Season 1 Episode 30 1961 , Hosted by Boris Karloff , A bookworm uses his good imagination and some storylines from Poe to dispose of his cheating wife's paramours.
Robert Bloch, known to genre fans as the man who penned the novel on which Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was based, wrote the screenplay for this episode of Thriller. Character actor Edward Andrews, the star of this episode, should also be familiar to generations of genre fans. A ubiquitous face in Hollywood from the early 1950s to the mid-1980s, Andrews had guest spots on innumerable TV shows such as The Twilight Zone, The Wild Wild West, Bewitched, and Fantasy Island, as well as in movies like 1961's The Absent-Minded Professor and 1984's Gremlins.
Written by: Robert Bloch, adapted from his own short story
Directed by: John Brahm
Starring: Edward Andrews , Ed Nelson , and Patricia Barry
Original Air Date: May 2, 1961
Robert Bloch, known to genre fans as the man who penned the novel on which Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was based, wrote the screenplay for this episode of Thriller. Character actor Edward Andrews, the star of this episode, should also be familiar to generations of genre fans. A ubiquitous face in Hollywood from the early 1950s to the mid-1980s, Andrews had guest spots on innumerable TV shows such as The Twilight Zone, The Wild Wild West, Bewitched, and Fantasy Island, as well as in movies like 1961's The Absent-Minded Professor and 1984's Gremlins.
Written by: Robert Bloch, adapted from his own short story
Directed by: John Brahm
Starring: Edward Andrews , Ed Nelson , and Patricia Barry
Original Air Date: May 2, 1961