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Police investigating a brutal murder are stymied when the obvious suspect has an airtight alibi and the next in line lacks the physique needed to batter the hulking victim to death. Truman Bradley opens this episode with a demonstration of leverage and mechanical advantage, which is only obliquely related to the following story's plot as it is revealed early on that the nebbish professor has developed a 'strength serum'that made him powerful enough to kill the extortionist targeting his young colleague. There is not much to the story and the problems of enhanced muscles working through normal joints and tendons is never addressed (the details about the serum is vague, so perhaps it conveniently boosts all components of the musculoskeletal system). The pint-sized murderer is played by John Qualen, veteran of a number of John Ford/John Wayne westerns (frequently playing a 'yumpin' yimminy!'-style Scandinavian sodbuster). The young professor is Skip Homeier (he of 'Star Trek TOS' space hippie infamy).

Once again, we have a scientist who becomes impatient and decides to test his product on himself. A man has been murdered in an alley. The person who killed him seemed to have superhuman strength. Cut to a laboratory. Working there are a young woman and a young man (who apparently committed some kind of felony in his youth and whose future was being threatened by the murder victim). The lead scientist is a man who is doing research on animals, increasing their muscle strength geometrically. A policeman who has more hair oil than I've ever seen on a head, even during this era, is investigating the death of the extortionist. Well, all things come to an end. The conclusion is totally unsatisfying.