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0450 - The Other Side of the Coin (3/18/1976) Feb 24, 2026

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0450 - The Other Side of the Coin (3/18/1976)
Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Ralph Bell; Bryna Raeburn; Bob Kaliban; Ian Martin.
A supernatural accident causes an ex-police sergeant and a mob-tied con artist to swap bodies.

0449 - Crime Casts a Shadow (3/16/1976) Feb 23, 2026

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0449 - Crime Casts a Shadow (3/16/1976)
Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Evie Juster; William Redfield; Jay Gregory; Ian Martin.
* In need of cash, Gay Armstrong tries to sell her late mother's pearl necklace; but then she learns the pearls are fake, just as her stepfather offers her $15,000 for the necklace.

0448 - The Aliens (3/15/1976) Feb 22, 2026

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0448 - The Aliens (3/15/1976)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Paul Hecht; Mandel Kramer; Robert Dryden; Marie Cheatham.
A classified US/USSR experiment draws together two secret agents (one American, one Russian), who realize that the project their governments are working on could potentially destroy mankind.

0447 - The Man Who Preyed on Widows (3/12/1976) Feb 21, 2026

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0447 - The Man Who Preyed on Widows (3/12/1976)
Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Mason Adams; Joan Shay; Russell Horton; Jackson Beck.
Despite being swindled out of her money, a widow refuses to take action against the grifter who conned her.

0446 - Pandora (3/11/1976) Feb 20, 2026

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0446 - Pandora (3/11/1976)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Patricia Elliott; Norman Rose; Joan Lovejoy; Don Scardino.
Hundreds of thousands of years in the future, a woman named Mara is condemned to death for inflicting sorrow on a hate-free, fear-free society.

0445 - I Thought I Saw A Shadow (3/10/1976) Feb 19, 2026

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0445 - I Thought I Saw A Shadow (3/10/1976)
Written by Bob Juhren. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Nat Polen; Joan Shay; Gordon Gould; Lloyd Battista.
* Scientist Dr. John Gilbert is his own test subject for an invisibility serum which only separates him from his shadow.

0444 - The Queen of Spades (3/8/1976) Feb 18, 2026

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0444 - The Queen of Spades (3/8/1976)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Alexander Pushkin.
Cast: Michael Tolan; Ann Sheppard; Ian Martin; Bryna Raeburn; Robert Dryden.
A Russian soldier pursues a wealthy countess to seek a secret at winning in faro.

0443 - The Infernal Triangle (3/5/1976) Feb 17, 2026

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0443 - The Infernal Triangle (3/5/1976)
Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Morgan Fairchild; Joe Silver; Catherine Byers; William Redfield.
Ann Fairchild has found happiness with her husband-to-be, Hugh Denning. But the return of Ann's older sister, Eve, threatens Ann and Hugh's romantic bliss and rekindles a sibling rivalry.
CBSRMT Trivia: Morgan Fairchild plays a character named Ann Fairchild in this episode.

0442 - The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (3/4/1976) Feb 16, 2026

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0442 - The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (3/4/1976)
Written by Arnold and Stella Moss. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Ambrose Bierce.
Cast: Kristoffer Tabori; Arnold Moss; Evie Juster; Russell Horton.
Two monks are sent to a monastery in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, where one of them meets and falls for the daughter of the town's hangman.

0441 - Afterward (3/2/1976) Feb 15, 2026

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0441 - Afterward (3/2/1976)
Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Edith Wharton.
Cast: Celeste Holm; Larry Haines; Joan Shay; Guy Sorel; Ian Martin.
* A ghostly tale, adapted from Edith Wharton's short story, involving a nouveau riche woman, her husband, his business dealings, and a vengeful spirit.

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