A young woman and her friend rent a room in a boarding house. Soon they become aware of the fact that the other "renters" are a very strange lot, and that there are some very odd goings-on in the house that seem to be centered in the attic... Part of the ITV 'Thriller' anthology series.

British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.

A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach, with Johanna Carterr as one of the passengers, from an Indian attack, and is marooned on a rocky mountain, it fails in its mission but the honor of the Old South is upheld.

在外人看来，拉塞尔一家是完美的模范家庭，家境富裕，夫妻和睦，儿女出色，几乎毫无任何缺点，然而身为女家长的西尔维娅·拉塞尔（Sonia Dresdel）实际是一个冷酷无情、渴望权力、控制欲爆棚的女人，她想尽各种办法将自己的丈夫亚瑟（Walter Fitzgerald）、儿子特里（Emrys Jones）以及女儿费内拉（Barbara White）玩弄于鼓掌之中。她因为不满意丈夫的平庸无能，使尽各种手段不着痕迹地羞辱丈夫，并且摧毁丈夫所有的心爱之物。由于不满女儿不经她的许可就嫁给瓦伦廷·克里斯蒂医生（Scott Forbes），她怂恿自己家的年轻女仆艾菲（Celia Lipton）去勾引女婿，以达到破坏女儿婚姻的目的。特里是全家唯一一个察觉到母亲的蹊跷之处的人，他虽想要保护自己的妹妹和父亲，却未料到母亲的狠毒程度远超他的想象。