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William and Mary

The Down Car

The Sisters

Button, Button

I Heard You Calling Me

The Croaker

False Face

Dissolve to Black

Death Wish

The Overnight Case

Hush, Hush

Side Show

Soft Focus

20/20

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Side Show

Season 1 · Episode 12 · Jun 30, 1961

Meek Harold Potter is a bookkeeper with a nagging wife Edna, and no life. One night, he goes to a sideshow at a carnival. They show a guillotine, and appear to cut off a woman's head. The main attraction is Cassandra, a headless lady strapped into an electric chair; only the chair is not a method of execution, but the opposite-- 10,000 volts ""keep her alive."" Somehow, telepathically, the headless Cassandra pleads with Harold to stay. Later, the carnival closes for the night. But Harold comes back to see Cassandra night after night. Harold falls in love with Cassandra; he even promises to help her escape the carny life. He is convinced that she is a normal girl, and the ""headless"" routine is just a carny trick; he thinks the only reality is that she is strapped into the electric chair, being held a virtual prisoner. Late one night, Harold sneaks into the sideshow, and using some pliers he starts to cut the metal straps that hold Cassandra. Later, Edna comes looking for her miss

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Side Show

Season 1 · Episode 12 · Jun 30, 1961

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