A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter - until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house.
Director
Alan Rafkin
Writers
Jim Fritzell
Everett Greenbaum
Cast
Don Knotts as Luther Heggs
Joan Staley as Alma Parker
Liam Redmond as Kelsey
Sandra Gould as Loretta Pine
Dick Sargent as George Beckett
Skip Homeier as Ollie Weaver
Philip Ober as Nicholas Simmons
Lurene Tuttle as Mrs. Natalie Miller
Harry Hickox as Police Chief Art Fuller
George Chandler as Judge Harley Nast
Charles Lane as Lawyer Whitlow
Nydia Westman as Mrs. Cobb
Reta Shaw as Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell
James Millhollin as Mr. Milo Maxwell
Robert Cornthwaite as Springer
Cliff Norton as Charlie, the Bailiff
Jim Boles as Billy Ray Fox
James Begg as Herky
Ceil Cabot as Bit/clubwoman
Ellen Corby as Miss Neva Tremaine, the grade school teacher
Everett Greenbaum (uncredited) as male voice shouting "Attaboy, Luther!"
Burt Mustin (uncredited) as Mr. Deligondo
Hal Smith (uncredited) as Calver Weems
Hope Summers (uncredited) as Susanna Blush
J. Edward McKinley (uncredited) as Mayor Carlyle Preston