A traveler arrives at a French asylum to observe its reputed 'soothing system'—a gentle approach where patients guide their own treatment. But the place has changed: a harsh new regime now rules. As he tours the wards, he's struck by the doctors' cold cruelty and the prisoners' wild protests. The truth shatters him: the supposed physicians are the inmates, and the men tarred and feathered in the cells are the real keepers, overthrown and locked away by those they once treated.
Show
Theatre Macabre
Episode
S01E08
Air Date
Nov 19, 1971
Season 1 Episodes
S01E01
First Love
S01E02
The Man Who Demoralized Hadleyburg
S01E03
The Tortures of Hope
S01E04
Mateo Falcone
S01E05
The Vampire
S01E06
The Swashbuckler
S01E07
The Actress
S01E08
The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether
S01E09
The Rajah's Diamond
S01E10
The Nose
S01E11
Tell-Tale Hearts
S01E12
Markheim
S01E13
The Barrel Organ
S01E14
The Canterville Ghost
S01E15
Decameron
S01E16
A Matter of Conscience
S01E17
The Husband Under the Bed
S01E18
Pavoncello
S01E19
The Song of Triumphant Love
S01E20
The Postmaster