Teleplay by E. Jack Neuman &  Peter Stone & James Yaffe Story by Peter Stone & James Yaffe Directed by Herman Hoffmna   Guest Cast ROBERT VAUGHN as Warren W. Scott LEORA DANA  as Doris Scott CARL DON as Johan Karas FRANK MAXWELL as Evan Troy JOHN ASTIN as Arnold Penn HUGH SANDERS as Quentin Foster ROBERT BRUBAKER as Dr. Xavier LOU kRUGMAN as Underwood BRAD MORROW as Roy Clinton

BILL SMITH as Danny Keller ROBERT VAUGHN as Warren W. Scott

Would-be American Hitler Warren Scott comes to the city where a big rally is planned.  He attracts both followers and protesters.  Its the job of the deputy police commissioner and his men to protect him from the most violent of the latter.  An elderly Jewish man whose family died in a concentration camp attacks him and is arrested for assault.  Matt detects a bomb in a bouquet of flowers and saves Scott and his wife.  The bomb is eventually traced to a tearful juvenile who says he had heard everyone say Scott should be dead.  The message is that normally peaceful citizens become violent when confronted with a man who preaches hate.  The old man comes back with a gun and threatens Scott but can't go through with it.  When he drops the gun, Scott's guards grab him and Scott beats him up.  This is the last straw for Scott's long-suffering wife who has been financing his hate tour.  She brings in the police.  When he steps off the dais after his first speech, Scott's arrested for assault.
 

Danny's first confrontation with Scott

The moneybags wife

The "assaultive" old man

John Astin in a small role

The Old Man is Arrested

Finding the bomb in the flowers

Grilling the bomber

Planning strategy

Holding Scott at gunpoint with the poster looking on

Beating up the old man

The Rally

Demagogue

The wife finds the beating the last straw

The old man unconscious

Danny and Gus

Thanks again to Susan Ott for providing us with a copy of this episode.

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