Original Airdate: July 22, 1974,

Episode 0121 "The Deadly Process"

Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Hosted by EG Marshall

An incompetent engineer steals an industrial process from an old college buddy to save his job, earning a promotion He then must lie and bribe witnesses to keep it.

Out there, in what we are pleased to call the state of nature, the strong kill the weak. Fang and claw provide the only law. Well, man, as you know, is a natural animal. But for countless centuries, he's been trying to change all that. with indifferent success on the whole. But there is hope. Because man, after all, has a thing called a conscience and it works. Not always as promptly or completely as all of us might wish, but it works. And sometimes it may start working before we're even aware of it.

Sometimes a reunion can result in a most traumatic experience. You know, these get-togethers of old army buddies or old college pals. The greatest pain does not really result from the awareness of the thinning hair and the thickening paunch. It comes from the stinging stab of recognition that precious time is now gone forever and golden opportunity has been irretrievably wasted. And this pain…will leave an aching void for a fulfillment that can never come. However, neither Walter Stallings nor George Loomis has arrived at this point of the evening yet.

Starring: Norman Rose, Ralph Bell, Marian Seldes, Robert Maxwell, Jackson Beck