Original Airdate: March 25, 1974

Episode 0062 "Diary of a Madman"

Original Story by Guy de Maupassant Adapted by Sam Dann

Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

This namesake of the famous Nikolai Gogol story deals with the confession of a magistrate to multiple arbitrary homicides.

The law says thou shalt not kill And that's the law most of us openly acknowledge Yet there are other laws, laws and drives that stir primitive long-forgotten urges instincts laws that raise murder from the worst of sins to the most satisfying of deeds.

We condemn and punish the murderer. And yet from time to time, doesn't an entire nation rise up in righteous anger and slaughter another nation? And so, there are those  ...