Note sull'episodio
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 who, naturally enough, ponder the question. If it's noble to kill for one's country at wholesale, why is it base? to kill for oneself at retail. These are the thoughts that occupy the mind of a tall, well-dressed, dignified gentleman. He's walking down a deserted street very late one night in the early summer, some 25 years ago. As he passes a darkened doorway, he hears a gasp.
Starring: Larry Haines, Evie Juster, William Redfield, Robert Dryden