Professor Roscoe Weber (
Sam Jaffe) is a 91-year-old Nobel Prize winner in the psychology field and doesn't realize that his adoring former pupil, Professor Helen Burton (
Bettye Ackerman), has been hired by his university to replace him. Expert magician, The Great Stellini (
Dick Van Patten), flagrantly disapproves of his daughter Christina's (
Mary-Margaret Humes) suitor, a novice magician named Joey Gardiner (
Barry Van Dyke), who he thinks wants to steal his secrets. Minnie Dunlop (
Anne Meara) used to be Harlan Weatherly's (
Jerry Stiller) landlady, before his damage to the apartment drove her to file a lawsuit against him. So Gopher (
Fred Grandy) leads Doc (
Bernie Kopell), Isaac (
Ted Lange), Julie (
Lauren Tewes) and Vicki (
Jill Whelan) to hear both sides of the story and make a judgment on the matter in a simulated small claims court.
—Maisie Fleckum