4.050 minSeason 2 • Episode 30
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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.
Acting
Karloff's hosting — pure theatrical velvet.
Production
Shadow-drenched sets that out-creep many films.
Writing
Twist endings that actually land.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Bloch (Psycho) wrote multiple episodes, and some stories were so intense NBC almost killed the show mid-season.
This was Karloff's final major TV work — he essentially bequeathed his horror legacy directly to living rooms, one velvet-voiced intro at a time.
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