Broadcast: June 7, 1976

Starring: Roger DeKoven, Mary Jane Higby, William Redfield, Arnold Moss, E G Marshall, Himan Brown, Patricia Elliott, Buick Motor Division, Budweiser, Sine Off: Sinus Cold & Flu Medicine

Added: Nov 08 2014

The year is 1865, and the scene is the Left Bank of Paris during the last few years of the reign of Napoleon III. The passage du pont neuf is a dark and gloomy corridor, no more than thirty yards long, a block away from the River Seine. The air is the wet, chilling air of a vault, but the sun never touches the passage du pont neuf. A row of run down, dismal shops fronts on either side of the narrow street. One bears the sign Raquin - Dry Goods. It is evening, and inside, by the gloomy light of a flickering oil lamp, the proprietress of the musty little shop, Madame Raquin, a plump old lady in her late sixties is seated in a wheelchair. A huge black cat snuggles on her lap...