Original Airdate: August 7, 1974

Episode 0129 "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Original Story by Oscar Wilde, Adapted by George Lowther, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

1886, Victorian London, the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton meets the pure Dorian Gray posing for talented painter Basil Hallward. Basil paints Dorian's portrait, then gives the painting to Dorian while Lord Henry corrupts his mind and soul telling that Dorian should seek pleasure in life. Dorian loves this new lifestyle so much he makes a wish that his picture will age and wither instead of his body.

As the years go by, He is so ridden with guilt, he thinks that only full confession will absolve him of wrongdoing, Dorian decides to destroy the last vestige of his conscience. Enraged, He stabs the picture tearing it to shreds. The servants of the house awaken on hearing a cry from the locked room. The servants break into the hidden room and an unknown old man, stabbed in the heart, his face and figure withered and decrepit. He is finally identified by the rings on his fingers as Dorian Gray.

Nick Pryor, Norman Rose, Roger Dekovan

Original Airdate: Aug 06, 1974

Episode 0128 "The Headstrong Corpse"

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

Lord Berly of Moreland is dead. In life, he feared being buried alive, so he is left to lie in an open crypt until doctors are sure he is dead. While lying in state, somebody steals his body. Murder, mutilation, and corpse snatching take place in this 1874 Gothic whodunit.

Welcome to the wonders of your own imagination, for although I am about to tell you a horror story, it is really your imagination that will bring it to life for you. I shouldn't even say I will tell it, for it's really the story of Edward Somerset, as recounted in his private journal dated London 1874. a truly harrowing account of what took place at Moorland Manor.

As you may know, it's a custom of mine, a hobby, if you will, to read old diaries and journals, the accounts of lives written down by people long since dead and in their graves. Recently, I had the good fortune to come across the journal of a certain Edward Somerset, a young London lawyer, barrister, the English would say, who tells a grisly tale of what took place at Moorland Manor in the year 1874. According to Edward Somerset, but no, let him tell the story in his own words, just as he recorded it in his journal.

Starring: Suzanne Grossman, Cort Benson, Gordon Gould, Ian Martin, Anne Potaniak, George Lowther

Original Airdate: Aug 05, 1974

Episode 0127 "I Thought You Were Dead"

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

An authoress begins to get phone calls from the husband and writing partner she killed out of professional jealousy. What does he want with her? An ancient Chinese anecdote tells of a poor man who meets a philosopher. The poor man begs for charity. The philosopher says, Look at that pebble. He points to a tiny stone. The stone turns to gold. The poor man says, May I have something bigger? The philosopher points to a rock, and it too turns to gold. The poor man again asks for something bigger. The philosopher points to a mountain. The entire mountain turns to gold. The poor man is still unhappy. Finally, the philosopher asks, What do you want? And the poor man replies, I want your finger. The moral of this and the tale you're about to hear you can't satisfy everybody.

A statement, a slogan. Should never be accepted merely because it is widely held and seldom challenged. For instance, they say dead men tell no tales, but this is not necessarily so, as many a murderer has discovered, but too late. A dead man, especially a recently dead man, can tell a veritable anthology of tales to people like doctors. and detectives. But what has all this to do with Jennifer Partridge? Jennifer Partridge. Sleek, slender, sophisticated Jennifer. In exactly ten seconds the telephone will ring in Jennifer's elegant penthouse apartment. And Jennifer is going to speak to a dead man.

Starring: Arlene Francis, Robert Dryden, Mary Jane Higby, Guy Sorel

Original Airdate: Aug 01, 1974

Episode 0126 "The Hitman"

Written by Henry Schescher, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A chance encounter with the wife of his next victim, and hearing the heartbreaking story that the couple shares, changes a hired assassin's mindset.

We've been waiting for you. We knew that you'd be back We know that by now you've discovered. There's no fear like the fear you can hear and We'regoing to fill your ears with a story about the most basic fear of all death. We're going to tell you a story about a man who dispenses death the way othermen dispense haircuts a man known in the parlance of the underworld as The Hitman. In case you're unfamiliar with criminal vocabulary, allow me to explain. A hitman is someone hired especially to terminate the life of someone else.

Our story begins in a bus terminal of a large eastern city, a place of arrivals and departures. In the crowd we can see a rather sallow young man searching every face and scowling at his inability to recognize the man he has come to find. But then he doesn't know what Jim Derry looks like. Jim Derry tries not to make himself too visible in person. Mr. Derry has a very good reason. But now the young man spots someone pulling on a pair of light-colored gloves And he recognizes the signal, if not the man.

Starring: Mike Kellen, Lon Clark, Allan Manson, Earl Hammond

Original Airdate: July 31, 1974

Episode 0125 "The Only Blood"

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

An immigrant shoe repairer refuses to pay protection to the mob, so they hit him. He vows revenge in the form of murder. Meanwhile, the head of the mob must reconcile his chosen profession with the love of his daughter.

What is blood? Well, that all depends. To some, blood is a cause for pride. To others, blood is a reason for prejudice. Blood. Mysterious blood. It unites us. It divides us. Ironic, isn't it? When you consider that everyone's blood is the same. Well, practically.

They came by the millions to America. They came wearing a rainbow of costumes and speaking a babble of tongues. Frightened by the strangeness of marvelous mysterious America, they huddled together for security in clusters of kinfolk, landslite goombas, to begin the often slow and sometimes painful process of becoming Americans.

And this is a story of one of them. A man named Anthony Boga. And it happened some 40 years ago in a large East Coast city.

Starring: Howard DaSilva, Ken Harvey, Bryna Raeburn, Robert Dryden, Jack Grimes

Original Airdate: July 29, 1974

Episode 0124 "Ghost at High Noon"

Written by Elizabeth Pinnell, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

Two traveling women have their car break down in the desert. They are met by an old man traveling in a covered wagon. He takes them to a ghost town where they cannot make the residents hear them. But the residents have plans for them. The doors of the mind can be opened into corridors of unlimited possibilities where time and place have a way of melding into strange and provocative patterns. Most ghost stories take place in the dark of night or when shadows are long and the moon is crossed by clouds. But we're about to meet a ghost at high noon on a blistering hot day without a shadow in the sky. In the course of our story, the two women who are embarked upon a fateful journey find respite from the merciless sun when they are drawn toward a barn from which comes a very human sound.

Our story begins on a long straight ribbon of highway in an arid section of the Western United States. Marion Jeffries and Janet Marston are longtime friends who are returning home after having driven Marion's son to a summer camp.

Starring: Celeste Holm, Frances Sternhagen, Nat Polen, Gilbert Mack

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Original Airdate: July 25, 1974,

Episode 0123 "My Sister, Death "

Original Story by Elsbeth Eric, Directed by Himan Brown, Hosted by EG Marshall

A twisted and humorous tale about a woman's attempts to drive her sister to madness.

The world, it is said, has changed over the centuries, but people have not. Perhaps this is because all too often the human heart is more intent on seeking its own pleasure, satisfying its own selfish needs, than giving thought to others. But there is innocence, too, and love, and selflessness. And it is the interplay of these good and evil forces that form the warp and woof of the strange and horrifying tale I bring you now. Listen.

Come with me now to a cemetery near New York City. It is late afternoon. An afternoon of gloom and drizzle and cold damp fog. Two women, half shrouded in the fog, walk amongst headstones that rise like white bones in the gray of the afternoon. They are sisters, these two. Andrea and Sybil Carter. And they are walking toward a certain grave.

Starring: Michael Wager, Jennifer Harmon, William Redfield, Jack Lindbrook.

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Original Airdate: July 23, 1974,

Episode 0122 "Adam’s Astral Self "

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

Adam Farr is able to project his "astral self" to other locales while asleep. This drives his wife crazy and she leaves him. But he has a plan to get her back.

I'm so glad you're here. You, in person. in the flesh, bone, blood, and tissue. It's all very cozy, very comforting to think of you listening at your ease to the weird little tale we're about to bring you. But where is the rest of you? The other part of you? Where is your astral body? You didn't know you had one? What is an astral body? Well, according to the largest dictionary we could find, It is a subtle counterpart of the physical body, accompanying, but not usually, separated from it. Now the key word here is usually, for some swear that the astro body can and on occasion does separate itself from the physical body and go wandering off on its own.

This is the story of an actor named Adam Farr. An actor is someone whose whole effort is to become someone else all the while remaining out of necessity himself the character he portrays or becomes is therefore a sort of second self living for the moment within the actor's body any actor can pretend only a very great actor can become the second self of a great actor has a power and appliances that is often quite incomprehensible and Adam Farr was a very great actor. We bring you now an account of the many strange things that happened to him or that he made happen to himself and to others.

Starring: Michael Wager, Jennifer Harmon, William Redfield, Jack Lindbrook.

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

Original Airdate: July 18, 1974,

Episode 0120 "The Dream Woman"

Original Story by Wilkie Collins, Adapted by George Lowthar, Directed by Himan Brown, Hosted by EG Marshall

A man inexplicably leaves his loving wife to pursue a trampish barfly who he is sure is his dream woman. He dreams that he will love her and she will kill him.

Welcome to the world of the uncanny, the eerie, the unearthly. Strange things happen. They've happened to me and will again. They've happened to you and will again. They happened to Norman Meredith. But they will never, never happen to him again. Because, well, listen.

What is a dream? From where does it come and why? Wiser men than I say the dreams rise like mist out of various levels of the subconscious and the unconscious But what is the subconscious? What is the unconscious? No one really knows. Oh, there are theories. Yes But no one can say with certainty why we dream. Why, for instance, Norman Meredith dreamed that certain dream.

Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Teri Keane, Robert Dryden, Grace Matthews