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Original Airdate: May 06, 1974Episode 0086 "Murder With Malice"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallAn son who hates his father attempts to hypnotize his sister to carry out the murder.In 1843, a Dr. James Braid of Manchester developed the art of being able to produce trance sleep. Of course, he was not the first. That honor belonged to Friedrich Anton Mesmer. But Dr. Braid did coin the name of this both beneficial yet potentially disastrous pariscience, hypnotism. In the skilled hands of a doctor or a psychiatrist, it can be profoundly beneficial. But in the hands of an amateur or someone unscrupulous, it can be murderously dangerous. In principles of mental physiology, Carpenter wrote, the method of producing this state consists in the maintenance of a fixed gaze on a bright object placed somewhat above the line of sight. A light behind the subject shining on the bright object, a coin, a jewel, a small mirror, is very helpful, and a darkened room. Once the subject is in the trance, he or she is open to post-hypnotic suggestion. Luckily for our peace of mind and their father's health, Marge is a subject and not the bloodthirsty Mark. Starring: Staats Cotsworth, Marsha Rod, Nick Pryor, Ira Lewis

Original Airdate May 02, 1974Episode 0085 "Dracula"Written by Bram Stoker, Adapted by George Lowther,Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallAn adaptation of the original novel by Bram Stoker. Vampire. Perhaps in the safety of your home, the word means little to you. Oh, you've heard of vampires, of course. But do you believe that they exist? Not you. Well, all I can say is Mina Harker didn't believe either. Nor did Dr. John Seward. Not till that night in the graveyard, when they gazed horror stricken into that coffin.Horror, in its purest form, lies ahead for us. I would be remiss if I didn't warn you that if your nerves are not strong, it might be better for you not to listen. No, really now. Be warned. Because as Mina Harker tells us in her diary.Starring: Mercedes McCambridge, Paul Hecht, Marian Seldes, Michael Wager, Stefan Schnabelr

Original Airdate: May 01, 1974Episode 0084 "The Death Bell"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallThere is a green land called the Emerald Isle, where stardust dapples shining lakes that sparkle against blue mountains which fall away to winding bays. But there are darker sides to Ireland currents that run deep a wasting bitter civil war in the north and everywhere lurking behind the shamrock and beneath the laughter a dark world of legend of banshees and warlocks of voices on the wind against which the traveler should stop his ears or the sound of the death bell. Since time in memorial, man has sought to trace the future in the lines of the palm. Can it be read there? Can a future be read from the stars, or from tarot cards, or in a crystal ball? The best answer always is, if you truly believe. As in spite of herself, it would appear that Sheila Doyle does. Starring: William Redfield, Guy Sorrell, Marian Seldes, Michael Tolan

Original Airdate: April 30, 1974Episode 0083 "The Venus D'Ille"Original Story by Prosper Merimee, Adapted by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallA down on his luck gambler marries for money. However, when he carelessly places the ring on a statue, he finds himself betrothed to a goddess.The Romans called her Venus. The Greeks knew her as Aphrodite. To other ancient peoples she was Ishtar, Isis, and Astarte. But whatever the name, she was always the same, the mysterious, passionate, voluptuous goddess of love, and sometimes of death. Who was it that said, some men are born wise, others are more fortunate, they're born handsome? We commend to your attention the young Vicomte Claude Louis de Charbert. At 38, Who can count the hearts he has already broken? And who can even guess at the vast amount of golden francs he has already lost at such aristocratic pastimes as Baccarat, Vingt-et-un, Chemin-de-Faire? But this is of small importance to our handsome hero. He has long ago learned that his true fortune is in his face. And so, On this evening, this intoxicatingly beautiful evening, In the spring of the year 1908, we find our Claude Louis in a luxurious casino on the coast of southern France.Starring: Dan Ocko, Evie Juster, Robert Dryden, Joan Lovejoy, Norman Rose

Original Airdate: April 29, 1974Episode 0082 "All Living Things Must Die"Original Story by Elsbeth Eric, Directed by Himan Brown, Hosted by EG MarshallA lonely woman is left with just the houseplants for her company under the rules of her tyrannic husband. But he goes too far in trying to take even the plants away from her and the vegetation isn't willing to comply.I want very much to tell you the story of a young lady named Barbara. Everyone is more or less mad on one point, said Rudget Kipling, the famous English writer. And I'm inclined to agree with him, since I myself am more or less mad on the point of mystery. But our sweet heroine's madness took a strange turn, as we shall soon discover in the unfolding of the tale entitled, All Living Things Must Die.Now begins our story of the lightly demented Barbara. A lovely lady of 31 or 2, even 4 or 5. But as we now discover her in the living room of her suburban home, she could be younger than springtime. She could be spring itself.Starring: Mercedes McCambridge, Larry Haines, Ralph Bell

Original Airdate: April 25, 1974Episode 0081 "Sunset To Sunrise"Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallFollowing the death of her domineering and mean-spirited mother, a grieving daughter struggles with growing suspicions that the deceased woman has become a vampire.Welcome to another adventure into the incomprehensible. I like to think of myself as a thinking person, A reflective man. Someone not given to fanciful imaginings. That's the way I like to think of myself. But is that the way I am? Because I must admit that my thinking has not solved many problems for me My reflections have not carried me very far So now and again I find it extremely solitary to indulge in fanciful imaginings To take a short walk into the world of obscurantism For as you will hear one of our characters say the mind makes so many mistakes. How monstrous you say to want to live on in wickedness rather than die quietly perhaps you're right oh of course you are right and yet don't we all hope we won't have to die not yet And not altogether? Is this only monstrous? Or is it strangely admirable? In a perverse sort of way, of course. Starring: Marian Seldes, Bryna Raeburn, William Redfield, William Johnstone

Original Airdate: April 24, 1974Episode 0080 "The Hand"Original Story by Guy de Maupassant Adapted by Ian MartinDirected by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallWelcome to the world of eerie imagination. The fear you can hear. Vendetta the very word itself invokes dread and strikes a mood of brooding terror But to live on the island of Corsica home of the vendetta is to be steeped in the tradition of violent massacres and the fatalistic expectation If ferocious vengeance as a way of life. At least it would have been so just a hundred years ago when these famous words were first written.At the time of the bizarre and terrifying affair of The Hand, Ari Donne, was a police magistratein Ayacho, a charming little white city nestled on the edge of a beautiful gulf shut in by lofty mountains. Most of the cases he had to investigate or prosecute there were cases of vendetta, but these were Corsican against Corsican. This affair of the hand was alien against what? Something far more alien. Perhaps supernatural. That was not until later, of course. For now, the only alien presence was a neighbor of Henri's, a Sir John Rowell, lately come to the island to settle down, and an object of great speculation among the native population. Starring: Guy Sorrell, Mildred Clinton, Alexander Scourby, Ian Martin

Original Airdate: April 23, 1974Episode 0079 "The Ghost Driver"Written by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallAnxious to get away from the city, a couple purchase an old mansion in the Colorado Rockies with the intention of turning it into a ski resort, against the warnings of a former owner who claims that her dead husband's ghost has driven former purchasers off the cliff access road to their deaths. Sit back and lend us your fears. Have you ever seen a ghost? It is an experience of such horror as to turn your blood to ice. Why no, why no? There are those who scoff, but they have never met a ghost. Mal Stout. was a scoffer, but not his wife, Liz and on the night they first drove up Gormley Gorge Road to Gormley Lodge. If it had been up to Liz, they'd never have bought Gormley Lodge on top of Manitou Mountain in Colorado. Why? Because according to a local legend, the former owners, the Putnam's, had been sent crashing to their death by a ghost driver who came at them head-on. We are now in the living room of the lodge.Starring: Augusta Dabney, Mason Adams, Mary Jane Higby, Nick Pryor, Norman Rose

Original Airdate: April 22, 1974Episode 0078 "The Wishing Stone"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallCBS for Seattle, this is KIXI with the time now is six minutes past 11. Welcome to the world of terrifying imagination. The fear you can hear. Somebody said it, I believe, or if he didn't he should have. The world is neither good nor bad. Tis wishing makes it so. Our story is about a fae, elfin young woman who made her own world and who had a disturbing and fateful capacity to make her dreams come true. Not always in exactly the fashion or the dimension she wished for.We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep That quote is definitely Mr. Shakespeare's but our little life is equally founded and sometimes confounded on dreams like the bad one Jenny Coulter had a few moments ago and for which fortunately there is present comfort in the person of her mother and in turn her brother Judd.Starring: Clarissa Blackburn, William Prince, Ann Costello, Jack Grimes, Robert Dryden

Original Airdate: April 18, 1974Episode 0077 "A Portrait of Death"*****(Same Title as Episode 0337, But Different Story)*****Original Story by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallAn artist who is renown for his portraits has the misfortune of having his models die shortly after he completes their painting. His next subject: his sister in law which causes his brother much anguish and worry.Welcome to the terrifying world of your own imagination. One day a young man named Otis Manley Carter stood before a great work of art in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It was a portrait so beautiful that it brought tears to his eyes. And Otis Manley Carter whispered, I would give my soul to be able to paint like that. It was an idle remark, spoken without thinking, on the spur of the moment. How was Otis Manley Carter to know that someone might be listening? At the age of 30 Otis Manley Carter was hailed as the world's foremost living artist. He towered above his contemporaries. To describe his work, one had to compare it with the great masters of the past. No one, but no one painting today could breathe life into a portrait to match Otis Manley Carter. And yet, just one week before his 31st birthday, Otis made the announcement that would stun the civilized world. He was finished with art. Never again would his brush touch paint to canvas. He would neither amplify his statement nor answer questions. He simply disappeared. And only two people in all the world knew the reason why. One, of course, was Otis himself. The other was a detective on the New York City police force, Sergeant Burt Denison.Starring: Nat Polen, Marian Seldes, Jackson Beck, Roger DeKoven, Jack Grimes

Original Airdate: April 17, 1974Episode 0076 "The Horror Within"Original Story by Milt Wisoff Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallFollowing the death of his parents, a young man prays for special powers to prevent future pain and suffering in the world. But as his faith weakens, his desire to use the powers grows.Welcome to the terrifying world of your own imagination. There are many fearful places that surround us. Ancient houses where ancient whispers never die out. Evil lands where the light of reason vanishes. But the most horrifying of all lies deep inside of us. Few of us dare look into our minds and hearts and souls and when we do, we find it more than we can bear. This is essentially what happens in this tale of Joseph Cumpartino, a young man who looked into the souls of others only to find destruction. It has been said that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. In our weird tale, the journey of a thousand horrors starts in the light of day in a most prosaic fashion. Joe Campertino, who has been orphaned is on his way to visit his uncle in the city. He waits in a diner for a truck driver to finish his meal. Starring: Earl Hammond, Robert Dryden, Joseph Julian, Don Scardino, Deloris Sutton

Original Airdate: April 16, 1974Episode 0075 "Men Without Mouths"Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA mobster takes in the daughter of a dead compatriot and raises her as his own. As he approaches his twilight years, he's haunted by visions of creatures without mouths. His adopted daughter son-in-law try to help him.Welcome to another Fearful Earful. And speaking of ears, the story we are about to direct to yours concerns a different part of the facial anatomy. The mouth. Only in this case, the mouth isn't there. Now if that sounds incredible, Listen carefully to the tale of Joe Gannett, who has the great misfortune of meeting up with men without mouths. If you think you're baffled by the mystery of how men can exist without mouths to breathe with, eat with, and speak with, then imagine the plight of poor Mr. Gannett himself. Our story begins in the heart of New York City. A heart which, as usual, beats with the rhythm of rushing traffic, the clang of construction, the clamor of commerce, and the never-ending flow of people on their way to meetings, parties, rendezvous, and other human encounters. But we're interested in only one person today. There he is, just hailing a taxi on the corner of East 63rd Street. He's a dapper figure in his blue surge suit his white shirt and conservative gray tie. He appears to be a man in his late 50s well dressed well tanned and well His name is Joe Gannett occupation retired. But retired from what? Starring: Dan Ocko, Ira Lewis, Joe Silver, Patricia Elliot

Original Airdate: April 15, 1974Episode 0074 "Only The Dead Remember"Original Story by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallWar buddies conspire to kill the fellow former POW who ratted out their escape attempt from a Korean POW camp. They want to avenge the death of one of their own 20 years after the war's end.Justice. The noblest creation and the highest ideal of man the foundation of all religion and the cornerstone of every law justice the birthright of every human being on the face of the earth justice were brought up to believe in it to expect it but what about those people who suddenly discover that for themselves.For a long time, ever since he came home from one of our wars, Eddie Benson has been looking for someone. Those vital years of his life that might have been invested in a career, devoted to a family, have instead been devoured by an all-consuming search as Eddie Benson roamed the length and breadth of America, supporting himself by his nimble and sensitive fingers, playing the piano, in grimy saloons, in sophisticated night spots, but always looking, always listening, ever alert for a clue that could lead to his quarry. Well, now tonight, suddenly the manhunt will come to an end in a cocktail lounge in a northwestern city just a few minutes before midnight. Odd, how a search so intense. could be climaxed by a discovery so casual. How so serious and deadly a crusade can be capped with a laugh. That laugh. Eddie Benson hasn't heard that laugh in years. That laugh. He would recognize it anywhere. It could only belong to one person. And now Eddie's fingers slide softly and swiftly over the keyboard and find a melody. A pretty little melody that has a special meaning for certain people. Especially for that comfortable looking man at the corner table. The man with that laugh. Starring: Tony Roberts, Mandel Kramer, Bryna Raeburn, George Petrie, Lon Clark

Original Airdate: April 11, 1974Episode 0073 "Strange Company"Original Story by Bob Juhren Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallAn old woman with a large stash of money is tormented by visitors who no one else can see. Her nephew and his wife are unsympathetic and use the occurrences to slowly rob her.Sit back and lend us your imagination for a while. We'll do some remarkable things with it. Imagine, for instance, an elderly woman, Belle Richwood. Alone and forgotten except for her nephew Charles her only living relative and the only human being she ever sees until one lonely night.As we grow older, very often our fears darken, our anxieties deepen, and our thoughts indulge in some strange tricks. Belle Richwood and her sister Julia live their whole lives together, almost recluses, until the neighborhood around them deteriorated to the point where their nephew Charles was forced to move them from the city to a peaceful apartment in the country. But for Belle and Julia, there was to be no peace. Starring: Bryna Raeburn, Lori March, George Petrie, Gilbert Mack

Original Airdate: April 10, 1974Episode 0072 "Out of Focus"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallAn advertising professional makes futile attempts to take the pictures of a beautiful model as all her photos turn out blank. In the process, he falls hopelessly in love with her until her real nature is revealed.All of us daydream. It seems a harmless enough way of passing the time. But what might we do if some of the things that pass through our minds come true? Supposing the man or the woman we created in the mind's eye became reality, the phantom became flesh and blood. Our puzzling nerve-tingling tale begins as it ends, with sudden, irrevocable death. You are Skyler Harris. Sky, to your friends, a typical commuter, an account executive at Lorne Peabody and Davis. Married 18 years, two children, Gary 16 and Lisa 12. $35,000 a year, and an expense account. You live up to every penny. You are bored at home, driven at the office, given to fantasizing about women because you don't have the courage to take a mistress. But you are to find one, and such a one, who will quite literally be the death of you. Starring: Ralph Bell, Dan Ocko, Joan Lorring, William Redfield, Earl Hammond, Suzanne Grossman

Original Airdate: April 09, 1974Episode 0071 "The Murder Museum"Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA museum dedicated to criminals becomes the scene of the retelling of a real murder when the relative of one of the "exhibits" protests his placement in the museum.You're about to be taken on an unusual museum tour. There won't be any Mona Lisa's on this tour, no Greek vases or Roman statuary, because this establishment specializes in only one kind of exhibit and that's why our story is called The Murder Museum. You may have been to a murder museum like the one in our story, a house of wax, where the most brutal crimes of the century are recreated and paraffined for the wide-eyed enjoyment of the public. But now you're going to have the unique opportunity of hearing one of the most shocking exhibits of all, speak for itself.It begins inside the murder museum itself, the home of Professor Rafael Gallinari's House of Horrors. There's a fair-sized crowd in the museum today. As usual, they listen in fascination to the words of their tour guide as he takes them from one bloody exhibit to another, recreating for them the terrible crimes which have immortalized these criminals and their victims. There is one person in the crowd who seems reluctant to listen to his words, who hangs back and shields her pretty eyes from the sight of the wax images. Her name is Lisa Brandon.Starring: Marian Seldes, Michael Wager, Leon Janny, Robert Dryden

Original Airdate: April 08, 1974Episode 0070 "The Locked Room"Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA bride's mother plays villain in the life of a newly wed couple. She is convinced the boy has married her not-too-beautiful daughter simply for her wealth and plans a nasty surprise for him.This is a tale of young love. The love of a charming young man for a charming young girl. It is also the story of a mother's love for her child. As you can see, this story is positively dripping with love. But don't be dismayed, because love, like a door, has two sides. And when the other side is hatred, it can drip with venom and gore.We're on a lonely highway that winds its way into the hilly regions upstate. The hour is late, and the sleek white sports car whose hood ornament faces north is the only vehicle for miles around. Even the sound of its purring engine doesn't seem to disturb the quiet of the countryside. But inside the car, the sound level is something very different. Starring: Carmen Matthews, Corrine Orr, Sydney Smith, Jack Grimes

Original Airdate: April 03, 1974Episode 0068 "Die! You're On Magic Camera"Original Story by Murray Burnett Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallAn aspiring photographer obtains a special camera that takes photographs of future events. He soon finds that the people who made the camera want it back. So do those whom were photographed.Welcome into my world where things are even stranger than they seem. Reality falls before truth. We've all heard that one picture is worth a thousand words. But is this really true? A quick example. Would your sweetheart rather hear you say, I love you, or look at your picture? But pictures have their place as millions of camera fans all over the world will tell you Listen as we hear about a strange and dangerous camera which brought tragedy to those who owned it.When your host or hostess pulls out the old family album for a quiet evening looking over family snapshots, some people find this enjoyable. Johnny Carlin loved picture taking. At the time our story opens, Johnny had attained a cherished ambition. He was a proud owner of a brand new Volekta S60, a magnificent camera and the very last word in self-developing photography. To add to his happiness, he was taking the very first picture on the Volecta of his beautiful and bubbly girl, Lisa Cain.Starring: Nick Pryor, Teri Keane, Joan Lovejoy, Joseph Julian, William Redfield.

Original Airdate: April 02, 1974Episode 0067 "The Pharaoh's Curse"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallAn archeologist and a songstress unearth valuable jewels, artifacts and a curse in an Egyptian tomb. For the four centuries before Christ, a remarkable combination of priests and monarchs established one of the most astonishing cultures in the world. The rulers were the pharaohs of Egypt and they left an enduring series of monuments behind them. The Sphinx, the pyramids, the temples of Karnak and Luxor, and most strange of all, Their mummified remains, embalmed by a process lost to modern science. This is the story of one such mummy, and the eternal curse she left to be visited on any violator of her tomb. 1924, 50 years ago, belongs to another world. Certainly in the Middle East, almost midway through the period of the great archaeological excavations that make Egypt a mecca for tourists from all over the world. And in that era, no singer and entertainer reigned more supreme than Diane Elliot. The toast of two continents already, and now in the process of conquering a third with an engagement at Shepard's world famous hotel in Cairo. Starring: Kim Hunter, Arnold Moss, Ian Martin, George Petrie, Dan Ocko

Original Airdate: April 01, 1974Episode 0066 "The Black Cat"Original Story by Edgar Allen Poe, Adapted by Sam DannDirected by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallA man finds out that when he married his wife, he also married her cat with whom she has a close relationship. The cat convinces him that he will murder his wife. I don't know if you've ever stopped to think about it, but of all the creatures in the animal kingdom, only man, and man alone, will murder his mate simply because she no longer pleases him. True, certain of our friends in fur, fin, or feather will indulge in desertion, or even divorce. But Murder? For that you must have the highest degree of culture and civilization For that you have to be human. Consider the act of murder. Popular opinion has it the majority of killers are ruthless cold -blooded devoid of pity. But the facts tell a different tale. Statistics reveal most murderers are neither brutal nor savage. The record shows you don't have to be a devil or a demon or even a criminal. Experience teaches a killer could be any one of us. Given the time,the place, the provocation, it could be you. It could be I. And it could even be Philip Sterling.Starring: Norman Rose, Robert Dryden, Evie Juster, Marian Seldes, Joe DeSantis

Original Airdate: March 28, 1974Episode 0065 "The Unearthly Gift"Original Story by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallThe cook of a lumberjack camp has the ability to foresee events. When she has a horrible vision of the new man in camp, she decides to act to prevent another death.All peoples have their separate legends, their superstitions, and their fears. Julius Caesar once said that all Gaul is divided into three parts. But whatever their political alignments, the Gallic people shared their legends in common, and none more persistent and accepted than the belief in the second sight. Usually called a gift, but one wonders if perhaps it is far more the reverse of that. Let's begin with two definitions of second sight. The unearthly capacity to see things impossible for ordinary people to see, or the ability to foretell events in the future from the shadows they cast before them. A talent bequeathed to a large, raw-boned and rather plain girl called Ruth Ann Mitchell. She and her grandmother, Bridget Carney, are the only women at a lumber camp high in the Bitterfoot Range, which sprawls across Idaho, Washington, and half of British Columbia. Ruth and Granny cook and keep house for the Lumberjacks.Starring: Betsy Palmer, Ian Martin, Mason Adams, Jackson Beck

Original Airdate: March 27, 1974Episode 0064 "Its Simply Murder"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA hen-pecked wimp fantasizes about running away from his despotic wife. Unwittingly, one weekend he gets wound up in a plot to murder her, participate in a bank robbery and get away with a woman he falls for.This is the story of a natural born loser. Within the quietest and most retiring of the genus Homo sapiens, there lurks a tiger. As indeed, it lurks in all of us. It takes only the right combination of intolerable pressures, unfulfilled dreams, and the opportunity to escape the first and realize the second, to make even the worm turn. Which is just what happened to Henry Green.One of the simplest and most fiendish devices to drive men mad is the Chinese water torture. The slow drip of water second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour on the forehead. Unending, inescapable, inexorable. Henry Green's life was like that, both in his work and...Starring: Jack Gilford, Marian Haley, Ian Martin, Dan Ocko, Bryna Raeburn

Original Airdate: March 26, 1974Episode 0063 "Death By Whose Hands"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallSet in the early 1900's; a surgeon attaches the hands of a dead piano player to the arms of his rival. The consequences are deadly.What would you say is the one single feature that distinguishes man from all his fellow creatures? His brain? Speech? His ability to walk erect? The fact that he's the only living thing that kills for any other reason than self-defense or food? None of them. Something much more simple. A phenomenon shared only by our cousins, the apes. The human hand. This is a gripping, eerie story of a pair of, how best to describe them, superhuman, unique, no, perhaps best, a pair of immortal hands.In the beginning of the 19th century, no city in Europe shone more brightly, or boasted a more resplendent culture than Vienna. City of dreams, of glittering balls of royalty and nobility and beautiful women, but most of all of music. Music to the Viennese was and is a religion of faith. An insidious destructive emotion which can lead to sinister and deadly results. You are listening at the moment to the hands of Rudy Baum on the piano in Vienna's great concert hall.Starring: Stephan Schnabel, Robert Drivas, Roger Dekovan, Marian Seldes, Ira Lewis

Original Airdate: March 25, 1974Episode 0062 "Diary of a Madman"Original Story by Guy de Maupassant Adapted by Sam DannDirected by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallThis namesake of the famous Nikolai Gogol story deals with the confession of a magistrate to multiple arbitrary homicides.The law says thou shalt not kill And that's the law most of us openly acknowledge Yet there are other laws, laws and drives that stir primitive long-forgotten urges instincts laws that raise murder from the worst of sins to the most satisfying of deeds.We condemn and punish the murderer. And yet from time to time, doesn't an entire nation rise up in righteous anger and slaughter another nation? And so, there are those who, naturally enough, ponder the question. If it's noble to kill for one's country at wholesale, why is it base? to kill for oneself at retail. These are the thoughts that occupy the mind of a tall, well-dressed, dignified gentleman. He's walking down a deserted street very late one night in the early summer, some 25 years ago. As he passes a darkened doorway, he hears a gasp.Starring: Larry Haines, Evie Juster, William Redfield, Robert Dryden

Don't Forget Scott's Old Time Radio podcast can also be heard on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, I-Heart Podcasts, Pandora and Others.Original Airdate: March 21, 1974Episode 0061 "Ordeal by Fire"Original Story by Murray Burnett Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA woman asks her boyfriend to try to help her father who is turning his home into a fortress. He soon finds out his soon-to-be father in law must give $1 million to a cult or be burned to death.Mark Twain once said, everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it. The same thing might be said of the state of morality in the world today. Everyone talks about immorality and corruption, But no one seems to do anything about it. Can we do anything about it? This is the story of a group who tried, with results like this.Prometheus' gift of fire to man was a blessing, bringing warmth, cheer, enabling man to cook his food, and also protect him from wild beasts. But along with the benefits came drawbacks. Fire proved to be destructive, and sometimes deadly, and man used it often to destroy. Thus was born the warning, don't play with fire. However, those who created one warning didn't follow their own advice, and they inevitably learned that they should have.Starring: Julie Newmar, Mandel Kramer, Guy Sorel, Sydney Walker, Earl Hammond

*This is not the typical Mad Scientist story, it puts a whole new twist on the Frankenstein LegendEpisode 0059 "Frankenstein Revisited"Original Airdate: March 19, 1974Original Story by Milt Wisoff, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallA film crew goes to Germany to cover the 400th anniversary of the death of the evil Baron Von Frankenstein who was killed on his castle grounds 400 years ago by a mysterious creature who reappears every century to claim a new victim. The crew disregards the legend as superstition, but then certain chilling events keep happening and they begin to wonder If the legend might be true.Make yourself comfortable for the moment. You know, evil has a vitality that defies time. Its power can be curbed, denied, defeated, but only temporarily. And when it returns, its force is more malevolent than ever. We've all been to dark places and felt the presence of evil. And we've all seen things beyond our power of understanding. But like Tom Fairley we feel our explanations for everything. Or are there?We move now from the friendly people who make these broadcasts possible to the monsters who will make it impossible for you to sleep, I hope. Our drama opens on a story conference in a Madison Avenue bar. It will end, I assure you, in terror and fear.Starring: Michael Wager, Leon Janny, Evie Juster, William Redfield, Ralph Bell

Original Airdate: March 20, 1974Episode 0060 "The Ghost at the Gate"Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallI would like to offer a few observations on the vagaries of the animal called man. Take the popular saying, seeing is believing. What idiot first said that? How many idiots have repeated it since? Do you believe in love? Tell me the color of it. Do you believe in truth, goodness, mercy? What shapes do they come in? No, my friends. Seeing is not believing. Only believing is believing. And we'll prove it to you in the story that follows.With how much ease believe we what we wish. An English playwright named Dryden wrote that in the year 1679. Brilliant man, Mr. Dryden. But wait, listen to this. Men freely believe that which they desire. Someone else seems to have had the same idea. He wasn't a 17th century English playwright. He was a Roman emperor named Julius Caesar. Proving once again that no man in any age has a monopoly on wisdom. Now, let's get on with our story. Starring: Beatrice Strait, Paula Truman, John Baragray

Original Airdate: March 18, 1974Episode 0058 "Sea of Troubles"Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallThe subject of the story you're about to hear is murder. But the subject is also time. We've all heard of killing time. But have you heard about using time to kill? You will in the next few minutes when Mr. Owen Layton himself tells you his most ingenious scheme for getting rich quick by means of sudden death.Our spine tingler begins across the sea in the delightful city of Paris. They say that you can sit at a sidewalk cafe on one of these streets and sooner or later meet everyone you've ever known. Well, now we're going to introduce you to someone who you don't know, but whose acquaintance you will enjoy making. His name is Owen Layton, and he prefers to tell you his unusual story in his own words.Starring: Staats Cotsworth, Ian Martin, Dan Ocko

Original Airdate: March 14, 1974Episode 0057 "The Fall of the House of Usher"Original Story by Edgar Allen Poe Adapted by George LowtherDirected by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallThe classic horror tale by Edgar Allan Poe tells the story of a heir driven insane by the ancient house of Usher, which he believes to be sentient. The ultimate macabre phantasmagoria winds with him burying his cataleptic sister alive.Horror that makes the flesh crawl as with maggots. Terror that turns the brain to jelly.These mark the work of Edgar Allan Poe. For nearly a century and a half readers have wondered at the mad creations of his fevered brain even as their blood ran cold with fear as shall yours. Please God help us.I must warn you that there lies ahead for you a tale so gruesome that when it ends you will know beyond doubt that never in your life before have you experienced such revulsion. Are you prepared for this? Come then to a certain room where a man named Gabriel Mannering sits writing in his diary. Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Marian Seldes, Robert Dryden, Arnold Moss

Don't Forget Scott's Old Time Radio podcast can also be heard on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, I-Heart Podcasts and Others.https://rss.com/podcasts/scott-s-old-time-raOriginal Airdate: March 12, 1974Episode 0055 "A Sacrifice in Blood"Original Story by Milt Wisoff, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallA pair of archeologists find a baby boy in an Aztec temple of evil. They decide to raise the boy - much to their regret.It has been said that we are prisoners in a dark closet with small openings that on occasion admit some light. Small wonder that the demons who lurk in the deepest corners are more real to us than the sweet light of reason outside. There is so much evil in our world that light turns naturally to shadow Even the love of Stephen and Amelia Stampler for their son Michael is converted to suspicion in this dark closet.And now it is time to turn to the macabre and nightmare world where there is no shortage of blood. Our tale opens on a pleasant enough note in a fashionable restaurant where Dr. and Mrs. Stampler are celebrating a special occasion. But I promise you it will end in true gothic horror.Starring: Patricia Rowe, Ralph Bell, Don Scardino, Ian Martin

Original Airdate: March 11, 1974Episode 0054 "The Thing in the Cave"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallYou know, man is a curious creature. Most of us settle for routine and habit. Eight hours on the job, another seven or eight in bed, and the other eight on some hobby that is neither too physically demanding nor asks for too many mental gymnastics. Few of us stretch ourselves beyond a reasonable limit. We coast through life. Our metal never really tried. But some of us, through harrowing experience, are stretched to the full capacity of our beings. It's then we find out what fiber we are made of. I don't suppose many of us ever plan to grow up to be speleologists, since most of us are subject to claustrophobia to at least some degree. For the very few of you who don't recognize the Latin terms, let me add that a speleologist, of course, is someone who studies and explores caves. Claustrophobia is that suffocating, pervasive dread of being shut in. This tale concerns itself with four young spelunkers. Those are cave explorers who do it only for fun. and their gruesome experience of being cave-bound. Literally buried alive.Starring: Robert Kaliban, Marian Seldes, Michael Wager, Teri Keane

Original Airdate: March 07, 1974Episode 0053 "The Creature From the Swamp"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallJust mention the word swamp and cold settles in the bones. The dampness runs through the veins like slime. The thoughts of the brooding, cloying, miasma lingers in the nostrils. Headed, decaying, conjuring in the mind visions of things that slide and slip and slither in the night. A young game and fish warden named Larry Drake who for reasons of his own lived an isolated hermit's life in the heart of the great swamp, was returning after dark in a wild thunderstorm to his lonely cabin. Just as he approached the cup -shaped body of quicksand and swamp water called... But since this is his story, and he left a painfully careful and detailed record, why not let him tell it for himself?Starring: Jack Grimes, Joan Lorring, Ian Martin, Robert Dryden, Leon Janny

Original Airdate: March 06, 1974Episode 0052 "The Sending"Original Story by Robert Newman Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallSit down and try to make yourself comfortable. Yes, it is quite warm in here, but don't worry about it. Because in just a moment, we'll bring you a tale that will chill your blood. A tale of black magic that may have begun centuries ago, but which takes place today. A tale in which one of the dark powers of the pit is released on the campus of a midwestern university. Is there such a thing as black magic? The ancients thought there was. For centuries there were those who were willing to trade their souls for the power to call up and control the dark forces of the pit. To what end? Sometimes for power or wealth. Sometimes, as in this tale, to achieve eternal youth, eternal life. But, as we will see, there is always great danger involved. and the price is always high, and usually paid in blood. Our spine-tingler begins in a large rambling house on the edge of the campus of a Midwestern university. A gray-haired woman, strangely shrunken but with intense gleaming eyes, sits in a chair in a sparsely furnished room, waiting and listening.Starring: Mandel Kramer, Marian Seldes, Phoebe Dorin, Tony Roberts

Original Airdate: March 05, 1974Episode 0051 "A Long Time to Die"Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallIt happens now and then that a man will vanish without warning, disappear completely, without leaving a trace, or a man will suddenly lose his memory. His body remains, but his mind has gone. What is essential in him leaves us and we are left perplexed, mystified, frustrated. All we have to go on is rumor, speculation, theory and since we cannot explain it after a while we tend to stop thinking about it. Until it happens again To somebody else.His name is Alfred Stuart Ainsley he’s 41 years old average height, average weight, average looks, nothing about him to make him memorable. Indeed he has never in his life done anything to bring him notice from beyond the circle of his immediate family and his close friends. His name was in the newspaper twice, first when he was born and then thirty years later when he was married. Right now his name is on the front pages of newspapers in every country of the civilized world, Alfred Stuart Ainsley, quiet, unassuming has it in his power to shape the government of the most important country in the world and perhaps alter the course of history…Starring: Mandel Kramer, Grace Mathews, Arnold Moss, Nat Polen, Mason Adams

Original Airdate: March 04, 1974Episode 0050 "This Will Kill You"Original Story by Murray Burnett, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallWelcome to a chilling insight into the powers of witchcraft and an ancient curse. Witchcraft today is an in thing with the young, which may appear somewhat incongruous, since witches, demons, and warlocks are older than the beginning of recorded time. And somehow, despite all of society's maledictions and efforts to stamp it out, witchcraft has survived, as we will demonstrate in our spine-tingling tale.Rage, my friends, is one of the curses of mankind. Rage thickens the blood, assails the eardrums, racks the body with a mad urge to destroy. It has been said that whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. And that applies to all of us, even if some are on speaking terms with God or the devil. Witness a man who is consumed with rage, Theodore Rakatsi. Starring: Norman Rose, Larry Haines, Roger Dekoven, Evie Juster, Gilbert Mack

Original Airdate: March 03, 1974Episode 0049 "Prognosis Negative"Original Story by Sidney Sloan Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallMy story explores the dark uncharted area of the human brain. Despite medical research, scientists admit that there is much that is still unknown about the flesh and blood computer which guides our conscious and unconscious lives. Let us listen as Colonel Edmund Plant of the CMI warns Dr. Gentry what dangers exist when we attempt to control this complicated human mechanism. .Colonel Edmund Plant was on an unpleasant errand. As he walked into the big dirty gray building, the military hospital for the insane known to the brass as the pit, he could think of many places he'd rather be. But this was a duty he had to perform, part of his job and he wanted to get it over with as fast as possible. Starring: William Redfield, Bryna Raeburn, Mason Adams, Earl Hammond, Martha Greenhouse

Original Airdate: March 02, 1974Episode 0048 "Out of Sight"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA space mission with the first woman in space is tormented by aliens they cannot see.This time a contemporary tale concerning the ill-fated flight of the first American woman astronaut. The flight of the Diana One. A tale of three astronauts who reached Skylab only to be literally snatched into the void. But before Diana One ever left the ground, the aura of doom hovered around her as she stood poised on the launching pad. It might have been far better if the scrub on the Diana One had been a total. This was only another in the long series of delays that had plagued the spaceship and haunted not only the astronauts themselves, but the ground crew as well. Returning to the compound from the launching, the most concerned of all was the first of our lady astronauts.Starring: Julia Meade, Sydney Walker, Ira Lewis, Jack Grimes

Original Airdate: February 28, 1974Episode 0047 "A Choice of Witnesses"Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA "professional" blackmailer is targeted by his victims who hatch an elaborate plan to get him. In this story, you're going to meet what some people call a shutter bug. You know what a shutter bug is. The kind of person who never goes anywhere without a camera swinging from a strap around his neck. Who is never content unless they're aiming a lens in your direction, whether you want to be photographed or not. But unfortunately, this particular bug is the kind that many people want to crush under their feet. It begins on a warm day in early spring. The kind of day which tempts office workers to leave their desks and stroll through the nearest park on the noon hour. Among the strollers is an amiable young man named Gordon Bailey who is enjoying the sunshine so much that he's taken a sandwich lunch to a park bench. Starring: Paul Hecht, Evie Juster, Ralph Bell, Robert Dryden

Original Airdate: February 26, 1974Episode 0046 "The Edge of Death"Original Story by Sol Panitz Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA farmer can't do anything but watch helplessly as his wife is slowly consumes by an undefined illness. One day he finds a strange case and an even stranger person without a mouth seeking it desperately. He becomes convinced that the case contains a miracle remedy that can save his wife.Welcome to the world of nightmarish probability, where the icy fear of the unknown can lead one down strange and terrifying paths. In our story, Alex Harper confronts the impossible and the encounter produces a devastating effect. Meet Alex Harper, Farmer. Right now his left arm is in a sling, heavily bandaged to protect the more than 20 stitches. Just a small accident on his tractor. First time in his 28 years as a farmer that he'd ever suffered more than a slight sprain or a minor bruise. It is a late August morning, an unreal sky, so blue it almost hurts the eyes to look at it. Even now, there is a promise that the cool dampness of the morning will soon yield to the stifling heat of the prairie sun.Starring: Patrick O'Neal, Marian Seldes, Leon Janny, Ian Martin

Original Airdate: February 24, 1974djwkn6fpEpisode 0045 "The Horse That Wasn't For Sale"Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA woman is forced to sell most of her father's horses after he dies. She holds on to the best horse -- much to the consternation of her father's competitors.The story you're about to hear concerns one of the most unusual killers in the annals of crime. A brutal murderer who carries not one but four deadly weapons wherever he goes. A huge monster of a creature weighing hundreds of pounds. But this isn't a horror story. In a way, it's a love story. It's called The Horse That Wasn't For Sale. Now that you've heard the title, you've already guessed the identity of our killer. But that doesn't mean you know what Stargazer is really like.Our tale begins in an idyllic setting. Picture the gently rolling hills of a horse farm in the early days of autumn. The colors of the trees all red and rust and differing shades of amber. See the ranch house nestled comfortably in the valley. The long row of white stables. But now you may notice something unusual about this farm. The stables are empty. No horses, nay, and winnie in the paddocks. The only sound is the tapping of a typewriter. At a desk in the front room sits a very handsome and very sad-looking young lady whose name is Chrissy Runyon.Starring: Mercedes McCambridge, Arnold Moss, William Redfield, Earl Hammond

Original Airdate: February 22, 1974Episode 0044 "The Horla"Original Story by Guy de Maupassant, Adapted by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallA man becomes obsessed with a ship in the harbor he is convinced harbors a terrible evil that is the doom of mankind.At one time, the great cold-blooded reptiles ruled supreme on the face of this earth,but they sickened and died. And dominion was seized by savage, ferocious, hot-blooded killers with hideous fangs and terrible claws. Today, the undisputed Lord and Master of the planet is man. Yet, in the fullness of time, every victor is finally vanquished. Will we, in our turn, also be conquered? Who waits to make of us what we have made? His name was Guy de Maupassant. He was probably the greatest writer of short stories who ever lived. He died in the year 1893. He died young. He died insane. And if you read the stories he wrote toward the end of his life, the critics tell us, you can see how his madness slowly destroyed him. That's how they look at it. He himself insisted he was being possessed. His mind and all of his vital were being forces were being drained from him by a mysterious, supernatural, and superior being. He called it the Horla. And the Horla is one of the last stories he ever wrote. Is the Horla merely the raving of a man going mad, or is it an inspired prophecy of a fate that awaits us all? You decide.Starring: Paul Hecht, Dan Ocko, Bryna Raeburn, Robert Dryden

Original Airdate: February 21, 1974Episode 0043 "The Walls of Jericho"Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallAn elderly private club attendant finds that he is able to conjure ghostly figures from his imagination. We are about to bring you a tale of magic. What a word, magic. What do we mean by magic? What are we thinking when we say something is magical? By only that we do not understand how it came to be or even what it is that came to be or for that matter if it ever really did come to be.Anything can have magic. A name, a poem, A face, a touch, a phrase of music, a sudden, silent thought that brushes across the mind. But it won't be captured. No, not magic. For magic merely happens. Watch out. Ready or not, here it comes.Starring: Robert Dryden, Mary Jane Higby, Ian Martin, Ralph Bell, Sydney Walker, Guy Sorel

Original Airdate: February 19, 1974Episode 0042 "Sea Fever"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA fearsome captain of the seas inflicts the ultimate punishment for people who even dare to look at his wife. But some people can't contain their passions for her.Even before Phoenicians first sailed out of the Mediterranean and opened up the seven seas to mankind, the rolling waters of the world have boiled from their depths some of the greateststories of adventure, romance, and mystery. Of all the stories dredged up from old Davy Jones locker, I think my favorite is the strange and seemingly insoluble puzzle of what happened to the Annabella. How best to start the story. Oh, yes, of course, why not? Let's read from the log of the ship that found the Annabella, becalmed in the doldrums. August 7th, 1865. Log of the Penguin, Captain Brisket commanding. No wind again this day as we drive through the doldrums moving by paddle and steam to find becalmed a merchant man named Annabella. No answer to repeated hails. Sent Mr. Bascom to board her. His report as follows. Not a living soul aboard.The boats still snug in the davits. The captain's table freshly set for six. The crew's meal warm in the galley. All ship -shaped. The log records an uneventful voyage with no clue as to why she should have been deserted. Not a living soul aboard. Not even a rat. What can be the answer to the mystery of this ill -fated ship? I cannot even guess. I fear no one will ever know. The Annabella set sail from Charlestown Harbor on the 13th day of July, 1865. Her captain was Josiah Adams, a huge and forbidding giant of a man. The rest on board were as choice a crew of cutthroats, thieves, and murderers as you could set between bulkheads. There was one woman aboard, and 19 men, including the cook and two passengers. And the mood of all of them was ugly. Starring: George Mathews, Brett Morrison, Marian Seldes, Leon Janny, William Redfield

Original Airdate: February 18, 1974Episode 0041 "Blizzard of Terror"Original Story by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA couple with marital difficulties are forced to seek refuge from a blizzard in a remote cabin. They find it inhabited by a man who might be a serial killer.Have you ever known terror? Have you ever come up against something that so threatened you, so horrified you, that it stopped your heart for a moment? If you never have, count yourself lucky. But don't count on your luck too much. After all, who's to say that terror may never touch you? Consider Helen and Jim Crane. They never thought it would ever touch them. I'll be back shortly. Dare you join me now in a blizzard of terror? Not so fast! Not so quick to answer yes. Are your nerves in shape for what lies ahead? Have you promised yourself a good night's sleep? A promise you want to keep? In simple brief, are you who now listen to my voice, ready to cope with terror? Very well. You made the choice, not I. Come along then. Well, come on.Starring: Lois Smith, Larry Haines, Leon Janny

Original Airdate: February 16, 1974Episode 0039 "A Lady Never Loses Her Head"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallAfter a whirlwind romance, and American woman marries an aristocratic Brit. When she moves into her husband's Manor House, she is haunted by a headless specter on horseback who bears a striking resemblance to her.Our suspense -filled tale is about two ladies. One heedless, one, alas, headless. To meet them both... we shall have to span an ocean and several centuries. The story of both ladies comes from Rudley Castle in the Cotswold Hills of England. But the tale of the First Lady belongs in this century, while the legend of the Second comes riding to us out of the medieval past. The title of our tale is, A Lady Never Loses Her Head. This has been an accepted dictum since the beginning of recorded history. But in the literal sense, in feudal times, a lady unfortunately could, and frequently did, lose her head. Thank heavens, of course, that is no longer possible. Or is it? Let's travel to London and start our narrative in the gloomy gray atmosphere of Scotland Yard. Starring: Kim Hunter, Nick Pryor, Court Benson, Ian Martin, Bryna Raeburn

Original Airdate: February 17, 1974Episode 0040 "The Walking Corpse"Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA Banana Republic dictator uses an army of zombies to take over a small island country. An American couple on their honeymoon stumble into his plot.Tonight I hope you have strong stomachs. For we're bound on a Caribbean cruise. Oh, we don't expect rough sailing on the way. So if you are easily seasick, have no fears. Save them all for your landing on the twin island of Mauishia and Sandorin, for it is the home of Voodoo and the living dead, the soulless legions of men who are called zombies.The body of a dead person, given the semblance of life, usually for some evil purpose. That is a zombie. The very name itself is calculated to make the flesh creep and the blood run chill. But on a plane headed for Miami, taking them to their honeymoon, nothing could be further from the thoughts of Steve Ramsey and his new wife, Pat.Starring: Tony Roberts, Vinnette Carroll, Suzanne Grossman, Robert Kaliban, Ian Martin, Jackson Beck

Original Airdate: February 14, 1974Episode 0038 "Under Grave Suspicions"Original Story by S.J. Wilson Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallA couple's marriage is under strain and the college professor's wife is having an affair. The husband kills them both and is then is stranded by a hurricane before he can dispose of the bodies.Our play poses a dilemma you have never faced or are likely to face in your lifetime. Whether to commit the murder in your heart when your mind tells you to restrain yourself. Listen to what happened to one man, Thomas Drake, who did face that dilemma, and what he did about it. Have you ever returned home late one night and listened in the still darkness, tense and trembling, hoping and praying that you would not hear the whispered passions of your wife? and the stranger fearful that you could not would not control a blinding fury to kill that man getting out of the car on that dark dead-end road on the windswept bluff overlooking the desolate Long Island Sound Beach hurrying by cloud-veiled moonlight down the winding footpath through the scrub pines and brush to his isolated cottage is Thomas Drake, despondent, depressed.Starring: Ralph Bell, Patricia Wheel, Robert Dryden, William Redfield

Original Airdate: February 12, 1974Episode 0036 "A Dream of Death"Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallA college professor becomes convinced that he is reincarnated. He is worried that he will be punished for breaking a 200 year old engagement.They say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. And perhaps it's true. But the question is, how long? How long can that fury endure? How long can the passions burn? Well, Miss Charity Youngblood was left waiting at the church some 200 years ago, and she still isn't over it.Sometimes a few notes of an incomplete melody may steal through your head. It isn't like any tune you know, and yet you've heard it before. For no reason a name, a noise, an aroma may evoke a dim and distant memory. A memory of a place you cannot clearly remember, but it's a place you cannot completely forget. A great poet said, life is a dream, and even dreams are dreams. Perhaps. But sooner or later, there must be an awakening for every dream and for Rexford Patterson, there was a rudest awakening of all.Starring: Michael Tolan, Evie Juster, Marian Seldes, Robert Dryden, Ira Lewis

Original Airdate: February 10, 1974Episode 0035 "Dead Man's Mountain"Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallFirmly determined to turn a mountain in the Adirondacks into a resort, a New York developer sets out to prove that the peak is not as cursed — and life-altering — as the locals insist it is.Dead Man's Mountain is what it's called. Going is really no problem. It's coming down that separates the living from the dead. R.J. Johnson sits at his desk. Yes, the RJ Johnson. The mysterious, the remote RJ Johnson. I better explain that. His ways are mysterious, except when his plans include you. He is remote, except when he wants something from you. Then his presence can become an overwhelming reality. Some say R .J. is the richest man in the world. Some say he's the second, the third, the fourth richest. Does it matter? All we need to know is that on this particular morning, R .J. Johnson sits at his desk as usual and is formulating plans to buy or sell what? An industry? A government? Somebody's Soul?Starring: Alan Hewitt, Bryna Raeburn, William Redfield, Robert Dryden

Original Airdate: February 09, 1974Episode 0034 "The Deadly Hour"Original Story by Elspeth Eric,Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallRelax and listen to the strange tale of a strange man. You're no more strange than anyone who has suffered what you might call a mutilation of the soul. And who of us is not at one time or another suffered such a mutilation? What means did we use to restore ourselves? How quickly did we recover? How well did we heal? The answers vary even as we vary. One man's answers are revealed. Do we trust in the story which follows? A person who seems strange, we call Grotesque, Incredible not to be believed. We make a feeble effort to deny that he could exist. But he does exist. There he is before our eyes in all his strangeness. We do not believe in him because we do not know him. Because once we know, we will have to believe and this can be a long and painful process. Listen now to the story of Martin Jerome. See if you can believe it.Starring: Norman Rose, Marian Seldes, John Baragray, Jack Grimes