Showing posts with label Percy Granger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Percy Granger. Show all posts

Saturday, March 3, 2012

0999 No Man's Land

No Man's Land
Episode 0999
Original Air Date: July 23, 1979

During World War II, two American soldiers are taken prisoner by the people of a French village. They are put on trial and sentenced to death for their part in the war.

Cast: Tony Roberts, Earl Hammond, Carol Teitel, William Griffis

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ***

Recorded from WBBM Chicago,

Commercials: "Paris" television show on CBS, Pennsylvania Dutchman mushrooms, Bycozene Cream, Master Charge, Northwest Federal Savings and Loan, Contac, Kool Aid, Consumer Catalog,

Friday, March 2, 2012

0968 The Believers

The Believers
Episode 0968
Original Air Date: April 4, 1979

A nosy neighbor dispatches her son to find out why people seem to enter their neighbor's house, but never come out. He discovers there is another world within that house.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, John Beal, Joan Shea

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ****

No news

commercials: Maxwell House, Public library PSA

Monday, February 27, 2012

0954 The Missing Day

The Missing Day
Episode 0954
Original Air Date: February 14, 1979

The manager of a nuclear reactor research facility mysteriously "loses" a day of his life and cannot figure out where he was or what he was doing during that time.

Cast: Russell Horton, Hetty Galen, Cort Benson, Ray Owens,

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: **1/2

No news

Commercials: Avon, DiGel, DermaSoft Cream, ExLax,

Monday, February 20, 2012

0938 Complete Recovery

Complete Recovery
Episode 0938
Original Air Date: January 1, 1979

A hit and run victim slowly recovers from her serious injuries, but develops a series of phobias. She uses these bizarre phobias as clues to solve the mystery of how and why she was injured.

Cast: Mary Jane Higby, Russell Horton, Jada Rowland, Joan Shea

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ***

No news

No commercials

0930 Ward Six

Ward Six
Episode 0930
Original Air Date: December 13, 1978

A young doctor joins the staff of a dilapidated hospital in a Russian town. He becomes concerned about the ward housing the insane and the state of the people there.

Cast: Norman Rose, Bryna Raeburn, Earl Hammond, Russell Horton, Eugene Troobnick

Writer: Anton Chekhov adapted by Percy Granger

Rating: **1/2

No news

No commercials

Sunday, February 12, 2012

0917 The Pilgrim Soul

The Pilgrim Soul
Episode 0917
Original Air Date: November 13, 1978

An American nurse serves in a hospital in Great Britain in World War II. She is friendly with the patients and they talk to her openly. British Intelligence suspects she might be a Nazi spy.

Cast: Carol Teitel, Gordon Heath, Bryna Raeburn, Gordon Gould

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: **1/2

Commercials: Goodyear car service, Chicago City Center, "The Magic Goes Away" by Larry Niven, "Skyfall" novel, Eastern airlines, Freedent Gum, Chloroseptic, Metronet mobile communications systems, Choice Magazine Listening for the blind,

NEEDS REPLACED, Digital artifacts, a few seconds of Fulton Lewis Commentary dropped in between introduction and first act, random seconds of another episode in between third act and final thought,

0910 Family Ties

Family Ties
Episode 0910
Original Air Date: October 25, 1978

A woman's husband disappears after receiving a mysterious phone call. An address left on a notepad is the only clue to the man's mysterious and bizarre family ties.

Cast: Teri Keane, Russell Horton, Ray Owens

Writer: Percy Granger

No news

No commercials

NEEDS REPLACED Third act falls out.

Rating: **1/2

Monday, February 6, 2012

0899 A Thousand-Year Old Story

A Thousand-Year Old Story
Episode 0899
Original Air Date: September 29, 1978

A millionaire is murdered aboard his yacht. The local authorities are convinced it was his personal assistant. The local doctor -- a childhood friend of the assistant -- is convinced otherwise and tries to help him.

Cast: Ralph Bell, Gordon Heath, Russell Horton, Carol Teitel

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ***

No news

No commercials

Saturday, February 4, 2012

0892 High Caqueta

High Caqueta
Episode 0892
Original Air Date: September 13, 1978

A couple travel to the Andis Mountains to search for their daugther who has disappeared while mountain climbing. They hire an escort who seems to know something about the mountain that he is not sharing with them.

Cast: Marian Seldes, John Beal, Earl Hammond

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: **

No news

No commercials

0882 Cross Fire

Cross Fire
Episode 0882
Original Air Date: August 21, 1978

A cab driver gets caught up in murder and intrigue when he takes a wealthy man to a burned out building in South Bronx.

Cast: Russell Horton, Ann Williams, Cort Benson, Earl Hammond

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: **

No News

Commercials: Allergy Relief Medicine, Freedent gum,

Sunday, January 29, 2012

0872 Double-Take

Double-Take
Episode 0872
Original Air Date: July 28, 1978

Two women who seem to have written the same novel find themselves living the plot.

Cast: Marian Seldes, Patricia Elliot, Charles Irving, Robert Maxwell

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ***

News: Pope John Paul II begins Latin American tour, Snow causes K-Mart roof to collapse near Chicago, President Carter pledges to make inflation public enemy number one, Congressional Black Caucus calls Carter's budget "immoral", Carter appoints new judges -- including a woman and a black, Pennsylvania congressman gives up chairmanship of committee while on trial, Parents kidnap their own kid and government wants them charged.

Commercials:Closer Look PSA, Consumer Information Catalog, Sine-Off, IRS PSA, Girl Scouts PSA, Tru Value Hardware,Epilepsy Foundation, The Mormons,

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

0853 A Matter Of Faith

A Matter Of Faith
Episode 0853
Original Air Date: June 21, 1978

A man in the import business encounters a long lost love in a restaurant. He is sure he saw her executed many years before when they were revolutionaries in a Third World country. She has no memory of him, or her past.

Cast: Michael Wager, Carol Teitel, Ian Martin,h Gordon Heat

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: **1/2

No news

No commercials

0843 The Silent Woman

The Silent Woman
Episode 0843
Original Air Date: June 1, 1978

After a woman is forced to marry a man befitting her social position, a woman falls into a 27 year long silence.

Cast: John Beal, Robert Dryden, Norman Rose, Carol Teitel, Joan Shea

Writer: Leopold Comport adapted by Percy Granger

Rating: *

No news

Commercials: Buick Elektra, Tru Value Hardware, Buick Century,

Sunday, January 22, 2012

0837 The Girl He Left Behind

The Girl He Left Behind
Episode 0837
Original Air Date: May 22, 1978

Under pressure from her mother, a young girl turns down a proposal from her boyfriend who is on leave from the Army. When he dies in a car crash, his ghost haunts her.

Cast: Ann Williams, Robert Dryden, Jack Grimes, Bryna Raeburn

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: **1/2

No news

No commercials

0835 Time Out Of Mind

Time Out Of Mind
Episode 0835
Original Air Date: May 18, 1978

A college student is in a car accident. While unconscious, he travels back in time and takes the place of his uncle during World War II. He has a task to perform to help his father.

Cast: Russell Horton, Lloyd Batista, Ian Martin

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ****

No news

Commercials: 1978 Buick, Tru Value Hardware

0821 The Grandee of Terra Loco

The Grandee of Terra Loco
Episode 0821
Original Air Date: April 24, 1978

A reporter travels to a small, south Texas town to do a story on the life and death of a legendary small town mayor. When he gets there, he finds a strange conspiracy that he is determined to unravel.

Cast: Paul Hecht, Robert Dryden, Joan Shea, Earl Hammond

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ***1/2

No news

No commercials

Saturday, January 21, 2012

0815 The Shriek Of The Mandrake

The Shriek Of The Mandrake
Episode 0815
Original Air Date: April 13, 1978

A movie filming in an old manorhouse is disrupted when a ghost preys on the leading men.

Cast: Anne Williams, Ian Martin, Paul Hecth, Ray Owens

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: **

No news

No commercials

0810 Delusion of Reprieve

Delusion of Reprieve
Episode 0810
Original Air Date: April 4, 1978

A police investigator, Jewish by descent, tries to solve the murder mysteries around former German Secret Service members expatriated to the United States.

Cast: Paul Hecth, Evie Juster, Ian Martin, Norman Rose

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ***

No news

No commercials

Thursday, January 12, 2012

0793 The House And The Brain

The House And The Brain
Episode 0793
Original Air Date: March 6, 1978

Two men learn the power of pure intellect as they pursue the entitity that is haunting a local house.

Cast: Gordon Heath, Robert Dryden, Cort Benson

Writer: Percy Granger adaptation of Edward Bulwer Lyton

Rating: *1/2

Commercials: CJKEL,

NO CAST LIST

0789 Second Sight

Second Sight
Episode 0789
Original Air Date: February 28, 1978

An evil businessman who has committed murder, needs an eye transplant. He received a set of eyes from the young man he framed for murder after he is executed. The new eyes give him a new perspective on life.

Cast: Cort Benson, Earl Hammond, Bryna Raeburn, Robert Kaliban

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ***

No news

Commercials: Buick Century