Original Airdate: July 11, 1974

Episode 0117 "The Devil God"

Written by Mary Jane Higby, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A young couple inherit a ranch with a Palimino horse that belongs to an Indian god. When the couple get greedy and try to claim the horse of their own, they run afoul of the god.

Welcome to the world of primeval dread. To the fear you can hear. Do things have souls? Do natural forces embody malicious spirits? That was the primitive belief of mankind. Stifled, they say, by the rise of civilization. Is it dead? Or does there move within us still the distorted shadow of some long-forgotten lore, dark images we dare not face? Jeff Moore never found the answer, but the question shattered his life.

The main character of our drama tonight will never appear. I think you will feel his presence, however as thousands have felt it through the long centuries that brought us out of the prehistoric cave to the place where we now stand. As Jeff and Katie Moore, a young couple from New England, felt it among the stark cliffs of the southwest. But let Katie tell you about it.

Starring: Ruby Dee, Mandel Kramer, Leon Janny, Guy Sorrell