Originally aired June 15, 1952 Paul Osborn's play from a novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin, an old man traps death so that he can take care of his orphaned grandson. Starring Parker Fennelly, Mildred Natwyck, Agnes Young, David Anderson, Peter Cappell, Teri Keene, Louie Van Rootin, Carl Webber, and Bill Griffith Aging, wheelchair-ridden Julian Northrup and his wife Nellie have custody of his grandson Pud. After Nellie dies, Julian has to face the efforts of Nellie's shrewish sister Demetria Riffle to gain custody of Pud. But then Mr Brink, the angel of death, appears to take Julian. But instead Julian tricks Brink into picking an apple from the tree in his yard and then traps him up there. When Julian starts talking about Mr Brink, who nobody else is able to see, Demetria seizes upon the opportunity to have him declared insane. But with Brink trapped in the tree, nobody else in the world is able to die except when they touch the tree, and the cunning Julian uses this to his advantage. As others discover what has happened they try to persuade Julian to free Brink and restore Death, but this mean he will have to allow himself to be taken. LESS

Originally aired May 15, 1949 Novel by Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness is a novella (published 1902) by Joseph Conrad. Before publication, it appeared in a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine (1899). This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame tale, narrated by a man named Charlie Marlow to a group of men on a ship at dusk and on into the evening. It details an incident earlier in Marlow's life, a visit up what we can assume is the Congo River (although the name of the country Marlow is visiting is never specified in the text) to investigate the work of Kurtz, a Belgian trader in ivory in the Congo Free State. LESS