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Suspense

Season 6 · Episode 16

Cagliostro and the Chess Player

0.0December 15, 1953

A dramatization based on the life of the 18th Century Italian magician, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. The cunning magician inveigles King Stanislaus into a chess game with his mechanical genius. That, in the end, becomes his downfall.

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Episode 1Paradise Junction
Episode 2Reign of Terror
Episode 3The Darkest Night
Episode 4The Riddle of Mayerling
Episode 5The Sister
Episode 6Death at Skirerud Pond
Episode 7The Accounting
Episode 8The Valley of the Kings
Episode 9The Others
Episode 10The Interruption
Episode 11Needle in a Haystack
Episode 12The Newcomer
Episode 13My Short Walk to Freedom
Episode 14Laugh It Off
Episode 15The Dance
Episode 16Cagliostro and the Chess Player
Episode 17The Gift of Fear
Episode 18Mr. Nobody
Episode 19Diamonds in the Sky
Episode 20The Scrap Iron Curtain
Episode 21The Haunted
Episode 22An Affair With a Ghost
Episode 23The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Episode 24The Moonstone
Episode 25The Execution
Episode 26Death on the Screen
Episode 27I Do Solemnly Swear
Episode 28Before the Act
Episode 29The Fourth Degree
Episode 30The Tenth Reunion
Episode 31Torment
Episode 32Open Transom
Episode 33Operation: Barracuda
Episode 34The Return Journey
Episode 35The Terror Begins
Episode 36Smoke
Episode 37Operation: Nightmare
Episode 38Breakout
Episode 39Fingerprints
Episode 40Race Against Murder
Episode 41North Side
Episode 42The Pistol Shot
Episode 43String
Episode 44The Hunted
Episode 45The Girl in Car Thirty-Two
Episode 46Conversation at an Inn
Episode 47Once a Killer
Episode 48Main Feature: Death
Episode 49The Last Stand
Episode 50The Iron Cop
Episode 51Barn Burning