Amnesia White Night - Man In the Street

Oliver Nelson - The Hand of Borgus Weems 1971 Music clips culled from the season 2 segment of "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" entitled "The Hand of Borgus Weems" in which young business man Peter Lacland actor George Maharis is driving down the street of a big city when his hand is suddenly possessed by the avenging spirit of occultist Borgus Weems and forces him to charge straight at a lawyer named Everett Winterreich actor Robert Hoy. Then, at 00:57, Peter Lacland deliberately crushes his hand with a bust in the office of Doctor Ravdon actor Ray Milland. And, at 01:16, owing to his possessed hand, Peter Lacland rings the wrong apartment and walks along the hallway to meet Susan Douglas. Finally, at 01:40, Peter Lacland tells the past event of the failed car homicide.

"Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor."
translation: "Arise, my avenger, out of my bones"
—Virgil in "Aeneid", Book IV, 625.

Composer Oliver Nelson writes his own archetype of electro-horror score and uses, for the first time, an analogue synthesizer to suggest the supernatural combined with his usual warm arrangements dominated by a violin and supported by percussions and a bass guitar. The way he exploits electronic is too literal and anachronistic and is reminiscent of a 1950's use of theremin. This electronic motif alone will become the basis of all mad scientists and space-oriented scores of "The Six Million Dollar Man"—one small bass guitar phrase is reworked in the season 2 "The Pioneers". - Jason Gervais Amnesia White Night - Man In the Street