She installed a phone in her tomb. It rang. Enter: the hottest paranormal P.I. in '60s TV.
Terrified of being buried alive, a woman installs a phone in her crypt. A few days after her death, the phone suddenly rings and paranormal investigator Nelson Orion is brought in to probe the case.
Acting
Landau's smoldering psychic detective deserves a 12-season franchise.
Production
That phone-in-a-crypt set piece is deliciously absurd practical design.
Writing
Joseph Stefano's script simmers with Psycho-adjacent psychological tension.
Director
Joseph Stefano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was intended as a pilot for a Nelson Orion series that NBC never picked up, leaving Landau's smoldering psychic detective in single-movie purgatory.
Joseph Stefano wrote Psycho's screenplay three years earlier, and you can feel that same fetishistic attention to architectural dread—here, the crypt becomes the new Bates house.
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