Lagavulin's Log

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Episode 0193
The Golem
December 30, 1974


Taking place in wartime Europe during the holocaust, a man encounters a girl and an old man seeking help from their persecution from the Germans. He turns away from them three times, then, reminding himself of Peter’s betrayal of Christ in the Bible, seeks them out to offer his help, despite the dangers, and the pleadings from his wife not to put their own lives at risk.

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Episode 0941
Nefertiti (Part II) To Kill a Pharaoh
January 9, 1979


After marrying, Akhenatan is to descend into the holy place filled with statues of his ancestors to learn the ways of ruling Egypt. Locked in to ensure his privacy, he appeals fruitlessly to his ancestors and to the gods for guidance. After many hours of prayer, he calls out in frustration only start an avalanche which closes him in. He believes he is saved by the sun god and no other and vows to rid Egypt of its’ pantheon of deities in favor of the only one who answered his prayers. While he cannot convince his mother he does have the support of his queen, Nefertiti, and the two embark on a crusade to convince the citizens of this belief. Akhenaten cannot bring himself to simply order this new religion. Meanwhile, Nefertiti’s father, conspired with the father of Horemheb, whom Nefertiti has cruely punished, and Akhenaten has rewarded by making him a General, to kill Akhenaten with the intention of having Horemheb marrying Nefertiti and becoming Pharaoh. Their plans are discovered and the two are put to death.

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Episode 0940
Nefertiti (Part I) The Vulture Screams
January 8, 1979


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In this episode we are introduced to the principle characters. Nefertiti, daughter of the Prime Minister has, through inner workings and the intention of her father, been betrothed to Akhenatan, presented as a spineless, whimpering simp who, though heir to the throne, could barely walk across the street without holding his mother’s hand. Nefertiti is a strong willed woman with a lust for power and a cruelty that bubbles near the surface. After the death of Amenhotep, Akhenatan’s father, Akhenatan is to be made pharaoh and married to Nefertiti on the same day. In one flashback, they recall a moment in their childhood when the two of them, playing with their dear friend Horemheb, attack an overseer for mistreating a slave. Akhenatan is less than enthusiastic about it while the other two show their strength and courage at a young age.

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Episode 0942
Nefertiti (Part III) The Cobra Strikes
January 10, 1979


Nefertiti and Akhenaten continue their crusade to convert the Egyptians to one god and embark on a plan to create a city dedicated to their chosen god. Meanwhile, General Horemheb brings news of armies encroaching on Egyptian soil and urges Akhenaten to take swift and decisive action. Akhenaten’s gentle and trusting spirit can only believe that they are coming in peace and refuses his general’s commands. The general acts anyway and secretly plans an anonymous attack to drive away the army he knows to be aggressive. Akhenaten is furious and orders the general to take command of his personal retinue, effectively an insult to the great strategist. The only problem with this plan was that it brought Nefertiti and Horemheb closer together. Nefertiti sends him off to do what he will to defend Egypt despite the wishes of Akhenaten.

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Episode 0944
Nefertiti (Part V) The Curse of the Scarab
January 12, 1979


Nefertiti, distraught over the death of her daughter, flees with her children on a ship to a tomb she has had created for herself. There she sees to the burial of her daughter in her own fashion as she doubts the religious road she and her husband have taken. Akhenaten is, of course, outraged at this and tracks them down. He takes possession of the body and performs a ceremony more suited to the message they are preaching. Nefertiti vows to reject entirely their previous work and refuses to acknowledge the god she and Akhenaten had praised before. She is taken into custody and imprisoned. Akhenaten has grown since the first episode and has grown into the power of his position and perhaps, even surpassed it.

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Episode 0943
Nefertiti (Part IV) The Head With One Eye
January 11, 1979


As Akhenaten becomes more engrossed in the construction of his new temple, and Nefertiti to the construction to the rest of the city, they lose touch with each other. Horemheb returns with news of impending attacks from the Hittites. By this time, Akhenaten and Nefertiti have had three children, the youngest is Tutankhamen. The oldest, while spending the day with her father was ordered to spend as long as it would take to learn the prayer to their chosen god. She spends the day in the hot temple on her knees in prayer until she collapses from exhaustion and eventually dies. The chasm between the two continues to widen. A sculpture spends time with Nefertiti on a new work. She demands that it reflect her true likeness and depart from the stylized works of the past.

The sound in the third episode deteriorated drastically and was very muffled.

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Episode 0223
The Shadow of the Past
February 14, 1975


An immigrant doctor in a rough part of the city devotes his life to serving the underprivileged and poor until a bill collector arrives at his office after being bowled over by one of the local kids. Upon examination the doctor realizes that his patient was a Nazi commandant at the concentration camp he and his wife managed to survive. The soldier has fled Germany and assumed a new identity, as had the doctor, in America. Despite the doctor’s gentle nature and the many years that have passed, he flies into a rage and murders the Nazi. In the ensuing investigation he must face questions of ethics and morality.
This is another excellent episode with strong writing, fantastic characterization, and subject matter that is rich and compelling

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Episode 0225
Love Me and Die
February 18, 1975


A woman remarries after the death of her previous husband. Her former marriage was marked with violence, turmoil, and a paucity of real love. Her new husband is very understanding and when she starts seeing visions of her dead husband, she starts to doubt her sanity. The following day, when they find physical evidence, an old cufflink that belonged to the old husband, they both seek to put her old husband to rest, once and for all… but the ghost seems to have more to say

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Episode 0224
The Death Wisher
February 17, 1975


An aristocratic family is visited by the son of the patriarch’s old army batman. Having lost all his family the young man seeks a home with the man whose life his father had apparently saved. The patriarch’s family consists of an older son who is off making his own way in the world, a daughter who has been recently divorced and is bitter toward men and relationships, and a younger daughter who still has her naïveté and innocence intact. The young man proves to be quite a lady-killer… and a killer of virtually any living thing with merely the utterance of a wish…

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Episode 0227
The Weavers of Death
February 21, 1975


A group of people are murdered during an apparent holdup. Upon further investigation there emerges a set of coincidences linking several of the victims. One of the victims is a woman who was engaged to be married to the nephew of a textile magnate. The woman was also an old flame of the investigating detective. A marvelously coloured sweater appears to tie everything together, but what is the nature of the tie. This episode had a lot of potential, but seemed to fall short in execution.

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Episode 0226
Must Hope Perish
February 20, 1975


A US Senator sparks his career when he takes a philosophical stance on trade negotiations with a small nation ruled by a tyrannical dictator. He is more altruistic and really does stand n principle despite his handler's recommendations to guard against the ruin of his political career. he believes he is being contacted covertly by a poet from the tiny nation who is being persecuted in her country for writing subversive poetry. The poet it arrested by her government and forced to contact the Senator in an effort to change his position on the trade negotiations.
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Episode 0228
Hell Hath No Fury
February 24, 1975


A couple in the entertainment industry achieve different degrees of success. She is making significant money with her career while he is only spending what she is making. Her sister-in-law is his wife's manager and agent and sees the disparity between the income and the expenses. She recommends to her sister that she go on an allowance and cut her husband off with minimal access to the cash. The husband is bitter and blames it on jealousy because of their affair in the past. The agent sister is also a practicing witch and seeks insight into the future of her sister.

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Episode 0229
Strange Case of Lucas Lauder
Wednesday, February 26, 1975


A convict on death row seeks a meeting with the prison warden. He tells the warden the story of how he went from a well known and respected professor of parapsychology to a brutal killer mimicking Jack the Ripper. He says that before the death of an associate of his, the associate said that at the moment of his own death the professor would become Jack the Ripper; the essence, morality, and drive that brought Jack the Ripper his grizzly fame would enter the professor’s body. The professor then says to the warden that at the moment the trap door opened and he is swinging dead, the same will happen to him. The warden will become Jack the Ripper. The professor even offers a couple of examples to prove the veracity of his statements. Is the warden doomed to become a prisoner in his own prison?

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Episode 0230
Them!
Thursday, February 27, 1975


The episode opens at the conclusion of a trial at which the defendant was found innocent. The man returns to a seemingly perfect family. A man in the gallery utters his disagreement with the decision and embarks on his own justice… apparently a hobby of his. He arranges for the defendant to come to his house under the guise of celebrating his victory with the law firm and lawyers who worked to find him innocent. Once there, he is put through a trial of his own while his family searches for him.

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Episode 0234
When the Death Bell Tolls
Thursday, March 06, 1975


A terrible accident leaves the driver in critical condition and his female passenger dead. When the next of kin are contacted the man’s mother-in-law, the closest relative that is of the age of consent, refuses to give permission for surgery claiming that he is a horrible man who deserves to die, and that her daughter, the woman killed in the crash, was a victim in many more ways than one. What unfolds is the story of his evil nature, and the lives he affected.

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Episode 233
The Pit and the Pendulum
March 04, 1975

A man makes periodic trips to Europe as part of his work, the nature of which is unknown to his wife, and the details kept top secret. His wife accompanies him in the limo to the airport on his latest trip when the driver takes an unexpected turn away from the airport. The two are kidnapped and tortured to get the husband to reveal his secrets.
My wife even listened and enjoyed it!!! smile.gif

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Episode 0236
The Stuff of Dreams
Monday, March 10, 1975


[i:b65e069d12]This was a fabulous episode with a very cool plot and amazing potential that literally fizzled out to nothing at the end. Extremely disappointing, but still worth listening to if only to make up your own ending. This is one of those episodes that you may fall asleep to, but don’t rewind to listen to the real ending. Your own will be much better!![/i:b65e069d12]

A woman answers an advertisement for a job with a corpulent recluse to make extra money. The woman offers her a sizable salary merely to visit once a week and tell her the details of her day to day life. The old woman has existed indoors as a self-professed professional daydreamer, but she has run out of story lines and demands of her new employee, some exciting details upon which to build her fantasy world. The woman, a social worker, has a special interest in a criminal who is eligible for parole shortly and he is anxious to meet this old eccentric woman.

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Episode 0235
The Eye of Death
Friday, March 07, 1975


A step-father leaves a bad taste in his step-daughter’s mouth. She, a very successful freelance photographer, does not trust him, and cannot believe he loves her mother for any more than her estate. She learns that within the short time they’ve been married, he has already had her take out a sizable insurance policy on her life. When they go upstairs to see the mother, they find she has drowned in her bathtub after an apparent seizure, something she has never had before in her life. The photographer seeks to take her younger sister, who is still living with the step-father and mother, away to safety. More surprises are in store at the reading of the will and the photographer, always looking for a story to shoot, finds one in her own life.

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Episode 0221
Journey Into Nowhere
February 10, 1975

An archaeologist believes that if he can find a certain artifact, that it will lead to world peace. When he discovers a small totem related to his quest, he, like a responsible archaeologist and preserver of ancient artifacts, drills a hole through it and wears it around his neck. As he encounters locals on the street they tear away from him in terror. He learns that the totem he wears is a symbol of a most powerful spirit – and the longer he wears it, the more intimate he becomes with this mysterious force.

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Episode 0237
The Dark Closet
Wednesday, March 12, 1975

A young girls with an overly protective father takes her first timid steps at rebellion. She goes out with a local hoodlum and winds up custody after he holds up a liquor store and gets shot. Her father, livid with her behaviour believes that leaving her in prison will teach her a lesson. The psychiatrist looking after her learns that she is terribly claustrophobic and the show explores the source of this fear, and the family dynamics that led to it.

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Episode 0239
The Cezar Curse
Mar 14, 1975

A man suffering from severe stress is prescribed rest and relaxation by his physician. The doctor recommends a villa in Spain whose owners have fallen upon difficult financial times and are willing to take in a border to supplement their income. The only condition is that he is not to strike up any intimate relationship under any circumstances with the owners of the estate. Once settled in his room he is captivated by a painting of a lovely woman in his room. This ancestor of the current residents bears a striking resemblance to the current occupants. The man cannot leave well enough alone and embarks on a fact finding mission to uncover the past of this family, and, in the process, falls in love with one of them.

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Episode 0240
Every Blossom Dies
Mar 17, 1975

A detective investigates the murder of a young beautiful local singer. At home, he and his wife struggle through problems of trust and a strange letter the wife received suggesting that her husband is having an affair. The detective puts all his energy into solving this murder and is remarkably successful at tracking down leads in what appears to be an unsolvable case with a dearth of evidence.

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Episode 0241
It's Murder, Mr. Lincoln
Mar 18, 1975

A young Abe Lincoln is called to defend a passionate man who arrived in town proclaiming to the bartender and banker (who are also the judge and sheriff) that he is owed a debt by a local businessman and he intends to claim what is his by any means. He retires to his hotel room and awakes to find the businessman has been murdered. He is taken into custody proclaiming his innocence, but in the face of such strong words to the sheriff and judge, it seems his fate is all but certain.

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Episode 0238
Death Pays No Dividend
Mar 13, 1975

Three businessmen in the middle of a corporate scandal agree to a suicide pact to escape the pressures and disgrace of their predicament. Fearing for the welfare of their families after their demise, they hire a killer to murder them thus ensuring their loved ones will receive insurance benefits. But once the hit is called, it cannot be rescinded… but why would they want to go back on their pact?

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Episode 0242
The Doppelganger
Mar 20, 1975

When a professor of psychology, who dabbles in the paranormal, discovers his daughter has broken off her engagement to a favoured gentleman, in favour of callous and heartless man, he grows concerned. With the assistance of the gentleman, he talks with the daughter about her plans further learning that the cad forced her to have an abortion, yet she still feels her life will end if she cannot be with him. The father, calling on his knowledge of the occult, conjures a doppelganger to exact revenge on the cad.

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Episode 0231
An Identical Murder
Feb 28, 1975

Identical twins are in love with the same woman but her love is saved only for one of them. Throughout their dating history, the couple was joined virtually all the time by the scorned brother. When the couple gets engaged, they go off on a climbing holiday accompanied by the scorned brother. During the climb, the scorned finds an opportunity to let his brother die in an accident and then claim his identity. He convinces everyone… almost. The woman is uncertain and is haunted by messages from beyond the grave.

Twin episode: Episode 0116 And Death Makes Even Steven July 9, 1974

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Episode 0232
The Wakeful Ghost
Apr 3, 1975

This file is very muddy and difficult to listen to.

An Irish American medical student takes time to look up long lost relatives in the old country. With only a postmark and a name on a letter, he arrives in the town prepared for some detective work to find these people. To his surprise he is met by a little gentleman who says he is expected and takes him off in a horse and buggy to his relatives all the while telling him tales of leprechauns and warlocks. The tale that unfolds is one of found love, insurmountable barriers to see the relationship to fruition, supernatural intervention, and happiness everafter.

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Episode 0243
The Man Must Die
Mar 21, 1975

A judge is about to make a decision on a difficult murder case that could either lead to the death penalty, or to life in prison. His son is quite adamant that the defendant should be killed for his crimes and pesters his father about it. After the judge gives a 20 year sentence the son is livid and talks about taking the law into his own hands. He is goes so far as to acquire a gun and seek a meeting with the convict in his cell…

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Episode 0244
The Deadly Double
Mar 24, 1975

A wealthy young woman who seeks solitude and seclusion has only one close friend. He visits regularly and seeks her advise as a fellow artist – her a painter, him a writer. She receives an unexpected late night phone call from her twin sister who has been in an institution for the insane for several years after proving herself unfit for life in the regular world. The crazy sister has apparently left the institution and seeks a meeting with her and she obliges at once. At the meeting, the crazy sister attacks her and disappears. Recovering on the side of the road, the painter is rescued up by the police and the sheriff promises to take her to the station where she can get the help she needs…

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Episode 0245
Death Is a Dream
Mar 26, 1975

A school teacher in a comfortable neighbourhood has a dream about her policeman brother being shot to death in pursuit of a criminal. Upon waking, she learns that somehow her dream actually happened in real life. Distraught and frustrated by the police’s apparent inability to bring the perpetrator to justice, she leaves her plum position to take a most difficult job in the neighbourhood in which her brother was killed. She believes that by becoming part of the community she will be able to root out the killer. She does not count on the challenges of the job and the way of life of the people her brother served behind the badge.

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Episode 0246
The Velvet Claws
Mar 27, 1975

A middle aged single accountant breaks the monotony of his well scripted and comfortable life by jumping off a train while on holidays in a tiny village. Seeking out a motel, the cab driver is very enthusiastic about his home and intimates that the visitor may never want to leave. Getting the same message from the landlady of the inn, he feels both at peace, and ill at ease at the same time. Only staying the one night he awaits the cab the next day to take him to the daily train. When the cab breaks down and he misses the train he is forced to stay another day. Meeting the landlady’s attractive daughter, while out on a stroll, he sprains his ankle forcing him to stay even longer. Is it merely fate that is preventing his departure? Or are the larger forces at play?

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Episode 0247
Key to Murder
Mar 28, 1975

A murder mystery about a landlady whose apartment block suffer after the apparent suicide of a tenant. Upon further investigation, the police lieutenant determines it was murder. But all evidence points to suicide – particularly the fact that the room was locked from the inside with the key still inside the lock from the inner part of the door. As more murders occur, all staged to look like suicides, the landlady is loosing tenants – some dying, others moving out. She is financially at her wits end.

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Episode 0248
Killer of the Year
Mar 31, 1975

A pillar of the community is recognized for his charity and philanthropic work being named Man of the Year. Some years ago, while delivering a series of seminars, he attended a sensational murder trial whose defendant was a beautiful charming woman who seemed to catch his eye quite often. After being sentenced to a significant jail term he forgets about her and returns to his work and his family. At the Man of the Year presentation he encounters this woman again… or is it a double? Whatever the case, she has captivated his attention and we learn just how moral and ethical this Man of the Year actually is.

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Episode 0249
The Killer Inside
Apr 1, 1975

A woman leads a predictable life with her mother and frequent, predictable visits from her fiancé, both of them lecturers at the local university. Apparently frustrated with the lack of excitement and interest in her life, she is very pleased when she wins a trip to London and, despite the hesitancy of her mother is determined to go. When her fiancé turns up he is quite enthusiastic and the mother immediately changes her tune. He encourages her to go and enjoy herself, and while she’s there, look up a professor he has been corresponding with and deliver an envelope of linguistic research. Now, you know there’s just got to be more to it than this…
This was a fun episode with some great twists.

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Episode 0250
The Garrison of the Dead
Apr 3, 1975

Two ‘friends’ are both writers of differing degrees of success. The more successful of the two not only has the talent and puts it to good creative use, but has the woman of both their dreams. The less successful author though is having an affair with the wife and the two plot a foolproof murder…
This was quite a clever episode with a creative plot line. This episode deserves a 10 for creativity.

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Episode 0251
Roses Are for Funerals
Apr 4, 1975

A woman arrives from England to visit her distant relatives. Arriving at the airport with her imitation leopard skin coat and a rose in her lapel, she is accosted by a French woman who is determined to purchase the jacket from her. As the exchange grows more emotional, offering $1000 for the coat, the Englishwoman refuses and is finally rescued by her cousin who has come to pick her up. On the drive home they are pursued by a man in a car who tries to force them off the road. It seems the woman has a very popular jacket, and people are going to extraordinary lengths to get their hands on it.

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Episode 0252
The Benjamin Franklin Murder
Apr 7, 1975

A woman is trying to sell her home because it is far too large and costly to maintain. A potential buyer lo-balls the offer claiming that the house is haunted, and whatever purpose he could put the land or building to would be tarnished by the home’s reputation. While the woman assures him it is not, her close relation claims it is. Ben Franklin is brought in to help figure things out.
Don’t know why it had to be Ben Franklin… perhaps the It’s Murder Mr. Lincoln episode received good reviews so why not have another president episode?
Twin Episode: 0247 Key to Murder March 28, 1975

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Episode 0253
The Altar of Blood
Apr 9, 1975

A archaeologist specializing in Aztec civilization struggles with life and happiness after the untimely death of his wife, herself a descendent of the Aztec people. He takes his daughter to Mexico to immerse himself in work where his daughter starts having dreams of being sacrificed on an altar in an Aztec ceremony. The father apologizes saying his work is interfering with their happiness and they go off on a vacation. Arriving at their destination, they dig holes in the back yard (why, I can’t remember, maybe it’s just an archaeologist thing,) and find a slab of stone that swallows them up.

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Episode 0254
The Death of Halpin Fraser
Apr 10, 1975

A recent graduate of a Tennessee lw school in the late 1700s is the prize jewel of his mother’s collection. She dotes on him and he on her in a borderline unnatural relationship. When he marries and is offered a plum job in San Francisco his mother is extremely upset, and he himself had to be talked into the separation by his fiancé. His mother tells him that if he leaves he will meet his death by strangulation and asks to be taken with them so she may look after him. He refuses and leaves for his now position but has a hard time separating the identity of his wife and his mother.

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Episode 0255
The Phantom Stop
Apr 11, 1975

A widower mourns the loss of his beautiful and caring wife even 15 years later having remarried a woman who has turned into a nag and bitter demanding woman. She moves her sister in with her who is equally as nagging and a hypochondriac to boot. His friend whose life is what his own was is also his landlord. He worries about he man who has become forlorn and has lost interest in living. On their way to work on a new subway there is a stop at which the subway does not stop. The forlorn man is curious about it, and one day he dreams that he got off and met his dead wife where they resumed their wonderfully blissful life together. Upon waking his curiosity and despondency grows.

Curious – the preview of the next episode is for Episode 0214 Windandingo which, in the log, appeared on Jan 28, 1975. Could it be that these episodes are mixed up in the log? Or were preview tapes provided to stations for repeats as well?

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Episode 0256
The Intermediary
Apr 14, 1975

When a wealthy but bitter old woman dies she leaves a will with some exceptional conditions. In order for her son to gain access to any of her fortune he must live in the house he grew up in and he must remain married to the woman he is currently with. He balks at these conditions stating his hatred for the house and the memories he has of the things that went on there. His wife, on the other hand, encourages him, in fact, is quite forceful about moving into the mansion. Upon taking possession of the house, he finds his wife acting more and more like his dead mother…

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Episode 0257
My Own Murderer
Apr 15, 1975

When a Wall Street businessman finds himself waking up in cheap hotels with a hangover and death/suicide notes written on the mirror, he believes he is going crazy as he has no memory of the events leading up to that point. Upon immigrating to America, he changed his name and took up many different trades finally working himself through school to become a successful Wall Street mogul. His psychiatrist suggests hiring a detective to follow him on one of his blackouts, some of which lasted for days, to see what is happening, and also to protect him from harm.

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*** POST TO COME***

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Episode 0258
Through the Looking Glass
Apr 17, 1975

A strange couple move in next door to an inventor and his wife and invite them for a visit one evening. There the strange man tells them he himself is an inventor and shows the neighbour a solar powered engine that could power a small city, right there in his basement. After seeing the math and plans for it, the strange man offers to give the entire thing to his neighbour. In disbelief he tells his boss of the plans and the two speculate on the impact this will have on the world economy. The boss says not to worry, that the oil companies will buy it out and suppress the technology so things will remain the same. Who is this brilliant inventor, what does he have to gain by giving away the technology?

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Episode 0259
A Challenge for the Dead
Apr 18, 1975

A city cop has committed the better part of his career trying to find the evidence needed to convict him of a murder committed 20 years ago. He believes sometimes that he is the only devoted and hardest working cop around and becase he didn’t play the political game, he was passed over for promotion. The suspect was a childhood friend who is known today for being a racketeer. The cop’s wife was a childhood friend of her husband and grew up in the same neighbourhood.
This crime mystery had some potential but rather than twist and complicate things at the end, the story unfolds in a predictable, conventional, unimaginative manner. A disappointing episode.

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Episode 0260
Sting of Death
Apr 21, 1975

A world traveler and explorer is living out his last days as he dies from an illness he contracted in Borneo, where he spent considerable time with a head-hunting tribe. He has in his den above the fireplace a grizzly clock with two human thigh bones for hands and shrunken human heads to mark out the hours. His daughter is engaged to a man the father disapproves of and he states his objection quite clearly and directly. When the fiancée finds the head from the 7:00 place on the clock in his bed he return it and inquires about the mystery. Promptly, at 7:00, he drops dead. Good, says the father, now his daughter is free to marry someone more to his liking. But when the man he approves of turns up with a new wife in tow, he is not pleased. What power does the clock have?

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Episode 0261
Afraid to Live, Afraid to Die
Apr 23, 1975

A young woman leaves her home to take up a job as a maid with her aunt at an elderly woman who the stableman describes as half alive, half ghost, and all mystery. The young woman is intrigued, terrified, but reassured by her stern aunt who puts everything and everyone in their place. Her sense of order and control seems to calm her, until strange noises come from the upstairs and her aunt scurries away to tend to the old woman’s needs. As the story unfolds, the mystery of the old woman is compounded by the old woman’s behaviour, and the mystery of the old woman’s life.

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Episode 0262
Bulletproof
Apr 24, 1975

A convict paroled seeks help from his brother in starting life fresh and clean. The brother arranges for him to take a security guard job and pulls strings to get him the clearance he needs to carry a handgun required for the job. The ex-con is happy and very responsible, taking every measure to ensure that he does not break his brother’s trust, going so far as to sleep with the gun to ensure that it is kept safe. Firing it only for practice, he is shocked when he is arrested for murder. The bullets extracted from the car seat, (Having passed through the victim, apparently), match the markings on the test bullets fired from his gun. He has a lot to explain and many hurdles to trying to prove his innocence.

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Episode 0263
Till Death Do Us Join
Apr 25, 1975

An apprentice painter is deeply in love with his master’s niece, (he is caring for after her family was killed), but the two keep it secret until he is able to provide in a satisfactory manner. When a mysterious man appears at the studio lurking in the shadows, face hidden by the brim of a large hat, and offers the master a fortune in gold along with the promise of a secure and more than comfortable future for his. Wanting on ly the best for his young charge, he agrees and signs a marriage contract which the young apprentice reluctantly signs as a witness. It is not until later the next day when the girl meets her bridegroom and they see his looks more like an animated corpse than anything else. What is in store for the young girl and how will the young apprentice handle his love for his art and for the girl?

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Episode 0265
Black Widow
Apr 29, 1975

A man decides to take on the union bosses in an election and works to gain the confidence of the membership. The current union executive appears to have no interest in the will of the workers and this man wants to set things straight. When the man is killed in a hit and run accident, the wife is certain that he was killed by the corrupt union bosses and seeks the help of her mystical advisor to right the wrongs done to her family.


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Episode 0266
Mad Monkton
May 1, 1975

A woman is enamoured with a man whose family is rumoured to have a hereditary madness. Despite her brother’s urgings, she stands by her love as he struggles with his own monomania (an obsession with a single thing). There is a legend surrounding the mad man’s family involving burial of their dead, and a prophesy of the end of their lineage. It appears that this young man’s obsession is over the continuation of his family line… something he takes very seriously. But there are strange things he must do to belay the prophesy and ensure the family future.

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Episode 0267
The Final Witness
May 2, 1975

A man is sent out to pick up some milk by his wife. He is told not to go to a particular store because he always ends up spending too much time there. Of course, he goes where he shouldn’t and visits with the grocer and is there when an armed robber comes in and guns down the proprietor. He is left alive and is able to provide a clear and vivid description of the perpetrator to the police, much to his wife’s annoyance feeling that now he may be a target for fingering the criminal. She is right, and the mother of the killer approaches the man in her role as both mob leader and mother of the accused.

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Episode 0268
The Paradise of the Devil
May 5, 1975

When a security guard is murdered in an apparent holdup his daughter, a secretary, is anxious to bring the murderers to justice. When the police seem to have lost interest in the case, she hires a private investigator to examine the circumstances surrounding the killing, her father’s financial records, and real estate dealings. As more and more ‘accidents’ happen surrounding the case, the private investigator realizes there is more to the case than meets the eye.


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Episode 0269
The Transformation
May 7, 1975


An impetuous young man is determined to live life according to his own rules. He becomes enamoured with the young girl his father has been made guardian of while her own father was in exile abroad. He challenges men who try to claim her and in the end they are promised to each other. While out walking during a storm he sees a ship dashed against the reef and a trunk and dwarfish character cast from the wreckage. They make their way to the young man and then promptly shouts commands to the elements putting an end to the storm. He asks the young man to trade bodies with him for a short period… What do you think will happen? :wink:

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Episode 0270
Taken for Granite
May 8, 1975

A famous and accomplished sculpture’s works are on limited display in a garden devoted to his work. Access is only provided by permission of the dean of the local art college, according to the will of the owner of the statues. An eccentric caretaker of the exhibit is himself a budding artist and is haunted by the fabulous success of the sculpture to whom the garden is devoted. Both the sculpture and the owner of the statues disappeared under mysterious circumstances. When more visitors start disappearing, the solution is there, chiseled in stone!

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Episode 0271
The Voices of Death
May 9, 1975

A long serving communications executive feels certain he will be appointed president of the company. When he is passed over for a younger, more in-tune employee, he is extremely disappointed. Going on a drive with his secretary, the two muse about their lives, devoted to the company and to each other, and he is very bitter about his lot. Stopping at a garage sale, he finds a crystal radio set that is designed from his own prize winning plans he created for a contest as a youth. Purchasing the item he finds it still works, and he alone hears broadcasts from the distant past, and voices that, in communication with each other, spell calamity and disaster for the entire planet.

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Episode 0272
For Tomorrow We Die
May 12, 1975

A widow, living with her daughter and son-in-law, is contacted by old flame and rival for her youthful affections. He too is widowed and asks her to set aside the past and accept a visit from him as he passes through town on business. He is now very wealthy now, apparently achieving fabulous success on Wall Street and seems to want to rekindle the affair they had in the past. The son-in-law, an assistant district attorney, is suspicious and trips him up in a lie when he probes him about his stock dealings. Wanting to protect his mother-in-law from a potential shyster , he probes further and does not like what he finds.

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Episode 0273
Where Angels Fear To Tread
May 13, 1975

A professor of parapsychology is conducting personal investigations into astral projection, sending his spiritual self out of his body to roam around the world unencumbered by the corporeal body. Finally achieving some success, he believes he has left his body but cannot recall what he has done, or where he has gone, until the local tavern owner arrives and accuses him of trashing the bar in a drunken and lascivious rage, much to everyone’s surprise. Is that what his astral self does on these out-of-body experiences?

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Episode 0274
Deadly Dilemma
May 15, 1975

The crew of a flight departing from a troubled Central American country, receive notice that there may be a terrorist on board who is intent on killing the president and taking the entire plane down in a suicide mission. The head stewardess and pilot go through the flight manifest crossing out passengers they know and trust, and create a list of possible suspects. Three of the individuals on board refused to part with their bags when they boarded and the stewardess must now find out what is in each of the bags without raising suspicion.

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Episode 0276
Diamond Necklace
May 19, 1975

A couple with a chronic case of bad luck receive an invitation in the mail to a dinner appointment with the big boss of the man’s department store. Believing he is about to receive a big promotion and recognition for his long service, his many hours of unpaid overtime, and devotion to the company, he wants to create a good impression. They spend a sizable portion of their last savings to buy a gown for her and she speaks to a woman for whom she worked some time ago to borrow some jewelry. The old woman is happy to oblige and she leaves with a beautiful diamond necklace.

This was a brilliant episode, adapted from a Guy deMaupissant story. While the ending may be a little predictable, the way it unfolds is masterful and the buildup to the final climax is well worth the listen.

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out of a possible 10

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Episode 0277
Don't Let It Choke You
May 21, 1975

A wealthy antique dealer lives a bachelor’s life with his man servant with whom he served as a Green Beret. His daily ritual of drinking from a green phial and sitting in an armchair day-dreaming of a long lost love, shows his deep seated desire for love. Yet, never having any luck with women, despite his charm and devilishly good looks, he vows to live the life of a bachelor recluse and vows off women. Receiving a telegram from a friend, he learns that he has become the guardian of a certain 17 year old. He is perturbed at first but sets about to prepare for his young charge. That is just the beginning of the changes and surprises that are about to come.
The whole thing with the liquor in the green phial is never clearly connected to the plot – I can only guess it is perhaps a reference to Absinthe and the daydreams are a kind of trip that results from the liquor.

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Episode 0278
Return to Shadow Lake
May 22, 1975

A friend of a couple is distraught over the disappearance of his wife some weeks ago. The couple try to console him, afterward, the friend reports that while he was up at the lake, he noticed suspicious behaviour at their cottage and suspected that their place had been burglarized. Wishing to go check it out the husband is anxious to leave at once and when a weather advisory comes up the wife urges him to stay at home and check it later. Despite her pleadings the two set out on the wind and snow-blown road to their cottage where they find…

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Episode 0279
Markheim: Man or Monster?
May 23, 1975

The son of a wealthy bishop is certain he will inherit his father’s fortune as he goes to the reading of the will. He does not have the same convictions as his father and is anxious to get hold of the money so he can then embark on a personal project: to break every commandment and indulge in all of the deadly sins. When he finds he has been cut out of the will, he is furious and searches for other ways to indulge his evil pursuits.

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Episode 0280
The Witches' Almanac
May 26, 1975

A kindly old couple, Mr. and Mrs. Warlock, seek a border to whom they will rent a room after the departure of their previous guest. Of course, they have some standards to which their border will be held, but any young pure female virgin will do. The Warlocks want to do everything in their power to keep their guest happy and satisfied, for their plans go far beyond mere pleasant accommodations, as their name might suggest!

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Episode 0281
The Executioner
May 27, 1975

While traveling through the moors on an inclement day, a writer and his wife, trying to escape the pressures of work after he has suffered a nervous break-down, find they are stuck and seek assistance at a stately old home at the top of a hill. After first being rebuffed by the housekeeper, the lord of the manor bids them a warm welcome and invites them to stay as long as they wish until the weather clears. He tells them of the history of his family and the house as a staging ground for executions ordered by the queen of the day, and that his ancestor served as the executioner. He then warns them not to enter a certain room in the mansion. Of course, what do you think they do…

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Episode 0282
Just One More Day
May 29, 1975

A beat cop nearing retirement deals with a recurring nightmare with two different endings: one good, one bad. Having never had to draw his service revolver in his entire career, he is nervous about his last day work in light of the dream, but he sticks to his routine…

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Episode 0283
Someday I'll Find You
May 30, 1975

An archaeological expedition with a group of students goes terribly wrong when the cave they are exploring falls in. The professor is lost, presumed dead, but his wife is adamant that he is still alive and seeks him out. When she discovers a painting in a market that is identical to her husband and finds it was painted after the date of his disappearance, she steps up the search in this world, and beyond.

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Episode 0300
The Golden Cauldron
Jun 30, 1975
A cocky Sherlock Holmes type character is irritatingly accurate with tracking down what happened to whom, when, and where. The Golden Cauldron is only peripherally connected to the larger plot of the story. A couple of friends go to an old castle to visit and encounter other individuals who may or may not be involved with some strange occurrences at the castle.

Hosted by Himan Brown

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Episode 0307
The Widows' Auxiliary
Jul 11, 1975

A man is anxious to climb the ladder of success and sees the opportunity to join the Executive Club as his big chance to make connections with important people. His wife is supportive, until she receives a visit from the wife of another member who pleads with her to talk her husband out of joining saying they would regret it for the rest of their lives if she didn’t. She cannot divulge the details until they know he has been accepted, and by then it will be too late.

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Episode 0308
Snake in the Grass
Jul 14, 1975

A woman enters a bar asking for whatever will give her courage, or make her forget. When she is awakened on the morning after the night before, it appears she may have found a glass of exactly what she wanted, for she is arrested on suspicion of murder. The death of a rival in agricultural research, who she claims stole an important biological innovation she invented, is being blamed on her. With the help of a sympathetic policeman, they attempt to solve the mystery together.

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Episode 0309
Goodbye, Karl Erich
Jul 16, 1975

An anxious cleaning woman pleads with a doctor to see her son who has not spoken since the day of his father’s death. After an entire act of pleading, he agrees and is able to teach the boy to speak again. With his newfound abilities and self confidence he then turns to follow the rising star of Hitler, much to the chagrin of his mentor.

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Episode 0310
Nightmare's Nest
Jul 17, 1975

A confirmed intellect and bachelor wishes to retreat to a life of solitude and quiet and so purchases an estate in the middle of nowhere. Believing he has found his nirvana, he inquires of the housekeeper the history of the estate. She tells him a tale of frustrated love, gypsy curses, and a crypt in the middle of a maze on the grounds in which lay…

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Episode 0311
The Spots of the Leopard
Jul 18, 1975

A couple are put into the witness protection program after he testifies against the mob. His wife has a penchant for antiques and despite the dangers to life and limb, cannot seem to keep their identity a secret.

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Episode 0312
Fateful Reunion
Jul 21, 1975

Goofy little tale about a computer that can read the future, or at least parts of it. The owners of the computer can think of nothing more profitable from this amazing device than to stage parlour tricks as a fund raiser (when they could be asking the future of stock prices and sporting events). Their fathers are old war buddies and make annual reunion visits. The computer predicts that next year there will be no reunion. (da dummmmm)

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Episode 0313
The Poisoned Pen
Jul 22, 1975

Quite frankly, I didn’t see the point of this episode. It was over at the introduction. We knew about the murders, the perpetrator, and the method of execution. The motive was revealed late in the first act. After that it was like listening to paint dry.
Several New York entertainment big wigs receive mysterious letters claiming they will be rewarded for their generosity in the past to a girls who is now quite wealthy and offers them $50,000 if they can confirm their identity using the self-addressed stamped envelope. They all die.

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Episode 0314
Appointment in Uganda
Jul 24, 1975

*shudder*
This must have been a mistake.
Act I
A ‘business man’ is in the hospital after a heart attack and is obsessed with building a crypt for his remains. His partner suggests shelves for his loved ones, an idea that is not appealing to either him or his relatives. The heart attack victim then suggests cornering the market on sponges. He also says he has been dwelling on reincarnation and then has another attack.

Act II
An elephant is born and learns about the wonders of life, the universe and everything from his elephant mother.

Act III
Businessman is revived after his heart stopped for 6-8 seconds…

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Episode 0315
Woman From Hell
Jul 25, 1975

A Hollywood actress is found dead after an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. Her husband is not convinced it was suicide, nor is her agent, who has hired a private investigator to look deeper into the matter.
Reading between the lines in messages and letters, the husband learns of a secret diary she kept and tracks it down wherein lay the truth of her life, and death.

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Episode 0316
The Lady Is a Jinx
Jul 28, 1975

After her brother is accidentally gunned down in a gang-style execution, a professor of economics appeals to the police to investigate further claiming that he was not the first man, engaged to a particular beautiful woman, to have died in mysterious circumstances. In fact, he was the fourth, and she is engaged again. She pressures the police to do something to save this poor man from a certain fate… but what will the charge be?

My copy of this file is missing the ending – it switches to a few minutes of a Suspense episode then concludes with about 5 minutes of a Shadow episode. Very strange.

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Episode 0317
He Moves in Mysterious Ways
Jul 30, 1975

A train wreck floods a hospital with cases. The staff tend to the injured and the Chaplain attends to their spiritual health. One of the patients is a ballet dancer who struggles with the choices she made in life between her career and her love interest, and now, must deal with the possibility she may never dance again. The chaplain himself sets aside his own health symptoms to perform his duty.

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Episode 0318
Carmilla
Jul 31, 1975

A 90 year old woman recalls the year 1905 when she was 19 and encountered a girl with whom she shared a special bond, shared similar recollections from their past, and shared dreams. The girl pushed the bounds of the relationship and the episode explores the emotional response of the characters response to ‘forbidden love’

Mercedes McCambridge delivers another creepy performance, and while I can’t always buy into her characterizations, she certainly has a flair for infusing her dialogue with an almost frenetic energy.

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Episode 0319
The Onyx Eye
Aug 1, 1975

The Monkey’s Paw with a twist… A man convinces a shop owner to sell him, against his better judgment and advise, an onyx eye purported to bring unlimited good luck to the possessor, but, of course, with consequences. The twist is the ongoing nature of the charm, and the owner’s inability to rid himself of it.

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Episode 0320
The Devil's Boutique
Aug 4, 1975

An internationally redound and extremely vain fashion designer takes one of her gentleman friends and her daughter on a cruise where, at one stop, the captain suggests searching out the Devil’s Boutique saying that other passengers have spoken highly of it, and while he has never been there himself, he is sure it will prove an interesting experience. Finding the little shop she sees fashion designs that are beyond compare. She arranges to distract the shop owner and make some sketches to copy the designs for herself, but when the shop owner discovers her she expects him to be angry. Rather, he gives her a gift of earrings and lipstick.

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Episode 0322
To Die Is Forever
Aug 7, 1975

The richest man in the world is grief-stricken when his wife is diagnosed with a fatal illness for which there is no known cure. His wife’s sister is a doctor of psychology and her husband is the rich man’s assistant. They are summoned to a private location where the man intends on sorting his affairs before he joins his wife in a cryogenic sleep to wait out a cure.

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Episode 0323
The Grey Ghost
Aug 8, 1975

A woman mourns the death of her father who was killed as a professional race car driver. The other driver accused of causing the accident left the sport and all went their separate ways. While traveling in Europe, the woman encounters an Italian man who offers to show her the sights and lift her spirits… and as an Italian race car driver, there is an appeal she finds hard to resist. While out driving in his fancy car, they are overtaken as though standing still by a strange vehicle…

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Episode 0324
Age Cannot Wither Her
Aug 11, 1975

An elderly man is seen taking a young beautiful woman out in a boat. When he returns alone there is an investigation. There is consensus amongst those asked that the woman was his wife, despite the enormous apparent age difference. When questioned, the man insists that his wife, is 19, and will always be 19, and has been 19 since the French revolution when her alchemist father fed her a potion that promised immortality.

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Episode 0325
The Master Computer
Aug 13, 1975

A couple return from holidays to find people completely ignoring them. No one responds to their questions, no one even acknowledges their existence. While they can answer the phone and open doors, they have no electricity or water. When a man arrives at their door promising to fix everything and that they should come with him but will not disclose the reason for, nor the destination of the suggested journey, the couple balk and refuse to go.

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Episode 0327
The Unbearable Reflection
Aug 15, 1975

A socialite woman is married to power and influence, and has affairs with freedom and excitement. Her vanity and self-indulgence irritates her husband and frustrates her suitors. Things come to a head and someone is murdered. When an agent of satan arrives and offers to the woman a solution to her new problem in exchange for her reflection, she agrees not realizing the full impact of the offer.

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Episode 0326
The Root of All Evil
Aug 14, 1975

A very conservative, ecologically minded man with upright morals and a sense of duty to his fellow man and nature discovers $80,000 in his garbage bins. Learning that the money was stolen and stashed by criminals who robbed a bank, one of whom was killed by police in the chase, he is tempted to keep the money and sees it as a chance to finally live an easier life. When the criminals come back looking for their cash he has some explaining to do to his wife, and them.

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Episode 0328
Help Somebody
Aug 18, 1975

A bitter and angry writer is living in Italy and frustrated by his lack of success in his chosen field and with his wealthy father’s refusal to increase his allowance. He falls in lust with a local actress and when his father dies, he inherits his fortune, and the ability to have and do whatever he wants. Perhaps this money will help him find happiness… HAHAHA.

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Episode 0329
Welcome for a Dead Man
Aug 19, 1975

An older bank robber is released from prison after 20 years behind bars. His wife and child stopped visiting and making contact 10 years ago and he is leaving prison feeling as though there is nothing left to live for and no one waiting for him on the outside except, maybe, the elephants (see: Appointment in Uganda – hehe).
Sipping a beer in a bar he is approached by a young man who knows him and of his exploits, and the stolen money that was never recovered, and offers to help the ex-con find it… for a share.

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Episode 0330
Circle of Evil
Aug 21, 1975

A woman is hired to be nanny to a man’s niece and nephew for whom he is guardian. When she arrives she finds the ‘children’ are within a year or two of legal adulthood. Their housekeeper is very controlling of the situation and the children. Realizing that this is not what she wanted, she seeks leave of her new appointment but is intrigued by a story of an old chauffer who visits occasionally, despite having been killed many years ago.

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Episode 0333
The Eavesdropper
Aug 27, 1975

A couple is approached by a mysterious man who offers them a huge sum of money to spy on a brilliant scientist who is believed to be developing the math to enable interstellar travel. The man’s ‘clients’, he claims, are not of this world and have a vested interest in suppressing this research. Arranging for the scientist to live in a bugged house at which the couple will play housekeeper and chauffer, they try to outsmart the most brilliant scientist in the world.

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Episode 0331
Terror in the Air
Aug 22, 1975

Food poisoning strikes the pilots of a passenger plane. The stewardess seeks medical help from the only doctor on board, but the situation is critical and the pilots are out for the flight. The doctor is rather despondent over the loss of his own son, a pilot, who was killed in an air accident, and whose body is on this very flight. The doctor was a hobby pilot in the past and must take control of the plane. He is talked down by a friendly military pilot who knew his son.

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Episode 0335
Murder by Proxy
Aug 29, 1975

An older man, frustrated by his much younger wife’s infidelity has cooled to their relationship. At the same time, he is approached by an ex-con recently released on parole seeking revenge. In the past, the man served as foreman of they jury that sent this criminal to prison. Since his life is not progressing as he desires, his resistance to the criminal’s threats are baffling and the criminals plans to make him wait out his impending death are not having the desired effect.

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Episode 0336
The Smile of Death
Sep 1, 1975

I found this episode hard to hang on to – lots of characters to sort out.
A young man, tired of bowing to his father’s tyrannical orders, seeks strength from his past and seeks help from his dead mother. He capitalizes on his father’s gambling addiction and seeks redress for past wrongs his father committed.

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Episode 0338
The Special Undertaking
Sep 4, 1975

BAD ENCODE

A couple move to a small town where he will serve as a doctor. They are both welcomed and warned away. They find a music box that, when played, seems to conjure a spirit from the past.

Hard to make out the real plot of the story because of the skipping and digital blips in my copy of the file.

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Episode 0340
The Other Life
Sep 8, 1975


A woman tries desperately to rekindle the romance in her marriage but her husband is too wrapped up in his work and coming political career to bother. Visiting with a friend, she is introduced to horse racing and with her first $5 wager she wins a respectable sum. Finding this new hobby, she reads more, gambles more, and wins more… but luck can only last so long. Her bookie’s interest in her account goes beyond her pocket book and he seeks closer and more intimate contact with her. A slippery slope.

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Episode 0341
The Ideas of March
Sep 10, 1975

A woman is haunted by a dream that seems to predict her husband’s death. She recalls details and verifies them as best she can to assuage her fears but all signs point to the validity of her premonition. Fearing for her husband’s life, she tries to convince him not to take the flight on that particular day… maybe she's right, but can she prevent it from coming true?

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Episode 1248
The Solid Gold Zarf (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=zarf)
Oct 5, 1981


A long standing and devoted employee of a company is unexpectedly fired from his position. He is baffled and seeks answers, most specifically: why, why was I fired? He climbs the ladder of authority but can find no one who knows why he was released, and the cogs in this industrial wheel turn inexorably slowly and unwaveringly. But as persistent as those wheels, so is the desire of this man to find out who fired him, and why.

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Episode 0824
House on Chimney Pot Lane
Apr 28, 1978

A couple against all advice purchase a house with a strange and checkered past. They commission a wall sized photograph to match their tropical jungle theme. Once the picture of the great lion is installed, the photographer tells them of how it was taken. Amidst head hunting tribes and ferocious animals, the picture was taken to capture the spirit of the jungle… and it captured it with all-too-accurate realism.

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Episode 0343
The Ghost Plane
Sep 12, 1975

Casey Kasem appears again in this episode!
Two individuals find themselves waking onboard a plane on a strange flight for which there are more questions than answers. The elderly stewardess is gentle but provides no answers, the captain locks them in their seats for their stops during which they pick up a few more people. None of them seem to know where they are or why they are on the flight, but as they talk they begin to work things out.

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282
May 29, 1975
Just One More Day
A policeman has an uneasy feeling on his last day on the beat before retirement. Despite this, and suggestions from those around him to take the day off, he is determined to earn his 'retirement fair and square.' The premonition of harm he has been able to shake off every day of his career remains and is deeper set than ever before.
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284
Jun 2, 1975
River of Hades
A premiere ballerina receives threats from an anonymous source if she leaves her country to seek asylum in America. After leaving, the threats continue. She also fears a particular ballet as being bad luck. With so much turmoil, who can she trust; to whom can she turn?
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285
Jun 4, 1975
The Devil's Leap
A beautiful, talented American celebrity finds herself the subject of affection of an estranged father and son. A romantic love story with a happy ending. (What were the writers thinking?!?)
The only thing macabre about this episode is Mercedes McCambridge again cast as a gorgeous younger woman. You'll never convince me that she sounds like anything but borderline insane approaching-elderly nut case with a tenuous grasp of her maturity. And the young son in the program sounded like a middle aged simpleton. Don't get me wrong. Both actors are wonderful when cast in roles that match their voices.
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286
Jun 5, 1975
The Plastic Man
Don Scardino plays a hip swinging bachelor committed to never committing. He uses and discards women like a cheap video rental. His psychiatrist brother warns him of the direction his life will take him and that a woman will come along someday that will prove too much for him. When he takes up with a woman with a fast car and a rich husband who is a doctor of parapsychology...
It's fun to listen to the swinging hip lingo in this episode - like far out baby.
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Episode 287
Jun 6, 1975
The Transformer
Old war buddies meet up after 25 years and get reacquainted. One is married and generally happy, apart from the man at his work who occupies the position he wants for himself. The other is in the “transformer” business. At the same time, a series of killings in the city, include the roadblock to promotion and the transformer business begins to reveal itself. Nice twist, if not a little predictable. I love Howard daSilva (platonically).
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Episode 288
Jun 9, 1975
Fallen Angel
A successful writer turns to the bottle when his muse, or angel, leaves him. His regular bartender looks after him, and his adoring wife panders to his 'genius' and eccentricities. During this particular writing block, he assaults a man and is committed to a sanitarium. Will he find his muse again?
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Episode 290
Jun 12, 1975
A Case of Negligence
When a nice old man dies during a routine operation his son, an attorney, together with his wife, scheme to sue the hospital. Not a very original or engaging episode.
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Episode 289
Jun 10, 1975
The Queen of Darkness
An out-of work and fiercely proud actress is desperate for another role. Her agent has been picky for his client but she wants to work. She is approached by a foreign gentleman who asks her to play the role of their respected ancient warrior queen at their millennium celebrations. Overjoyed at the prospect of a glamorous role she cannot see the potential danger in this unique role.
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Episode 283
May 30, 1975
Someday I'll find you
A professor of geology takes a group of students to explore a cave in Arizona. The cave collapses and his wife is told he is presumed dead. She refuses to believe them and embarks on a journey leading her to find a portrait of him in a side-street vendor in Mexico painted after his presumed death.
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Episode 291
Jun 13, 1975
Stairway to Oblivion
After her father's death, a young woman visits her last living relation, an uncle who lives alone on a mountain tending a train stop. While she has corresponded with him over the years, her father refused to have anything to do with him. She finds him to be polite and caring, if only a little bit eccentric. Isolated as they are, she is surprised when a couple arrives with curious questions about her uncle's sometimes strange behaviour.
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Episode 293
Jun 18, 1975
Frame-Up
A brilliant, but lazy lawyer uses his wife's considerable wealth to live comfortably despite his wife's objections. She tells him she is leaving him and has already revoked his power of attorney. He responds that if she doesn't leave things as they are he will frame her for murder and says he is smart enough to do it. Her close friend, an art instructor, seeks to help her out.
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Episode 295
Jun 20, 1975
Can You Trust Your Husband?
A couple's lives are turned upside-down when he is arrested for smuggling upon returning from one of his regular business trips abroad. having had the utmost faith in each other, they are certain the mistake will be cleared up. But under mounting evidence, the foundation of her faith is crumbling.
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Episode 294
Jun 19, 1975
The Climbing Boy
A woman despondent over the untimely death of her five year old years ago finds surcease of sorrow by sending her soul off to a happier place while leaving her body and mind behind. When her husband calls in climbing boys to clean their chimney, she is overcome with sympathy for these young children who are so cruelly abused. When one is injured she takes him to her and seeks to provide for him, to the objections of her husband.
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Episode 298
Jun 26, 1975
That Hamlet Was a Good Boy
A modern day playful take on Shakespeare's classic. When a prominent and socially conscious businessman passes unexpectedly, his factory falls to his wife, who is more interested in profit than the needs of the community. Appearing to his son as a class 3 spirit, requiring his demise to be avenged before he can rest in peace, he solicits the help of the living to reveal the truth of his death.
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Episode 297
Jun 24, 1975
The Mask of Tupac Amaru
When the Aztec husband of an American archaeologist pleads with her to leave alone the tomb she has discovered, she thinks him a foolish and superstitious man. With the curse on the tomb, and a mysterious gentleman appearing to her faculty supervisor wanting to buy the original and trade it for a fake, this story is engaging and puts forward an enlightened view of respect for other cultures, if not respect for gender equity.
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Episode 299
Jun 27, 1975
The Rape of the Maia
A story of murder and a frame-up with delightful characters. A fashion designer’s latest creation is stolen and sold by a fellow designer. Furious over this betrayal he seeks him out to exact a final revenge, but not before a loan-shark kills him first. Fainting at the sight, he is set up to take the rap, but a faithful friend works to uncover the truth.
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Episode 305
Jul 8, 1975
The Triangle
Mercedes McCambridge appears again as an attractive early 30s spinster on her first trip abroad away from her mother when the plane goes down over the Bermuda Triangle. I gave this episode a 9 because it deals with an explanation of a popular unexplained topic. Mercedes McCambridge still sounds nothing like an attractive young woman, but I've learned to suspend disbelief.
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Episode 292
June 16, 1975
The Smile of Deceit
A young woman marries a significantly older man despite the objection of her dear aunt; her objections are heightened when she finds her niece is marrying solely for money. Her husband, an anthropologist, is off on field research and the young bride does not expect the old man to live more than 5 years. After as many years living with a South American tribe with very strict notions of morality and a system of justice that relies on divine intervention that is either liberating or fatal, the wife grows tired and seeks to escape.
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Episode 351
Sep 25, 1975
The Black Whale
Fabulous episode! Set in Texas of the early 1800's. Explorers the notion of freedom and slavery from the eyes of a self-educated slave who, when his master discovers he can read and write, has him look after his business affairs until he dies and the slave is put back on the market.
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Episode 321
Aug 5, 1975
Hung Jury
A fabulous story with a labyrinthine plot line. There are more layers of complexity to this story than any so far. An apparent saint is leading a double life gambling and having an affair when his credit is called in. He is faced with having his life turned upside down when fate steps in and seems to do a mostly good man a good turn.
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Episode 332
Aug 25, 1975
Person to be Notified
Mercedes McCambridge again as a beautiful but slightly flighty young woman who has no friends or family to indicate as the 'person to be notified' in case of an emergency. Because the employment agency requires a name she puts the name of the man interviewing her. He, himself is in the same predicament and, after sending her off on a strange job assignment, he worries about her.
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Episode 344
September 15, 1975
Little Old Lady Killer
The cleverest thing about this episode is the title. The listener has all the details about the killer and the motives from the beginning. All that is left is to listen to the police solve the case.
An elderly woman exacts a lethal revenge on people who have been unkind to animals.
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Episode 342
September 11, 1975
The Voices of Death
A busy executive is expecting promotion after a lifetime devoted service. When he is passed over for a younger, more progressive man, he begins to question his life's work. Taking his secretary out on an impromptu drive to escape the disappointment, they learn more about each other. Stumbling upon a yard sale, he finds a model radio he constructed as a youth out of scrap material. When he turns it on, he is convinced he hears voices from another world.
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Episode 345
September 16, 1975
The Prison of Glass
A young woman is pushed by the expectations of her mother and agent who are determined to capitalize on her talent and beauty. She still mourns the passing of her father and finds solace in a snow-globe paperweight imagining herself to be inside the idyllic winter setting. This episode explores the exploitive relationship between the star and the public and the effects of one's past on the present.
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Episode 302
Jul 3, 1975
Murder Will Out
A policeman is seen to be a little trigger-happy and is sent on leave after shooting a young boy under circumstances that did not warrant that level of force. He also seeks to avenge the murder of his father, himself a policeman killed in the line of duty 25 years earlier. He decides to track down his father's killer while on leave but finds more than he bargained for.
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Episode 296
June 23, 1975
The Mills of the Gods
A young man pursues his life's love after a prolonged absence only to find her involved with another man. Watching their romantic exchange from afar, a gentleman informs him the man she is involved with is a killer.
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Episode 303
Jul 4, 1975
The Slave
Old college friends make a bet that one could not survive a year as the other's personal slave. All this to prove a point that slavery is bad for the slave but good for the master. There is a lot of potential for this story line but it fell far short of my expectations and showed a real lack of imagination turning it into Nothing more than college style shenanigans. Very disappointing.
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Episode 306
Jul 10, 1975
The Ghostly Rival
When a wealthy man is brought into the hospital after surviving a car crash in which his wife and unborn child die, he tells a remarkable story. He claims that he was actually a carefree surfer type who fell in love with the daughter of a wealthy man who would have nothing to do with him. Out on the beach one day, he discovers a bottle within which is a spider-like creature who grants him one wish. He wishes for more wealth than the father of the woman he loves.
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Episode 348
Sep 22, 1975
CIVIL WAR SERIES: Solid Gold Soldiers
Civil war story of a plot to bilk the rebel army out of a million in gold.
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Episode 346
Sep 18, 1975
The Coffin With the Golden Nails
The chief of police for a military dictatorship has abused his power and his people. When his government is about to be overthrown, he is approached by a man claiming that he can be transformed into another person and live out his life in peaceful anonymity. I suspected this was going to be a 'clockwork orange’ story. Similar, but different.
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Episode 347
Sep 19, 1975
CIVIL WAR SERIES: The Third Person
Distant cousins jointly inherit a fortune and a large estate. In their eccentric, flighty and own inimitable style, they learn of their long-lost relations and make unexpected, but not unwelcome connections.
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Episode 349
Sep 23, 1975
CIVIL WAR SERIES: The Headless Hessian
A war story of a lovesick flautist who goes AWOL in enemy uniform in order to play for the general who has set up headquarters in his girlfriend's house. When soldiers in the musician's army start seeing a headless figure in enemy uniform, panic ensues and General Washington anticipates many won't be renewing their commission. Casey Casem in this episode. Always expect him to segue into the week's top 20!
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Episode 350
Sep 24, 1975
CIVIL WAR SERIES: The Angels of Devil's Mountain
When a man pulls into a small town he receives strange looks from everyone, as though they know him. His job is at risk and he begins to have chest pains yet the doctors can find nothing wrong with him.
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Episode 352
Sep 26, 1975
CIVIL WAR SERIES: Assassination in Time
A scientist / inventor creates a time travel machine sending a robot back through the ages. His daughter and her boyfriend volunteer to be human pioneers and travel back, attempting as much as possible to preserve the continuity of time, but when the arrive in the time of Abe Lincoln, on the eve of his assassination...
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Episode 353
September 27, 1975
CIVIL WAR SERIES: The Thomas Jefferson Defense
Two impassioned young men vie for the attention of a young woman. Their passions lead them to bold and threatening statements to each other. When one is found shot, and the father of the survivor accuses one of the Indians, a young Thomas Jefferson battles racism, prejudice, and a web of deceit to find the truth.
Same solution as another episode I reviewed, but cannot find at the moment.
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Episode 358
October 6, 1975
Five Ghostly Indians
When a modern day George Weymouth, assistant professor, finds an ancient arrowhead, strange apparitions begin to appear. The locals believe that it is the ghosts of the 5 Indians who were killed by his ancestor who bears the same name. Being a man of science he, of course, refuses to believe.
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Episode 354
September 28, 1975
The Other Self
When a production company starts experiencing a rise in absenteeism, the boss calls in a psychologist to determine the source of the problem. She decides to focus in on one individual who has never missed a day, and who seems capable of handling the monotony of the assembly line. He proves to be a Civil War enthusiast who devotes all his free 'brain-space' to the hobby. But this hobby is far more encompassing than anyone realizes.
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out of a possible 10

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Episode 359
October 7, 1975
Who Made Me?
A future version of Earth is concerned with balance and a class system that suppresses free thought and questions that seek real understanding. The son of a group one couple is asking such questions and risks reclassification to the lowest group. His father too remembers what that phase was like and encourages balance. Their notions of balance are challenged and they search for a truth they don't fully understand.
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out of a possible 10

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Episode 360
October 9, 1975
They Shall Stone Them With Stones
An old vaudeville act is out of work and she is reverting back to a mind reading scam and discovers that once in a while she gets thing right. They propose this as a new act to their agent who is thrilled, until she sees foul play in the audience.
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out of a possible 10

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Episode 361
October 13, 1975
The Last Lesson
A gambler is in to the mob for a lot of money and they are ready either to collect, of make an example of him to their other clients. The only way out that he can see is to marry rich. He has just the right girl in mind, but can he convince her, and if he can, will he be able to get what he wants?
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out of a possible 10

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Episode 362
October 15, 1975
The Kiss of Death
Adapted from the Nathaniel Hawthorn story. A young man travels to northern Italy from the south to study medicine. En route he learns of a strange doctor whose studies put fear in the hearts of those who hear. Settling into his boarding home he discovers his window overlooks the garden of the doctor and his beautiful daughter.
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out of a possible 10

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Episode 363
Oct 16, 1975
Stay Out of Dutchman's Woods
A couple vacationing in a remote area are keen to explore the woods despite warnings from the locals. It appears that those who enter are never heard from again... particularly if they are male.
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out of a possible 10

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Episode 364
Oct 20, 1975
Never in This World

A man recovering from a severe illness seeks the benefits of rural life and while hiking in the forest, he stumbles upon the remains of an old church and grave-yard. There he encounters a ghostly image after which his appearance changes. Who has he become?
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out of a possible 10

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Episode 365
Oct 21, 1975
Million Dollar Murder
A successful and highly ethical businessman is the sole heir of his father’s estate and has been left in trust to a judge who was a family friend. When a streak of extraordinary bad luck leads him to the brink of ruin, a woman appears offering him a million dollars, with some strings...
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out of a possible 10

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Episode 368
Oct 27, 1975
A Living Corpse
An old expert in mesmerism who is dying of consumption trades his secrets for a promise from a young colleague to put him under in perpetuity to wait for a cure. The chosen man is also having an affair with the mesmer’s young wife and he knows it. While training, the old man takes advantage of his skills to meet his own goals.
This episode rate
7
out of a possible 10

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Episode 367
Oct 24, 1975
The Summer People
a couple respond to an ad for a summer vacation but find it odd that they must be interviewed first. Despite their initial misgivings they decide to spend their holiday in the little town. The people there seem to have found the secret to eternal youth, and the couple’s suitability seems to be connected with that secret.
This episode rates a rare
10
out of a possible 10


*SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!*

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Episode 369
Oct 28, 1975
The Storm Breeder
Adapted from the William Austin story about a man and his daughter who appear to be wandering lost for decades. Behind them, in perpetuity, is a storm they are constantly trying to outrun. A curious judge pursues him in an attempt to discover the truth behind the mystery.
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out of a possible 10

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Episode 371
Oct 30, 1975
Triptych for a Witch
interesting structure to this episode of a couple and their dealings with a grandparent’s new wife recently widowed. The wife stands by her deceased grandfather’s bride, her cat and parrot, but her husband, a policeman, is much more suspicious. His senses lead him to investigate and he uncovers some curious details
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out of a possible 10