The Fatal Impulse
DirectorGerald Mayer
“Somewhere in Manhattan a lady has a bomb in her purse, and doesn't know it. Even Mary Tyler Moore isn't safe!”
A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a woman in an elevator. The police spend the evening looking for the mystery girl and the bomb. Originally aired November 29, 1960, in the "Thriller" series, Season 1, Episode 11.
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Cast
Boris Karloff
Self
Robert Lansing
Lieutenant Brian Rome
Whitney Blake
Jane Kimball
Conrad Nagel
Mayor Walker Wylie
Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Snyder
Elisha Cook Jr.
Harry Elser
Steve Brodie
Sgt. George Dumont
Elaine Edwards
Marjorie Dalquiss
Lance Fuller
Robert Larrimore
Harry Bartell
Mr. Dalquiss
Alice Backes
Carolyn
Antony Carbone
Bernie
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