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- StarsGeorge DiCenzoSteve RailsbackNancy WolfeThe investigation and trial of the horrific Tate-LaBianca mass murders orchestrated by the psychotic pseudo-hippie cult leader, Charles Manson.
- DirectorChristopher MongerStarsHugh GrantTara FitzgeraldColm MeaneyWhen an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.
- DirectorChris FogginStarsJames PurefoyMeadow NobregaDavid HaymanTen fisherman from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album, "Sea Shanties."
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsBoris KarloffKenneth HaighAudrey DaltonOn the Welsh Border, an old man suspected of witchcraft is gruesomely murdered with a hay-fork and bill-hook. The Scotland Yard inspector investigating has to wade through a morass of superstition to uncover the killer, but when his wife starts having visions of the Black Dog, harbinger of death, the locals focus their suspicions on her.
- DirectorGeorge WaggnerStarsBoris KarloffTony TravisArgentina Brunetti"Dr. Angelo Marcabienti", returns home to the small Italian village he grew up in his. His father, also a doctor, is old and tired and "Angelo" wants him to retire and move to the city to live with him, but the townspeople won't let him. When the elder doctor is called to the home of a patient, "Angelo" attends to another patient, but the family won't allow him to operate until the "real" doctor arrives. Will the elder "Marcabienti" arrive in time? Look "Behind The Veil" to find out!
- DirectorPaul LandresStarsBoris KarloffRon HagerthyMyron HealeyA young man, badgered by his father to work in his aviation company, sees a vision of a man while on a routine air-flight. The vision tells him to go to a certain location and he does...in a trance. He is stopped by his copilot before their plane crashes. Later on he sees something that makes him think he knows who the vision was. He must go "Behind The Veil" to find out if he's correct.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsBoris KarloffNiall MacGinnisDorothy AlisonA clairvoyant, in dreams and visions, sees a series of grisly murders in London's Whitechapel district. But his knowledge of the details of the crimes makes him a suspect in the eyes of the police.
- DirectorFrank P. BibasStarsBoris KarloffKay StewartTudor OwenA captain returns from a sea voyage to a wife he does not love. He saves her life after she is bitten by a snake. He almost immediately regrets having done so, as he learns that a woman who is smitten with him has been recently widowed and has inherited a large sum of money. He plots his wife's murder, but will he succeed in his plans even if he is successful in ridding himself of his cumbersome wife?
- DirectorGeorge WaggnerStarsBoris KarloffHarry BartellPaul BryarA man witnesses a robbery and murder in the apartment across the street from his own. When the police are called, it is discovered that the apartment is empty. Has he seen what he thinks he has seen? Are we dealing with the past, the present or the future? Only those willing to go "Behind The Veil" will know for sure.
- DirectorHerbert L. StrockStarsBoris KarloffLee TorranceJean Del ValIn August of 1927, Madame Sita Vernoy dies in a small town in India, leaving a grieving husband and a newborn son. One year and ten days later, Santha Naidu is born in Delhi: a girl-child who slowly begins to remember her previous life as Madame Vernoy. When she grows to maturity, these memories are instrumental in changing the life of her widowed husband and the son who is one year older than herself.
- DirectorHerbert L. StrockStarsBoris KarloffDenise AlexanderWhit BissellA teenage girl, Ruth, is possessed by the tormented soul of another young girl.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsJohn NewlandPhilip AbbottJoanne LinvilleA 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.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsLarry GatesEugene IglesiasPenny SantonProfessor Carroll is a political theorist who nonetheless has a neutral stance when it comes to radical involvement. However he becomes strangely political after sniffing a rare Latin American flower, unaware that it was stained with the blood of a famous revolutionary.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsRobert BlakeJohn KelloggJohnny SevenA 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.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsChristopher LeeMartin BensonAlfred BurkeIn World War One German officer Reitliger enlists the help of Karnak, a man with supposed psychic powers, to find out how his girlfriend Elsa is faring back in Germany. Seeing a vision of her infidelity he gets Karnak to will him back home where he kills Elsa but no one will believe him as the murder was down to an out of body experience and nobody can be in two places at once. Ultimately Reitlinger decides on a way to ensure he is punished.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsElizabeth MontgomeryJoe CroninRobert SampsonAt a cavalry outpost in 1860s New Mexico, flirtatious, heartless Lillie takes great delight in playing off her two beaus, decent Eustace Fairchild and the sexier, more dashing Henry Buchanan, against each other. Eustace is killed by Apaches, but Lillie still goes to the dance with Henry. However, Eustace's ghost turns up for what will be the last waltz for both him and Lillie.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsJohn NewlandBarbara BrownDavid GreggNewland and his associates visit a remote Mexican village to determine if eating a rare mushroom can enhance one's extrasensory perception capacities.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsDavid J. StewartRodolfo AcostaJay NovelloIn 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.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsBill NagyPeter DyneleyPatrick McAlinneyFollowing an earthquake in Asia Minor three living people are dug out of the rubble. They claim that a fourth man, who has died, was the driving force who sustained their battle for survival, but finger prints reveal him to be a prisoner who died some time before the quake.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsJohn NewlandMaria PalmerRobert DouglasA 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.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsMark EdenTerry PalmerRichard GaleIn 1941 two sailors from HMS Hood, Watson and Breed, hear a strange radio broadcast stating that the ship has been sunk with heavy loss of life. Their shipmate Robin Hughes, however, hears that he will live to a ripe old age. When it is time for the ship to sail Hughes is reassigned at the last minute. The radio message proves to be a tragic omen for Breed and Watson whilst the real Hughes appears in the studio to talk about his belief in the supernatural.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsDon DubbinsRobert EllensteinDon WomackThe crew of a nineteenth century sailing ship finds that someone has altered its course before catching a stowaway, a mute, soaking wet Asian man who they clap in irons. The alteration in course leads them to rescue survivors of a ship sunk by an iceberg, although that ship's navigator is dead and is the spitting image of the Asian, who has mysteriously disappeared.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsEdgar StehliCandy MooreAnna KarenA 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.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsAnton DiffringFaith BrookCatherine FellerRuth Goldman, a survivor of the Nazi death camps, receives a visitor, Hessler, a German officer who oversaw her cruel treatment during her imprisonment and she kills him. However when she confesses and a doctor examines the body it turns out that Hessler has been dead for several years previously.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsPamela BrownElspeth MarchPauline ChallonerMiss 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.