Appearing as Deke Palmer

Broadcast 6 October 1963 on the ABC television network.

Synopsis by curator@jmdigitalscrapbook.com:

Deke Palmer (James MacArthur) seems like the perfect 19-year-old college student: brilliant, good-looking, a model son and older brother, polite and obedient. But Timmy, his 15-year-old brother, knows different. He knows that each time his brother drops him off at the movie theater, he must be able to tell Deke the plot in great detail, so that Deke will have an alibi for whatever he's really off doing while Timmy sits alone at the movies.

When a policeman is brutally beaten and murdered while investigating a burglary at a warehouse, Timmy is torn between loyalty to his brother, whom he suspects of having committed the murder, and his duty.

Will Deke's carefully crafted web of lies be untangled by the relentless detective who suspects him of the crime? Will Deke's family and teachers ever learn of the real man behind the facade he permits them to see? And what of Timmy -- will he grow up just like his beloved big brother or will he learn that Deke's way isn't the only way?

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