The Doctor Prescribed Death

Thus hence this is the man in black here again to introduce Columbia's program suspense Our star tonight is Bela Lugosi playing the path professor Antonio Basile psychologist The story is by Jay Donald Wilson who calls it the doctor prescribed death If you have been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded

of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. This series of tales is calculated to intrigue you, stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. And so it is with the Doctor prescribed death and Bela Lugosi's performance, we again hope to keep you in.

Professor Antonio Basile has a theory, but let him tell you about it. As a psychologist I have worked out a theory, a theory I know to be sound. I contend that a person who has decided to kill himself can very easily be turned from this desire to the desire of taking the life of another. I can prove my theory and if necessary

that is exactly what I will do." Professor Antonio Basile has a theory, but only a theory, and he's worried about what his publisher will say, so he visits the editor whose name is Hillman. Hillman finishes the manuscript and tosses it on the desk. Professor Basile leans forward eagerly and...

Well, Helmand, what do you think? Professor Basile, it's purely conjecture, simply a theory, and I wouldn't advise publishing it. I worked on that theory for a long time. I am positive of it. I know it'll work.

Suppose it will. What good is it? What good have you accomplished if you can prove it'll work? Are you laughing at me, Helmand? It's so silly. An ordinary human being, a suppentry versus a sick of it all. He wants to leave it all behind. And you say he can be changed to want to kill someone else. I do. Self-destruction and the destruction of other life are closely