William Conrad stars in this drama from October 29, 1946. Episode 20 of Favorite Story. "The Phantom Rickshaw” appeared in Kipling’s 1888 collection The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales. “Rickshaw” takes place in British colonial India in a town called Simla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh (located in the northwest Himalayas, and served as the summer capital of the British Raj).