Nefertiti (2 of 5) - To Kill a Pharoah
Tammy Grimes, Evie Juster, Russell Horton, Robert Dryden, Ian Martin

The conspiracy to kill Ahkenaten fails and Nefertiti finds that she is developing love and respect for the man she had underestimated. Ahknaten finds enlightenment in the Sun God and with Nefertiti, sets out on a crusade to build a new religion around the Sun God.

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01/09/1979
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Nefertiti (3 of 5) - The Cobra Strikes
Tammy Grimes, Russell Horton, Earl Hammond, Evie Juster, Court Benson

Ahkenaten and Nefertiti build the City of Truth, known as Amarna, to advance their new religion. Nefertiti informs Ahkenaten she is pregnant. She finds herself attracted to the general of the army.

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01/10/1979
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Nefertiti (4 of 5) - The Head with One Eye
Tammy Grimes, Russell Horton, Evie Juster, Earl Hammond

While his neighbors threaten war, Ahkenaten acts the pacifist while he builds his city. When his daughter dies doing penance to the sun god, Nefertiti turns on him and the Sun God and plots his demise.

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01/11/1979
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Nefertiti (5 of 5) - The Curse of the Scarab
Tammy Grimes, Russell Horton, Evie Juster, Earl Hammond

Nefertiti tries to bury her daughter in a traditional ceremony involving all the gods rather than just the Sun God. Ahkenaten has her arrested and put into chains. Akhenaten dies while trying to kill Nefertiti.

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01/12/1979
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The Long, Long Sleep
Larry Haines, Ann Williams, Ian Martin

A man is informed he will need open heart surgery. Afterward, he encounters situations that seem to indicate that he has already died. He is certain that his death is imminent. His doctor is confident despite the risky nature of the surgery.

Adaptation

01/15/1979
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The Wandering Wind
John Beal, Teri Keane, Gordon Gould

A shy man marries an equally shy woman and they move into her home. She will not allow him to fix it up or alter it in any way, despite its decaying condition. He wants to be more extroverted and help others overcome their shyness. She wants to stay secluded. We are the voices of the wandering wind which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! As the wind is, so is mortal life; A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife. From the Deva's Song by Sir Edwin Arnold.

Adaptation

01/17/1979
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Side Effects
Robert Dryden, Mandel Kramer, Joe Silver, Bryna Raeburn

A scientist finds out that his new wonder drug has potentially harmful side effects that could bankrupt the company. When he tells his boss, his boss's first desire is to protect his company and his profits. He is killed by his boss to keep it a secret.

01/19/1979
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Let the Buyer Beware
Joan Lovejoy, Earl Hammond, Bryna Raeburn, Robert Dryden

Marcie purchases a table at an estate sale and finds a secret drawer in it containing a revolver that has been fired twice and never cleaned. She traces the tables previous ownership to find a secret murder plot.

01/22/1979
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The Burning Bough
Norman Rose, Grace Matthews, Russell Horton, Catherine Byers

An ancient myth comes alive for a woman who believes a log she saved from a fireplace keeps her son alive. Like the Greek goddess of centuries before, she finds that her son's life depends on the existence of a single tree bough. But when her son goes bad, will she have the courage to throw the bough back into the fire?

01/24/1979
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The Dominant Personality
Roberta Maxwell, Ralph Bell, Gordon Heath, Charles Irving, Percy Granger

A waitress from the city marries a loner who lives in a cabin in the wilderness. When murders start happening on adjoining land, all the evidence points to the loner and his wife begins to doubt him.

01/26/1979
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