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- 7.8894E8
- Just after signing a million-dollar contract, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sonny Blue has his right hand mangled in a car accident. Doctors try to save his career by transplanting the hand of deceased murderer who robbed a liquor store onto his arm. After the operation, the hand heals quickly, but Blue discovers to his horror that it has a criminal will of its own. Eventually, however, Blue awakens to discover that the entire episode had been merely a dream. The episode was originally titled "A Hand for Sonny Gray". Starring Rick Nelson, Janice Lynde, Carl Weathers, Alfred Ryder, & Paul Cavonis. (en)
- A 52-year-old movie producer named Alexander Rush who is obsessed with youth and good looks discovers that a coldhearted and sinister doctor named Viviana Kadar, who works at an isolated clinic, has discovered a mysterious rejuvenation process that can allow him to achieve and maintain the appearance of a man in his 30s. When Rush sees another of Dr. Kadars patients age rapidly, however, he realizes that the price of eternal rejuvenation may be more than he's willing to pay. Starring Robert Foxworth, Marlyn Mason, & Linda Kelsey. (en)
- A Vietnam War veteran with a history of hallucinations witnesses the nighttime landing of an unidentified flying object and discovers a colony of aliens who are planning to conquer the Earth. His psychological history makes it hard for him to get anyone to believe that he "saw a flying saucer", and he finds that those closest to him are not who they seemed to be. The episode is a reworking of "Beachhead", the 1967 pilot for the 1967–1968 television series The Invaders. Starring David Birney, Eugene Roche, David Huddleston, & Katherine Justice. (en)
- A pack of vicious wild dogs under the influence of a satanic leader terrorizes an isolated foothill community. After the dogs kill several people, farmer Jerry Colby begins to fight back. When his own dogs turn against him, Colby discovers that the howls of the wild dogs prompt domesticated dogs to attack their human companions. Starring Ronny Cox, Van Williams, Christine Belford, & Russell Thorson. (en)
- A beautiful businesswoman moves into a high-rise apartment and begins to receive messages and gifts from a secret admirer. She soon finds her privacy invaded and her lifestyle shattered when the secret admirer turns out to be a voyeur with sophisticated equipment. His gifts and anonymous telephone calls to her drive her to the brink of madness until she turns the tables on him–with horrifying results. Starring Joanna Pettet, Herbert Edelman, Jenny O'Hara, Patricia Smith, Gary Collins, & Patricia Mattick. (en)
- To be able to write accurately about the psychological effects of capital punishment, a crusading but stubborn newspaper journalist named Frank Harris has himself placed on death row, where he masquerades as a convict under an assumed identity. Suddenly his outside contacts disappear, and his real identity and innocence of any capital crime are forgotten. Unable to convince prison officials of his actual identity, he is scheduled to be executed. He is strapped into the electric chair while one of his jailers, an old enemy who knows his real identity, merely watches and smiles. Starring Roy Thinnes, Tim O'Connor, Ramon Bieri, Ned Beatty, & Brendan Dillon. (en)
- A rapist and murderer named Teddy Jakes–the crematorium operator at a hospital prior to his conviction—is paroled after seven years in jail and returns to a small community to take revenge against a physician at the hospital named Dr. Carrington, whose testimony sent Jakes to prison rather than providing him with an alibi. Jakes kills the familys pet horse and begins a campaign of terror against Carrington and his family. Unable to get help from the authorities, Carrington and his wife take the defense of their family into their own hands and think they have killed Jakes. Jakes reappears, however, to befriend the physicians daughter Cindy, and he escalates his activities against the Carrington family. The Carringtons begin to believe that Jakes might be some type of undead, unkillable specter, although eventually a fight between Jakes and Carrington aboard a houseboat results in Jakes falling overboard and drowning. Originally conceived as a two-part episode, it instead aired on one evening as a single two-hour episode; it was the series only two-hour episode and the only one to air on a Sunday. The episode was essentially a remake of the 1962 movie Cape Fear with an additional supernatural aspect. Starring Lloyd Bridges, William Watson, Patricia Crowley, Kirby Cullen, John Anderson, & Eve Plumb. (en)
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