THRILLER's second episode "Child's Play" is hands down one of the weakest. An intriguing premise with a 12 year old boy brandishing a loaded rifle in search of an imaginary foe he calls Black Bart (actually his father's name) gets bogged down in endless talk between the lad's parents in a remote mountain cabin where they're spending the summer. The father is a writer of magazine stories who doesn't spend enough time with his son while the mother tries to shield the boy by concealing his past misdeeds from her usually absent spouse, especially the time he shot an apple off of a playmate's head in a nod to William Tell. An uncomprehending fisherman happens upon the boy and things get a little bit sticky from that point on, the director trying hard to create tension in cutting back and forth between the bickering parents and the child's loaded situation. As the father, Frank Overton engenders no sympathy whatsoever while the attractive Bethel Leslie (later seen in "The Merriweather File") does what she can with a boring, and bored, character (at least their conversations are shockingly frank for their time, a pleasant surprise). Overton is probably best remembered for the STAR TREK episode "This Side of Paradise" in 1967, the year he died.