0371 Triptych For A Witch

Triptych For A Witch
Episode 0371
Original Air Date: October 30, 1975

A witch posing as a kindly, widowed, great aunt comes to live with a newlywed couple. She brings with her a couple interesting pets.

Cast: Margaret Hamilton, Kristoffer Tabori, Evie Juster, Gilbert Mack

Writer: Ian Martin

Rating: **1/2

1342 Matching Chairs

Matching Chairs
Episode 1342
Original Air Date: June 23, 1982

Our hero's younger brother is an immature, despicable lout who takes advantage of those around him. One evening, while the two of them relax in wing chairs, he tells his brother that the chair he is sitting in has the power to kill --- and he's used it.

Cast: Paul Hecht, Kristoffer Tabori, Elspeth Eric, Carol Teitel

Writer: Elspeth Eric

Rating: ***

1331 The 'Different' People

The 'Different' People
Episode 1331
Original Air Date: May 21, 1982

A 20th century anthropologist discovers documents that indicates a group of Civil War veterans may have found immortality. He decides to hunt them down and see if they made it.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Jada Rowland, Arnold Moss, Russell Horton

Writer: Arnold Moss

Rating: **1/2

1243 The Land Of Dreams

The Land Of Dreams
Episode 1243
Original Air Date: September 18, 1981

In a future society, a computer controls every facet of life. When a couple decides to leave society behind and join a communal farm, they face being factored out of the human equation.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Earl Hammond, Marian Haley

Writer: Sam Dann

Rating: ***1/2

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1237 Hidden Memory

Hidden Memory
Episode 1237
Original Air Date: August 28, 1981

A young man is forced to confront a horrible episode from his childhood and is seemingly cured of his paralysis. But the cure might be worse than the disease.

Cast: Kristopher Tabori, Teri Keane, Elspeth Eric, Robert Dryden

Writer: Elspethe Eric

Rating: **

1235 The Left Hand Of God

The Left Hand Of God
Episode 1235
Original Air Date: August 21, 1981

Sam Clemens triest to help a fellow writer who cannot control the characters in a story he is writing. One character simpy refuses to accept his fate and pleads with them to be allowed to live.

Cast: Norman Rose, Robert Dryden, Evie Juster, Kristoffer Tabori

Writer: Sam Dann

Rating: **1/2

1224 Toy Death

Toy Death
Episode 1224
Original Air Date: July 22, 1981

A woman has a childish and strange obsession with dolls, just like her late mother, that distresses her boyfriend and father. When a voodoo doll mysteriously arrives from India, bad things start to happen.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Patricia Elliott

Writer: Algernon Blackwood adapted by James Agate, Jr.

Rating: **1/2

1207 Matched Pair For Murder

Matched Pair For Murder
Episode 1207
Original Air Date: June 5, 1981

A judge's judgement is affected by a murder defendent's girlfriend who pleads on his behaf. When the suspect is found not guilty because of the judge's intervention, the judge has second thoughts and looks for a way around double jeapardy.

Cast: Arnold Moss, Kristoffer Tabori, Evie Juster, Bernard Grant

Writer: Sam Dann

Rating: ***1/2

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1203 Little Richard

Little Richard
Episode 1203
Original Air Date: May 27, 1981

A forger in a small country wants to go straight after being released from prison. But the corrupt criminal justice system works against him and he must remain a criminal.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Robert Dryden, Bernard Grant, Joan Shea

Writer: Sam Dann

Rating: **

1194 The Apparition

The Apparition
Episode 1194
Original Air Date: May 6, 1981

A young jail inmate becomes obsessed with his father's health, sure that he is deathly ill depsite assurances from his mother and brother that he is fine. His father is the person who put him in jail.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Marian Seldes, Robert Dryden, Lloyd Batista

Writer: Elspeth Eric

Rating: **1/2

1187 The Power Of Ode

The Power Of Ode
Episode 1187
Original Air Date: April 20, 1981

Two old friends compete for the love of a woman who is afraid of light. She has come under the influence of a guru that convinces her that she is a "high sensitive" who is attuned to the life force of all living things.

Cast: Kristopher Tabori, Jada Rowland, Norman Rose, Robert Kaliban

Writer: Elspeth Eric

Rating: **

1182 The Doll

The Doll
Episode 1182
Original Air Date: April 8, 1981

A pair of twin men struggle to come to grips with the death of their sister. When, out of grief, one twin breaks the bond to the other, they try to find each other again.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Teri Keane, Russell Horton, John Beal

Writer: Elspeth Eric

Rating: *1/2

1133 The Question

The Question
Episode 1133
Original Air Date: November 5, 1980

An actress retires to her childhood beach home where she encounters a ghost who wants to paint her picture. When completed, the picture looks like her grandmother -- leading the woman and her elderly caretaker on one of Elspeth's patented voyages of self discovery.

Cast: Teri Keane, Kristoffer Tabori, Robert Dryden

Writer: Elspeth Eric

Rating: **

1126 Napoleon And The Queen Of Sheba

Napoleon And The Queen Of Sheba
Episode 1136
Original Air Date: October 13, 1980

Two good witches try to help a small-time con man find the straight and narrow.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Evie Juster, Ian Martin, Cort Benson

Writer: Ian Martin

Rating: *1/2

1092 That Magic Touch

That Magic Touch
Episode 1092
Original Air Date: June 9, 1980

A beautiful actress takes her son and divorces her emotionally distant and abusive producer-husband. They decide to reunite at their remote lodge for Christmas and a reconcilliation ensues until trouble starts.

Cast: Marian Seldes, Michael Tolan, Kristoffer Tabori, Ray Owens

Writer: Sam Dann

Rating: ***

1086 Two Of A Kind

Two Of A Kind
Episode 1086
Original Air Date: May 19, 1980

A lazy young man concocts a scheme to drive his aunt insane so he can go on spending her money while she is in an asylum. He rents two identical apartments and furnishes them identically to set the stage.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Russell Horton, Martha Greenhouse

Writer: Henry Slesar

Rating: **1/2

1077 The Face In The Coffin

The Face In The Coffin
Episode 1077
Original Air Date: April 16, 1980

A young couple accidentally see the body of a federal judge who was presiding over the trial of an organized crime figure. They become fugitives from the criminals.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Fred Gwynne, Roberta Maxwell, Robert Kaliban

Writer: James Agate, Jr.

Rating: **

1073 The Fateful Bell

The Fateful Bell
Episode 1073
Original Air Date: April 2, 1980

Set in ancient China, an emperor orders the casting of a bell of magificent size and precious metal. A lowly artisan makes the attempt to win the heart and hand of the princess, who loves him, but is only permitted to marry royalty.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Evie Juster, Ian Martin

Writer: Licarrio Hearn adapted by Ian Martin

Rating: *1/2

1046 The Last Days Of Pompeii, Part Two: Thrown To The Lions

The Last Days Of Pompeii, Part Two: Thrown To The Lions
Episode 1046
Original Air Date: January 8, 1980

Pompeii is hit by an earthquake. Julia conspires with a priest of Isis to put a love spell on Marcus. Marcus instead goes mad with delusion and is later falsely accused of killing the priest's apprentice. Judgement is passed and he is sentenced to be thrown to the lions.

Cast: Russell Horton, Evie Juster, Kristoffer Tabori, Earl Hammond, Velita Gray

Writer: George Bulwer-Lytton adapted by Gerald Keane

Rating: **1/2

1045 The Last Days Of Pompeii, Part One: The City Of The Dead

The Last Days Of Pompeii, Part One: The City Of The Dead
Episode 1045
Original Air Date: January 7, 1980

Marcus moves to Pompeii, meets a ship owner, saves a slave girl named Lydia, and falls in love with an aristocrat named Orianna. Lydia worships Isis and tries to organize the slave women to demand proper treatment. Orianna discovers Christianity, much to the chagrin of the priest of Isis.

Cast: Russell Horton, Evie Juster, Kristoffer Tabori, Russell Horton

Writer: George Bulwer-Lytton adapted by Gerald Keane

Rating: **1/2