7.5/102 votes#1 - Summer 1842 - Summer 1844
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/3/1985
1842: Orry Main leaves the cotton plantation near Charleston that he's heir to on his way to West Point for two years of officer's training. On the way, he meets and falls in love with Madeline Fabray, who agrees to write to him. However, her father needs her to wed Orry's rude neighbor, rich plantation owner Justin LaMotte. Orry's letters to Madeline become intercepted by her father so she becomes susceptible to Justin's generous courting. At West Point, Orry meets fellow cadet George Hazard, son of a Pennsylvania manufacturer. The hazing lives up to its reputation, not least due to drill master Elkanah Bent, who takes particular pleasure in humbling the cadets at sword-practice, but is humiliatingly defeated by Orry. George introduces Orry to his Pennsylvania family and their iron factory. After graduating and returning home, Orry stops an overseer from happily whipping a slave, but his father, Tillet, refuses to sack the sadist.
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Writer: Douglas Heyes
7.5/102 votes#2 - Autumn 1844 - Spring 1848
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/5/1985
George distracts Orry, whose brooding about Madeline wrecks his West Point performance. Bent bluffs his way out of a court-martial but its president eventually bullies him out of West Point. At a party hosted by Tillet Main, Justin scolds Madeline for disagreeing with separatism and arranges for a slave to give public offense so the overseer is allowed to punish him with branding. Bent trades on his status as the bastard son of Ohio's U.S. Senator to get commissioned as an infantry captain in the Mexican-American War. In command once again of lieutenants Orry and George, he sends them on a suicide mission. Both survive but Orry is crippled for life. Constance, the daughter of the colonel who saves Orry from dying from his wounds, becomes George's true love. When George's father dies, he resigns his commission and returns home. The branded slave runs away and even reclusive Orry joins the manhunt, reuniting him with reluctant Madeline and starting their secret affair.
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Writer: Douglas Heyes
7.0/101 votes#3 - The Purple Room
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1960
A man who inherits a house from his brother has one night to decide whether or not to stay - if he leaves, his cousins will inherit the house instead. He expects his cousins to try and frighten him into leaving, but could the strange happenings be more than pranks?
Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: Douglas Heyes
5.5/102 votes#4 - The Dead Man / The House Keeper
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/16/1970
An experiment in hypnosis leads to a terrifying conclusion when a physician attempts to revive his subject from death. A dabbler in black magic schemes to switch his rich wife's cold persona for a warm, loving soul.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: Douglas Heyes
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"Summer 1842 - Summer 1844" is the best rated episode written by Douglas Heyes. It scored 7.5/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Richard T. Heffron. It aired on 11/3/1985 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Autumn 1844 - Spring 1848".