Paul Hartman was a very boring actor...or, at least when he was on the later seasons of "The Andy Griffith Show" as well as "Mayberry RFD". However, in his younger years he and his wife did a dandy stage dancing act and he made a variety of episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" which were quite good....meaning his boring acting seemed to be because he was given a dull character.
The episode begins with a couple of executives (Robert Webber and Whit Bissell) for a safe company talking about a publicity stunt one of them has created. Their new safe is supposedly impossible to crack...and they'll arrange to have the world's best safe cracker try his hand at it (Paul Hartman). If he can open it, he can have the $50,000 locked inside of it.
When the event takes place, there are a lot of folks from the press there to witness the three hour challenge. And, while the safe cracker isn't able to crack the safe, he is successful! What does this mean? See the show.
This is well written and fun. I did predict the outcome during one scene but it still worked well and it sure is worth seeing.