Original Airdate: July 15, 1974

Episode 0118 "The Canterville Ghost"

Written by Oscar Wilde, Adapted by George Lowthar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A ghost tries very hard to scare the residents of an ancient castle and instead irritates and amuses them.

Welcome to a world we all inhabit too little. The world of imagination. Our own. yours and mine. Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a ghost? Well, one of this earth's greatest writers did, Oscar Wilde, and having let his imagination play with the idea, he set down his findings in a ghost story that ranks with the world's finest. The classic tale of the Canterville ghost. If by chance you should think that a ghost's life is all wine and roses, Why, then, listen to what went on one night at Canterville Castle.

Our story takes place in Canterville Castle. ancestral home of the Decanterville family since the fifteenth century. You immediately assume, I have no doubt, that the castle is in England. Well, it isn't. It was, but it isn't anymore. For you see, that well-known multimillionaire Hiram Otis had it dismantled, stone by stone, transported to the United States, and re -erected, stone by stone, on his own estate in the Midwest. So it is that one fine afternoon we find him Hiram and his wife Martha and his lovely daughter, Virginia and Jeffrey de Canterville her fiance in the newly restored library of the newly erected castle of the Canterville's.

Starring: Arnold Moss, Marian Seldes, Mildred Clinton, Robert Dryden, William Redfield