"The House". The lovely Joanna Pettet plays Elaine Latimer, a former mental patient who has constantly been dreaming of visiting a beautiful country estate. Then, upon her release from the sanitarium, she finds the place to be real. So, of course, she impulsively buys it, despite the realtors' (Paul Richards) obligatory warnings about the place, which neither of them take seriously. In general, this IS an appealing segment, scripted by Rod Serling himself from a story by Andre Maurois. But Pettets' endearing performance basically has to carry it, since it's resolved in a rather obvious way. But she's so good (and is ably supported by Richards, and Steve Franken as a sympathetic psychiatrist), that one doesn't mind spending time with this character. Directed by actor John "Gomez Addams" Astin.
"Certain Shadows on the Wall". Serling again writes the script, taken from a story by Mary Eleanor Freeman. This stars Old Hollywood veterans Louis Hayward and Agnes Moorehead. He plays Stephen, a disgraced former doctor and Emmas' (Moorehead) brother, who reads Dickens nightly to his ailing sibling. After she dies, her shadow takes up a permanent spot on one wall of the house, as if to accuse him. Again, a viewer can make a reasonable guess as to how this all turns out, but that doesn't really mean that the end is ineffective. And again, it's a pleasure to watch these veteran actors (Grayson Hall and Rachel Roberts play the other two siblings) at work. This segment is a little better, overall, generating decent results for the 50 minutes plus run time of the entire episode. Directed by character actor / acting teacher Jeff Corey, who had co-starred in the first episode of the series.
Seven out of 10.