I\'ll try and say more in a moment but...

Some shows have too much plot for too little time.

Others aren\'t developed enough for the time they have.

THIS show, IMO, is masterfully written. I don\'t know why exactly, but I felt like I heard a little movie fitted, not shoehorned, into a 1 hour program. Some people wondered what happened to the previous owners of the house. I think we were given just the right amount of information for a program like this. We expect the unexpected.

That being said, this is a program which, IMO, could not be remade under today\'s p.c. climate. Can you imagine having a CBS program where a \"native\" with a \"bushy head\" (from Africa) would be portrayed as any type of negative presence?

Also, this program is in keeping with one of the great (and quite correct) RMT traditions...\"evil spirits\" and \"magic\" of any kind were almost always put in a negative connotation, and properly so. This episode takes it a step further with the cavalier treatment \"Jim and Marian Sage\" give the possibility that their house is, well, \"haunted\" by evil spirits? (Is that the right term given the way this story unfolds?)

One more thing...the RMT\'s Teri Keane (and forgive me for having said this before) sounds so much like the original Saturday Night Live comedienne Jane Curtin, a very talented actress in her own right. I thought Ms. Keane and Marian Seldes indeed sounded like two best friends in this particular program. 