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The Wide World of Mystery(1973–1976)
January 15, 19734 Seasons · 142 Episodes
Ended
Mystery
Drama
3.4from 3 users
Overview
A 90 minute late-night mystery and suspense anthology series.
Created by Hollis Alpert, Brian Clemens
Network ABC
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A 90 minute late-night mystery and suspense anthology series.
1973
A middle-aged American businessman and his wife travel to London for a second honeymoon. But soon after arriving, the businessman begins to have deja vu experiences revolving around certain places in London and a woman named Theresa. The catch is that he doesn't know a Theresa and has never been to London before.
Married man marries a woman to kill as his wife so he and real wife can collect the insurance money. The woman turns out to be a millionaire and plans change. Who will die in the end.
Student and her friend rent a room in an old dark mansion. Soon they become aware of the fact that the other "renters" are a very strange lot, and that there are some very odd goings-on in the house that seem to be centered in the attic.
Professional gambler Tommy Kennicott has played and won every game. Now, he's bored and in search of a new thrill. Beautiful Gerry Totten entices him into the exclusive establishment The Suicide Club, a private nightspot in which thrill seeking members quite literally gamble for life and death stakes.
Weird doctor Ollie conducts experiments at the expense of his wealthy wife Helen, who hates him for letting their son die.
When a graveyard caretaker is fired from his job, his exacts a terrifying supernatural vengeance.
A mystery novelist meticulously creates an alibi to keep her husband from being convicted of murder.
The cure is more dangerous than the malady as a mild-mannered woman who is slowly summoning the strength to rid herself of a cruel and domineering husband ... permanently.
Revenge rears its ugly head when a husband finds out that his wife has been unfaithful.
A malevolent old house is pervaded by evil spirits who inflict harm upon the occupants. Their latest victim is a woman who is overcome with hatred for her family.
A wealthy family falls victim to an apparent ghost.
A murdering skyjacker parachutes to safety and poses as a novice monk in an isolated New Mexico monastery.
A young girl on a train finds out that her companion is a serial killer.
A police detective initially believed to have died in an accident is found to have been murdered, and suspicion arises the killer is a fellow officer.
A woman is murdered during an overnight train ride and a veteran detective clashes with young P.I. on how they are going flush out the killer. They find themselves racing against the clock when a second body is discovered.
A pretty woman becomes imprisoned in a warlock's 18th century castle, and in her state of possession, lures male victims inside.
A writer who takes a room in a boarding house finds himself haunted by the ghost of a previous tenant.
1973
A reformed criminal is blackmailed when three girls are murdered.
Brilliant electronics scientist Merrill is in the vicinity when a computer technician is murdered. He finds himself one of six suspects, all computer wizards. The six hackers team up to solve the murder themselves, meaning that only five of them is truly interested in unearthing the mystery.
An author sells his novel to a movie studio and his newborn son is kidnapped and held for $1 million ransom shortly after.
In this spoof of espionage adventure stories, cigarette lighter salesman Lebow is actually the leader of a secret American intelligence agency, while married couple Bob and Cynthia are undercover agents. Meanwhile a spy who was dead and buried appears to have returned to the living.
A woman enters into a pact with the Devil to murder her husband.
A pair of detectives are faced with murder at a plush health spa for women.
Private pilot Tink Wilson flies in a shipment of narcotics to be delivered at the military academy where his cadet son Chuck will graduate that night. Following the exchange, a unseen assailant shoots and kills Wilson, while Chuck and his military rifle go missing.
Backwoods officers try to uncover clues about the mysterious death of a young woman at a dude ranch.
A psychotic killer holds six people captive in a sorority house, each of them realizing that their captor's mind is like a defective time bomb and could go off at any moment.
After her murder, Diana Bernard sends her spirit to get trapped in Carol Enders so she can expose Diana's killer.
An insurance man is heavily in debt to a money lender and must pay or die.
Eccentric author Henry Aythecliff entices his former wives Anne, Catherine, and Jane to meet with him, where he reveals that he has written a new book which intends to use to blackmail them. Soon after Henry is killed, and the three ex-wives decide to pay a sinister visit to his fourth wife Mary.
A scientist is murdered and his new invention is stolen and held for ransom.
Donna, a beautiful graphic artist, is asked to put in overtime at the advertising agency where she works. Working late into the night, she begins to fear she could be the next target of a strangler who murdered two previous female employees, unaware that the killer is actually one of the colleagues working with her.
The president of an electronic's corporation dies and a mysterious caller tells officials at his company that they will be dead soon too.
A man kills his older brother when he is refused a loan and then is held in bondage by the housekeeper who knows of the murder.
1974
A strangler is killing young women, and there are several suspects. Liz Morris, the local librarian, is the only person who can provide clues.
Anonymous letters threaten the perfect alibi of a college professor who murdered his wife.
A rich woman, an industrialist's wife, finds her home nearly destroyed and with menacing phrases painted on the walls. Besides calling the police, her husband calls his security manager, an ex-cop who hesitates before accepting the task.
Two American girls go on a vacation to England and mysterious things begin happening when one of them falls to her death from atop a monument.
A troubled young woman agrees to spend two weeks at a friend's Manhattan penthouse while the friend is away on a modeling assignment, but a series of mysterious disturbances begin occurring during the night.
Clifford Swimmer is an angry and abusive man, unhappy in his marriage and cruel to his wife and son, and he wants out. He finds a unique solution: he will have himself cloned and will replace himself while he goes about the world "a free man." With the help of a scientist doing cloning research, the replacement of Swimmer is created. The clone takes over as head of the family, while the real Swimmer travels the world. Meanwhile, the clone has turned out to be the opposite of the original -- a gentle and sensitive husband and father -- and the wife and son come to love him. Then the real Swimmer comes back, finds his family happy with the clone, and becomes angry and jealous. And things take a deadly turn.
A crazed killer escapes from an asylum and goes on a murder spree, all connected with his fetish for physical perfection. He assumes the identity of his twin brother, a famous and respected architect. A beautiful woman, unaware of his true identity, hires him to make some changes to her house. Complications ensue.
A group of interested parties searching for stolen campaign money in a deserted house learn a murderer is among them.
Sally Carter finds escape in the arms of a handsome attorney who arranges her husband's death. It soon becomes apparent that her husband has a life beyond death.
Police lieutenant Danny Ianello and insurance investigator Susan Browning become involved in the mystery surrounding the apparent suicide of wealthy Allen Harper. Their investigation uncovers a flamboyant blackmailer, drug addiction, and possibly murder.
At the site of the 1969 rock concert at Woodstock, New York, an electrical charge turns a local farmer into a murderous werewolf.
A professional tennis team is suspected in the attempted murder of its owner.
Models from a financially struggling girlie magazine begin turning up dead.
Sophisticated sleuths Nick and Nora Charles trade quips while searching for clues in a murder investigation. The victim, a hotel guest with white gloves found floating in the establishment's swimming pool.
The wife of a TV executive, who thinks she might have committed a murder, is tormented by a stalker while locked inside an empty TV station.
Someone has a premonition that comes true when the members of a rock group begin to die off for no apparent reason.
A young nurse reports to work in a hospital's psychiatric wing and gets involved in a series of mysterious deaths.
A man has absolutely no fear of dying, because he believes he has found a doctor who is able to restore him back to life if he dies.
A woman's husband is shot to death by her long-lost stepson who has assumed another identity.
A young woman attempts to find her roommates when they disappear after answering a newspaper employment advertisement.
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Beautiful Sandy Marshall has been confined to a wheelchair following a car crash. Left alone in her high rise apartment over a holiday weekend that sends most of her neighbors away, she becomes increasingly frightened by police reports of a vicious serial strangler who is terrorizing the city.
A nurse deeply involved in the occult is hired to care for a wounded policeman who is secretly setting a trap for a cop-killer.
Aliens infiltrate an Arctic research station, and perform experiments on the unsuspecting crew by mind control which makes them think they are seeing dead members of their families.
Successful archaeologist Sam seeks a divorce from his wife Isobel, whose truculent behavior is becoming increasingly more erratic. Unknown to them, Isobel has been possessed by a demon bent on destroying the lives of everyone with whom it comes in contact.
An orphaned teenager becomes involved with an alien who was beamed to Earth from another galaxy in a TV signal. Is the alien a dream come true or a harbinger of doom?
A young girl kills two while attempting to obtain $1 million in negotiable bonds.
A young couple investigates the murder of a rock singer.
A law student and his wife get caught up in murder and blackmail when they visit an influential attorney's remote island home.
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