The Passing of Black Eagle
Robert Dryden, Larry Haines, Evie Juster, Paul Tripp, Earl Hammond

When he's drunk, he's a mild mannered panhandler. When he's sober, he's a desperado named Black Eagle. The two meet when Black Eagle robs a train.

Adaptation

01/11/1977
0581
Tobin's Palm
Robert Dryden, Fred Gwynne, Jack Grimes, Marian Seldes, Gilbert Mack

Tobin gets his palm read to help find his absent-minded and missing girlfriend. His life becomes a series of misadventures that amuse his friend.

Adaptation

01/12/1977
0582
Don't Die Without Me
Robert Dryden, Marian Seldes, Joan Shay, Russell Horton

A reporter investigates the deaths of two women who committed suicide in the same room in the same seedy boarding house in early 20th century Manhattan.

Adaptation

01/13/1977
0583
A Departmental Case
Robert Dryden, Joe Silver, Teri Keane, Carol Teitel, Earl Hammond

A gunfighter turned insurance clerk comes out of retirement to gun down an alleged wife beating bank robber. However, a New York reporter finds out the deceased was not all that different from his killer.

Adaptation

01/14/1977
0584
Cherchez la Femme
Robert Dryden, Bryna Raeburn, Ian Martin, William Griffis

The owner of a French Quarter restaurant hires a Private Eye to track down the $10,000 she gave to an old and long time customer to invest for her just before he died. As the title suggests, the detective's attitude is 'follow the money' and 'there is always a woman involved.' With these axioms in mind, his search takes him through the shadier side of New Orleans to New York City and back again, only to find his query right in front of him all along.

Adaptation

01/15/1977
0585
Jimmy Valentine's Gamble
Robert Dryden, Paul Hecht, Catherine Byers, Court Benson, Ken Harvey

A safe cracker on the lamb goes straight and becomes a leading citizen. He risks it all when a crisis makes him exercise his old skills for one last operation.

Adaptation

01/16/1977
0586
Son of Satan
Gordon Gould, Ralph Bell, Joan Lovejoy

A man and his wife find an old friend who has changed his name and started worshipping Satan. Naturally, they pick up their old friendship and let him babysit their infant.

01/17/1977
0587
The Woman in Red
Evie Juster, Robert L. Green, Bryna Raeburn, Earl Hammond

A famous painting is stolen by an unlikely thief. However, the person who ends up with it has very long term plans for it.

01/19/1977
0588
Happy Death Day
Marian Seldes, Mandel Kramer, Carol Teitel, Ken Harvey

An overweight woman has nightmares of a faceless man who tries to kill her by pushing her over a ledge. She goes to a psychologist to try to explain the dream and put a face on her assailant.

01/21/1977
0589
License to Kill
Tony Roberts, Fred Gwynne, Marian Seldes, Robert Maxwell

Billy (Chappie) Chapman, a six-foot, 260-pound defensive end, is cut from the football squad because he lacks the killer instinct. But when his wife is seriously injured in an auto accident and the medical bills start piling up, Chappie asks the coach for another chance. The coach gives him that chance, renames him 'The Chopper,' and tells him to go out on the field ready to chop down and kill the quarterback. Unfortunately, Chappie takes his coach — and screaming fans — literally.

01/24/1977
0590