A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.

A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who’s selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.

When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters’ soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show…