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- Lee Marvin - Host: Burbank, California: immediately adjoining Los Angeles, part of that mythical community called Hollywood - motion picture sound stages, television studios, home of a great aircraft industry that helped to win a war and preserve the peace. Bordering on the Verdugo Mountains... several airplanes are still in those mountains - the bodies have long since been brought out. A strange jurisdiction for a city police department, but some of those mountains belong to Burbank and to the police department. This story does not come from a Hollywood studio; it comes from the Verdugo Mountains. It concerns a critically injured boy in an inaccessible canyon. You will meet the actual victim - and some of the police officers who very nearly became victims themselves.
- Lee Marvin - Host: Have you ever reflected on the events of your childhood - the dangerous games you played, the dares you accepted, the risky chances you took? It makes you wonder how you survived. Well, today's boys are no different - they're still taking chances and still surviving. In John Casagrande's case - barely.