When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

This is a Ford Startime TV special. A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.