0700 Area Thirteen

AreaThirteen
Episode 0700
Original Air Date: August 26, 1977

In a future society, genetic engineering is used to manipulate peoples' personality and skill sets. So when unengineered and unregistered children are born, it is a matter of security. One such child has been located. . .

Cast: Marian Seldes, Ian Martin, Mandel Kramer

Writer: Murray Burnett

Rating: ***1/2

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0699 The Adventures Of Don Quixote

The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Episode 0699
Original Air Date: August 24, 1977

The adventures of the fractured fairy tale of Don Quixote and his misadventures in 15th Century Spain.

Cast: Arnold Moss, Cort Benson, Bryna Raeburn, Larry Haines

Writer: Miguel de Cervantes adapted by Arnold Moss

Rating: ***1/2

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0698 Return To Pompeii

Return To Pompeii
Episode 0698
Original Air Date: August 22, 1977

An American widow tours Italy with her colleague. When their tour bus breaks down, they are forced to walk to Pompeii. There, the widow has a strange dream.

Cast: Paul Hecht, Patricia Elliot, Marian Seldes, Larry Haines

Writer: Victoria Dann

Rating: ***

0697 The Instrument

The Instrument
Episode 0697
Original Air Date: August 19, 1977

A writer keeps an incompetent agent because the agent had saved him from drowning years before. Just when he's getting ready to fire him, he finds himself in need of his agent's services again. . .and again.

Cast: Ralph Bell, Evie Juster, Robert Kaliban

Writer: Sam Dann

Rating: ***1/2

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0696 In The Fog

In The Fog
Episode 0696
Original Air Date: August 17, 1977

A shell-shocked World War I veteran gets lost in the fog and stumbles into a woman anxious because she will miss an appointment. He helps her find her way home and she later turns up dead.

Cast: Gordon Gould, Martha Greenhouse, Ian Martin, William Griffis

Writer: Roy Windsor adaptation of Algernon Blackwood

Rating: ***

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0695 The Together Place

The Together Place
Episode 0695
Original Air Date: August 15, 1977

A country doctor treats a woman who lives with her daughter on a remote island. The daughter has been communicating with a twin sister who lives in another dimension.

Cast: Norman Rose, Marian Seldes, Rosemary Rice, Mary Jane Higby

Writer: Elspeth Eric

Rating: **

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0694 For Want Of A Nail

For Want Of A Nail
Episode 0694
Original Air Date: August 12, 1977

A woman's plane is forced to land in a North Dakota town that just happens to be the home of the biggest customer of the company her husband owns. But when she decides to see the factory, she finds out it doesn't exist.

Cast: Bryna Raeburn, Robert Dryden, Ian Martin, Betsy Palmer

Writer: Sam Dann

Rating: **

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0693 Case Closed

Case Closed
Episode 0693
Original Air Date: August 10, 1977

An unlikely bankrobber holds up a bank and ends up taking a teller hostage. His demands are unusual. As the standoff continues, he learns alot about himself from his hostage.

Cast: Earl Hammond, Joe Silver, Joan Shea, Evie Juster, Mandel Kramer

Writer: Sam Dann

Rating: ***

News: 44 Caliber Killer, aka 'Son of Sam' arrested

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0692 Hope Springs Eternal

Hope Springs Eternal
Episode 0692
Original Air Date: August 8, 1977

A woman's fiancee disappears without a trace after walking out the back door of her cabin. For the next 40 years, she waits for his return.

Cast: Robert Maxwell, Russell Horton, Ann Williams, Cort Benson

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: **1/2

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0691 The Thousand And First Door

The Thousand And First Door
Episode 0691
Original Air Date: July 29, 1977

A man is brought into the hospital apparently suffering from a stroke. But as he retells the final days of his life for us, we find his demise was much more complicated with an uncaring, selfish wife and her paramour.

Cast: Russell Horton, Carol Teitel, Jackson Beck, Earl Hammond

Writer: Ian Martin

Rating: ***

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0690 The Secret Of Laurels

The Secret Of Laurels
Episode 0690
Original Air Date: July 28, 1977

A son sets out to prove innocent his father who was convicted of of murder in a sealed room in this gothic murder mystery. His favorite suspect is the widow.

Cast: Don Scardino, Norman Rose, Evie Juster, Ann Williams

Writer: Roy Windsor

Rating: ***

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0689 The Rocket's Red Glare

The Rocket's Red Glare
Episode 0689
Original Air Date: July 26, 1977

A scientist working on a top secret weapons project commits suicide. A local cop suspects it was foul play and runs headlong into a case of espionage.

Cast: Mason Adams, Robert Dryden, Catherine Byers, Sam Gray

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ***

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0688 The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle

The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle
Episode 0688
Original Air Date: July 25, 1977

The gift of a Christmas goose and an old hat send Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on the hunt for the goose's owner.

Cast: Lloyd Batista, William Griffis, Cort Benson, Kevin McCarthy

Writer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle adapted by Murray Burnett

Rating: **1/2

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0687 The Secret Of The Aztecs

The Secret Of The Aztecs
Episode 0687
Original Air Date: July 22, 1977

A man's car breaks down in the desert and he encounters an old man who shows him to the long lost Aztec Gold. He can't convince anyone that he saw the old man and everybody thinks he's insane.

Cast: Mason Adams, Ken Harvey, Cort Benson, Robert Dryden

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ****

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0686 Rendezvous With Death

Rendezvous With Death
Episode 0686
Original Air Date: July 21, 1977

A football player with incurable cancer, goes mountain climbing and meets a mysterious woman. She provides him love and comfort, but no one else knows she exists.

Cast: Mandel Kramer, Ann Pitoniak, Arnold Moss, Roberta Maxwell, Kristoffer Tabori

Writer: Ian Martin

Rating: ***

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0685 The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island
Episode 0685
Original Air Date: July 19, 1977

After escaping a prison camp via hot air balloon, two union soldiers and a reporter land on a mysterious island where they have an unseen benefactor seeing to their needs.

Cast: Roger Barron, Jackson Beck, Leon Janney, Earl Hammond

Writer: Jules Verne adapted by Ian Martin

Rating: ***1/2

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0684 The Bisara Of Pooree

The Bisara Of Pooree
Episode 0684
Original Air Date: July 18, 1977

A British soldier buys a small, mysterious jewelry box that brings him bad luck. His luck doesn't change when the box is stolen. To get the girl of his desire, he must steal it back.

Cast: Paul Hecht, Marian Seldes, Ralph Bell, William Griffis

Writer: Rudyard Kipling adapted by Sam Dann

Rating: ***

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0683 The Kingdom Below

The Kingdom Below
Episode 0683
Original Air Date: July 15, 1977

A wealthy, American financier and his wife travel to Europe to help their daughter find a husband with the aristocracy. The daughter soon falls in love, but not with a man of whom her father approves.

Cast: Bryna Raeburn, Paul Hecht, Phyllis Newman, Fred Gwynne, Roger Barron

Writer: Sam Dann

Rating: **

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0682 A Matter Of Conscience

A Matter Of Conscience
Episode 0682
Original Air Date: July 14, 1977

A young Kentuckian joins the Union Army, defying his parents who are loyal to the Confederacy. He is immediately sent to spy on a nearby Confederate regiment and meets an unlikely enemy.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori, Earl Hammond, Robert Dryden, Evie Juster, Arnold Moss

Writer: Ambrose Bierce adapted by Arnold Moss

Rating: ***

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0681 The Colonel Chabert

The Colonel Chabert
Episode 0681
Original Air Date: July 12, 1977

A French colonel, thought to be dead, returns to his family and tries to recover some of his fortune from his wife who has since remarried and borne a family. She is reluctant because he can reveal her less than distinguished past.

Cast: Dan Ocko, Larry Haines, Lori March, Alexander Scourby

Writer: Honore de Balzac adapted by Karen Thorsen

Rating: **1/2

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