"Button, Button" (Playboy, 1970) is a short story by Richard Matheson. It's been on the Twilight Zone and several radio shows. The CBSRMT version is one of the better efforts. The movie version, "The Box," stinks. If you read the short, you'll see that trying to get a movie out of that story needs more padding than a 97-pound weakling doing Santa Claus.

Matheson said he got original idea for the story from passage 1.6.2 of 'Genius of Christianity' (1802) by François-René de Chateaubriand, in which the authors asks the reader what he would do if he could get rich by killing a mandarin in China solely by force of will. This likely explains the CBSRMT episode title.
