Original Airdate: April 30, 1974

Episode 0083 "The Venus D'Ille"

Original Story by Prosper Merimee, Adapted by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A down on his luck gambler marries for money. However, when he carelessly places the ring on a statue, he finds himself betrothed to a goddess.

The Romans called her Venus. The Greeks knew her as Aphrodite. To other ancient peoples she was Ishtar, Isis, and Astarte. But whatever the name, she was always the same, the mysterious, passionate, voluptuous goddess of love, and sometimes of death.

Who was it that said, some men are born wise, others are more fortunate, they're born handsome? We commend to your attention the young Vicomte Claude Louis de Charbert. At 3 ...