“Prime of Life:” Police detective Adam Flint contemplates his profession while witnessing the execution of a criminal he arrested while young reporter Gene Hackman (Unforgiven) struggles with his own queasiness.

“The One Marked Hot Gives Cold:” Two lost souls, 31-year-old L. Francis Childe (The Godfather’s Robert Duvall) and 12-year-old Agnes Padgett, meet in Central Park and form a friendship tainted by a woman Childe spurned.

“Hold for Gloria Christmas:” Poet Burgess Meredith (Rocky) sells bartender Herschel Bernardi (Peter Gunn) his poems but desperately wants them back so he can mail them to a woman named Gloria Christmas.

“A Horse Has a Big Head - Let Him Worry:” In a role that earned her an Emmy nomination, teacher of near-blind children Diahann Carroll (Carmen Jones) inspires one boy to find his own way home through New York City, trapping him in a nightmare.