Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts this anthology in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, each half-hour episode adapting a story from a classic author, with tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.
Oct 1, 1971 - 25m
Vladimir, the teenage son of a local rich man, falls madly in love with his new neighbor's daughter Zina competing for her affections along with a host of her other suitors.
Oct 8, 1971 - 25m
A stranger comes to town with a bag full of gold and a test for everyone.
Oct 15, 1971 - 25m
A man is about to be executed by the Inquisition. Is hope enough to save him?
Oct 22, 1971 - 25m
A young Corsican boy defies local customs and dishonors his family when he turns in a bandit to police.
Oct 29, 1971 - 25m
Intertwines multiple stories, including a framing device about a young man named Runevsky, and explores themes of obsession, the supernatural, and the line between reality and imagination.
Nov 5, 1971 - 25m
A psychological character study revolving around Luchkov, an aggressive, manipulative former military officer who lives for duels and social domination.
Nov 12, 1971 - 25m
A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.
Nov 19, 1971 - 25m
A narrator visits a French mental asylum where the 'soothing system' of patient-led care has been overthrown by a new, more severe method, only for the narrator to discover the 'doctors' are actually the patients, and the 'keepers' are those locked away, tarred and feathered.
Nov 26, 1971 - 25m
Follows the journey of a cursed, valuable diamond as it passes through the hands of various characters, revealing their greed, folly, and the dark allure of wealth. The narrative links these tales through the diamond's movement from London to Paris, exploring themes of crime, deception, and morality.
Dec 3, 1971 - 25m
A government official's nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own.
Dec 10, 1971 - 25m
A nameless man insists on his sanity while confessing to murdering an old man because of his 'vulture-like' eye.
Dec 17, 1971 - 25m
A man murders an antique dealer on Christmas Day to steal from him, only to be tormented by his own conscience, personified by a mysterious visitor who may be the Devil, forcing him to confront his evil and ultimately choose confession over further sin.
Dec 24, 1971 - 25m
Reclusive, cultured lawyer Mr Tomasz's solitary life is transformed by a blind orphan girl who moves in next door and her barrel organ, which he initially despises but comes to cherish as a source of joy and connection, ultimately leading him to help her.
Dec 31, 1971 - 25m
A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of his cowardice. The only way he can escape is if one of his descendants performs an heroic act, something he intends to get the husband to do.
Jan 7, 1972 - 25m
From Giovanni Boccaccio's 'The Decameron No. 40.'
Jan 14, 1972 - 25m
From Ambrose Bierce's 'A Matter of Conscience.'
Jan 21, 1972 - 25m
From Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed.'
Jan 28, 1972 - 25m
From Stefan Zeromski's 'Pavoncello.'
Feb 4, 1972 - 25m
From Ivan Turgenev's 'The Song of Triumphant Love.'
Feb 11, 1972 - 25m
From Alexander Pushkin's 'The Postmaster.'
Feb 18, 1972 - 25m
From William Wilkie Collins' 'A Terribly Strange Bed.'
Feb 25, 1972 - 25m
From Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist.'
Mar 3, 1972 - 25m
From Alexandre Dumas 'The Resurrection of the Offland.'
Mar 10, 1972 - 25m
From Ambrose Bierce's 'The Boarded Window.'
