Original Airdate: May 07, 1974

Episode 0087 "The Suicide Club"

Original Story by Robert Lewis Stevenson Adapted by George Lowther

Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

A high stakes gambler joins a club where he may be asked to commit someone else's murder, or be forced to commit suicide Himself.

Fear, it may be said, is a malignancy which, once the seed is sown in the human soul, spreads like a voracious and all -consuming fungus throughout the psyche, smothering it at last in death. No one knew this better than the justly celebrated author Robert Louis Stevenson No one has ever expressed it more vividly more frighteningly than he in his story the Suicide Club.

Compulsion. What is it? What is it within most of us, perhaps all of us, that compels us to do this or that? What drives the alcoholic to take th ...