Showing posts with label Henry James. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry James. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

1305 The Tool Shed

The Tool Shed
Episode 1305
Original Air Date: March 22, 1982

A reporter for the London Times travels to a writer's farm to do a story on him and his works regarding the occult. He encounters the writer's mute son, his overbearing nanny, the writer's neurotic wife, and the mysterious drawings in the tool shed. Black magic is afoot.

Cast: John Vickery, Bernard Grant, Evie Juster

Writer: Henry James adapted by G. Frederick Lewis

Rating: **1/2

Sunday, April 22, 2012

1246 The Liar

The Liar
Episode 1246
Original Air Date: September 28, 1981

An artist is afforded the opportunity to get revenge on the pompous, compulsive liar who married his sweetheart. He pains a portrait of the man that reveals his inner person.

Cast: Norman Rose, Bernard Grant, Court Benson, Carol Teitel

Writer: Henry James adapted by James Agate, Jr.

Rating: **1/2

Monday, April 9, 2012

1129 Confession

Confession
Episode 1129
Original Air Date: October 22, 1980

A wealthy man is cheated by his broker and extracts a written confession that he will use to blackmail his broker if he does not behave properly. Meanwhile, the wealhty man's brother falls for the broker's daughter.

Cast: Paul Hecht, Norman Rose, Fred Gwynne

Writer: Henry James adapted by G. Frederick Lewis

Rating: **1/2

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

1099 Maud-Evelyn

Maud-Evelyn
Episode 1099
Original Air Date: July 2, 1980

A wealthy, but unmotivated twenty-something falls for a 14 year old girl he has never met. He's never met her because she is dead.

cast: Paul Hecth, Carol Titel, Lloyd Batista

Writer: Henry James adapted by G. Frederick Lewis

Rating: ***

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

1084 Tomorrow Is Never

Tomorrow Is Never
Episode 1084
Original Air Date: May 12, 1980

A world traveler meets a spinster teacher who dreams of traveling to Europe. When he meets her there a few years later, he finds out she's been taken advantage of by her ne'er do well cousin and his wife. He spends the next several years trying to help her take control of her life.

Cast: Larry Haines, Marian Seldes, Ray Owens, Bryna Raeburn

Writer: Henry James adapted by James Agate, Jr.

Rating: **1/2

1080 Portrait Of A Memory

Portrait Of A Memory
Episode 1080
Original Air Date: April 28, 1980

A wealthy woman commissions a starving American artist living in Paris to paint a portrait of a man she once loved. However, she does not provide a picture, asking the artist to paint her own vision of who that man was.

Cast: Norman Rose, Marian Seldes, Carol Tietel

Writer: Henry James adapted by James Agate, Jr

Rating: **1/2

Sunday, January 29, 2012

0868 The Locked Trunk

The Locked Trunk
Episode 0868
Original Air Date: July 21, 1978

A sister scorned plots revenge on her sister who married the man she loves. After she gets her revenge, she wants more and pays dearly for it.

Cast: Patricia Elliot, Russell Horton, Ann Pitoniak, Gordon Gould, Betsy Beard

Writer: Henry James adapted by Roy Windsor

Rating: **

Recorded from WBBM, Chicago,

Commercials: Buick Century, "Seawitch" novel,

Sunday, January 22, 2012

0833 Edmund Orme

Edmund Orme
Episode 0833
Original Air Date: May 15, 1978

A young man is thwarted by a ghost every time he starts to propose to the woman he loves. The woman's mother explains the manifestation.

Cast: Lamont Johnson, Gordon Gould, Mary Jane Higby, Jada Rowland

Writer: Henry James adapted by Roy Windsor

Rating: **1/2

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

0811 A Tragedy Of Error

A Tragedy Of Error
Episode 0811
Original Air Date: April 6, 1978

A woman abhors her abusive husband and loves her gentle -- and weak-- boyfriend. She enlists the help of a strange boatman and a spirit that haunts a graveyard to put her life into order.

Cast: Tammy Grimes, Robert Dryden, Fred Gwynne, Russell Horton

Writer: Henry James adapted by G. Frederick Lewis

Rating: **1/2

NEEDS REPLACED poor recording quality

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

0347 The Third Person


The Third Person
Episode 0347
Original Air Date: September 19, 1975

Two spinster cousins inherit a ancestral home with a ghost. The ghost of their long dead cousin has a most patriotic desire.

Cast: Marian Seldes, Evie Juster, Arnold Moss, Cort Benson

Writer: Stella and Arnold Moss adaptation of Henry James story

Rating: **

Recorded from WWSW Pittsburgh, PA

News: Senate says airlines should be allowed to lower fares and fly new routes, Four Democrats appear in New Hampshire to campaign, Ronald Reagan says he'll make his income and net worth public, six terrorists arrested in San Francisco as part of the New World Liberation Front, Congressman says EITC is not being advertised enough,

Commercials: Allstate Insurance, Foundation Church, Buick, IRS PSA, March of Dimes PSA, Better Business Bureau PSA, American Lung Association, The Christophers, CBS News special "Your Tax Dollars", Johnny Horizon '76 Environment Program, United Cerebral Palsy PSA,