ABC Wide World of Mystery / Mystery of the Week - All films

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 group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain blissfully unaware, while the terrorists plan the assassination of a politician who will soon be passing the school on a parade route. Only one student, Sally, suspects that the men upstairs may be dangerous...

A man (Peter Haskell) joins a card game where the stakes are a matter of life and death. Sensing foul play, he persuades a young woman (Margot Kidder) to help him reveal the operator of the game (Joseh Wiseman) as a card cheater.

A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.

A pair of detectives are faced with murder at a plush health spa for women.

With the exception of the poor central heating system, Ray and Penny Burns' newly-purchased country house seems ideal. While repairing the pipes, a handyman digs up the cellar and uncovers the body of the home's previous owner who was murdered twenty years earlier. A séance held in the home reveals something very disturbing.

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.

A mystery novelist meticulously creates an alibi to keep her husband from being convicted of murder.

A popular member of the Oxford community is killed, and nobody can think why, so a police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard, and discovers they may be more to the victim than met anyone's eye.

A murdering skyjacker parachutes to safety and poses as a novice monk in an isolated New Mexico monastery.

A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.

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.

Newlyweds Samantha and Robert Miller emerge from the church to the sound of cheers. However, the happy scene is disturbed by a cruel practical joke; someone throws a paint-bomb at the bride. Later, upon returning from their honeymoon, the couple discover the smashed remnants of their wedding cake and a mysterious gift -- one soiled glove. Could it be a warning? Does someone hold a grudge against the couple?

A political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. Government agents are sent to catch him.

A down-on-his-luck private eye and his partner, a dwarf, are drawn into a tangle of missing persons and murder in 1940s Los Angeles.

When his brother vanishes without a trace, American Robert Stone goes to his last known location: a remote English village. Robert's investigation leads him to the mansion of Jonathan Lanceford, a man obsessed with the Gothic works of Edgar Allan Poe, and his beautiful and enigmatic niece Dominie.

Scientists Robert Jones and Frank Enari suspect that there is someone or something other than their research primates inhabiting their isolated polar station.

An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, whom he suspects is poisoning him.

Chilling story of a psychotic killer who 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.

Mark Walker is in the lucrative business of marrying wealthy older women and murdering them after the honeymoon. That all changes when he falls for cool blonde Stella McKenzie. He considers giving up his life of crime and finally marrying for love. The only obstacles in his way are a lawyer who suspects the truth, and temptation in the form of the perfect target for one more kill...

An insurance man is heavily in debt to a money lender and must pay or die.