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Episodes: All (97)

Season: 1  |  2  |  3
Year: 1959  |  1960  |  1961


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: The Bride Possessed

Original Air Date—20 January 1959
Matt Conroy is startled when on their honeymoon his wide-eyed, Louisiana-drawling wife Sally suddenly becomes a determined and demanding woman with no accent who denies even knowing him.

Season 1, Episode 2: Night of April 14th

Original Air Date—27 January 1959
A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.

Season 1, Episode 3: Emergency Only

Original Air Date—3 February 1959
A skeptical man has his fortune told at a cocktail party. As events begin to unfold exactly as the psychic has predicted, his disbelief turns to fear that the psychic's final prediction, that he will be pursued by a knife-wielding woman, will also come to pass.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Dark Room

Original Air Date—10 February 1959
A female photojournalist on assignment in France takes an apartment and begins to work with a somewhat mysterious male model. Thngs come to a head when she has a brush with the supernatural that could well mean her death.

Season 1, Episode 5: Twelve Hours to Live

Original Air Date—17 February 1959
After her husband storms out of the house following an argument, his wife begins having visions of him in terrible danger. She seeks help from his disbelieving business partner and the police before resolving to rescue him herself.

Season 1, Episode 6: Epilogue

Original Air Date—24 February 1959
A recovering alcoholic returns to his family from an extended stay in rehabilitation. His sobriety is put to the test, as are his beliefs in the supernatural, when his son is trapped in a cave-in.

Season 1, Episode 7: The Dream

Original Air Date—3 March 1959
In 1940, a fearful Britain awaits invasion by Nazi forces. A husband and his wife, separated by their wartime assignments, suddenly dream that each is in danger, and both try frantically to see if their dream has come true.

Season 1, Episode 8: Premonition

Original Air Date—10 March 1959
A young girl has a terrible vision of herself being killed by a chandelier falling on her from the ceiling of her home's ballroom. Growing up, she never sets foot in the room, but when her engagement is to be announced, both her father and fiancé insist that she set aside her foolishness for the party.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Dead Part of the House

Original Air Date—17 March 1959
A young girl moves into a new house with her father and aunt, and before long, she makes friends with the ghosts of three girls who reside in an upstairs nursery -- though the adults assume that her new "friends" are her three new dolls.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Vision

Original Air Date—24 March 1959
On a battlefield during the first World War, a group of French soldiers experience something which causes them to drop their weapons and walk away from the fight. During their subsequent court-martial, each gives his differing account of what he saw, which all seem impossible to believe.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Devil's Laughter

Original Air Date—31 March 1959
John Marriott boasted to his jailers, the executioner and anyone else who would listen that before the first attempted execution he was frightened out of his wits. But when the hood was put over his head, he saw how he would die, and it would not be on the gallows.

Season 1, Episode 12: The Return of Mitchell Campion

Original Air Date—7 April 1959
A man visiting a small Mediterranean island is stunned when all of the island's residents recognize him and insist that he is an island resident who has returned after many years, even though he knows he has never been there before.

Season 1, Episode 13: The Navigator

Original Air Date—14 April 1959

Season 1, Episode 14: The Secret

Original Air Date—21 April 1959
A young woman is left alone and unloved by her domineering and arrogant husband. She soon invents an imaginary lover who loves and comforts her--then she begins to suspect that her invisible "lover" may not be all that imaginary.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Aerialist

Original Air Date—28 April 1959
An argument between two trapeze artists results in an accident in which one is paralyzed. The other is torn by guilt and depression, until supernatural forces began to change his world.

Season 1, Episode 16: The Burning Girl

Original Air Date—5 May 1959
Cult actress Luana Anders plays a teenager trying to fit into a new community, make new friends and coexist with her abusive aunt and insensitive father, who insists she's a pyromaniac despite her pleas of innocence. Things are certain to get hot sooner than later.

Season 1, Episode 17: The Haunted U-Boat

Original Air Date—12 May 1959

Season 1, Episode 18: Image of Death

Original Air Date—19 May 1959

Season 1, Episode 19: The Captain's Guests

Original Air Date—26 May 1959
A sadistic sea captain from the 19th century haunts a New England home and poisons the lives of a married couple after taking possession of the husband's mind.

Season 1, Episode 20: Echo

Original Air Date—2 June 1959
Paul Martin is acquitted by a jury of the murder of his wife, although most people believe he did in fact kill her. To escape questioning reporters, he takes a house in the country. Soon, however, he begins to have premonitions of his own murder, and is shocked one day when his dead wife's brother shows up at his front door.

Season 1, Episode 21: Front Runner

Original Air Date—9 June 1959
Two rival jockeys compete for the top spot at a racetrack, but one of them has an unexpected brush with the supernatural that may give him the edge.

Season 1, Episode 22: The Riddle

Original Air Date—16 June 1959
On a trip through India, a married couple encounters a beggar who seems to be different from all the others they've seen--the husband is convinced that this particular beggar is trying to kill them.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Delusion

Original Air Date—15 September 1959
A man with a rare blood type is unwilling to donate his blood in order to save a girl's life, knowing that if he does he will be tormented by supernatural visions of her future.

Season 2, Episode 2: Ordeal on Locust Street

Original Air Date—22 September 1959
A seemingly normal family is hiding a terrible secret: their son has the features of a deformed, fish-like monster. A somewhat mysterious hypnotist with strange powers claims that he can help them, and in their desperation they enlist his aid.

Season 2, Episode 3: Brainwave

Original Air Date—6 October 1959
Aboard a United States ship in Japanese waters during World War II, Captain Fielding is critically injured. A hospital corpsman must perform surgery with only the radio voice of a doctor on another ship to guide him.

Season 2, Episode 4: Doomsday

Original Air Date—13 October 1959
A poor, pretty, village woman living ancient England is sentenced to be burned at the stake, for the natural death of her lover, the son of an Earl. So she shouts out a curse that the oldest son of every generation to come of the Earl will die before the father.

Season 2, Episode 5: Night of the Kill

Original Air Date—20 October 1959

Season 2, Episode 6: The Inheritance

Original Air Date—27 October 1959

Season 2, Episode 7: The Open Window

Original Air Date—3 November 1959

Season 2, Episode 8: Message from Clara

Original Air Date—10 November 1959
A student taking night classes falls in love with his beautiful teacher. However, he begins to suspect that his dead ex-girlfriend may be using the teacher to try to communicate with him.

Season 2, Episode 9: Forked Lightning

Original Air Date—17 November 1959
Two men who don't know each other find that their lives are intertwined by a strange psychic connection that may end up in the deaths of both.

Season 2, Episode 10: Reunion

Original Air Date—24 November 1959
The setting is Germany in 1939 and a group of young glider enthusiasts are startled to learn of the Third Reich's invasion of Poland. Knowing their lives must now go in separate directions, they plan a reunion picnic for the first Sunday following the war's conclusion. Who will still be alive and/or able to attend?

Season 2, Episode 11: Dead Ringer

Original Air Date—1 December 1959

Season 2, Episode 12: The Stone Cutter

Original Air Date—8 December 1959
Elderly Simon Lockhart is convinced that he will die in just a few days, because a mysterious stone cutter has already chiseled that date onto his tombstone.

Season 2, Episode 13: Father Image

Original Air Date—15 December 1959

Season 2, Episode 14: Make Me Not a Witch

Original Air Date—22 December 1959
A farm girl's parents are terrified when their daughter reveals that she can read minds. But a priest knows that her gifts can save two young lives.

Season 2, Episode 15: The Hand

Original Air Date—28 December 1959
In a jealous rage, a piano player at a run-down dive murders a beautiful young woman. Although he at first seems to have covered his tracks well enough, he soon discovers that, no matter how hard he tries, he cannot get the woman's blood off his hands.

Season 2, Episode 16: The Justice Tree

Original Air Date—5 January 1960

Season 2, Episode 17: Earthquake

Original Air Date—12 January 1960
In 1906 San Francisco, many famous people gather at a hotel to hear renowned opera singer Enrico Caruso perform. However, a bellboy at the hotel suddenly has visions of impending mass destruction and death, but he can't get anyone to listen to him.

Season 2, Episode 18: The Forests of the Night

Original Air Date—19 January 1960
Three friends on a hunting trip idling away a rainy day stumble upon a mysterious Chinese game that promises to make a man what he is not, such as a mouse a tiger. After playing the game, a mild-mannered member of the trio begins acting strangely.

Season 2, Episode 19: Call from Tomorrow

Original Air Date—26 January 1960
A famous actress has a complete breakdown after the death of her young daughter. After she recovers she returns home, only to be convinced that she can hear her daughter calling to her from beyond the grave.

Season 2, Episode 20: Who Are You?

Original Air Date—2 February 1960

Season 2, Episode 21: The Day the World Wept-The Lincoln Story

Original Air Date—9 February 1960

Season 2, Episode 22: The Lovers

Original Air Date—16 February 1960
Evil spirits are determined to break up the romance between Otto, a patron at a Viennese tavern, and Elsa, a beautiful waitress there. But the connection between the two lovers seems to be stronger than the spirits counted on.

Season 2, Episode 23: Vanishing Point

Original Air Date—23 February 1960

Season 2, Episode 24: The Mask

Original Air Date—1 March 1960
During World War II, Lt. Wilenski bails out of a crippled plane over the Sahara Desert, but the harsh and unrelenting conditions in the desert almost result in his death. After his rescue, however, he and his rescuers are stunned to discover that he not only has somehow acquired the memory of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, but also has the monarch's facial features!

Season 2, Episode 25: The Haunting

Original Air Date—8 March 1960

Season 2, Episode 26: The Explorer

Original Air Date—15 March 1960

Season 2, Episode 27: The Clown

Original Air Date—22 March 1960
A guilt-ridden murderer looks in a mirror and sees the image of a mute clown drawing near to throttle him.

Season 2, Episode 28: I Saw You Tomorrow

Original Air Date—5 April 1960
As he arrives at a large mansion, a man suddenly has a vision of a woman being murdered. Later, he is stunned to see the woman he saw in the vision show up as a guest at the estate.

Season 2, Episode 29: Encounter

Original Air Date—12 April 1960
A small construction crew is set on edge when a pilot and his plane suddenly disappear, his last radio message frantically reporting a mountain descending from the clouds and coming right at him. While searching for their colleague, UFO skeptics and believers among the crew debate reported sightings and evidence.

Season 2, Episode 30: The Peter Hurkos Story: Part 1

Original Air Date—19 April 1960
Peter Hurkos, a resistance fighter in Denmark during World War II, awakens from a coma and discovers that he not only has psychic powers, but that he can see the good or evil in someone simply by touching them. Soon he is using his powers to help track down a crazed killer.

Season 2, Episode 31: The Peter Hurkos Story: Part 2

Original Air Date—26 April 1960

Season 2, Episode 32: Delia

Original Air Date—3 May 1960
A man disillusioned with life meets the woman of his dreams on a tropical island. When she suddenly disappears his life begins to spiral out of control, and in his desperation he begins to believe he is having encounters with the supernatural.

Season 2, Episode 33: The Visitor

Original Air Date—10 May 1960

Season 2, Episode 34: Gypsy

Original Air Date—17 May 1960
A convict who has just escaped from prison meets up with a mysterious gypsy, who convinces him that it is best for him to return to the prison from which he has just escaped. The convict soon begins to realize that the there was quite a bit more to the gypsy than there at first appeared to be.

Season 2, Episode 35: Contact

Original Air Date—24 May 1960
Bill Dermott finds himself haunted by a determined voice in his mind plotting a heinous murder. Could this unsettling phenomenon possibly be linked to the antique pocket watch he received as a gift from his wife?

Season 2, Episode 36: The Lonely Room

Original Air Date—31 May 1960

Season 2, Episode 37: House of the Dead

Original Air Date—7 June 1960
British Lieutenant Fraser, stationed in Hong Kong, is returning home to England and wants to take with him his Chinese fiancée, but when she disappears hours before their departure, a frantic Lt. Fraser finds himself searching through Hong Kong's mysterious side streets and encountering even more mysterious people.

Season 2, Episode 38: Goodbye Grandpa

Original Air Date—14 June 1960
A brother and sister are devastated by the death of their grandfather, to whom they were inordinately close. However, they soon begin to suspect that he may be trying to contact them from beyond the grave.

Season 2, Episode 39: The Storm

Original Air Date—21 June 1960

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Tidalwave

Original Air Date—30 August 1960

Season 3, Episode 2: Anniversary of a Murder

Original Air Date—27 September 1960
A married businessman is having a secret affair, and one night while he's driving home drunk from a rendezvous with his mistress, he runs over and kills a young boy. No one saw him so he believes he got away with it, but soon he is astonished to hear what he believes to be his victim's voice on his dictaphone.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Death Waltz

Original Air Date—4 October 1960

Season 3, Episode 4: The Return

Original Air Date—11 October 1960

Season 3, Episode 5: If You See Sally

Original Air Date—18 October 1960

Season 3, Episode 6: Moment of Hate

Original Air Date—25 October 1960
A successful but driven businesswoman, Karen Wadsworth, is convinced that she can make her thoughts become reality. She soon begins to believe that she can use the power of suggestion and turn it into the power to kill.

Season 3, Episode 7: To Know the End

Original Air Date—1 November 1960
Emily MacDougall, a young woman living in England during World War II, begins to have strange hallucinations of death and destruction. What she doesn't realize is that her visions may threaten not only the man who is closest to her, but the entire country as well.

Season 3, Episode 8: The Trap

Original Air Date—15 November 1960
Just before he falls asleep, a man is suddenly aware that there is another life that seems to be in direct conflict with his own. He is astounded to discover that he has stumbled upon what seems to be a parallel universe--one in which he also exists. but in not quite the same way he does in this one.

Season 3, Episode 9: The Voice

Original Air Date—22 November 1960

Season 3, Episode 10: The Promise

Original Air Date—29 November 1960

Season 3, Episode 11: Tonight at 12:17

Original Air Date—6 December 1960
Laura Perkins is expecting a baby, and the pregnancy is worrying her. She is soon shocked to discover, however, that her condition has resulted in her having extraordinary psychic powers. She determines to use these new powers to save the life of her unborn child.

Season 3, Episode 12: Where Are They?

Original Air Date—13 December 1960
In 1922 the town of Chico, California was pelted by rocks falling from an empty sky. A writer who called himself The Ghost took credit for the phenomena, but was never identified. Similarly, in 1917 a stranger appeared to government officials in Washington, D. C. and demonstrated a new fuel made from water that could power an auto engine. After his successful exhibition, the stranger vanished as quickly as he had appeared. The FBI and Secret Service searched for months and could never find him.

Season 3, Episode 13: Legacy of Love

Original Air Date—20 December 1960
Marianne Darelle finds that she is suddenly and forcefully drawn to a small seaside town that she has never been to before, and there she begins a strange relationship with a married man--and is shocked to discover that he, too, was pulled into the town by a force that he can't explain, either.

Season 3, Episode 14: Rendezvous

Original Air Date—27 December 1960
A wife is notified that her husband, a Marine, has been lost at sea. However, she refuses to believe that he is dead and knows that he will return to her. Soon afterwards she is walking alone through a park when a would-be mugger approaches her, but he is scared off by the sudden appearance of what looks to be some sort of spirit.

Season 3, Episode 15: The Executioner

Original Air Date—3 January 1961
In 1862, Confederate soldier Jess Bradley and his faithful dog are captured by a sadistic Union officer, Col. Martin. When Jess' dog is killed, forces from beyond began to take a strange revenge on the colonel.

Season 3, Episode 16: The Last Round

Original Air Date—10 January 1961
A prizefighter who has fallen on very hard times is visited by the ghost of a fellow boxer, who reminds him of a terrifying old legend that may well come true.

Season 3, Episode 17: Dead Man's Tale

Original Air Date—17 January 1961
A down-on-his-luck newsman, Phillip Werris, checks into a flea-bag hotel with his wife Jan, where he finds a manual on how to prospect for gold. That night while sleepwalking, Phillip types a short story that features the author of the manual and his brother. Against his wishes, Jan submits the story to be published. After publication, the story takes on an unnatural air, leading to an amazing climax.

Season 3, Episode 18: The Sacred Mushroom

Original Air Date—24 January 1961
Newland and his associates visit a remote Mexican village to determine if eating a rare mushroom can enhance one's extrasensory perception capacities.

Season 3, Episode 19: The Gift

Original Air Date—31 January 1961
It's May in England and a Gypsy fortuneteller and her rakish son set to work rooking a gullible public. But when the phony fortuneteller actually receives the gift of clairvoyance she has long prayed for, she is startled by what she sees.

Season 3, Episode 20: Person Unknown

Original Air Date—7 February 1961
In Mexico, an escaped convict hides out in a monastery. Unfortunately, it is on the night when the ghost of an Aztec warrior is said to roam the halls. When a murder is discovered later that night, he must prove that he not only didn't commit the murder, but that it was in fact committed by the ghostly warrior.

Season 3, Episode 21: Night of Decision

Original Air Date—21 February 1961
During the American Revolution, Gen. George Washington is suddenly visited by visions that convince him the revolution will be successful. However, he is also troubled by visions that tell him there will be a great civil war that will occur after his death, and he doesn't know how to stop it.

Season 3, Episode 22: The Stranger

Original Air Date—28 February 1961

Season 3, Episode 23: Justice

Original Air Date—7 March 1961
A man confesses to murdering a child, but the members of his church swear that at the time of the killing the man was asleep in a pew.

Season 3, Episode 24: The Face

Original Air Date—14 March 1961
From early childhood Stephen Bolt has frightening dreams of a man's ominous face. Later he sees that the man's hand threatens him with a knife. Stephen knows the dreams are a premonition of his death, but his family are unsympathetic. When he grows up, Stephen goes to sea to escape his tormentor.

Season 3, Episode 25: The Room Upstairs

Original Air Date—21 March 1961

Season 3, Episode 26: Signal Received

Original Air Date—4 April 1961

Season 3, Episode 27: The Confession

Original Air Date—11 April 1961

Season 3, Episode 28: The Avengers

Original Air Date—25 April 1961

Season 3, Episode 29: The Prisoner

Original Air Date—2 May 1961

Season 3, Episode 30: Blood Flower

Original Air Date—16 May 1961

Season 3, Episode 31: The Sorcerer

Original Air Date—23 May 1961

Season 3, Episode 32: The Villa

Original Air Date—6 June 1961

Season 3, Episode 33: Midnight

Original Air Date—13 June 1961
While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets there. Howewver, she isn't quite what she seems to be, and he stands a good chance of succumbing--literally--to her charms.

Season 3, Episode 34: The Tiger

Original Air Date—20 June 1961
Miss Cartwright is hired to be the new governess to young Pamela. Cartwright immediately dismisses Pamela's beloved nanny, Mrs. Murphy, and finds a punishment room for the child in the basement. Pamela's favorite toy is a stuffed tiger, which becomes the focus of Pamela's revenge against the dictatorial governess. Strange and ominous things begin to happen that can only be explained as psychic phenomena.

Season 3, Episode 35: Nightmare

Original Air Date—27 June 1961

Season 3, Episode 36: Eyewitness

Original Air Date—4 July 1961

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