User:The 80s chick/sandbox
Second WIP
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 1 | "Episode 1" | Liu Hongyuan | Yuan Jixi, Wei Shining | January 11, 2022 |
| 2 | "Episode 2" | Unknown | Unknown | January 12, 2022 |
WIP
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| 1 | "The Hatbox" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Henry Slesar | Paul Ford, Billy Gray | October 10, 1961 | |
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College student Perry Hatch (Gray) is caught cheating in a test by Professor Jarvis (Ford). Perry and his friend Denny go the professor's house to beg for clemency, and witness him throwing out a brand new hat. Thinking that the professor might have killed his wife, Perry and Denny go to the police, but Lt. Roman believes they jumped to conclusions. However, the boys were right, and the professor did kill his wife. | ||||||
| 2 | "Bang! You're Dead!" | Alfred Hitchcock | Story by : Margery Vosper Teleplay by : Harold Swanton | Steve Dunne, Bill Mumy | October 17, 1961 | |
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Five-year-old Jackie (Mumy) loves playing cowboys. When his uncle Rick (Dunne) visits, Jackie finds a gun in Rick's luggage and, thinking it's a toy present meant for him, takes it to play. Rick and Jackie's parents figure out what's happened and search the neighborhood frantically, and find him just in time to stop him from shooting the family maid, Cleo. | ||||||
| 3 | "Maria" | Boris Sagal | Story by : John Wyndham Teleplay by : John Collier | Norman Lloyd, Nita Talbot | October 24, 1961 | |
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Circus entertainer Leo Thorby (Lloyd) buys a monkey that can draw, but it turns out to be a small woman named Maria in a monkey suit. Despite his wife Carol (Talbot)'s protests, Leo develops the drawing "monkey" into an act, and doesn't realize that Maria is romantically interested in him. Maria tricks Leo into thinking that Carol cheated on him, and when Leo figures out the truth and rejects Maria, she tricks another circus entertainer into killing him. | ||||||
| 4 | "Cop for a Day" | Paul Henreid | Henry Slesar | Walter Matthau | October 31, 1961 | |
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Criminals Phil (Matthau) and Davey are forced into hiding after a robbery where the trigger-happy Davey killed their victim. In order to get rid of the sole witness, Phil buys a police costume and gets into the witness' apartment, where he kills her. However, when Phil returns to the hideout with the good news, Davey mistakes Phil for a policeman and shoots him on the spot. | ||||||
| 5 | "Keep Me Company" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Henry Slesar | Anne Francis, Jack Ging | November 7, 1961 | |
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Newlywed Julia Reddy (Francis) feels neglected by her husband, Marco, who's been leaving her alone at home for many nights. Desperate for company, Julia uses the excuse of a prowler on her balcony to call the police, who send Detective Parks (Ging) to her apartment. Marco returns home while Detective Parks is there; the detective recognizes Marco as a wanted criminal, and arrests him. | ||||||
| 6 | "Beta Delta Gamma" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Calvin Clements | Burt Brinckerhoff, Barbara Steele | November 14, 1961 | |
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A group of friends get drunk during a frat party in their beach house. When one of them, Alan (Brinckerhoff), passes out, the others decide to prank him by making him believe that he killed his friend, Mark. Mark is given a drug to make him appear dead, and the others leave, letting Alan wake up alone. The next morning Alan is distressed, and his friends are amused at their joke until Alan tells them that he's buried Mark alive. | ||||||
| 7 | "You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life" | Norman Lloyd | Story by : Stanley Ellin Teleplay by : Helen Nielsen | Dick York, Carolyn Kearney | November 21, 1961 | |
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Shy, fragile Julie Barton (Kearney) is attacked at home while her husband Tom (York) is late at work. Julie, who fears confrontations, needs to be repeatedly cajoled by her doctor into helping the police find her attacker. Julie then finds evidence that her husband was her attacker, and is so enraged that she immediately goes to the police on her own. | ||||||
| 8 | "The Old Pro" | Paul Henreid | Story by : H. A. De Rosso Teleplay by : Calvin Clements | Richard Conte | November 28, 1961 | |
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Frank Burns (Conte) is a retired hitman who's moved on with his life. He hopes to live peacefully with his loving wife, Loretta, but is forced to become a hitman again when he kills a blackmailer and another hitman who double-crossed him. | ||||||
| 9 | "I Spy" | Norman Lloyd | Story by : John Mortimer Teleplay by : John Collier | Kay Walsh, Eric Barker, Cecil Parker | December 5, 1961 | |
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When Captain Morgan's wife Mrs. Morgan (Walsh) leaves him, he suspects that she has found a lover and sends detective Mr. Frute (Barker) to find out. Mr. Frute meets Mrs. Morgan and learns that she left her husband simply because she was unhappy. The pair then fall in love. | ||||||
| 10 | "Services Rendered" | Paul Henreid | William Link & Richard Levinson | Steve Dunne, Hugh Marlowe | December 12, 1961 | |
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A young man (Dunne) is hit by a falling board and loses his memory. The only things in his pocket are the name and office address of a Dr. Mannick, and a thousand dollar bill. The man goes to Dr. Mannick (Marlowe), who has never met him before but tries to help him regain his memory. The young man eventually remembers everything, including the fact that he was hired by Dr. Mannick's wife to murder him. | ||||||
| 11 | "The Right Kind of Medicine" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Henry Slesar | Robert Redford, Russell Collins, Joby Baker | December 19, 1961 | |
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Criminal Charlie Marx (Redford) is injured while escaping from a robbery, and picks up pain medication from Mr. Fletcher (Collins) and Vernon (Baker)'s pharmacy. When Charlie encounters Vernon again soon after, he assumes that Vernon has identified him as the robber and shoots him as well. Later, when the police question Mr. Fletcher, they learn that Vernon was sent to warn Charlie that there was an error in his prescription, which will kill him. | ||||||
| 12 | "A Jury of Her Peers" | Robert Florey | Story by : Susan Glaspell Teleplay by : James P. Cavanagh | Ann Harding, Frances Reid, Philip Bourneuf | December 26, 1961 | |
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Elderly Millie Wright's husband John is found strangled to death in their isolated farmhouse. Millie's acquaintances Sarah Hale (Harding) and Mrs. Peters (Reid) are brought to the house to get Millie's things, and find evidence that suggests that Millie killed John. Sarah knows that John was abusive for years, so she convinces Mrs. Peters to hide the evidence to prevent Millie from being arrested. | ||||||
| 13 | "The Silk Petticoat" | John Newland | Story by : Joseph Shearing Teleplay by : Halsted Welles & Norman Ginsbury | Michael Rennie, Antoinette Bower | January 2, 1962 | |
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London, 1817. Elisa Minden (Bower) learns that her fiancé, Sir Humphrey J. Orford (Rennie), was married in the past. Humphrey's first wife, Flora, cheated on him, and he arranged for her lover to be hanged. After Elisa and Humphrey are married, his behavior changes and she begins to fear him. Just before their honeymoon, Humphrey is stabbed to death in his study. It's revealed that the murderer is Flora, who has been kept locked up in his study for years. | ||||||
| 14 | "Bad Actor" | John Newland | Story by : Max Franklin Teleplay by : Robert Bloch | Robert Duvall, Carole Eastman, Charles Robinson, William Schallert | January 9, 1962 | |
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Bart Collins (Duvall) is a down-on-his-luck actor. Wanting a specific role, Bart murders his competition, Jerry Lane (Robinson), cuts up the body and hides the head in an ice bucket. Later Bart's girlfriend, Bart's agent, and a police officer investigating Jerry's disappearance come to Bart's apartment, and due to Bart's bad acting, they notice that there's something inside the ice bucket. | ||||||
| 15 | "The Door Without a Key" | Herschel Daugherty | Story by : Norman Daniels Teleplay by : Irving Elman | Claude Rains, John Larch, Bill Mumy | January 16, 1962 | |
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One evening at a police station, Sgt. Shaw (Larch) takes care of a man with amnesia (Rains) and a boy who's lost (Mumy). The amnesiac and the boy bond together over their problems, and eventually leave the station more content than when they arrived. | ||||||
| 16 | "The Case of M.J.H." | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Henry Slesar | Robert Loggia, Barbara Baxley | January 23, 1962 | |
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Unscrupulous Jimmy French (Loggia) pressures his girlfriend Maude Sheridan (Baxley) into stealing her boss' patient files. Maude works for a psychiatrist, and Jimmy wants a blackmail target. Jimmy picks a patient named Harrison and tries to extort money from him, but Harrison is unstable and kills Jimmy for it. | ||||||
| 17 | "The Faith of Aaron Menefee" | Norman Lloyd | Story by : Stanley Ellin Teleplay by : Ray Bradbury | Sidney Blackmer, Andrew Prine | January 30, 1962 | |
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Aaron Menefree (Prine) is seemingly cured of his ulcer by faith healer Otis Jones (Blackmer) and becomes a believer. Otis takes advantage of Aaron's faith, hiring him as a chauffeur for poor pay and rejecting Aaron's request to marry Otis's daughter. One night Aaron encounters a gangster who has been shot and paralyzed from the waist down, and takes Otis to cure him. | ||||||
| 18 | "The Woman Who Wanted to Live" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Bryce Walton | Charles Bronson, Lola Albright | February 6, 1962 | |
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Criminal Ray Bardon (Bronson) is on the run. He robs and kills a gas station attendant, and then forces the next person who arrives at the station, Lisa (Albright), to drive him away. To Ray's surprise, Lisa helps him avoid the police, gives up multiple chances to escape, and tends to his injuries. When Ray eventually lowers his guard, Lisa takes his gun, revealing that her lover was the gas station attendant, and that she was just waiting for the opportunity to kill Ray herself. | ||||||
| 19 | "Strange Miracle" | Norman Lloyd | Story by : George Langelaan Teleplay by : Halsted Welles | David Opatoshu, Míriam Colón, Eduardo Ciannelli | February 13, 1962 | |
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Pedro Sequiras (Opatoshu) is involved in an accident, and fakes being paralyzed so to receive payout from the insurance company. Although Pedro and his wife Lolla (Colón) enjoy the money, Pedro is frustrated at having to stay in the wheelchair. Pedro goes to a fountain with a reputation for having blessed waters, to fake a "miracle" of regaining the use of his legs, but when he takes the water, he becomes paralyzed for real. | ||||||
| 20 | "The Test" | Boris Sagal | Henry Slesar | Brian Keith, Eduardo Ciannelli | February 20, 1962 | |
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Lawyer Vernon Wedge (Keith) reluctantly agrees to defend Benjy Marino from a murder charge. Evidence is overwhelmingly against Benjy, but Wedge asks the court for permission to subject the supposed murder weapon to a sensitive test for blood. The district attorney objects, but the boldness of the request causes the jury to acquit Benjy. Afterward, Wedge wants to test the knife himself to find out if Benjy was telling the truth, but Benjy's father uses the knife to cut himself, preventing Wedge from ever knowing. | ||||||
| 21 | "Burglar Proof" | John Newland | Henry Slesar | Paul Hartman, Robert Webber, Whit Bissell | February 27, 1962 | |
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As part of an advertising campaign for a security company, paroled safe-cracker Sammy Morrissey (Hartman) is hired to try to break into a brand new safe in a public demonstration, the promise being that if he succeeds, he'll get the $50,000 inside. Sammy works all night but fails — however, he'd palmed the $50,000 before it was put inside the safe, and secretly walks away with the money. | ||||||
| 22 | "The Big Score" | Boris Sagal | Story by : Sam Merwin Jr. Teleplay by : Bryce Walton | Rafael Campos, Evans Evans | March 6, 1962 | |
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Dora (Evans) works as a babysitter for Mr. Fellowes, and one night invites her three guy friends into Fellowes' house to rob the safe. Fellowes returns home unexpectedly, and is stabbed to death by Gino (Campos), one of the boys. Later when Gino and Dora try to run with the money, they are caught by Fellowes' henchman, for it turns out that Fellowes was a mobster. | ||||||
| 23 | "Profit-Sharing Plan" | Bernard Girard | William Link & Richard Levinson | Henry Jones | March 13, 1962 | |
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Miles Cheever (Jones) retires after 20 years of unappreciated service, and steals from his office the day after he leaves. With the money, he sneaks away from his wife to meet up with his lover, but their flight is stalled when Mrs. Cheever calls in a bomb scare to the airport, prompting the police to search all the luggage, thus finding Miles' suitcase of money. | ||||||
| 24 | "Apex" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Story by : James Workman Teleplay by : John T. Kelley | Patricia Breslin, Vivienne Segal, Mark Miller | March 20, 1962 | |
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Lovers Claude and Margot (Miller and Breslin) plot to kills Claude's wife, Clara (Segal). Claude is unable to do it himself and suggests hiring someone, but Margot says that she can do it. The next day, Margot visits Clara and poisons her, staging it as a suicide. Margot is about to leave when a man arrives at the apartment and sees Margot; Margot pretends to be Clara to get rid of him, but the man was hired to kill Clara, and he clubs Margot to death. | ||||||
| 25 | "The Last Remains" | Leonard J. Horn | Henry Slesar | Ed Gardner, John Fiedler | March 27, 1962 | |
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Amos Duff (Fiedler) runs a struggling funeral home. His newest customer, Marvin Foley (Gardner), has ordered a service for his late partner, Robert Kessler. Amos discovers a bullet hole on Robert's body and blackmails Marvin into ordering a more expensive service in return for Amos's silence. After the service and cremation of Robert's body, Marvin refuses to pay the rest of his bill, claiming there's no more evidence of foul play. Amos goes to the police, because the bullet that killed Robert was left behind in the ashes. | ||||||
| 26 | "Ten O'Clock Tiger" | Bernard Girard | William Fay | Robert Keith, Frankie Darro | April 3, 1962 | |
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Arthur Fresno (Keith) is manager of veteran boxer Soldier Fresno. Arthur's friend, Boots (Darro) brings him a new formula used to boost racehorses. Despite Boots' misgivings, Arthur decides to use it on Soldier without the boxer's knowledge, leading to Soldier's winning a streak of fights. For the championship, Arthur decides to increase the dosage, which causes Soldier to go berserk and punch Arthur to death. | ||||||
| 27 | "Act of Faith" | Bernard Girard | Story by : Nicholas Monsarrat Teleplay by : Eric Ambler | George Grizzard, Dennis King | April 10, 1962 | |
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Ralson Temple (King) is a successful novelist, and decides to become a patron to budding author Alan Chatterton (Grizzard). Over many months Chatterton misses multiple deadlines and keeps asking for money, prompting Temple to break off their relationship and destroy their contract. However, when Temple next sees Chatterton, the latter has published his book to great success. | ||||||
| 28 | "The Kerry Blue" | Paul Henreid | Henry Slesar | Gene Evans, Carmen Mathews | April 17, 1962 | |
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Ned Matthews (Evans) overly dotes on his kerry blue dog, Annie, much to the frustration of his wife, Thelma (Mathews). When Ned returns from a business trip, Thelma tells him that Annie died, but Ned believes that Thelma killed her. Wanting revenge, Ned overdoses Thelma on sleeping pills; immediately afterward, Ned finds a new kerry blue in their yard and trips while running to it. Thelma is revived by a doctor, but Ned died instantly. | ||||||
| 29 | "The Matched Pearl" | Bernard Girard | Henry Slesar | John Ireland, Ernest Truex, Émile Genest | April 24, 1962 | |
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Jeweler Laurent DuBois (Genest) finds a rich buyer for a rare black pearl, and lies to the finder of the pearl, Captain McCabe (Ireland), of the pearl's selling price. However, the pearl's buyer, Hubert Wilkins (Truex), is a con artist working with McCabe, and they trick DuBois into paying an exorbitant amount of money for the pearl. | ||||||
| 30 | "What Frightened You, Fred?" | Paul Henreid | Story by : Jack Ritchie Teleplay by : Joel Murcott | R. G. Armstrong, Edward Asner, Adam Williams | May 1, 1962 | |
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Fred Riordan (Armstrong) is arrested within 48 hours of being released from prison. Warden Bragan (Asner) knows that Fred was looking forward to a fresh start, and brings in Dr. Cullen, the prison psychiatrist (Williams), to find out what happened. Cullen suspects that Fred was overwhelmed by the outside world, but the truth is that Fred was blackmailed by a mob boss to get back into prison to kill the warden. | ||||||
| 31 | "Most Likely to Succeed" | Richard Whorf | Henry Slesar | Jack Carter, Joanna Moore, Howard Morris | May 8, 1962 | |
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Wealthy businessman Stanley Towers (Carter) hires an old friend, Dave Sumner (Morris), as waitstaff in his mansion, and enjoys lording it over him because Dave was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" in college. Dave bonds with Stanley's wife Louise (Moore), who confesses her dislike of Stanley's behavior and crooked business deals. It's later revealed that Dave is a successful IRS agent, and was assigned Stanley's case because of their history. | ||||||
| 32 | "Victim Four" | Paul Henreid | Talmage Powell | Peggy Ann Garner, John Lupton, Paul Comi | May 15, 1962 | |
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There's a serial killer on the loose, and Joe Drake (Comi) worries when his wife Madeline (Garner) is late returning home from work. Joe and Ralph, Madeline's ex-boyfriend, search for Madeline frantically. Eventually Joe finds Ralph stabbed to death by Madeline, who is the serial killer — she had a head injury recently, and thinks she's defending herself from a man who "changes faces". | ||||||
| 33 | "The Opportunity" | Robert Florey | Story by : J.W. Aaron Teleplay by : Bryce Walton & Henry Slesar | Richard Long, Coleen Gray | May 22, 1962 | |
| 34 | "The Twelve Hour Caper" | John Newland | Story by : Jack Ritchie Teleplay by : John T. Kelley | Dick York | May 29, 1962 | |
| 5-Jun-62
| 35
| "The Children of Alda Nuova"
| Jack Carson
Christopher Dark
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| Robert Florey
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| 12-Jun-62
| 36
| "First Class Honeymoon"
| Robert Webber
Jeremy Slate
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| Don Weis
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| 19-Jun-62
| 37
| "The Big Kick"
| Anne Helm
Wayne Rogers
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| Alan Crosland, Jr.
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| 26-Jun-62
| 38
| "Where Beauty Lies"
| Cloris Leachman
George Nader
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| Robert Florey
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| Unaired in
network run
| 39
| "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
| Brandon deWilde
Diana Dors
| Robert Bloch (adapting his own short story)
| Joseph Lejtes
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