0761 The Ninth Volume

The Ninth Volume
Episode 0761
Original Air Date: December 30, 1977

While drilling for oil, a geologist discovers a modern home sealed in rock. In that home is a nine volume history of the world that goes beyond the current year (1998) and tells the future. Problem is, the ninth volume is missing and the geologist, obsessed with finding the book in the home, is running out of time.

Cast: Michael Wager, Cort Benson, Robert Dryden

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ****

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0759 The Ghosts Of Yesterday

The Ghosts Of Yesterday
Episode 0759
Original Air Date: December 26, 1977

A middle-aged socialite's world is rocked when a Nazi hunter asks her to identify the man who butchered her family and entire village in a wartime slaughter. She is afraid her less than blue-blood past will hurt her social standing.

Cast: Teri Keane, Russell Horton, Mandel Kramer, Leon Janney

Writer: Victoria Dann

Rating: ****

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0733 Last Train Out

Last Train Out
Episode 0733
Original Air Date: November 1, 1977

An American film crew stumbles into a communist spy plot while in Turkey to film the last run of a famous train. Getting out alive is going to be difficult.

Cast: Ann Williams, Robert Dryden, Earl Hammond, Ian Martin

Writer: Ian Martin

Rating: ***1/2

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0712 The Tunnel Man

The Tunnel Man
Episode 0712
Original Air Date: September 20, 1977

A city government is held hostage by a mad scientist with a devise that can either trigger or prevent an earthquake. As evidence points toward an eminent quake, the mayor must make a decision.

Cast: Ralph Bell, Court Benson, Earl Hammond, Robert Maxwell

Writer: Percy Granger

Rating: ***1/2

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0710 Death On Project X

Death On Project X
Episode 0710
Original Air Date: September 16, 1977

A government inspector is sent to a weapons manufacturing facility to inspect them for efficiency. There, he encounters a seemingly insane scientist who tells him that the scientists have developed the ultimate weapon -- and plan to use it.

Cast: Larry Haines, Robert Dryden, Catherine Byers, Cort Benson

Writer: Victoria Dann

Rating: ***1/2

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0708 The Way To Dusty Death

The Way To Dusty Death
Episode 0708
Original Air Date: September 1977

Two sisters try to reclaim their father's body from the land of a baron with whom they are feuding. But the baron's hate is too strong and he would rather see the body rot. His son tries to soften his heart.

Cast: Arnold Moss, Marian Seldes, Evie Juster, Don Scardino, Gilbert Mack

Writer: Stella and Arnold Moss

Rating: ***1/2

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Recorded from WOR New York

0704 The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room
Episode 0704
Original Air Date: September 5, 1977

A young couple is invited to spend a weekend at the mansion home of an older couple. They soon find fun is not what the older couple has in mind when the forces of darkness come to bear.

Cast: Russell Horton, Larry Haines, Marian Seldes

Writer: Bob Juhren

Rating: ***1/2

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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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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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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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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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0670 The Red Circle

The Red Circle
Episode 0670
Original Air Date: June 23, 1977

A middle-class housewife has an unexpected visitor who is an old friend from whom she has not heard in many years. The old friend has an incredible tale to tell that pits her against her old friend's husband.

Cast: Anne Pitoniak, Robert Dryden, Catherine Byers, Joe Silver

Writer: Roy Windsor

Rating: ***1/2

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658 A God Named Smith

A God Named Smith
Episode 0658
Original Air Date: June 2, 1977

A young prodigy develops the ability to manufacture his own planet. He finds volunteers to populate it, and establishes himself as a god.

Cast: Norman Rose, Russell Horton, Evie Juster, Bob Kaliban

Writer: Henry Slesar

Rating: ****

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0647 Bottom Of The World

Bottom Of The World
Episode 0647
Original Air Date: May 6, 1977

Scientists at the South Pole are forced to flea when a calamity threatens the entire earth.

Cast: Tony Roberts, Kristoffer Tabori, William Griffis, Robert Maxwell

Writer: Arnold Moss

Rating: ***1/2

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0644 Much Too Much

Much Too Much
Episode 0644
Original Air Date: May 2, 1977

In this farce, the King of a tiny kingdom doesn't want to spend the money to purchase a guillotine to execute a prisoner. He explores several other means of execution and punishment, but can't find one that he deems cost effective.

Cast: Robert Dryden, Court Benson, Ian Martin, Earl Hammond

Writer: Leo Tolstoy adapted by Gerald Keane

Rating: ***1/2

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0632 The Meteorite

The Meteorite
Episode 0632
Original Air Date: April 11, 1977

A meteorite crashes into a farm field and an it is immediately claimed by a college professor. But there is more to the meteorite than is apparent.

Cast: Evie Juster, Marian Seldes, Russell Horton, John Beal

Writer: Roy Windsor

Rating: ***1/2

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0622 The Gift Of Doom

The Gift Of Doom
Episode 0622
Original Air Date: March 24, 1977

A snowbound prospector is saved by a Eskimo witch. He takes her as his wife and brings her back to the states. When his political importance grows, he decides he needs to be rid of the "savage".

Cast: Kim Hunter, Mason Adams, Arnold Moss, Russell Horton, Bryna Raeburn.

Writer: Arnold Moss inspired by a Greek tragedy entitled Madeya

Rating: ***1/2

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0606 Last Judgement

Last Judgement
Episode 0606
Original Air Date: February 24, 1977

A young nurse learns some terrible secrets about her father-in-law when he becomes ill and she moves in with him to take care of him.

Cast: Norman Rose, Carmen Matthews, Teri Keane, Michael Wager, Nat Polen

Writer: Roy Windsor

Rating: ***1/2

Recorded from WBBW, Chicago

News: Liberian Tanker full of oil sank in Pacific 300 miles from Hawaii, Toxic chemical dumped in Kanawha River in West Virginia, Tuna fisherman protests limits on porpoise kills, Candadians expel Russian scientist who tried to buy documents from Canadian scientist, President Carter drops in on party honoring WV Sen. Robert Byrd, Local Chicago news,

Commercials: Midas Muffler, Easter Seals, 1977 Buick LeSabre Sport Coupe, "Cagney by Cagney" book, Currency Exchange Community Service Centers, Contac, March of Dimes, Colby's Home Furnishings, Tru Value Hardware, 1977 Buick Regal, "The 'R' Document" paperback novel, Northwest Federal Savings, Wonder Bread, Bronchaid Mist, Vantage Press,

0597 The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group
Episode 0597
Original Air Date: February 8, 1977

A man begins having visions of the future where he kills his wife. More disconcerting to him, he begins acquiring objects from the future.

Cast: Larry Haines, Leon Janney, Anne Williams, Joe DeSantis, Bryna Raeburn

Writer: Sam Dann

Rating: ****

Recorded from WOR, New York

News: Editorial from The Plain Truth magazine,

Commercials: Buick LeSabre Sports Coupe, General Electric Rebate Days, Hillman Cohan Vision Centers, Long Island Press, 1977 Buick Regal, Shop Rite, Florida Orange Juice, National Observer Magazine, 1977 Lancia, Fidelity Union Trust, H&R Block, Backstage Restaurant,

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