- A one-time college professor who lost his wife and children in a home fire has fallen to the level of being a skid-row drunk. He investigates a "solid citizen" when a fellow "bum" is accused of a hold-up and murder - and he changes his life to do it.—dubchi
- Robert 'Professor' Benson (Roddy McDowell) and his friend 'Blinky' Hewitt (Robert Ball) are skid row bums, who mug other down on their luck LA residents for wine money. Without warning, Blinky turns up dead in an armed robbery attempt, 30 miles from LA. The Professor can prove it wasn't Blinky, and goes to the police. The police see the Professor as just another drunk, and put him in jail to dry out. When an old friend shows up to visit the Professor in jail, we learn why he is an alcoholic; he lost his family in a house fire that may have been his fault. When the Professor gets back on the street, he's right back in the sauce, but decides to contact Honora Malone (Myrna Fahey), who he believes knows who the real murderer is. When the Professor gets a threatening visit from Honora's recently widowed boyfriend (John Larkin), he decides to go straight, and find Blinky's real killer, but is it too late? As seen on Retro TV Network, July 2009.
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