The Murder of Caesar
Paul Hecht, Joan Shay, Earl Hammond, Gordon Gould

As Ceasar consolidates his power, his friends plot to destroy him lest he become to powerful. The loving and devoted Portia implores Ceasar to beware the Ides of March.

Adaptation

09/24/1980
1121
The Ruby Lamp
Mandel Kramer, Teri Keane, John Beal

A terrifying experiment in thought photography. A college professor develops a device to photograph a person's thoughts. He tries to use it to help his friend whose wife suffers from depression after the stillbirth of her twins. She wants to know where her two stillborn children are. The experiment reveals subconscious knowledge and resolves their problem.

09/29/1980
1122
Hero's Welcome
Tony Roberts, Joyce Gordon, Robert Kaliban, Russell Horton

A shipwrecked man with amnesia finds paradise but leaves when he regains his memory years later. When he returns home to reclaim his former life, he finds that he has become a local hero and that he is more valuable dead than alive.

10/01/1980
1123
Second Sight
Fred Gwynne, Robert Maxwell, Carol Teitel, Earl Hammond

A safe cracker, Arthur Dickson, aka Fingers, is caught red-handed burglarizing a millionaire's safe. In the process of getting away, he blinds the detective. The millionaire is later murdered and when Dickson is charged with the crime, the blind detective is called out of retirement to investigate the case. The detective believes Dickson was set up and tries to prove it.

10/06/1980
1124
Portrait of an Assassin
John Lithgow, Robert Dryden, Patricia Elliott

This is the story of the life of Charles Guiteau, the arrogant assassin of President Garfield. The story recounts Giteau's deception of his wife, her wealthy uncle, and his employers, and his delusions of grandeur in getting Garfield elected—culminating in his assassination of Garfield in a DC train station.

10/08/1980
1125
Napoleon and the Queen of Sheba
Kristoffer Tabori, Evie Juster, Ian Martin, Court Benson

Two good witches try to help a small-time con man stop his life of crime.

10/13/1980
1126
The Bright Golden Murders
Tammy Grimes, Russell Horton, Martha Greenhouse, Ray Owens

A nuclear scientist is murdered by a mobster because he was having an affair with the mobster's girlfriend who was a night club singer. His wife thinks he was killed because he discovered a great metalurgical secret that would destabilize the world economy. She turns to his business partner and the police for help.

10/15/1980
1127
Honest Mistake
Earl Hammond, Evie Juster, Ian Martin

An aging, henpecked hitman is given the assignment to kill an aging, henpecked accountant. The hitman's wife wants him to retire. The accountant's wife wants to know why somebody is trying to kill him.

10/20/1980
1128
Confession
Paul Hecht, Fred Gwynne, Norman Rose, Velita Gray

A wealthy man is cheated by his broker and extracts a written confession that he will use to blackmail his broker if he does not behave properly. Meanwhile, the wealhty man's brother falls for the broker's daughter.

Adaptation

10/22/1980
1129
The Gilbert Stuart
Tracy Ellis, Lloyd Battista, Gordon Gould

An art appraiser at a museum is asked to appraise, then purchase an unsigned painting by a famous artist. Recognizing it as a probable fake, he assigns it a value to satisfy the sentimental nature of an elderly widow who owns it. He soon regrets that appraisal.

Adaptation

10/27/1980
1130