Magnificent. IMO, absolutely magnificent work from Sam Dann, Howard DaSilva, Robert Dryden, Brynna Raeburn and company.

DaSilva plays a God-fearing, hard-working, immigrant owner of a small shoe repair store who learns that his son is paying an exhorbitant (for those times) sum of $10.00 per week protection money to a collector who\'s working for a bigger mob boss, played by Dryden.

DaSilva\'s character doesn\'t stand for it very long, beating up the collector on his next visit (the collector had tried to intimidate the store owner by force first) and depositing him at a local police station. The police sergeant (also played by the late Mr. Dryden) warns DaSilva he doesn\'t know what he\'s up against. The big boss visits DaSilva at his store in admiration of the owners strength and brains, and invites him to work for real money. (The store owner declines, saying if he got into the boss\' business the profession wouldn\'t be big enough for both of them.) The boss warns DaSilva that for turning down the offer the latter is a \"chump\" and that he\'ll \"never know what hit him\". As the boss, Dryden also has an interesting side plot with his young, innocent (blissfully ignorant of her father\'s work) and optimistic daughter, who wants to open up a learning center for poor children.

The newspapers have gotten hold of DaSilva\'s story and how he stood up to the organized crime. Then his wife brings a package to the store where DaSilva and his son (played by Jack Grimes) are working. DaSilva opens it...it\'s a time bomb, which goes off in seconds with all three of them there.

Again, IMO, this one\'s worth a listen tonight if you\'ve not yet heard it.<br>