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The Case of the Bountiful Beauty

20 year old Deborah Dearborn has just written a best selling novel about a cold and calculating woman who bears a strong resemblance to her boyfriend's stepmother. Now Deborah is living at a beach house in Malibu and in the process of selling the rights to her book to a movie producer. Then the stepmother, Stephanie Carew, appears on the scene threatening to sue for libel. This throws a monkey wrench into the movie but when Stephanie's dead body is found floating in a swimming pool everyone assumes the death is accidental and champagne corks begin popping all-around because the blockbuster movie can proceed. Hold everything, says the coroner. His autopsy shows that Stephanie did not die in the swimming pool but in the ocean and that the cause of death was a blow on the head not drowning. Poor, little Deborah is charged with the crime.

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  • Originally Aired February 6, 1964
  • Runtime 50 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Production Code 536649
  • Network CBS
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Created June 30, 2021 by
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  • Modified June 30, 2021 by
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Name Type Role
Robb White Writer
Sandra Warner Guest Star
John van Dreelen Guest Star
Douglas Fowley Guest Star
Maxwell Reed Guest Star
John Zaremba Guest Star
Jean Carson Guest Star
Ryan O'Neal Guest Star
Sydney Smith Guest Star
Zeme North Guest Star
Jesse Hibbs Director