Homosidal

What a shock to watch the 1961 William Castle horror-ble "Homicidal" for the first time. The Castle take on horror has been an inspiration to many fine auteurs in the horror genre.
Why was this classic never before broadcast on television?
Some of my fondest childhood memories are of the times "House on Haunted Hill" was being rebroadcast on Saturday "Fright Night" features. How I looked forward to watching "Attack of the Crab Monsters" every Saturday morning. My brother seemed more anxious for "Shirley Temple Theater" and polishing silverware. Neither one of us would have considered spending the weekend playing with other boys.
"The Tingler" was a rarer treat. I remember my first encounter with that tentacled terror was after I had already visited Haunted Hill so many times that I could recite the scenes from memory.
Now, 46 years after its release, "Homicidal" is finally given air.
It obviously owes a huge debt to Hitchcock's "Psycho"(1960). There are shots of the sharply tailored young beauty entering the mysterious house, and climbing the stairs. These same stairs will soon challenge a dark older woman named "Helga" who, confined to a wheelchair, manages, through the clever dramatic device of having had a stroke in Denmark, to provide the need to bring a paid live-in female companion back to Solvang, California. Every detail is very, very important - there wasn't anything in the budget to support extraneous detail!
William Castle is reported, hopefully in jest, to have warned that he would personally take out anyone who revealed the ending of his movie. Puhleeze!