Season 1 Episode 20 1961 , Hosted by Boris Karloff , In a lab mishap, chemist Dr. Frank Cordell is exposed to an experimental gas that causes him to turn into a homicidal maniac when he hears the sound of ringing bells.
Written by: Donald S. Sanford
Directed by: Laszlo Benedek
Starring: Robert Vaughn , Kathleen Crowly , and Marlo Thomas
Original Air Date: March 7, 1961
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Horrible ending. The church bell rang around 40 times. It should not ring at most 12 times
why in the world she would wear earings that rings whenever she move?!
This episode is very similar to The Outer Limits.
Good one ?
So I'm wondering why the women didn't hit the exhaust switch immediately…she waited to be told. My hubby would say cuz it's needed for the plot. I just have a hard time with how women were always portrayed as unable to think , screamed at the drop of a hat, fainted easily…were woman like that and tv imitated life or was it because it was a man's world? Or maybe both.
I knew the Chapel was gonna be a bad idea. Inevitably BELLS
I have watched over 20 of these thrillers and they all were excellent except this one was a waste of time oh well.
‘Meet me in the chapel!’??? ‘Don’t tell anyone!’
MK-ultra
should have been called, 'As the Bell Tolls'
Love seeing all the familiar faces of stars when they were just starting out
What fucking complete Jackassery!!…I could have wrote a better episode in the 10th grade.
This series started out well, but got weird and horrible.
That was Joey from 'Friends',,,
Oooh it's the man from UNCLE! I love Robert Vaughan he was gorgeous and highly intelligent!
Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee
Listening to that church bell go on forever made me want to kill.
That Girl, St Judes, Siegfried as a neighbor, Donald Wedding dress
Hell bells…
This is one of the few out of this series that I just didn't care for; not terribly creative in its story, and the acting is pretty ho-hum. Also, as someone already pointed out, it's practically the same as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".
A parakeet cage outside all night? Weird to me.
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All we need is one hundred and twentyone giggawatts…
I wasn't looking at his neck. ..
No more wire hangers ,ever…
BABE!
Timothy Leary's dead !
the bell hurts his head so he runs upstairs and sticks his head right next to it. eh, uh huh
Oh Dr. Cordell? Just one more thing…
Early testing of mkultra.
Was I the only one who noticed that this is a rewrite of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?"
This was AWFUL! The only reason I watched the whole thing was to see Robert Vaughn❤❤
Same thing happens when you take weed laced with horse tranquilizers
Marlowe Thomas before her nose job,
He wakes up with his hair perfectly combed!
The bells! The bells! The tintabulation of the bells!
He should have turned himself in to the doctor hen he realized he had killed the parakeet, certainly after he suspected he had murdered the first young woman.. His allowing two young women to die and almost a 3rd was due to his selfishness and an over blown ego.
This one sucked white girls walking in the dark by themselves at night….
That detective made me laugh and roll my eyes when he was asking about why the killer took the girls earring instead of a scarf or something more personal. The writer must have had a hard time with getting to a point to question the earring. Jewelry is a perfect trophy for a killer to take. Just seemed an odd thing to say.
Bells are annoying
Robert Vaughn and Marlo Thomas in a same episode of tv, is worth seeing.
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THAT GIRL ! Marlo Thomas