Original Airdate: June 06, 1974

Episode 0102 "Darling Deadly Delores"

Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A scientist working on a top secret super-weapon is horrified to discover that the project's computer plans to utilize the weapon to purge the Earth of humans in favor of metal-based life.

Once again, I would like to lead you through the terrifying, suspenseful world of the imagination. And on this journey, we will ask ourselves... What is life? Is life something that man and animals alone may experience? Well, there's vegetable life, too. But how about mineral life? Is there life in a piece of metal? That metal fender, which has been so artfully created to fit your automobile, does it feel the pain of being mined, melted, shaped? How do you know?

Man is basically an animal and so it might be better perhaps if man accepted this fact graciously and tried to live with it. If you look at the thing calmly, dispassionately, wherein does lie our superiority to the species we so arrogantly classify as the lower orders? Morally, we have much to learn from wolves who make better parents, from foxes who make morefaithful spouses, and from dogs who make more devoted friends. Admitted, we do have a higher intelligence. Perhaps that is precisely the problem. Man the intelligent is never happy unless he is developing, making better, improving and it's entirely possible that if this keeps up, we may just manage to improve ourselves out of existence. Our story begins on a gray winter's afternoon in a lovely rural section of western Massachusetts.

Starring: Nat Polen, Marian Seldes, Earl Hammond, Roger DeKoven