Schow is also enthusiastic about the
show, citing certain episodes as the palpable progeny of EC Comics
and pointing out others that "resonate like a feature film." And
even venerated horror-meister Stephen King is a devotee. Indeed, in
his popular nonfiction book on the horror genre, Danse Macabre, King
goes so far as to call Thriller "the best horror series ever put on TV."
Of course, like most anthology shows, Thriller has its share of
clunker episodes that elicit groans of displeasure from even its
most ardent fans. And some horror aficionados, including a few high-
profile ones, are also put off by the handful of episodes that are
crime-based "thrillers" rather than stories of the ghastly or the
macabre. Film historian and frequent Fangoria contributor Tom
Weaver, for example, has a reputation as a "Thriller killer" because
he openly reviles the series as "bottom-notch" horror, usually
proffering the crime-based episodes as his primary evidence.
However, detractors like Weaver conveniently ignore the fact that
the best episodes of Thriller are often cited by both horror fans
and entertainment pundits as some of the most memorably terrifying
hours of broadcast television. And in spite of the occasional
naysayer, Thriller has stood the test of time and can still give an
audience chills, thrills, and goose bumps aplenty.
Boris Karloff Thriller Season 1 - StoryLines / Plots:
1. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 1: The Twisted Image
The life of a business executive takes a nightmarish turn when a
mentally disturbed mailroom clerk exhibits an unusual fixation.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : September 13, 1960
2. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 2: Child's Play
A lonely boy deals with his estranged parents by losing himself in a
fantasy world at a mountain cabin.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : September 20, 1960
3. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 3: Worse Than Murder
A determined widow discovers a diary that reveals the sinister facts
involved in the death of her father-in-law.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : September 27, 1960
4. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 4: The Mark of the Hand
An eight-year-old girl at a crime scene refuses to speak when she
becomes the only possible suspect.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : October 4, 1960
5. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 5: Rose's Last Summer
The mysterious death of a faded actress in a family's garden uncovers
some very unpleasant secrets.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : October 11, 1960
6. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 6: The Guilty Men
The don of a crime syndicate tries to go straight.
TV-NR Runtime : 50 minutes Release date : October 18, 1960
7. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 7: The Purple Room
A cocky heir follows the orders of a will to spend the night with his
two cousins in a haunted bayou mansion.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : October 25, 1960
8. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 8: The Watcher
A teenager's death in a tourist area is covered up by nervous
authorities, leaving the killer free to stalk a young couple.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : November 1, 1960
9. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 9: Girl with a Secret
A newlywed discovers her husband's top secret identity and is
immediately put at risk by enemies willing to kill to find out her
secret.
TV-NR Runtime : 50 minutes Release date : November 15, 1960
10. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 10: The Prediction
A phony psychic is horrified to discover his premonitions of murder
may be coming true.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : November 22, 1960
11. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 11: The Fatal Impulse
An assassin plants a bomb on a young woman in an elevator, triggering
a frantic race against time to stop her before disaster strikes.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : November 29, 1960
12. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 12: The Big Blackout
The morning after turns out to be murder for an alcoholic who can't
remember the night before.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : December 6, 1960
13. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 13: Knock Three-One-Two
An indebted gambler uses a homicidal maniac to concoct a grisly
scheme to get rich - by bumping off his wife.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : December 13, 1960
14. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 14: Man in the Middle
A writer tries and fails to stay out of trouble when he overhears a
plot to kidnap and murder a young socialite.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : December 20, 1960
15. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 15: The Cheaters
A mysterious pair of glasses offer a glimpse at the true thoughts of
anyone in sight, but they extract a deadly price, leading to one of
the series' most chilling finales.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : December 27, 1960
16. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 16: The Hungry Glass
In this eerie supernatural tale, a married couple moves into a
seaside home containing a secret room filled with ghostly mirrors.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : January 3, 1961
17. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 17: The Poisoner
A serial poisoner sets his sights on his own wife.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : January 10, 1961
18. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 18: Man in the Cage
The criminal underworld pulls in an innocent man searching for his
brother in Morocco.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : January 17, 1961
19. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 19: Choose a Victim
A beach bum becomes entangled with a beautiful, wealthy young woman
who plans to use him in a murderous plan.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : January 24, 1961
20. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 20: Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook
Mysterious deaths and whispered stories of witchcraft plague an
English village.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : February 7, 1961
21. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 21: The Merriweather File
An intruder's attempted murder of a housewife uncovers another
possible homicide committed by her husband.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : February 14, 1961
22. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 22: The Fingers of Fear
A beach bum becomes entangled with a beautiful, wealthy young woman
who plans to use him in a murderous plan involving her uncle.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : February 21, 1961
23. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 23: Well of Doom
Two wealthy men fall into the clutches of fearsome magician Moloch
and his hulking assistant who force them into a night-long game of
cat and mouse.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : February 28, 1961
24. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 24: The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell
A college medical experiment has dire consequences for a scientist
who has murderous impulses when he hears a ringing bell.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : March 7, 1961
25. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 25: Trio for Terror
Three stories in one from Hollywood's first major female director,
Ida Lupino.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : March 14, 1961
26. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 26: Papa Benjamin
The voodoo curse of Papa Benjamin wreaks havoc on a composer who uses
a mystical melody in his latest performance.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : March 21, 1961
27. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 27: Late Date
Two brothers attempt to pin the murder of an adulterous wife on her
lover.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : April 4, 1961
28. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 28: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
In this adaptation of the classic Robert Bloch short story Sir Guy
believes that Jack the Ripper has resurfaced seven decades later in
modern-day New York City.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : April 11, 1961
29. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 29: The Devil's Ticket
The devil convinces a struggling artist to pawn his soul for fame and
fortune with a ticket which can only be redeemed by painting of
another person's soul.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : April 18, 1961
30. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 30: Parasite Mansion
Following a car accident, a young woman finds herself in a spooky
house whose eccentric inhabitants harbor a horrific secret.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : April 25, 1961
31. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 31: A Good Imagination
A Poe-loving bookworm creatively disposes of his spouse's lovers but
saves his most ingenious plot for his wife.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : May 2, 1961
32. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 32: Mr. George
Nasty relatives try to get rid of a young girl to obtain her
inheritance.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : May 9, 1961
33. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 33: The Terror in Teakwood
An obsessed concert pianist plots to perform his deceased rival's
most challenging composition - with the aid of the dead man's hands.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : May 16, 1961
34. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 34: The Prisoner in the Mirror
The legacy of sorcerer Count Cagliostro comes to horrific life
through a painted-over mirror which falls into the hands of a
professor and his fiancée.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : May 23, 1961
35. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 35: Dark Legacy
A hack magician comes into possession of an all-too-real book of
magic spells able to summon demonic powers.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : May 30, 1961
36. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 36: Pigeons from Hell
Two young men stranded in Louisiana spend a terrifying night in an
abandoned mansion.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : June 6, 1961
37. Thriller: Season 1: Episode 37: The Grim Reaper
A cursed painting falls into the hands of a publicity-seeking mystery
writer whose nephew warns her of its deadly legacy.
TV-NR Runtime : 49 minutes Release date : June 13, 1961
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Title : Thriller (Boris Karloff) [Season 1 - Episodes 1 - 37] (Full DVDRip-H264-AAC) {CTShoN} [CTRC]
Original Title : Boris Karloff - Thriller
Edition : Season 1 DVD Edition
Series : Thriller T.V Series
FORMAT : MP4
Category : Movies>> Thriller
Genre : Thriller
Audio Codec : AAC
Channels : 2 (Stereo)
Video Quality : Standard
Video Codec : H264
File Size : 10.8 GB
Sample Rate : 48000 Hz
Bit Rate : 128kbs
RESOLUTION : 512x384
ASPECT RATIO : 16:9(Auto Detect)
FRAME RATE : 29.976 fps(Same as Source)
Release Date : September 13, 1960
Year : 1960
LANGUAGE : English
SUBTITLES : N/A(NONE)
RUNTIME : 50 MINUTES Each
SOURCE : Retail DVD
EXTRAS : No
