Original Airdate: March 27, 1974

Episode 0064 "Its Simply Murder"

Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

A hen-pecked wimp fantasizes about running away from his despotic wife. Unwittingly, one weekend he gets wound up in a plot to murder her, participate in a bank robbery and get away with a woman he falls for.

This is the story of a natural born loser. Within the quietest and most retiring of the genus Homo sapiens, there lurks a tiger. As indeed, it lurks in all of us. It takes only the right combination of intolerable pressures, unfulfilled dreams, and the opportunity to escape the first and realize the second, to make even the worm turn. Which is just what happened to Henry Green.

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