The story is set at some sort of traveling circus. Nice-guy and magician Sadini finds a teen (Brandon De Wilde) unconscious and brings him back to his trailer to nurse him back to health. When the young man awakens, he tells Sadini and his wife (Diana Dors) that his name is Hugo and he ran away from 'the home'. He seems to be developmentally impaired and Sadini feels sorry for the kid and lets him stay. As for Hugo, he is a nice kid and wants to do anything he can to please Sadini and his wife. And, when Sadini's wife is caught by Hugo with another man, she concocts a lie to make her infidelity seem okay...as she convinces Hugo that Sadini is really a devil and needs to die!
I am pretty sure the biggest reason the network balked at showing this one is its insensitive way it portrays a person with a severe intellectual deficit. It's also pretty grisly for early 1960s TV. It did finally get released when it came out as an extra on DVD sets as well as on various Roku channels. Regardless, it's only a fair episode (at best) and the folks back in 1962 didn't miss all that much.
I am pretty sure the biggest reason the network balked at showing this one is its insensitive way it portrays a person with a severe intellectual deficit. It's also pretty grisly for early 1960s TV. It did finally get released when it came out as an extra on DVD sets as well as on various Roku channels. Regardless, it's only a fair episode (at best) and the folks back in 1962 didn't miss all that much.