A decade before Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie there was this show, also featuring actors watching objects floating across rooms on thin wires or standing there while the setting around them was changed. This one was based on a 1937 Cary Grant film. Cosmo Topper is a stolid banker, (stolidly played by the stolid Leo G. Carroll a decade before he was Mr. Waverly on The Man from Uncle), whom the ghosts of the fun couple who used to live in his residence decide to reform. In this episode his wife decides to sell the house to a former Army colonel who runs the place like an Army post, even having his daughter play reveille and taps. The ghosts don't like him as much as Topper and conspire to get rid of them. It sounds like fun but the resulting episode is rather tepid and laughless, easily topped by its 60's descendants.
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