[3] In a house in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, two siblings, Lucy and Charlie, prepare the beds in their attic for guests.

They were part of a trio who robbed a band at Newtown, which resulted in people being injured; the third member of their group, Bill, was captured in a shoot out.

Tony discovers that Joe has been helping his son with boxing and orders the criminal out of the house.

[4] This in turn was based on a story called "Heat," which appeared in the Melbourne magazine, Pandemonium.

[5] Early Australian TV drama production was dominated by using imported scripts but in 1960 the ABC was undertaking what has been described as "an Australiana drive" of producing local stories.

[8] The Sydney Morning Herald said it was "a fairly efficient if unimportant variation on the "and then there were none" theme" whose "only unusual contributions to the form were its "don't - come - the - raw prawn" dialogue and its coincidental echoes of the two most successful Australian dramas of recent years", namely The Shifting Heart (in Edward Howell's character) and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (in the characters of the two robbers).

The reviewer added the "production made a virtue of dispensing with background music and of confining the action almost entirely to one setting.