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***SPOILERS*** Just after getting her phone fixed young Carol Thomas.Sandy Robinson, gets an unexpurgated call on her newly installed telephone number Susquehanna 4-7568 with a woman on the other end, Mary Lou, being assaulted and screaming for her life.Going to her local police precinct to find out if anyone was murdered in the neighbor fitting the discretion of the woman on the phone all Carol gets is a cold shoulder and told that she dreamed the whole thing up. Deciding to do the work that the police failed to do Carol tracks down the person who had the phone number that turned out to be a swinging type Larry, Paul Valentine,who walks around his apartment only in his pajamas and even answers the door, to Carol, in them. Larry has nothing to offer Carol in what he knows about Mary Lou only that she was one of his many one night stands. Where he then invites Carol, who turns him down cold,after trying to get her drunk on booze to become his latest pick up.

It's when Carol puts a personal add in the newspaper about the girl that she feels was murdered while she was on the phone that she finally gets results. But those results were not exactly what she expected to get! It brought Mary Lou's murderer out into the open who was now determined to murder her as well from keeping her from talking to the police about what she now knows he did: Murder Mary Lou. And it's Carol who lets herself fall into the trap that he set for her.

***SPOILER*** At first romancing then tricking Carol to go to his place of work at the NYC sanitation yards Mary Lou's killer psycho sanitation man Johnny Horack, Williams Clemens, attempts to , after murdering her, get her cremated together with the rest of the garbage that he processes. But by now the police finally believed in Carol's story and with guns blazing stormed the sanitation plant putting Johnny's sinister plans together with Johnny on ice.

I've often invoked the phrase being "desperate for entertainment" both in actuality & in filmed/written works, but this poor girl really takes the (crumbled) cake when she cheerily accepts an invitation to go see a stinking garbage facility! We can only speculate what contemporary audiences - especially ladies - thought of this development, but something tells me they weren't bowled over by such a prospect, either of the guy or seeing his workplace. "Hey Maw, I'm going out with a garbageman!" don't exactly stand out as the kind of dating news most mothers want to hear, but at least he's got a job!

It was mentioned in historical data that on its resuscitation this program was blown up into an hour running time at the behest of a tobacco sponsor "and production staff"; I was so taken with seeing it again after quite a long time that I didn't even register it being only ½ an hour initially. Well this episode, 1 I had originally skipped during the sudden marathon I found myself engaged in over the previous 2 days (especially the horrible day & nightlong rain yesterday), would have benefited from such expansion. I like the feisty girl saved from the incinerator to have ... "reunited" with the happily roguish Larry - it could even have ended with her turning back up at his door (& him dressed in something less outlandish than that flamboyant robe), sharing an uninterrupted drink, with him making a wicked-grin comment about her not wasting his "good Scotch this time" & her answering "Oh no!" as they toast with a smile, The End. It wasn't the most gripping setup this program offered, so it's 1 of my least rated, but it also wasn't their most bottom-rung outing. "That comes later!" in Foghorn Leghorn's wise words, & happily for its many fans, a lot such.