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- A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
- A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
- A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
- Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.
- Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
- A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
- Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
- A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
- An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
- A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
- A suspenseful look into the filming techniques of director Alfred Hitchcock.
- A married man finds his beautiful mistress murdered and flees without reporting it, only to become the victim of blackmail.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG7.9 (462)TV EpisodeDave Snowden elopes with wealthy Bonnie Daniels, and Mr. Spencer sees them break into the abandoned old estate where Bonnie lived until age six. Mr. Spencer informs Bonnie's mother, Mrs. Daniels, who finds Snowden struggling to open a mysterious locked door on the upper floor. Mrs. Daniels annuls the marriage, because Bonnie's true age is only 17, not 19, as Dave was told. Three weeks later, when Bonnie reaches majority, she rejoins Dave, and they consummate nuptials, but Mrs. Daniels will not release Bonnie's trust fund until she is 25.
- A high-priced hit man has second thoughts about fulfilling his latest contract after meeting his target's lovely handicapped wife.
- A college aide borrows a dead female body from the lab and plants it in his roommate's dorm to try and scare him sober, but the joke becomes disastrous.
- An older husband becomes very disenchanted with his wife at their new beach house, and has a devious plan for her.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG6.6 (336)TV EpisodeJoe Brisson tries to make a political payoff to Baines in a parking lot, but spots an observer, private detective Foyle. Foyle says he was hired by Joe's wife Lisa. Joe visits his girlfriend Anna, and discovers a bug in her telephone, and that their love letters were seized. Lisa wants a divorce, but also wants a disproportionate settlement, including 75% of the Brisson Land Development Company. Lisa's young boyfriend, racetrack gambler Bobby Davenport, will lose his inherited property if Joe calls in Bobby's debt. Joe couldn't hire Foyle to murder his wife, but he convinces Bobby to do it while Joe is on a sea cruise to London. Joe calls Lisa from the ship, and listens as Bobby plugs her. Then Joe has a guest. It is Foyle, whom Lisa paid to murder Joe.
- A woman awakens in a dystopian society formed after the extinction of all men where women are sorted at birth into one of four social castes - Workers, Mothers (incubators), Servitors and Doctors. She rebels against being just a mother.
- When an embezzling engineer is demoted and his brother takes over his former position, he makes plans to kill him.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG7.2 (382)TV EpisodeA woman runs a psychic scam with hidden speakers to make people believe she can contact their dead love ones, and one man believes she has contacted his dead son, so he becomes dangerously obsessed with her sessions.
- Cliff's driving when a young woman flags him down and asks for a ride. He soon has trouble - both legal and automotive, when they're stopped by the police and she lies, and says he forced her. What's more, his car won't start, and it's towed to a repair shop. While he waits for the car, Cliff gets a room at the hotel, run by Rudolph Bitzner - a former vaudevillian, with a specialty act with his only employee, Rosie. She pleads with Cliff to help her escape from Rudolph, who plans to marry her as soon as she becomes 18. There's a lot about Rudolph, and the relationship between the two, which Cliff isn't aware of, but he should, because it'll soon be one of their last performances.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG7.2 (365)TV EpisodeGerald Musgrove shoots and kills a night watchman while stealing $100,000 from a bank. On the street nearby, while eluding police, he meets elderly Emmy Rice, and befriends her. Since he is on parole, he must launder the loot, so he stows it in some of Emmy's old magazines. Gerald then prods impoverished Emmy into writing a will, awarding all money found in her apartment to himself. He tries to murder Emmy three times, but she survives, and arranges for the arrest of Milly Musgrove for attempting to gas her to death. Gerald is apprehended too, when he realizes that Emmy gave all her magazines to a junk collector, and blurts admissions of guilt. Emmy, however, kept one magazine in cold storage, containing all of the purloined bills.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG7.9 (448)TV EpisodeGerald Swinney is a henpecked husband suffering under the constant verbal abuse of his overbearing wife. Gerald devises a plan to rid himself of her and begin his life over again, but the results have unexpected consequences.
- Charlie Hill is mesmerized by a strange jar at a carnival sideshow. He buys it from the owner, but his wife Thedy Sue is frightened and wants it thrown out. The townspeople come from miles to see it and Charlie becomes a local celebrity.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG6.6 (368)TV EpisodeA dishonest graveyard owner exhumes body of a poor Mexican woman's husband, but she makes it work to her children's benefit.
- A poor, loving, farmer's wife discovers just how evil a hired drifter is, and how much of a coward her husband is too.
- In Georgian Scotland, a simple and unhappily-married man (Andrew Duggan) is employed to deliver "supplies" to anatomy professor Dr. Robert Knox of the Edinburgh Medical College, but, is unaware of the true contents of the boxes furnished by his associates, Messrs. Burke and Hare.
- Wannabee writer Jay Shaw arrives in NYC. He decides if he's going to write fiction about juvenile delinquent gangs, he'd best learn what they're really like. Using the alias Phil Beldone, he moves into a flat in a rough section of Brooklyn and seeks to join the Barons, a violent gang led by Tiger. During his gang initiation, he gains Tiger's trust and respect and begins a relationship with one of the gang's "debs". He also makes an enemy of the gang's second-in-command and risks exposure of his true identity.
- 1962–19651hTV-PG5.9 (384)TV EpisodeA businessman desperate for a change in his fortunes tests the power of a gypsy woman's monkey-paw charm which is said to grant its holder three wishes. His son suffers the consequences.
- Marcia Fowler is sunbathing in her backyard when she spots a new neighbor, Roy Bullock, eyeing her. Frightened, she calls the police, who take her to the Bullock house and warn Roy not to be a peeping Tom. Marcia also asks her husband Jack to admonish Roy, but Jack finds Roy to be friendly. Roy befriends 12-year-old Stevey Fowler. Marcia begins getting obscene telephone calls, and blames them on Roy. When Jack and Stevey take a flight to San Francisco, Roy visits Marcia to leave a gift for Stevey, and to chide Marcia for her infidelity. Panicked, she overreacts, and soon regrets her rashness.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG7.5 (381)TV EpisodeAn elderly woman is locked in an air tight safe with one of her cats by her niece's fiancé when she discovers he is a forger.
- A clever con man makes a living by preying on women by having them invest their life savings into non-existent stocks.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG8.2 (484)TV EpisodeAfter his father is murdered by a politician who gets away with it, a young man becomes determined to get revenge.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG7.3 (387)TV EpisodeDuring a brief train stop, George takes the opportunity to telephone another man's wife and arrange a two-day rendezvous. When he returns to his compartment, there's now a stranger there who provokes him into conversation. George reveals the location of his caravan in the country, but the stranger claims to reside at the same location. After George arrives, the stranger shows up and begins to dig a grave.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG6.4 (349)TV EpisodeMiles Crawford, a former movie star, is now a successful attorney. When his young son Tod is charged with first-degree murder, he hires the best criminal lawyer, but then convinces Tod that he should represent him at trial. His closing argument is an impassioned performance, bringing applause from spectators. Then the judge calls the attorneys into his chambers. The prosecutor has discovered some startling new evidence that may affect the case.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG6.7 (343)TV EpisodeThe Commissioner of Recreation & Parks receives three life-threatening letters in one week, complaining about the method by which art is selected for museum display. When James Bellington enters City Hall with a breadbox-sized package and runs from a lobby policeman, he is apprehended, but the parcel only contains an alarm clock. Bellington is sent to Dr. Glover, a psychiatrist, who labels him a paranoid with homicidal or suicidal tendencies. Bellington delivers two shoeboxes to the art museum, but shows the bomb squad that they only contain art supplies. In a bistro, he tells an undercover policewoman that he plans to bring a dangerous device to the museum. When he arrives with his finger on a button atop a box possibly filled with explosive, police clear the museum. Then Bellington rendezvous with his confederates, art thieves, who have already replaced five paintings with his forgeries.
- An executive plans to end an associate's love affair and save the man's career and marriage.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG6.4 (351)TV EpisodeSuicidal Robert Manners is saved by a firefighting brigade when he jumps from a tall building. While recuperating, he is visited by Mr. J. Smith, who invites him to a recreational resort for those who wish to die, the Thanatos Palace Hotel. Borchter, the proprietor, tells Mr. Manners that he can stay for as long as it takes to become comfortably ready for death. He meets a beautiful guest, Ariane Shaw, who has resided at the hotel for six months, providing services for her room and board. Her service is the "romancing" of male guests in preparation for their death. With Manners, for the first time, she finds a reason to live, as does he.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG7.6 (455)TV EpisodeOne of a bigamist's four wives takes it upon herself to track down and kill the other three women.
- Two new missionaries, the Spragues, arrive at the Fitzgibbons' medical mission in the Indian jungle. John Sprague is a physician and Lucy a nurse. Mary Fitzgibbons suspects that they were sent to check up on them, and that they want the mission for themselves. Thomas Fitzgibbons is not medically competent, and Mary must perform difficult procedures for him. When John leaves to attend to a cholera outbreak, Thomas takes Lucy for an evening canoe ride on the river. They discuss philosophy and her beauty. Mary sees them together, and becomes jealous. Early in the morning, she grabs a scalpel and enters Lucy's bedroom. A piercing scream resounds. A messenger is sent to inform John of his wife's sudden death from cholera. He rushes back, but the Fitzgibbons have gone down-river for several days. He asks the Indian employees to help find the grave of his wife, which was hidden to prevent the spread of cholera, because he suspects that she was not a cholera victim. When he opens the coffin, he is startled at the sight.
- A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window.
- When a man purchases a wig and a beard, he winds up getting a whole new personality, which also leads to a new girlfriend along with a lot of serious problems that have the very real potential to drive him to madness unless he does something soon.
- 1962–196548mTV-PG7.7 (534)TV EpisodeAfter Eva Snyder becomes an orphan, she comes to live with the elderly Mississippi riverboat Captain King Snyder and his old-maid daughter Nell. While the Captain is piloting his boat, Nell finds it difficult to govern Eva, who constantly talks to imaginary friends whom Eva believes are real, including Mingo and her father Mr. Peppercorn. When the Captain returns, he presents Eva with a gift--a black doll named Numa. Nell hears Eva chatting and playing with Numa, but suspects that it is a child from the neighborhood. Eva warns that if Nell takes Numa away, Eva will trade places with Numa and go to the idyllic place "Where the Woodbine Twineth." When Nell puts Numa on top of the player piano, Eva steals Numa away, and the piano mysteriously plays by itself. Nell finds Eva in the backyard with a black-girl playmate, and Nell chases the girl away, warning her to never return. Then Eva disappears. When Nell finds a doll in Numa's box that looks exactly like Eva, she tearfully realizes what has happened.
- Eddie Turtin discovers that his friend and business partner, Charlie Osgood, has fraudulently defalcated at least $60,000 from their company, and warns him that if he does not repay the money promptly, criminal charges will be pressed that should result in a 35-year prison sentence. Charlie concocts a plan with his girlfriend Danielle to fake his death, placing a dummy in public view on a pier. The dummy appears to jump suicidally, then a violent explosion destroys the body. Charlie and Danielle plan to abscond with $89,000 stowed in a company filing cabinet. But the best laid plans often don't go as planned.
- Jane and Ralph Birdwell get an unexpected and unwelcome visit from Mrs. Meade, their foster daughter's biological mother. It's been seven years since they took responsibility for the girl, but an adoption was never formalized as Mrs. Meade had simply disappeared. Meade now wants money from the Birdwells and threatens to sue to get her daughter back. A private detective suggests that Mrs. Meade just take her daughter and demand $25,000 from the Birdwells to give her back. She agrees but things don't quite go as the planned.
- William Botibol is a compulsive gambler. While on a cruise he enters a betting pool to guess the number of miles the ship will travel in the course of 24 hours. William thinks he has figured out a way to guarantee he will win the bet.
- An old woman is suspected of murdering her mentally cruel husband, as her childhood girlfriend tries to cover up evidence against her.
- A bored rich girl goes up to her cabin in the mountains. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.
- 1955–196230mTV-147.1 (444)TV EpisodeAfter a husband fakes being the victim of a robbery to hide his gambling losses from his pregnant wife, the police still produce a suspect - with unexpected results.