This and another, Perry Mason/Raymond Burr were SELDOM
missed each week. Another which was syndicated, usually televised on a Sat. Science Fiction Theater. Something similar to the Twilight Zone w/lower budget. That show gave
me nightmares as a child.
You will soon be receiving a FReep mail from me. Ducks will soon be in a row and will have time to send you further info
in those movie sites. Stay tuned. :-)
In the early 1950s, there were quite a few T.V. show with this theme and movies too, though the movies were made in the '40s and into the early '50s.
LANNY BUDD was a book series that was JAMES BONDIAN many decades BEFORE those books were written and continued into the '50s. Sadly, nobody ever made any movies, that I know of, from those books.