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- An actress divorces her cold, emotionally distant producer-husband, but they decide to reunite and reconcile at a remote lodge at Christmastime. That's when past issues resurface and cause trouble. (en)
- Adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel, this 5-part story begins with Marcus encountering two different women upon moving to the doomed city: Lydia, who leads a movement of her fellow slaves; and Orianna, an aristocrat who, much to the chagrin of Isis' high priest, discovers Christianity. (en)
- A fiction writer believes she has an "evil eye" power upon finding that those she becomes angry with suffer misfortune or even death. Her husband and her agent, who are having an affair, hatch a plot to take advantage of her gift. (en)
- Safecracker Arthur "Fingers" Dickson blinds a police detective who catches him burglarizing a millionaire's safe. When Dickson is later arrested for the millionaire's murder, the detective comes out of retirement to prove that Dickson was set up for the killing. (en)
- After her husband is caught red-handed with stolen loot from a robbery, a charter boat captain's wife works with a police investigator to prove his innocence. (en)
- Two good witches try to help a small-time con artist stop his life of crime. (en)
- Adapted from O. Henry's short story "The Exact Science of Matrimony" (en)
- A shootout in a hospital leaves mass murderer Jed Gant dead and Dr. Dan Crane with an irreparably damaged hand. Dr. Crane then receives Gant's hand in a transplant... but a vengeful Gant isn't done with that hand just yet. (en)
- Tim & Cathy Doyle visit a funeral home to pay respects to their late aunt, but unwittingly view the body of a federal judge presiding over an organized crime case; their inadvertent error puts the Doyles' lives in danger. (en)
- Starring: Fred Gwynne, Robert Maxwell, Carol Teitel, Earl Hammond (en)
- Starring: Paul Hecht, Joyce Gordon, Lloyd Battista, Ray Owens (en)
- A Boston detective works with Scotland Yard to catch a master jewel thief who has stolen priceless diamonds and is in the process of sailing from England to the U.S. (en)
- Starring: Paul Hecht, Fred Gwynne, Norman Rose, Valeka Gray (en)
- With a massive hole in the ozone layer jeopardizing Earth's food supply, two scientists are dispatched to a remote planet, Zeus, where they must deal with a leader who's arrogant, egotistical... and speaks in a Texas-style drawl. (en)
- Starring: Tammy Grimes, Russell Horton, Martha Greenhouse, Ray Owens (en)
- In a fit of jealous rage, PR executive Bobby Boyle kills his partner in business and life, the more competent Jeannie Frye... who continues to offer Bobby advice and love from the great beyond. (en)
- A wimpy man marries an assertive woman, then notices that those tormenting him are starting to disappear; he suspects his wife's houseplant, a carnivorous hemo anderantus. (en)
- An absent-minded college professor murders a Ph.D. candidate, and then feigns innocence, after the student provides evidence that refutes his theories. A battle of wits then ensues between the professor, his housekeeper, and a police detective investigating the crime. (en)
- In 15th century China, a lowly artisan attempts to fulfill an emperor's request to cast a gigantic bell that can be heard for miles, while seeking to win the heart and hand of the princess who loves him. (en)
- Starring: Paul Hecht, Earl Hammond, Joan Shay, Gordon Gould (en)
- A recounting of a secret plot by John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln as well as Lincoln's vice president and secretary of state. (en)
- Starring: Teri Keane, Catherine Byers, Robert Kaliban, Russell Horton (en)
- An embittered and vengeful physicist creates a lifelike female robot, Amelia, whose sole purpose is to seduce and destroy an old colleague who mistreated him in the past. (en)
- A wealthy woman hires a starving American artist in Paris to paint a portrait of a man she once loved — based only on his own vision of the man . (en)
- Starring: Teri Keane, Martha Greenhouse, Ralph Bell (en)
- The story ends as Marcus and Orianna, with Lydia's assistance, flee a burning Pompeii, despite a great many diversions . (en)
- A private eye must match wits with a wily fortune teller to learn of a woman's whereabouts; the woman vanished after the oracle told her she'll be in an arranged marriage to an older man. (en)
- After removing an antique from the attic, a pregnant woman is visited by a female specter, who not only tells of the house's previous owners, but also asks the woman to help her find her lost child. (en)
- A police detective investigates a series of strange deaths, all of which had unusual circumstances and the involvement of a smooth-talking salesman. (en)
- Stumped and getting no help in a missing person case, a police detective enlists the help of the titular psychic... whom he also knows as a con artist. (en)
- Starring: John Beal, Paul Hecht, Jack Grimes, Bryna Raeburn (en)
- Starring: Russell Horton, Robert Dryden, Diana Kirkwood (en)
- A cult leader and his followers hijack an El Paso-to-Mexico City flight so that he can pick up a supply of marijuana in the California desert. (en)
- Cranky actor Emmett Brundage is murdered every night on stage with a poisoned drink... until one night his death is all too real. It's up to a police detective to sort through various scenarios to determine the killer and their motive. (en)
- Starring: Norman Rose, Diana Kirkwood, Russell Horton (en)
- A cunning woman who delights in seeing men fight each other to the death for her amusement meets her match in a man who possesses an ancient dagger. (en)
- Police determine whether a series of deaths by what appears to be cat scratches are connected with a dancer and her sister/roommate, who share an affinity for felines. (en)
- Robby Melville returns home on college spring break to see his parents, scientist Dr. Phillip Melville and author Dorothy Melville. But he's not really Robby, but rather an alien lookalike from another dimension . The doppelganger offers a trade demand to the Melvilles: In exchange for their son's release, Dorothy must follow the alien to his home planet, where she must help repopulate his dying species. (en)
- Starring: John Lithgow, Joan Shay, Robert Dryden, Earl Hammond (en)
- His inattentive driving causes Harry Margolies to get in an accident that puts a young woman in the hospital; Harry soon finds himself attracted to her and makes up reasons to see her, much to his friend's consternation. (en)
- Adapted from a short story by Edith Wharton (en)
- Adapted from a short story by Jules Verne (en)
- Adapted from a story by Arthur Conan Doyle (en)
- Adapted from a story by Jacques Futrelle (en)
- Adapted from a story by Lafcadio Hearn (en)
- Adapted from a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (en)
- Based on a story by Jacques Futrelle (en)
- Based on the story by Henry James (en)
- Starring: Russell Horton, Ian Martin, Evie Juster, Earl Hammond (en)
- Peter Harkness was once obsessed with marrying his fiance; now, the travel guide has a new love — the beloved daughter of clients who has been dead for 10 years. (en)
- Adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Story of the Lost Special" (en)
- A British aristocrat and a former military officer, both condemned to die for treason, find themselves shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they find love, romance... and a deranged Frenchman. (en)
- A college professor creates a device that can photograph a person's thoughts; he uses the device to help his friend's deeply depressed wife, who wants the answer to one question — the whereabouts of her stillborn twin infants. (en)
- Starring: Kristoffer Tabori, Evie Juster, Ian Martin, Court Benson (en)
- A mystery writer asks an old friend, a police chief, to incarcerate him, believing it's the only way to prevent him from committing a felonious crime. (en)
- Starring: Earl Hammond, Arnold Moss, Joyce Gordon, Ian Martin (en)
- Starring: Earl Hammond, Court Benson, Carol Teitel (en)
- Starring: Earl Hammond, Evie Juster (en)
- Starring: Earl Hammond, Ian Martin, Evelyn Juster (en)
- Starring: Earl Hammond, Ralph Bell (en)
- Starring: Fred Gwynne (en)
- Starring: Fred Gwynne, Evelyn Juster, Carol Teitel (en)
- Starring: Fred Gwynne, Ian Martin, Bryna Raeburn (en)
- Starring: Heather McCray, Russell Horton (en)
- Starring: Jack Grimes (en)
- Starring: Jada Rowland (en)
- Starring: Joan Beal, Marian Seldes (en)
- Starring: John Beal, Carol Teitel (en)
- Starring: John Beal, Tracy Ellis, Court Benson (en)
- Starring: John Lithgow (en)
- Starring: John Lithgow, Earl Hammond (en)
- Starring: John Lithgow, Evie Juster, Ralph Bell (en)
- Starring: John Lithgow, Patricia Elliott (en)
- Starring: John Lithgow, Teri Keane (en)
- Starring: Kevin McCarthy (en)
- Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Jada Rowland (en)
- Starring: Larry Haines (en)
- Starring: Larry Haines, Earl Hammond, Evie Juster (en)
- Starring: Larry Haines, Evie Juster, Earl Hammond (en)
- Starring: Larry Haines, Jack Grimes, Evie Juster (en)
- Starring: Lloyd Battista, Diana Kirkwood (en)
- Starring: Lloyd Battista, Patricia Elliott (en)
- Starring: Mandel Kramer (en)
- Starring: Mandel Kramer, Carol Teitel, Teri Keane (en)
- Starring: Mandel Kramer, Teri Keane, John Beal (en)
- Starring: Marian Seldes, Larry Haines (en)
- Starring: Marian Seldes, Michael Tolan (en)
- Starring: Norman Rose, Marian Seldes (en)
- Starring: Paul Hecht (en)
- Starring: Paul Hecht, Bob Kaliban (en)
- Starring: Paul Hecht, Carol Teitel (en)
- Starring: Paul Hecht, Carol Teitel, Lloyd Battista (en)
- Starring: Paul Hecht, Teri Keane (en)
- Starring: Ralph Bell (en)
- Starring: Ralph Bell, Ian Martin (en)
- Starring: Robert Dryden (en)
- Starring: Robert Dryden, Mandel Kramer (en)
- Starring: Roberta Maxwell (en)
- Starring: Russell Horton, Evie Juster, Ian Martin (en)
- Starring: Tammy Grimes (en)
- Starring: Teri Keane, Norman Rose (en)
- Starring: Tony Roberts (en)
- Starring: Tony Roberts, Earl Hammond (en)
- Starring: Tony Roberts, Patricia Elliott (en)
- Suggested by a Rudyard Kipling story (en)
- Starring: Gordon Gould, Carol Teitel, Lloyd Batista, Tracey Ellis (en)
- Adapted from the Henry James novel The Aspern Papers (en)
- A woman buys her husband a set of antique Chinese bells; each time one of them rings on its own, good fortune finds one person... while death finds another. (en)
- The French novelist Guy de Maupassant serves as marriage counselor to a couple he is friends with; it leads to one of his more famous short stories. (en)
- Starring: Norman Rose, Carol Teitel, Robert Kaliban (en)
- Seeking to regain a sense of self, actress Mary Mannering leaves a long-running Broadway role to return to her family's seaside estate... where its caretaker and a mysterious fan of her work help lead Mary on a self-discovery journey. (en)
- Using the power of postcognition, a young woman tries to save the life of her ex-lover when she has visions that he's on the verge of doing something rash. (en)
- Starring: Bryna Raeburn, Robert Dryden, Joe Silver, Evie Juster (en)
- Two grifters set up a mail order scam for men seeking a mate, with widowed restaurant cook Wilhemina and a hefty "bank account" as lures. Everything goes well, until a postal inspector becomes suspicious... and Wilhemina falls for one of the applicants. (en)
- An enigmatic married couple purchase an abandoned Montana town long contaminated by radioactivity. When invisible hands begin to rebuild the town back to its glory days, the neighboring town's mayor and a scientist-turned-hardware store owner become suspicious. (en)
- A married couple pilot the first manned mission from Earth to Jupiter . But peculiar things occur once in orbit, including their receiving a radio message reporting their deaths. All that's nothing compared to what they discover when they return home. (en)
- A has-been playwright kills his uncle, but has difficulty convincing his relatives and a police detective of his motive: Using the uncle's wealth to fund his ailing sister's medical treatments. (en)
- A vacationing couple find themselves trapped overnight in the castle home of a late movie actor who once portrayed Sherlock Holmes — and in the middle of a murder investigation led by the famous sleuth himself! (en)
- John J. Marlow is retired, respectful — and just desires someone to talk to. So he calls a crime tip hotline and offers detailed information on a recent murder case. But Marlowe's statement gets an innocent kid, Benny Sarafin, arrested for the crime; and actual evidence that ties Benny to the victim makes Marlowe's efforts to recant his statement all the more difficult. (en)
- A man returns to his home town one rainy night but is greeted with hostility by its residents, who mistake him for a criminal who committed an unspeakable act and escaped justice years earlier. (en)
- A U.S. Space Command crew must apprehend a former stage magician/hypnotist marooned on a distant planet for 15 years. But the man now fancies himself as a maniacal potentate, using god-like "powers" to visit biblical-style plagues upon the crew unless they heed his command to depart. (en)
- Starring: Fred Gwynne, Robert Dryden, Bryna Raeburn, Ian Martin (en)
- An archaeologist, his team, and an Indian guide search for lost tribal gold in the New Mexico desert, and learn first-hand of the curse that envelops the treasure. (en)
- Starring: Teri Keane, Tony Roberts, Earl Hammond, Court Benson (en)
- Starring: Kristoffer Tabori, Evie Juster, Ian Martin (en)
- A businessman's neglected housewife gets picked up by a stranger at a singles bar, but everything goes pearshaped when they head for a nearby town that's infamous for its gambling. (en)
- A fortune teller warns a young woman that a man in her future portends doom. Just as predicted, the woman meets that man, despite nightmares she has of a spirit warning her of further danger. (en)
- A detective is called upon to examine a wealthy man's death, and begins to suspect that the deceased's oddly-behaving children may have had a role in the matter. (en)
- An accountant unwittingly gets lured into a money laundering scheme, unaware it's a plot his wife and his best friend have concocted to hasten his demise. (en)
- A stressed-out businessman relaxes by using "rhapsodic meditation," during which he has two disturbing visions — one of his wife having an affair, the other seductions by a celestial temptress. (en)
- An arrogant novelist recalls how, thanks to a devilish deal, he gained revenge on his unfaithful wife and his once-grateful former protégé... without committing the murder for which he now stands accused. (en)
- Two identically furnished apartments are part of a lazy, selfish man's effort to drive his aunt insane and relieve her of her wealth. (en)
- A traveling salesman helps free a demoralized woman from the psychologically dark clutches of her evil family. (en)
- Juliet Keyworth wishes it was she who had died in an auto accident and not the agronomist husband, Lester, she believed still had so much to give to the world. But Zeus is there to grant her wish. Now, from the afterlife, Juliet gets to see Lester become well respected... while he falls for her best friend's romantic advances. (en)
- A wealthy businessman and his secretary are kidnapped in South America; a daring escape from their captors is only the start of their adventure. (en)
- Starring: Roberta Maxwell, Bryna Raeburn, Russell Horton (en)
- Starring: Mandel Kramer, Marian Seldes, Gilbert Mack (en)
- A young artist embellishes the details of a squire's murder, then winds up becoming the primary suspect in the crime. (en)
- Starring: Teri Keane, Mandel Kramer, Robert Kaliban (en)
- A woman enlists a congressman's aid after her husband fails to return from a business trip to Paris; the politician, however, uses the case to propel his aspirations for higher office. (en)
- Starring: Kristofer Tabori, Roberta Maxwell, Robert Kaliban, Fred Gwynne (en)
- A college fraternity alum is reluctant to attend its reunion celebration, as memories of his involvement in a horrific act during the frat's "Hell Week" still haunt him years later. (en)
- In a future where a master computer regulates the institutions of marriage and procreation, a man and woman override the system by falling in love, then fight back when the machine tries to separate them. (en)
- A wealthy landowner confesses to killing her cousin with a .44 Colt over an ownership dispute; when a ballistics report on the gun comes back negative, the sheriff must find the true perpetrator. (en)
- Supposedly based on a true-life tale, this story finds a detective obtaining a peculiar form of assistance in solving a lab technician's murder — through the help of a doctor's wife who can speak in the victim's voice while in her sleep. (en)
- Starring: John Lithgow, Patricia Elliott, Court Benson, Earl Hammond (en)
- A newlywed couple vacationing on a Caribbean island learn of a local legend, prompting the husband to investigate it further by exploring a haunted house. (en)
- Starring: Norman Rose, Grace Mathews, Russell Horton (en)
- In 1917 Paris, a penniless seamstress marries an older, richer entrepreneur... but becomes appalled when she unexpectedly discovers what he does to earn his wealth. (en)
- "I'm the one who got you into this; I can get you out... somehow." (en)
- Waylaid by an accident on their way to visit family for Christmas, Skip and Joan Bartram find shelter in a deserted town that contains only one resident and many forgotten memories for Joan. (en)
- Wheeling-dealing businessman Edgar Saville turns time with his easy-going brother, David, at a vacation resort into a confrontation with his dishonest broker. But David's attraction to the broker's daughter may complicate things. (en)
- Years after they first met on a European expedition, a worldly traveler learns a spinster teacher is being taken advantage of by ill-mannered relatives, and vows to help her reclaim her life. (en)
- Seasoned assassin Leo murders a key organized crime witness, then stays a step ahead of the authorities by silencing both his girlfriend and the district attorney she ratted out to. But Leo's next assignment surprisingly weighs heavily on his conscience: Conning an elderly woman and owner of valuable land into believing he's her long lost son. (en)
- Starring: Russell Horton, Earl Hammond, Court Benson, Tracy Ellis, Patricia Elliott (en)
- A couple babysitting their young nephew are tortured and harassed by his antics; they begin to suspect the child may be more malevolent than he appears to be. (en)
- Starring: Tammy Grimes, Norman Rose, Court Benson, Earl Hammond (en)
- A blind ex-cop uses himself as bait to exact revenge on the man who ruined his and his wife's lives. (en)
- Starring: Jada Rowland, Robert Dryden, Joan Lovejoy, Ray Owens (en)
- An art appraiser is talked into assigning value to and purchasing a painting that he's certain is not the work of a famous artist, even though a museum benefactor he works for believes it to be the real deal. (en)
- A movie shoot in a Central American mountain range is disrupted when a warlord takes the crew hostage. The warlord will let the crew go on one condition — that he be allowed to spend one night with the producer/star's wife... who may be willing to take him up on the offer. (en)
- A landslide strands a couple and their infant son in the Sierra mountains of California. Though a reclusive mountaineer is able to rescue them and help them survive, he refuses to guide them back to civilization. (en)
- Believing it will get him off the hook for the cold-blooded murder he was recently witnessed committing, Herbert Lernac confesses to an even bigger, more baffling, and unsolved crime — the disappearance years earlier of a train traveling from Liverpool to London. (en)
- A secretary falls secretly in love with her boss, and then must protect him from his worst impulses when she learns he may be a double agent working with an enemy government. (en)
- A job applicant conducts her own investigation into the theft of a rare artifact from a charitable organization, who believes she is responsible for the crime and resultingly withdrew their employment offer to her — but it's a heist she did not commit. (en)
- Starring: Russell Horton, Marian Seldes, Evie Juster, Earl Hammond (en)
- The life of Charles Guiteau, the man responsible for assassinating James A. Garfield after grandiosely believing he contributed to get Garfield elected President of the United States. (en)
- Stockbroker Lewis Olcutt tells of a scam involving his familial lineage, which led him to embezzle $2 million from his investment firm's ledgers. (en)
- A widowed banker and aspiring artist takes measures to find out why a wedding day photo of he and his late wife is mysteriously and inexplicably moving about their house. (en)
- Starring: Russell Horton, Evie Juster, Kristoffer Tabori, Earl Hammond (en)
- A British Army lieutenant in India is plagued by a ghost in his home; the bagpipe music that the spirit plays may serve as a warning regarding his pending nuptials to an army major's daughter. (en)
- In a war between humans and machines, a group of Earth soldiers are captured and sent to an asteroid prison, where the unit's commander schemes to liberate his men from their mechanical captors. (en)
- A nuclear scientist's widow turns to his friend and the police for help in proving her husband was murdered for discovering a great metallurgical secret... though he may actually have been offed by the jealous mobster boyfriend of his cabaret signer mistress. (en)
- Starring: Robert Dryden, Teri Keane, Ian Martin, Joan Shay (en)
- The texts of Plutarch, Cicero, and Plutonius are the basis for this telling of Julius Caesar's final days, when after consolidating his hold on the Roman Empire he's strongly warned to "beware the Ides of March." (en)
- Starring: Teri Keane, Norman Rose, Joyce Gordon, Earl Hammond (en)
- Starring: Tony Roberts, Fred Gwynne, Bryna Raeburn, Teri Keane (en)
- Starring: Larry Haines, Earl Hammond, Roberta Maxwell (en)
- Starring: Marian Seldes, Lloyd Battista, Roberta Maxwell, Court Benson (en)
- Two French flying aces escape from a German POW camp during the First World War, with Holland the destination they have in mind. But a farm house they take shelter in may prove to be either a safe haven or a trap. (en)
- A powerful ad agency president lives a fantasy of being mother to a famous actress. When that "daughter" goes missing, she asks a wealthy client for help in solving the disappearance. (en)
- After adopting a teenage girl to assist his wheelchair-bound spouse and help tend to their farm, a man teaches the girl how to hunt and kill through his use of the hypnotic sapphire ring she's become obsessed with. (en)
- Starring: Russell Horton, Evie Juster, Earl Hammond, Kristoffer Tabori, Velita Gray (en)
- Marcus is thrown to a lion, who refuses to attack; Arbaces kidnaps Orianna, with Marcus and Lydia in hot pursuit; and Mount Vesuvius erupts. (en)
- Worried that her cousin has fallen out of contact and may have been kidnapped, Claire Reed travels to Port-au-Prince, Haiti and, with the assistance of an old beau who works at the U.S. Embassy, implores a local police detective to investigate... and discover a link to local beliefs of voodoo and human sacrifice. (en)
- Starring: Russell Horton, Diana Kirkwood, Mandel Kramer (en)
- After Pompeii is struck by a devastating earthquake, Julia and an Isis priest cast a love spell on Marcus to make him fall in love with Julia; the plan backfires, however, as Marcus becomes destructive and is falsely accused of murder. (en)
- Starring: Robert Dryden, Ian Martin, Evie Juster, Ray Owens (en)
- Marcus is wrongfully imprisoned by Arbaces, High Priest of Isis, who wants Orianna to himself; Orianna and Lydia, however, have other plans. (en)
- Starring: Russell Horton, Earl Hammond, Ian Martin, Evie Juster, Patricia Elliott (en)
- A widow fakes a crime scene to make her husband's suicide look like a murder; but when an innocent man is accused of the crime, she confesses her deception to the lawyer she's hired to help clear the man's name. (en)
- Starring: Kristoffer Tabori, Martha Greenhouse, Russell Horton (en)
- The normally spineless Stuart Belden professes his love for a diner waitress, Maude Henderson. But that only raises the ire of his domineering aunt, Melisande, whose threat to cut Stuart off from the family fortune only strengthens his bond with Maude... but also, just as the town sheriff had feared, leads to a deadly clash of wills. (en)
- Starring: Bryna Raeburn, Earl Hammond, William Griffis, Joyce Gordon (en)
- Starring: Teri Keane, Kristoffer Tabori, Robert Dryden (en)
- Starring: Norman Rose, Bryna Raeburn, Evie Juster, Robert Dryden (en)
- Starring: Russell Horton, Ian Martin, Lloyd Battista (en)
- An expert in business law is called upon to defend a night watchman accused of murdering his wife after catching her with another man. As he builds his case, the attorney soon begins to suspect his own wife could be unfaithful as well. (en)
- Based on Edith Wharton's short story "The Rembrandt" (en)
- An aging hit man agrees to kill an accountant who's ready to testify in trial, but the hired gun may be after the wrong person with a similar name. (en)
- Six years after being rescued at sea by the natives of a Pacific paradise, a shipwrecked amnesiac regains his memory and begings yearning for home. When he returns there, he discovers is wife, and the town as a whole, have gained monetary and cultural wealth on the belief that he's dead. (en)
- Starring: Carol Teitel, Russell Horton, Court Benson (en)
- For a salesman traveling in New England, what starts with a car needing repairs turns into a seduction by a shopkeeper who, like him, is unhappily married — and who'd like his help in murdering her husband. (en)
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