This episode is clever & easy-to-follow, featuring a small-cast of familiar character-actors, the youngest, I think, I've ever seen them. The plot is straightforward, a tale of 2 local-pals who let their imaginations run-away with them, assuming the worst with the disappearance of their friend's wife, believing him to have buried her in the basement. These 2 fishing-buddies, of which Emhardt, the husband-under-suspicion, is affiliated, are mired in the petty-rumors & unsavory-peccadilloes of their tiny, close-knit community. The 3 mentioned-principals portray average, normal, small-town residents with an effective, enjoyable-degree of naturalism. Emhardt conveys a sense of close-mouthed & sinister-behavior, something he was good-at in many shows over the years, though he also portrayed likeable characters, too. When he plays evil or cunning, though, he's at his best, underplaying rather than overplaying. Cara Williams, probably unknown to most viewers of today, is quite-young here, too, though recognizable to me. Her attractiveness in this episode is noticeable, to be sure, but she hadn't yet reached her full-potential in this regard. Just check-her-out in the Danny Kaye movie "The Man from the Diner's Club", made a few-years later, in the 60's. In short, a good-episode. One may say it's talky but it's not boring-talk. It should hold your interest.