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Jared Garrity (John Dehner, also in The Jungle in Season 3 and The Lonely way back in Season 1) has pulled into Happiness, Arizona, a town that has remade itself. Formerly a dozen different names, recently it has overcome its past with a new name and a new focus. The 128 citizens in the cemetary on the hill are the past. But Mister Garrity has a service, and that service is bringing back the dead.

So he goes up to the cemetary and returns to announce that everyone will be returning. One by one the townsfolk explain that perhaps they aren’t so interested in their dearly departed returning to town after all. The only problem is that the fee charged to send them back to their grave is pretty high – between $500 and $1200. That’s a lot of money for 1890, when the episode took place.

Of course, Garrity is a con man, and he doesn’t intend to really bring those people back. His cohort meets him on the way out of town. But after he leaves, we see the cemetary come to life with all the people we’ve just heard about, heading down to the town.

A young couple awakens after a night at a party, only to find that they don’t recognize their surroundings. They remember driving home, and a shadow enveloping the car, and… that’s all. Strangely, the home they are in looks normal, but everything seems to be like a prop. The phone isn’t wired in, the drawers don’t work, even the trees are fake. No people, nothing. Only the laughing of a child. Finally they get on a train to get out of the cursed town, and then they realize that they have arrived at the next stop, only to find that they are in – the same town!

At that moment we are pulled back and we see a large child, holding the frightened couple, and the child is scolded, and told not to play with the toys, that they were “brought all the way from Earth”.

Major Ivan Kuchenko (Martin Landau, Mister Denton on Doomsday from Season 1) just wants to escape his native country. Unfortunately he’s been caught by the men seeking him and now he’s trapped in a motel room with no chance of escape, because he’s been drugged.

When he awakes he finds that he’s got two choices. Either he can try to find – and defuse – the booby trap that has been set for him or he can try to escape and almost certainly be shot. If he finds the trap and can’t defuse it, he will die. If he tries to escape, he will die. But if he can find the trap and defuse it, he has been promised his freedom.

As the clock ticks nearer, he knows that time is short. And as the phone rings, he realizes that perhaps the bomb has to do with the ringing of the phone, so he does not answer it. Instead he uses the opportunity to run, and he makes his getaway. As his captors search the room, they feel confident they will get him at the next stop. Then the phone rings. Before they can catch themselves, they answer it and the bomb goes off. The Major, similing, hangs up the phone on the other end, realizing he has found his freedom. Nice.

Jackie Cooper plays Johnathan West, who is feels as if he is always second fiddle to Little Caesar, a ventriloquist’s dummy (who looks very much like Willie, the dummy from The Dummy in Season 3).

It seems they can’t get a job, and they can’t pay their bills. They can’t even eat. So Caesar talks Johnathan into robbing a deli down the street to pay the rent. Then he talks him into robbing the place where they are trying to get a job and the little girl who has an aunt where the two stay turns them in when she hears them talking after pulling the job.

In the end, West takes the fall and the dummy is left with the cash, hidden safely where no one can find it. But the little girl just knows the dummy can talk, and he’s all too eager to have a new partner.

Roswell G. Flemington was raised in a home where he couldn’t even have cookies because they made too much noise. At least his mother bought brownies. So when he came of age, he went to sea, and his desire to make up for not making enough noise is driving everyone else mad. He has collected all sorts of sea-themed noisemakers, from bells and whistles to actual recordings of sea battles.

Now his wife is leaving and she has afflicted him with increasingly acute hearing, so that every little noise is like an explosion, and he sees a doctor who helps him understand it is all in his head, all he needs to do is overcome the mental block, and he does. The only problem is that he goes too far in the other direction, so that now he can’t hear anything at all. He has lost his precious noise!