A scientist keeps having dreams that he is marked for murder by a mysterious tribunal for something that he's not aware that he's done, and that his wife and his friends are part of the conspiracy.
Soon he's not sure which is the dream and which is reality.
"Deadly Dream" sounds a lot like this one movie I saw on television in the 80s and have been trying to learn the name of since. I will write down what I remember of that movie in the hope that someone will tell me what its name was.
WARNING: SPOILERSI saw this movie when it first aired in 1971. I was 10 years old and the movie was both scary & disturbing.
As my experience of the era grows I find that early 70's made for TV genre fare mostly tends to follow the same pattern, a modish premise well wrought at a youth friendly yet still often scary level, with tight, self contained storytelling reminiscent of classic pulp short writing. Deadly Dream is a bit of an anomaly in that while its basic story is slim and contained, the underlying concepts are enough to power a serious minded science fiction feature if the right hands took hold of them.
WARNING: BIG SPOILERThe old mystical suggestion that our waking life is a dream, and our dreams actually real life, is eclipsed in THE DEADLY DREAM by the subplot of humankind being endangered by the advance of science, and the lengths men could go to prevent progress. In Dr.