Episodes cast for
"Thriller" (1960)

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Season: 1 | 2
Year: 1960 | 1961 | 1962

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: The Twisted Image

13 September 1960
Business executive Alan Patterson's [Leslie Neilsen] life takes a surreal turn when two mentally disturbed people independently wind up with fixations on his life. One wants to marry him, and the other wants to be him.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Virginia Christine	...	Maude
	Pamela Duncan
	Judy Erwin
	Constance Ford	...	Louise Jenkins
	Dianne Foster	...	Judy Patterson
	George Grizzard	...	Merle Jenkins
	Bill Idelson	...	Jenkins' neighbor (as Billy Idelson)
	Perry Ivins
	Carol Kelly
	Pat McCaffrie
	Maura McGiveney
	Ray Montgomery	...	Bill
	Leslie Nielsen	...	Alan Patterson
	Warren Parker
	Mickey Simpson
	Natalie Trundy	...	Lily Hanson
	William Yip	...	Man on steps
	Victor Sen Yung	...	Houseman

Season 1, Episode 2: Child's Play

20 September 1960
A lonely boy becomes perilously lost in fantasy, as his parents spar over raising him, then debate separating. In a mountain cabin for the summer, the mother and son battle boredom, while the father pounds out magazine articles in his room. When the father's too busy to take his son hunting, the boy (Tommy Nolan of "Buckskin", later a magazine writer) sneaks out on his own with a loaded rifle, pursuing the villain of his fantasies - Black Bart. Back in the cabin, the mother reveals that the son was booted from summer camp, for shooting an apple off another camper's head.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Parley Baer	...	Fisherman on mountain
	Bethel Leslie	...	Gale Hattering
	Tom Nolan	...	Hank Hattering (as Tommy Nolan)
	Frank Overton	...	Bart Hattering
	George Werler	...	Fisherman in river

Season 1, Episode 3: Worse Than Murder

27 September 1960
A diary seems to reveal a murder, impelling a blackmail scheme. A wealthy man ravaged by a recurring nightmare dies, without leaving a will, infuriating his widowed daughter-in-law, whose husband squandered everything. The suspicious daughter-in-law grabs one of the elderly man's elaborate diaries before the executor can take control of it. The diary implies the nightmare is the murder of an elderly woman by her son and daughter, via injection. The daughter-in-law (Constance Ford) plans to carve a big chunk of the inheritance through blackmail. Superb performance by Ford (who had to care for her late uncle's robot in the Twilight Zone's "Uncle Simon") as the glamorous, aggressive daughter-in-law.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Constance Ford	...	Connie Walworth
	Dan Tobin	...	Ray
	Shirley O'Hara
	Pat O'Malley
	Russ Bender	...	Arresting Officer
	John Baragrey	...	Dr. Ralph Mitchell
	Jocelyn Brando	...	Mrs. Sinclair
	Jay Jostyn	...	Mr. Sinclair
	Harriet E. MacGibbon	...	Myra Walworth
	Erma Robinson	...	Maid
	Audrey Swanson
	Christine White	...	Anne Walworth
	Mary Young	...	Nurse

Season 1, Episode 4: The Mark of the Hand

4 October 1960
A young girl is accused of murder and refuses to speak to anyone ever again.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	John Alvin
	Rachel Ames	...	Betty Follett
	Terry Burnham	...	Tessa Kilburn
	Mona Freeman	...	Sylvia Walsh
	Berry Kroeger	...	Paul Mowry
	Jessie Royce Landis	...	Mrs. Kilburn
	Jon Lormer
	Judson Pratt	...	Police Lt. Bill Gordon
	Woody Strode
	Shepperd Strudwick	...	Doug Kilburn

Season 1, Episode 5: Rose's Last Summer

11 October 1960
An aging actress is mysteriously found dead in a family's garden, and they may know more about her death than they will admit.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Hardie Albright	...	Willet Goodfield
	Mary Astor	...	Rose French
	Loie Bridge	...	Mrs. Cushman (as Loie E. Bridge)
	Dorothy Green	...	Ethel Goodfield
	Percy Helton	...	Charley
	Jack Livesey	...	Dalloway
	Lin McCarthy	...	Frank Clyde
	George N. Neise	...	Police Officer
	Robert Osterloh	...	Police Capt. Edward Greer
	Helen Quintal	...	Annie
	Fred Sherman	...	Doll manufacturer
	Richard Reeves	...	Truck Driver (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 6: The Guilty Men

18 October 1960
Syndicate turns almost legit, but debates its don's proposal to cease shipping narcotics, and go above board in 1960. In the Roaring 20's, the leader began by mugging a neighbor to get money to bury his father. Instead, his brother followed their father's advice, becoming a public health physician. Their childhood pal is the mob's lawyer, who struggles to mediate, as his brother's health fails, and the Feds close in.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Anne Barton	...	Martha Adams
	Argentina Brunetti	...	Mrs. Romano
	Anthony Caruso	...	Johnny Longo (as Tony Caruso)
	Marc Cavell	...	young Tony
	Frank Dane	...	Mr. Chase
	Jay C. Flippen	...	Harry Ganns
	John Marley	...	Dr. Tony Romano
	Ralph Neff	...	Hood
	Frank Silvera	...	Cesare Romano / Charlie Roman
	Everett Sloane	...	Lou Adams

Season 1, Episode 7: The Purple Room

25 October 1960
Heir feels smug about a mandatory night in a haunted mansion - armed with .38 & New York attitude. Otherwise his cousins reap the valuable Bayou property they shared with the deceased. Duncan shrugs off the legend of an ancestor who went mad after accidentally killing her husband, when he fought a ghostly intruder. Duncan's smirky superiority immediately riles the country cousins he's never met, but Duncan feels equally prepared for any spooky tricks from them.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Richard Anderson	...	Oliver Judson
	Patricia Barry	...	Rachel Judson
	Joanna Heyes	...	Caroline Ransom
	Alan Napier	...	Ridgewater, the Lawyer
	Ray Teal	...	Wiley
	Rip Torn	...	Duncan Corey

Season 1, Episode 8: The Watcher

1 November 1960
Authorities in a resort community cover up the suspicious death of a teenager so tourism doesn't suffer. As summer fades, a deputy sheriff gains permission to quietly investigate the death. Meanwhile a rigid, controlling teacher visiting for the season, grows increasingly disturbed as he spies on the secret relationship between a young neighbor and a boatyard manager (Richard Chamberlain), who are both already squirming under the power of adults in the small town. Tense score by jazz musician Pete Rugolo ("The Fugitive" (1963). Directed by suspense specialist John Brahm (Alfred Hitchcock, "The Twilight Zone" (1959)).

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Alan Baxter	...	Sheriff Bill Archer
	Claire Carleton	...	Unis Appleby
	Richard Chamberlain	...	Larry Carter
	Gloria Clark	...	Vida Tomlinson
	Stuart Erwin	...	Uncle Florian
	Martin Gabel	...	Frietag
	Irene Hervey	...	Edith Pettit
	Nelson Olmsted	...	Physician
	Olive Sturgess	...	Bess Pettit
	James Westerfield	...	Sheriff Al Matthews
	Dan White	...	Bypasser (as Daniel M. White)

Season 1, Episode 9: Girl with a Secret

15 November 1960
A newlywed bride must hide a secret about her husband's whereabouts. She is blackmailed by an eavesdropping maid and pressured by others to tell her secret.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Fay Bainter	...	Geraldine Redfern
	Cloris Leachman	...	Beatrice Stafford
	Paul Hartman	...	Uncle Gregory
	Anne Seymour	...	Hortense
	Ellen Corby	...	Mrs. Peel
	Esther Dale	...	Ellen
	Victor Buono	...	Carolik
	Myrna Fahey	...	Alice Page
	Rhodes Reason	...	Anthony Page
	Harry Ellerbe	...	Walter Devon
	Rex Holman	...	Evil Face Bluecher
	James Seay	...	Herb Innes

Season 1, Episode 10: The Prediction

22 November 1960
A fake mentalist suddenly has visions of people's violent deaths and attempts to stop them from coming true.

	Iris Bristol	...	Helen Tate
	Alan Caillou	...	Roscoe Burton
	Audrey Dalton	...	Noreen Burton
	Alexander Davion	...	Grant Dudley
	Michael Gibson
	Seymour Green
	Boris Karloff	...	Clay Mace
	Barbara Kelley	...	Fiancee
	Keith McConnell	...	Harcourt
	Richard Peel
	Abraham Sofaer	...	Gus Kostopulas
	Michael St. Clair
	Murvyn Vye	...	'Gunner' Gogan

Season 1, Episode 11: The Fatal Impulse

29 November 1960
A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a woman in an elevator. The police spend the evening looking for the mystery girl and the bomb. Watch for young Mary Tyler Moore as one of the women in the elevator.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Alice Backes	...	Carolyn
	Ernestine Barrier
	Harry Bartell	...	Mr. Dallquis
	Whitney Blake	...	Jane Kimball
	Steve Brodie	...	George Dumont
	Antony Carbone
	Elisha Cook Jr.	...	Harry Elser
	Elaine Edwards	...	Marjorie Dallquis
	Ella Ethridge
	Lance Fuller	...	Robert Larrimore
	Fred Graham
	Robert Lansing	...	Lieutenant Brian Rome
	Mary Tyler Moore	...	Mary Snyder
	Conrad Nagel	...	Walker Wylie
	Ed Nelson	...	Bernie
	Cynthia Pepper	...	Receptionist

Season 1, Episode 12: The Big Blackout

6 December 1960
A recovering alcoholic who can not remember his past finds himself confronted by criminals and killers looking for a man who may or may not be him.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Robert Carricart	...	Fisher
	Jack Carson	...	Burt Lewis
	James Cavanaugh	...	Adams (as Jimmy Cavanaugh)
	Jeanne Cooper	...	Ethel
	Raoul De Leon	...	Louie Ramirez (as Raoul DeLeon)
	Jean Engstrom	...	Sue
	Sol Gorss	...	Bartender (as Saul Gorss)
	Ron Harper	...	Strong-arm man
	Chubby Johnson	...	Pringle
	Nan Leslie	...	Midge Lewis
	Charles McGraw	...	Cliff, the Sheriff
	George Mitchell	...	Doc Mulloy
	Paul Newlan	...	Paul Hawkins
	Gil Perkins	...	Eddie
	Don Wilbanks	...	Deputy

Season 1, Episode 13: Knock Three-One-Two

13 December 1960
A man in need of money enlists the help of a serial killer to get the money from his wife.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Charles Aidman	...	George
	Murray Alper	...	Older Bartender
	David Alpert	...	Debt Collector
	Bunny Bishop	...	Waitress
	Clancy Cooper	...	Police Captain
	Beverly Garland	...	Ruth Kenton
	Norman Leavitt	...	Charlie, first Bartender
	Joe Maross	...	Ray Kenton
	Meade Martin	...	Young Man
	Warren Oates	...	Benny
	Lillian O'Malley	...	Waitress
	Lida Piazza	...	Waitress
	Will J. White	...	Sgt. Tracy

Season 1, Episode 14: Man in the Middle

20 December 1960
A man overhears a plot for kidnapping and murder. At first, he doesn't want to do anything about it, but eventually he gets caught in the middle of the plot.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Frank Albertson	...	Charles Salisbury
	Grace Albertson	...	Martha Salisbury
	Fred Beir	...	Alan Dulain
	Julian Burton	...	Kauffman
	Ashley Cowan	...	TV Writer
	Pitt Herbert	...	Fred, Bartender
	Anthony Jochim	...	Alex
	Werner Klemperer	...	Mr. Clark
	Peter Leeds	...	Larry
	Jack Mann	...	Policeman
	Sue Randall	...	Kay Salisbury
	Bert Remsen	...	Eddie
	Gordon Richards	...	Basil
	Mort Sahl	...	Sam Lynch
	Fred Sherman	...	Bud
	Paul Smith	...	Bud

Season 1, Episode 15: The Cheaters

27 December 1960
A man invents a pair of glasses that can see the truth in others and oneself. They lead to a series of suicides, murders, and tragedies for the wearers.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Alan Carney	...	Burgin
	Ralph Clanton	...	Thorgenson
	Henry Daniell	...	Dirk Van Prinn
	Mildred Dunnock	...	Miriam Olcott
	Barbara Eiler	...	Beth
	Mollie Glessing	...	Mrs. Ames (as Molly Glessing)
	Dayton Lummis	...	Clarence
	John Mitchum	...	Policeman
	Ed Nelson	...	Joey
	Paul Newlan	...	Joe Henshaw
	Grandon Rhodes	...	Judge Pfluger
	Audrey Swanson	...	Salesgirl
	Joan Tompkins	...	Ellen Grimm
	Harry Townes	...	Sebastian Grimm
	Linda Watkins	...	Maggie Henshaw
	Jack Weston	...	Edward Dean

Season 1, Episode 16: The Hungry Glass

3 January 1961
A married couple moves into a house that is haunted by images reflected in glass and mirrors.

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Elizabeth Allen	...	Liz Talmadge
	Clem Bevans	...	Obed
	Donna Douglas	...	Laura Bellman, the Girl in the Mirror
	Duane Grey	...	Bearded Man
	Pitt Herbert	...	Storekeeper
	Joanna Heyes	...	Marcia Trasker
	Russell Johnson	...	Adam Talmadge
	Ottola Nesmith	...	Old Laura Bellman
	William Shatner	...	Gil Trasker

Season 1, Episode 17: The Poisoner

10 January 1961

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Maurice Dallimore	...	George Griffith
	Sam Edwards	...	Charles Larrimore
	Brenda Forbes	...	Mrs. Abercrombie
	David Frankham	...	Proctor
	Seymour Green	...	Sir John Herbert
	Keith Hitchcock	...	Lord Danforth
	Donald Journeaux	...	Vendor (as Donald P. Journeaux)
	Sarah Marshall	...	Frances Abercrombie Griffith
	Murray Matheson	...	Thomas Edward Griffith
	Richard Peel	...	Justin
	Jennifer Raine	...	Helen Abercrombie
	Nelson Welch	...	Doctor

Season 1, Episode 18: Man in a Cage

17 January 1961

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Joe Abdullah
	Danielle Aubry
	Russ Bender
	Philip Carey	...	Darryl Hudson
	Lilyan Chauvin
	Eduardo Ciannelli	...	Inspector
	Arlette Clark
	Booth Colman	...	Hotel Desk Clerk
	Naji Gabbay
	Barry Gordon	...	'Slip-Slip'
	Jonathan Kidd
	Theodore Marcuse	...	Arthur Upshaw
	Diana Millay	...	Ellen McKinsky
	Pedro Regas
	Al Ruscio	...	Allah El Kazim
	Patrick Sexton		(as Pat Sexton)
	Robert Stevenson
	Guy Stockwell	...	Noel Hutson
	Than Wyenn

Season 1, Episode 19: Choose a Victim

24 January 1961

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Billy Barty	...	Sam
	Larry Blyden	...	Ralphie Teal
	Henry Corden	...	Sid Banajain
	Henry Hunter
	Guy Mitchell	...	Hazlett
	Susan Oliver	...	Edith Landis
	Tracey Roberts	...	Fay
	Vaughn Taylor	...	Uncle Phil Landis

Season 1, Episode 20: Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook

7 February 1961

	Boris Karloff	...	Himself
	Barry Bernard
	Iris Bristol
	Alan Caillou	...	Sir Wilfrid
	Audrey Dalton	...	Nesta Roberts
	Kenneth Haigh	...	Detective Insp. Harry Roberts
	Lumsden Hare
	Basil Howes
	Kendrick Huxham