Original Airdate: May 13, 1974
Episode 0090 "The Lodger"
Original Story by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall
The widowed owner of a boarding house fears that one of her tenants might be a serial killer.(Jack the Ripper type). He leaves messages in lipstick at each murder scene.
The fates, they say, weave the pattern of our lives. Some there are who believe that whatever happens to us is destined so to be, while others talk of free will. However it may be, certainly there is one element that touches all our lives, the element of the unexpected. How often have you asked, Why did this happen to me? Rarely, if ever, have you found a satisfactory answer. So it was one fatal night with Nell Pearson, Mrs. Nell Pearson, widow, whose life was about to be shattered by unimaginable, unexpected horror.
The fates brought unexpected horror that night to Nell Pearson's house on 9th Street, where she rented rooms. Yet one wonders, was it altogether unexpected? Could the frightful things that happened have been avoided? Had she been more alert, say, more sensitive to warnings of impending tragedy? No matter now. What matters is that earlier that day in the afternoon, She had no idea that death, in its most grisly form, was shortly to enter her house.
Starring: Kim Hunter, Michael Wager, Robert Dryden, Mary Jane Higby, Joseph Julian
