The Evil Touch
The Evil Touch
TV ShowEnded

The Evil Touch

5.5 / 10
1973
1 season
26 episodes
Drama

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.

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Cast

Seasons

  • The Lake

    1.The Lake

    16-09-197330m

    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...

  • Heart to Heart

    2.Heart to Heart

    23-09-197330m

    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...

  • Ep 3

    3.Dr. McDermitt's New Patients

    30-09-197330m
  • The Obituary

    4.The Obituary

    07-10-197330m

    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 ob...

  • Happy New Year, Aunt Carrie

    5.Happy New Year, Aunt Carrie

    14-10-197330m

    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 th...

  • A Game of Hearts

    6.A Game of Hearts

    21-10-197330m

    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...

  • Ep 7

    7.Seeing Is Believing

    28-10-197330m
  • The Upper Hand

    8.The Upper Hand

    04-11-197330m

    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...

  • Murder Is for the Birds

    9.Murder Is for the Birds

    11-11-197330m

    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 poison...

  • Marcie

    10.Marcie

    18-11-197330m

    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 b...

  • Ep 11

    11.George

    25-11-197330m
  • Scared to Death

    12.Scared to Death

    02-12-197330m

    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 b...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Homecoming

    09-12-197330m
  • Dear Beloved Monster

    14.Dear Beloved Monster

    16-12-197330m

    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...

  • Campaign 20

    15.Campaign 20

    13-01-197430m

    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 compet...

  • Ep 16

    16.Faulkner's Choice

    20-01-197430m

    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

    17.Dear Cora, I'm Going to Kill You

    27-01-197430m

    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 h...

  • The Trial

    18.The Trial

    03-02-197430m

    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 fam...

  • The Fans

    19.The Fans

    10-02-197430m

    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 coff...

  • Kaidaitcha Country

    20.Kaidaitcha Country

    24-02-197430m

    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 Kadait...

  • Gornak's Prism

    21.Gornak's Prism

    03-03-197430m

    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....

  • The Voyage

    22.The Voyage

    10-03-197430m

    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...

  • Death by Dreaming

    23.Death by Dreaming

    24-03-197430m

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

  • Never Fool With a Gypsy Icon

    24.Never Fool With a Gypsy Icon

    31-03-197430m

    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 i...

  • They

    25.They

    02-06-197430m

    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 vac...

  • Wings of Death

    26.Wings of Death

    09-06-197430m

    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 attrac...

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