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Title

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Plot

An Indian chief offers the deal of a lifetime to a greedy aristocrat in Colonial America. For the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, he can purchase the expanse of land he can travel around in one day.

Episode

0905

Air Dates

  • First Run - October 13, 1978
  • Repeat - April 27, 1979

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Rating

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4 Responses to Episode 0905

Interesting and entertaining. Builds towards a climax, especially with the Chief's wise saying at the end. Would have made a great Twilight Zone episode as well.

Radiohead

This is one of the best episodes. The plot line is interesting from start to finish. While there is a heavy-handed moral to the story, it is entertaining. Justice is served!

Phil

I'd like a clarification. Your synopsis said 'how much land can the man travel around in a day'. Given the time period, he might choose a horse or a train and that might be really far. Yet if I am not mistaken the story said the man had to walk on foot (or run) in a day, which unless he is an Olympic athlete, is considerably less.

D.C. Klinkensmit

Well a horse maybe-trains we’re not yet invented in colonial times.

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