Luther Mandrake (Jerry Stiller) is the incredibly rude, arrogant, and mean-spirited host of a late-night radio show known as "The Devil's Advocate", where he unleashes the unbridled hatred he has accumulated through a life full of misery, hardship, and suffering onto callers eagerly seeking advice for the world's problems.
Mr. Smith and his mysterious backers are willing to pay any price, specifically gold bars, to see the series finished, complete with bringing the original actor, Van Conway (Darren McGavin), out of retirement.
Unknown to the others, Mr. Smith is an alien from a planet that has received TV signals from Earth 20 years after they originally aired, and Max Paradise has become immensely popular on their planet.Story by Andrew Weiner, adapted by Ted Gershuny.
In a comedic parody of The Exorcist, inept occult practitioners Nora and Jack Mills (Phyllis Diller and Lawrence Tierney) are offered $50,000 to perform an exorcism on Mary Jane, a young girl possessed by a demonic seductress known as Aisha Candisha.
Englebert Ames (Anthony Heald), an avid astronomer, uses an antique telescope contained within his house to view the coming of Halley's Comet.