"Death and the Joyful Woman" is a rather obvious storyline, featuring silent screen heartthrob Gilbert Roland as wealthy wine merchant Luis Aguilar, whose son Al (Don Galloway) followed after his teetotaler mother, spurning the father by refusing to enter into an arranged marriage that would have enhanced the family business. When Al requests 5000 dollars to start a family from his still bitter father, Luis decides to humiliate the boy by offering him a bet, to drink his more experienced father under the table (something Luis couldn't do to his father until he was 26). The victorious Luis then proceeds to force his unwanted attentions upon the beautiful Kitty Norris (Laura Devon), thereby spurning his fiancée Ruth (Laraine Day), who had faithfully worked as his secretary for 20 years before he finally promised to marry her. Also appearing is Frank Overton, best remembered for the STAR TREK episode "This Side of Paradise," broadcast less than two months before he died in 1967. Incidentally, the 'Joyful Woman' is a reference to the father's favorite wine.