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Overview
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
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No imageSeason 1
37 episodes • 1960Avg: 6.7
Season 1
37 episodes • 1960Avg: 6.7
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Twisted Image | Sep 13, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Child's Play | Sep 20, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Worse Than Murder | Sep 27, 1960 | 4.5 |
| 4 | The Mark of the Hand | Oct 4, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Rose's Last Summer | Oct 11, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 6 | The Guilty Men | Oct 18, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Purple Room | Oct 25, 1960 | 7.0 |
| 8 | The Watcher | Nov 1, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Girl With a Secret | Nov 15, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The Prediction | Nov 22, 1960 | 7.0 |
| 11 | The Fatal Impulse | Nov 29, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 12 | The Big Blackout | Dec 6, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Knock Three-One-Two | Dec 13, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Man in the Middle | Dec 20, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 15 | The Cheaters | Dec 27, 1960 | 5.0 |
| 16 | The Hungry Glass | Jan 3, 1961 | 5.5 |
| 17 | The Poisoner | Jan 10, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Man in a Cage | Jan 17, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Choose a Victim | Jan 24, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook | Feb 7, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 21 | The Merriweather File | Feb 14, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 22 | The Fingers of Fear | Feb 21, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Well of Doom | Feb 28, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 24 | The Ordeal of Dr. Cordell | Mar 7, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Trio for Terror | Mar 14, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 26 | Papa Benjamin | Mar 21, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 27 | Late Date | Apr 4, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 28 | Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | Apr 11, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 29 | The Devil's Ticket | Apr 18, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 30 | Parasite Mansion | Apr 25, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 31 | A Good Imagination | May 2, 1961 | 6.0 |
| 32 | Mr. George | May 9, 1961 | 6.0 |
| 33 | Terror in Teakwood | May 16, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 34 | The Prisoner in the Mirror | May 23, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 35 | Dark Legacy | May 30, 1961 | 8.0 |
| 36 | Pigeons From Hell | Jun 6, 1961 | 8.0 |
| 37 | The Grim Reaper | Jun 13, 1961 | 7.0 |
No imageSeason 2
30 episodes • 1961Avg: 6.9Golden Era
Season 2
30 episodes • 1961Avg: 6.9Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What Beckoning Ghost? | Sep 18, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 2 | Guillotine | Sep 26, 1961 | 6.0 |
| 3 | The Premature Burial | Oct 2, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 4 | The Weird Tailor | Oct 16, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 5 | God Grante That She Lye Stille | Oct 23, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 6 | Masquerade | Oct 30, 1961 | 8.0 |
| 7 | The Last of the Sommervilles | Nov 6, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 8 | Letter to a Lover | Nov 13, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 9 | A Third For Pinochle | Nov 20, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The Closed Cabinet | Nov 27, 1961 | 6.0 |
| 11 | Dialogues With Death | Dec 4, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 12 | The Return of Andrew Bentley | Dec 11, 1961 | 7.0 |
| 13 | The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk | Dec 18, 1961 | 6.0 |
| 14 | Portrait Without a Face | Dec 25, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 15 | An Attractive Family | Jan 1, 1962 | 7.0 |
| 16 | Waxworks | Jan 8, 1962 | 6.0 |
| 17 | La Strega | Jan 15, 1962 | 8.5 |
| 18 | The Storm | Jan 22, 1962 | 7.0 |
| 19 | A Wig For Miss Devore | Jan 29, 1962 | 7.0 |
| 20 | The Hollow Watcher | Feb 12, 1962 | 7.5 |
| 21 | Cousin Tundifer | Feb 19, 1962 | 6.0 |
| 22 | The Incredible Doktor Markesan | Feb 26, 1962 | 8.5 |
| 23 | Flowers of Evil | Mar 5, 1962 | 6.0 |
| 24 | 'Til Death Do Us Part | Mar 12, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 25 | The Bride Who Died Twice | Mar 19, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Kill My Love | Mar 26, 1962 | 9.0 |
| 27 | Man of Mystery | Apr 2, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 28 | The Innocent Bystanders | Apr 9, 1962 | 6.0 |
| 29 | The Lethal Ladies | Apr 16, 1962 | 8.0 |
| 30 | The Specialists | Apr 30, 1962 | 4.0 |
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