Hal Stanley

The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on, to their subsequent regret.

Anachronism-laden historic sitcom in which a Roman businessman is conned into putting up a muscle-bound poet against a top gladiator in order to get one over on Braggius, his archrival at the men's club. Things look bleak when his champ proves to have a glass jaw. But his son and slave have an idea which may just save the day!

Due to the death of a rural state's senator, inexperienced Eugene Smith is appointed to the Senate vacancy.