The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries

The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries is a 1960 series of seven television specials hosted by Joseph Nye Welch.

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Seasons

1. The Bat

Air Date: 1960-03-31

Cornelia Van Gorder and guests spend a stormy night at her rented summer home, searching for stolen money they believe is hidden in the house, while being stalked by a masked criminal known as 'The Bat'.

2. The Burning Court

Air Date: 1960-04-24

Editor Edward Stevens investigates the suspicious death of his neighbor's uncle, which seems to involve witchcraft and a vanishing corpse from a sealed tomb.

3. The Woman in White

Air Date: 1960-05-23

Drawing master Walter Hartright becomes entangled in a sinister plot involving a mysterious woman in white, identity theft, and a sinister conspiracy led by the wicked Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde.

4. The Datchet Diamonds

Air Date: 1960-09-20

Cyril Paxton loses his fortune and accidentally comes into possession of stolen jewels, leading him to be pursued by both police and the real thieves.

5. The Cat and the Canary

Air Date: 1960-09-27

Relatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.

6. The Inn of the Flying Dragon

Air Date: 1960-10-18

In Napoleonic-era France, a young Englishman falls into a dangerous web of deception after taking a room at a sinister, haunted inn to be near a mysterious Countess.

7. The Great Impersonation

Air Date: 1960-11-15

German spy Baron Leopold von Ragastein murders Sir Everard Dominey, his English doppelgänger, in Africa and assumes his identity to infiltrate English high society before World War I.

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Rating

8.0/10

Release Date

1960-03-31

Episodes

7 (1 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Joseph N. Welch

Self – Host

Production Companies

Robert Saudek Associates