A toy manufacturer's new assistant has an affair with the obnoxious, overbearing businessman's beautiful younger wife. After enduring a rather humiliating interview, the bright college grad, condescendingly nicknamed "Princeton", proves valuable to the manufacturer through his hard work. But the assistant is impatient for, among other things, advancement.—David Stevens
Anne Francis stars as Peg Beale, the wife of Ted Beale (Robert Strauss), a boorish executive of a toy company. When Ted hires new personal secretary John "Princeton" Cochran (Donnelly Rhodes) Peg and John begin plotting against Ted's life, with results that take the unexpectedly macabre turns that one would expect from The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.