Original Airdate: February 17, 1974

Episode 0040 "The Walking Corpse"

Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

A Banana Republic dictator uses an army of zombies to take over a small island country. An American couple on their honeymoon stumble into his plot.

Tonight I hope you have strong stomachs. For we're bound on a Caribbean cruise. Oh, we don't expect rough sailing on the way. So if you are easily seasick, have no fears. Save them all for your landing on the twin island of Mauishia and Sandorin, for it is the home of Voodoo and the living dead, the soulless legions of men who are called zombies.

The body of a dead person, given the semblance of life, usually for some evil purpose. That is a zombie. The very name itself is calculated to make the flesh creep and the blood run chill. But on a plane headed for Miami, taking them to their honeymoon, nothing could be further from the thoughts of Steve Ramsey and his new wife, Pat.

Starring: Tony Roberts, Vinnette Carroll, Suzanne Grossman, Robert Kaliban, Ian Martin, Jackson Beck

Original Airdate: February 14, 1974

Episode 0038 "Under Grave Suspicions"

Original Story by S.J. Wilson Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

A couple's marriage is under strain and the college professor's wife is having an affair. The husband kills them both and is then is stranded by a hurricane before he can dispose of the bodies.

Our play poses a dilemma you have never faced or are likely to face in your lifetime. Whether to commit the murder in your heart when your mind tells you to restrain yourself. Listen to what happened to one man, Thomas Drake, who did face that dilemma, and what he did about it.

Have you ever returned home late one night and listened in the still darkness, tense and trembling, hoping and praying that you would not hear the whispered passions of your wife? and the stranger fearful that you could not would not control a blinding fury to kill that man getting out of the car on that dark dead-end road on the windswept bluff overlooking the desolate Long Island Sound Beach hurrying by cloud-veiled moonlight down the winding footpath through the scrub pines and brush to his isolated cottage is Thomas Drake, despondent, depressed.

Starring: Ralph Bell, Patricia Wheel, Robert Dryden, William Redfield

Original Airdate: February 12, 1974

Episode 0036 "A Dream of Death"

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

A college professor becomes convinced that he is reincarnated. He is worried that he will be punished for breaking a 200 year old engagement.

They say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. And perhaps it's true. But the question is, how long? How long can that fury endure? How long can the passions burn? Well, Miss Charity Youngblood was left waiting at the church some 200 years ago, and she still isn't over it.

Sometimes a few notes of an incomplete melody may steal through your head. It isn't like any tune you know, and yet you've heard it before. For no reason a name, a noise, an aroma may evoke a dim and distant memory. A memory of a place you cannot clearly remember, but it's a place you cannot completely forget. A great poet said, life is a dream, and even dreams are dreams. Perhaps. But sooner or later, there must be an awakening for every dream and for Rexford Patterson, there was a rudest awakening of all.

Starring: Michael Tolan, Evie Juster, Marian Seldes, Robert Dryden, Ira Lewis

Original Airdate: February 10, 1974

Episode 0035 "Dead Man's Mountain"

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

Firmly determined to turn a mountain in the Adirondacks into a resort, a New York developer sets out to prove that the peak is not as cursed — and life-altering — as the locals insist it is.

Dead Man's Mountain is what it's called. Going is really no problem. It's coming down that separates the living from the dead. R.J. Johnson sits at his desk. Yes, the RJ Johnson. The mysterious, the remote RJ Johnson. I better explain that. His ways are mysterious, except when his plans include you. He is remote, except when he wants something from you. Then his presence can become an overwhelming reality. Some say R .J. is the richest man in the world. Some say he's the second, the third, the fourth richest. Does it matter? All we need to know is that on this particular morning, R .J. Johnson sits at his desk as usual and is formulating plans to buy or sell what? An industry? A government? Somebody's Soul?

Starring: Alan Hewitt, Bryna Raeburn, William Redfield, Robert Dryden

Original Airdate: February 09, 1974

Episode 0034 "The Deadly Hour"

Original Story by Elspeth Eric,Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

Relax and listen to the strange tale of a strange man. You're no more strange than anyone who has suffered what you might call a mutilation of the soul. And who of us is not at one time or another suffered such a mutilation? What means did we use to restore ourselves? How quickly did we recover? How well did we heal? The answers vary even as we vary. One man's answers are revealed. Do we trust in the story which follows?

A person who seems strange, we call Grotesque, Incredible not to be believed. We make a feeble effort to deny that he could exist. But he does exist. There he is before our eyes in all his strangeness. We do not believe in him because we do not know him. Because once we know, we will have to believe and this can be a long and painful process. Listen now to the story of Martin Jerome. See if you can believe it.

Starring: Norman Rose, Marian Seldes, John Baragray, Jack Grimes

Original Airdate: February 08, 1974

Episode 0033 "Conspiracy To Defraud"

Original Story by Sidney Sloan, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

I have an unusual story about foreign intrigue, murder, and love. Interesting combination. You know, that great mystery writer Edgar Allan Poe once wrote that the best way to hide something was to leave it in full sight and that's what this story's about.

Steve Nash, agent for the Federal Narcotics Bureau, was awakened from a sound sleep by his chief. What the Police and the Federal Narcotics Bureau, believed to be a well-planned and secret bust of a big narcotics ring, is taking place in a warehouse district in New York City.

Starring: Paul Hecht, Suzanne Grossman, Ruth Warrick, George Petry, Leon Janny, Gilbert Mack

Original Airdate: February 08, 1974

Episode 0032 "After The Verdict"

Original Story by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

After The Verdict is a tale about justice, about the lady that stands over the criminal courthouses of America with a blindfold over her eyes. Of course the blindfold represents impartiality not faulty vision but yet there are occasions when justice seems to be looking the other way and that’s something, which bothers attorney Ned Murray very much in deed.

Ned wins his case and his client is acquitted of murder. However after the trial is over Luis Rydal tells Ned that he did commit the murder and would do it again to the next guy that touched his wife. Ned Murray is determined that Rydal must pay for his crime but there seems to be no lawful way to do this.

Starring: Tony Roberts, Joseph Julian, Bryna Raeburn, Robert Dryden, Barbara Caruso, Sam Gray

Original Airdate February 05, 1974

Episode 0031 "The Lady Was a Tiger"

Original Story by Murray Burnett Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

The art of the double cross, unfortunately, has become part of the fabric of our lives. In espionage, however, it is almost a lifestyle. In the world of spies, for the left hand ever to know what the right is doing is unthinkable. For the next hour, imagine that you are Larry Fielding, a 32 -year -old newspaper man. caught in a dizzying web of circumstances, seemingly beyond his control.

Walking is great exercise. And with good weather can also be great fun. But not when you've just been fired by the editor of the newspaper for which you've worked happily for five years. Larry Fielding has been walking aimlessly for two hours, trying to figure out why Horace Finlay, the editor and his boss, had refused to give him any reason for his dismissal. Tormented by his frustrating thoughts and tired, Larry sits down on a park bench to think.

Starring Joan Lorring, William Redfield, Roger DeKoven, Ian Martin, Chris Gamble

Original Airdate: February 03, 1974

Episode 0029 "The Sign of the Beast"

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

What is the difference between man and beast? There are those who ask is there a difference? It wasn’t very long ago tat man himself was a beast, a carnivorous hunter with an insatiable appetite for raw meat. True quite a bit has happened since, we’re learned manners, invented civilization and culture, we’ve created a conscience, a code of morals a system of ethics.

But how deep do all these things go? Does the beast still slumber in each of us waiting patiently biding its time ready at any moment to assert its mastery with fang and claw? An impetuous female archaeologist violates the customs of a local South American tribe by offering them praise and she steals their artifacts. She soon finds there is a price to pay..

Starring: Dan Ocko, Tom Kenna, Paul McGrath, Lois Smith

Original Airdate February 24, 1974

Episode 0030 "Here Goes the Bride"

Original Story by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

The supernatural doesn’t always have to presuppose something totally beyond the earth. There are those among us who hover somewhere between earth and sky, the stars who light up our theater marquees or movie screens, all the human beings who have become by extension a little larger than life.

This is the shocking tale about two of those… A woman arrives at the estate of her new husband to find his former wife' s spirit still haunts the place. She died under suspicious circumstances.

Starring: Ruby Dee, Michael Wager, Teri Keane, Bryna Raeburn, Ian Martin