The George Sanders Mystery Theater

- Season 1

(1957)

A woman tricks her husband into going back into an elevator, then removes the fuse, trapping him between floors and leaving him frantically trying to escape.

Down on his luck attorney Francis Parnell is retained by a beautiful but mysterious woman to perform unspecified, but equally mysterious duties. When he arrives at her apartment for their first business meeting, the lawyer finds his client dead from a gunshot wound. Parnell discovers that there were many people who wished to do his erstwhile client harm - a two-timing husband, his jealous wife, an equally jealous ex-boyfriend and a faux-French maid.

A demented student plots the murder of a pretty nurse, first terrorizing her with a series of midnight phone calls and then climaxing his campaign with a violent visit to her apartment.

A woman returns a trip out of town and finds someone else staying in her apartment who claims to lived their years. When her landlord and the building's janitor claim to have never seen her before, the woman takes her concerns to the police and their staff psychologist are return to the woman's apartment building to find everything as it should be - except the woman's husband has disappeared.

An amnesia victim is told he resembles a missing heir. He joins forces with a couple to claim the inheritance, and agrees to divide the money with them. But after he has the money he decides to murder the man and marry the woman.

Know what this is about? Be the first one to add a plot.

Know what this is about? Be the first one to add a plot.

Know what this is about? Be the first one to add a plot.

Upon arriving in a small town and renting a furnished room, a man reads in the newspaper that he is wanted by police for the murder of his former fiance.

Know what this is about? Be the first one to add a plot.

Nice guy Ben Cook, goaded by his scheming common-law wife, fakes his own suicide and moves to another town-all to trick his life insurance company into making a large payout. No one en route or at the new address will recognize him, will they?

Know what this is about? Be the first one to add a plot.

Know what this is about? Be the first one to add a plot.