A woman gets a call from her sister, who's hysterical, begging her to come over. The line goes dead. Unfortunately, that is also how the police find her sister.

The woman is persuaded to let the authorities conduct an autopsy on her sister, who was in her 20s and in good health. They find she died of heart failure. The woman has to stick close by to help her father take care of her late sister's affairs. She also makes the acquaintance of one of her sister's former co-workers, played by good ole Mason Adams. She has to stay at her late sister's apartment until those arrangements are finished.

One night the sis can't sleep, and goes rummaging through her sibling's medicine cabinet to find a sominex. She finds a bottle marked as sleeping pills and takes them. Not long afterward, a huge gorilla is trying to pound its way into her door.

The sister cannot figure out what's happened, but learns her sister was seeing a psychiatrist. He won't give her any info, but Adams' character agrees to help her out and sees the doctor. Adams learns that, for some of his therapy, the doctor had developed a derivative of LSD that, instead of causing general hallucinations, caused patients instead to see that in their subconscious which most terrified them. The sister then sees the sleeping pills, and finds out they were prescribed by this doctor...

This episode has one of the most amusing E.G. Marshall interludes I've ever heard. THe woman is screaming in abject terror as the gorilla is breaking down her door, then Marshall says: "Well, now that's what I'D call an 'unexpected guest' ". Classic.
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