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COLLECTION · Series · 1973

The Evil Touch

The Evil Touch is an Australian-produced television series, originally broadcast in Australia in 1973. It was an anthology series where each episode had a self-contained story and a new set of characters. Each episode feature a new cast of guest actors, although several guest stars appeared in more than one episode, playing different characters. Each story is a thriller or horror story of some variety, ranging from tales of the occult and the supernatural, science fiction horror stories, to more standard murder schemes and whodunits. Most stories feature a twist ending.

Source: TMDB
* 6.0 (3)Drama
Studios
Nine Network
Runtime
30 min/ep
Release
19/06/1973
Score
6.0 / 10 (3)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
26 episodes · 1973
The Lake
Episode 1. The Lake
1973-09-16 · 30 min

Arthur Randall's marriage has become a sham (and he is in love with his secretary), but his wife doesn't wish to give him a divorce. It is suggested to him that he and his wife go away for a while in an attempt to work things out. She…

Heart to Heart
Episode 2. Heart to Heart
1973-09-23 · 30 min

A wealthy woman who's raised a nephew in luxury has tolerated the insolent young man long enough. She informs the ingrate that she's changing her will to remove him as sole heir to her estate. Before she can act, he intends to exploit her…

Episode 3. Dr. McDermitt's New Patients
1973-09-30 · 30 min

No synopsis

The Obituary
Episode 4. The Obituary
1973-10-07 · 30 min

Former pilot Willie Tremaine, the sole survivor of the airliner he was flying, is visited by the reporter who alleged Willie was drunk at the controls. Pettit brings with him an obituary of Willie and his wife's death dated for that day.…

Happy New Year, Aunt Carrie
Episode 5. Happy New Year, Aunt Carrie
1973-10-14 · 30 min

Wheelchair-bound Aunt Carrie is celebrating New Years Eve with her young niece and nephew when she hears gunshots. From her window, she witnesses a murder in an apartment across the courtyard. Carrie and the killer lock eyes, so she knows…

A Game of Hearts
Episode 6. A Game of Hearts
1973-10-21 · 30 min

Thomas Sullivan is a very well-respected heart surgeon- but one who is clamoring for even more success and recognition. He has the chance to perform a heart transplant on a fellow man of science when Gabor Skorzeny, a laborer who was…

Episode 7. Seeing Is Believing
1973-10-28 · 30 min

No synopsis

The Upper Hand
Episode 8. The Upper Hand
1973-11-04 · 30 min

Upon returning home Roger Carlyle insists his wife Louise go take a look at something in their basement. What he neglects to tell her is that there are currently no stairs leading to the basement. Louise opens the basement door and…

Murder Is for the Birds
Episode 9. Murder Is for the Birds
1973-11-11 · 30 min

Wealthy Lily Parkhurst has been living on borrowed time for years thanks to a bad heart. Her greedy cousin and companion Harold rushes her overdue demise with a well-planned poisoning, knowing there will be no autopsy. Harold hadn't…

Marcie
Episode 10. Marcie
1973-11-18 · 30 min

After being a widower for four years, John remarries. He seems to be quite in love with his younger bride Elizabeth. His teenage daughter Marcie insists the marriage is only to boost John's image in his business. It becomes obvious to…

Episode 11. George
1973-11-25 · 30 min

No synopsis

Scared to Death
Episode 12. Scared to Death
1973-12-02 · 30 min

Constance knows that her much younger husband, Evan, is having an affair with her nurse, and that he's hastily stashed her in the closet. That why she demands that he immediately brick up it up. Not wanting to lose out on his rich wife's…

Episode 13. The Homecoming
1973-12-09 · 30 min

No synopsis

Dear Beloved Monster
Episode 14. Dear Beloved Monster
1973-12-16 · 30 min

Professor Jonathan Slater's experiments with DNA go awry when he accidentally creates a hideous reptile-like creature. The monster escapes the lab and claims several victims as it takes refuge in a nearby lake. After the deaths, the…

Campaign 20
Episode 15. Campaign 20
1974-01-13 · 30 min

World-renown scientist David Zack is trailing his opponent in the 2020 presidential campaign. He schemes to use his latest invention, a time-travel machine, to make sure his competitor is never born. He sends a humanoid to the past to…

Episode 16. Faulkner's Choice
1974-01-20 · 30 min

Rags or riches? A young man inherits the key to his grandfather's safe, which might be bobby-trapped.

Dear Cora, I'm Going to Kill You
Episode 17. Dear Cora, I'm Going to Kill You
1974-01-27 · 30 min

Popular advice columnist Cora Blake lives in fear knowing the car bomb that killed her husband was meant for her. She informs the police she's going into hiding, not even telling her close friend Harry where she's headed. Isolated at her…

The Trial
Episode 18. The Trial
1974-02-03 · 30 min

A ruthless developer is put on trial by a group of sideshow freaks. By bulldozing the circus to make way for a condominium, he's destroying the place the "family" calls home--a family he was once part of.

The Fans
Episode 19. The Fans
1974-02-10 · 30 min

For a publicity stunt, horror movie star Pervis Green visits his two biggest fans, "little old ladies" Lavenia and Elspith Pfeiffer. After being drugged, the actor awakes in a coffin, made up as a vampire. The elderly sisters, unable to…

Kaidaitcha Country
Episode 20. Kaidaitcha Country
1974-02-24 · 30 min

Reverend Vincent arrives at a missionary outpost in remote Australian to find everyone missing. Following a series of unexplainable events, he's told that it's the work of a Kadaitcha, an Aboriginal "witch doctor," who's trying to take…

Gornak's Prism
Episode 21. Gornak's Prism
1974-03-03 · 30 min

Alvin Hazeltine is a manbored with his life who visits the mystical Dr. Gornak who demonstrates an odd device: a glass prism that reveals the infinite possibilities of every woman. He trains the glass on his boring wife, Selma, and is…

The Voyage
Episode 22. The Voyage
1974-03-10 · 30 min

A rich couple buys the old sailing ship Endeavor after it spent 70 years in dry dock. Captain Palmer, who's aboard with his wife and another couple, puts everyone on edge with what he reads in the ship's logs. The Endeavor is a malevolent…

Death by Dreaming
Episode 23. Death by Dreaming
1974-03-24 · 30 min

A girl envisions disturbing premonitions: her sister's death was no accident.

Never Fool With a Gypsy Icon
Episode 24. Never Fool With a Gypsy Icon
1974-03-31 · 30 min

Escaped murderer Frank Draker and his accomplice dig up the coffin containing stolen jewels he'd buried years earlier. Racing for the border, the men encounter a group of gypsies in the forest. Frank refuses to heed their leader's warning…

They
Episode 25. They
1974-06-02 · 30 min

An eerie cult of children with plans for doing away with adults commit murders in a British seaside town. Dr. Fenton, a lecturer on over-population, and his son are visiting on vacation when they run afoul of the group. Their leader,…

Wings of Death
Episode 26. Wings of Death
1974-06-09 · 30 min

The Webbers' dream vacation in Central America becomes a nightmare when their son, Scott, disappears off of a rural roadside merry-go-round. The strange couple that runs the attraction is of no help, nor is Police Captain Ortega who soon…

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