All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Once the Killing Starts

    • January 7, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    Married college professor Michael Lane falls in love with one of his students and hatches an elaborate scheme to dispose of his wife, Elizabeth. His murder plot goes as planned. However, he soon receives an anonymous note: “I know what you did, murderer!” Prof. Lane frantically tries to discover who knows his secret…

  • S01E02 The Spy Who Returned from the Dead

    • January 8, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    Spy spoof about a double agent involcved in a phony death plot.

  • S01E03 The Satan Murders

    • January 11, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    Assured that it’s a joke, a berated wife makes a deal with a local Satan occultist for the death of her irritating husband and finds that the Devil doesn’t play games.

  • S01E04 The Eyes Have It

    • January 14, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    A group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain blissfully unaware while the terrorists plan the assassination of a politician who will soon be passing the school on a parade route. Only one student, Sally, suspects that the men upstairs may be dangerous…

  • S01E05 The Suicide Club

    • January 15, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    A young gambler seeking greater challenges joins a card club where the members literally gamble for their lives.

  • S01E06 Lady Killer

    • January 21, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.

  • S01E07 A Beautiful Killing

    • January 22, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    A pair of detectives are faced with murder at a plush health spa for women.

  • S01E08 Possession

    • January 25, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    With the exception of the poor central heating system, Ray and Penny Burns’ newly-purchased country house seems ideal. While repairing the pipes, a handyman digs up the cellar and uncovers the body of the home’s previous owner who was murdered twenty years earlier. A séance held in the home reveals something very disturbing.

  • S01E09 Shadow of Fear

    • January 28, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    A rich woman, an industrialist’s wife, finds her home nearly destroyed and with menacing phrases painted on the walls. Besides calling the police, her husband calls his security manager, an ex-cop, who hesitates before accepting the task of protecting her and finding the responsible party.

  • S01E16 Only a Scream Away

    • February 18, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    Newlyweds Samantha and Robert Miller emerge from the church to the sound of cheers. However, the happy scene is disturbed by a cruel practical joke, someone throws a paint-bomb at the bride. Later, upon returning from their honeymoon the couple discover the smashed remnants of their wedding cake and a mysterious gift – one soiled glove. Could it be a warning? Does someone hold a grudge against the couple?

  • S01E18 Goodnight, My Love

    • February 21, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.

  • S01E28 The Book of Murder

    • March 19, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    Much-married and once successful writer Henry T. Aythecliff, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, planning to extort a sizable amount of money from each. When he is discovered dead, clues indicate that each of his four wives had motive and opportunity to murder him, and a young detective must sift through some ingeniously devised evidence.

  • S01E41 Come Die With Me

    • May 14, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    A man kills his older brother when he is refused a loan and then is held in bondage by the housekeeper who knows of the murder.

  • S01E52 Frankenstein (1)

    • June 24, 1974
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E53 Frankenstein (2)

    • June 25, 1974
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E58 The Haunting of Rosalind

    • July 12, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    A visitor brings havoc upon a home and is accused of a ghostly possession.

  • S01E64 Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest

    • August 20, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    Police looking for drug dealers mistakenly raid the house of a typical suburban family. However, rather than admit their mistake and jeopardize their careers, several of the police officers decide to plant heroin in the family’s house, and change the records of the raid to make it look like the family was the target of their investigation all along. Based on a true story.

  • S01E69 The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer

    • November 1, 1974
    • ABC (US)

    Clifford Swimmer, an angry and abusive man cruel to his wife and son, wants out if his marriage. With the help of a scientist he clones a replacement who takes over as head of the family while the real Clifford travels the world. The clone turns out to be a gentle and sensitive husband and father, a complete opposite of the original, and the wife and son come to love him. When the real Clifford comes back and finds his family happy with the clone he becomes angry and jealous and things take a deadly turn.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Night is the Time For Killing

    • January 1, 1975

    Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson

  • S02E05 The Werewolf of Woodstock

    • January 24, 1975

    At the site of the 1969 rock concert at Woodstock, New York, an electrical charge turns a local farmer into a murderous werewolf.

  • S02E24 A Place to Die

    • April 18, 1975

    Doctor Bruce Nelson takes over the medical practice of a village general-practitioner. Upon arriving in their new home, the doctor and his wife, Tessa, receive a very warm welcome from all the villagers. Tessa is at first flattered by the villagers’ constant fawning and gifts, but soon becomes wary of their strange ways, and begins to suspect there is something evil in the village.

  • S02E43 Sleepwalker

    • October 7, 1975

    A young American woman visiting her author father in London discovers that her childhood habit of sleepwalking has recurred. She has a vivid dream of witnessing a murder in a strange house - or is it a dream?

  • S02E50 Alien Lover

    • November 25, 1975

    An orphaned teenager becomes involved with an alien who was beamed to Earth from another galaxy in a TV signal. Is the alien a dream come true or a harbinger of doom? Originally broadcast as part of “The Wide World of Mystery.”