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Hari Rhodes gives a nice, calm and understated performance as a boxer who may have a shot at the middle-weight crown, if Dr. Casey doesn't find anything wrong with him. Casey has the dilemma of giving him a clean bill of health and letting him pursue his 12 year dream of being a championship boxer, or getting his boxing license cancelled to prevent possible future injuries. There's a nice twist when Rhodes sister shows up. She helps to resolve the complicated issue.

The second story concerns a strange 11 year- old girl named Lucy Carter (Gena Gillespie) who becomes involved with an elderly patient she meets in the hospital ward. The old man wants to die and tries to get Lucy to help him.

Lucy seems too sweet for this part, but once we realize that she played the young Blanche Hudson in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane," that same year of 1962 when this was made, we can see why she was chosen to add a rather bizarre and horrific element to this episode.

Abner Biberman does an excellent job directing.