A Poe adaptation which builds a whole new story around the bare bones of the original.
Here we have a down-at-heels city family coming to live with grasping, nasty old \"uncle Jonas\" on his farm. The suffering family consist of Charlie who lost his job because of a... mental problem, his wife Dora and their little girl. Not content to work them to death, the malevolent old man also lusts after Dora.
To make a long story short... The old man manages to provoke Charlie to the point where the mental instability, which is central to the story, seems irrelevant. I can\'t help thinking that the Poe story elements were grafted onto an existing plot outline the writer had to hand. Certainly the CBSRMT had to be written so hastily that this seems a reasonable explanation.
It may not be a good Poe adaptation but it\'s not a bad episode. 