Original Airdate: August 12, 1974

Episode 0131, “The Beach Of Fallisa”

Written by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A quickie marriage to a local girl results in an island trader becoming an outcast. He must fight a voodoo religion and a business rival to restore his honor and his business and save his family.

No storyteller is better loved than the gentle Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote Treasure Island and A Child's Garden of Verses. But strangely there was another side to Stevenson. He was also the man who could write the blood-curdling history of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And this tale of violence and voodoo, you're about to hear, called The Beach of Falesa.

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