The Girl in Studio B — Teresa Holloway

Was Mary McLendon too much like the “Cherokee Rose”…a beautiful blossom so surrounded by thorns no man -- no even one as determined as David Carmichael -- could get close to her?

Off-Camera Drama

The maze of control panels, camera booms and hot, bright lights of WKSU-TV was Mary McLendon's world…a world that began to spin crazily the day the new news director, David Carmichael, arrived on the scene. The first meeting between the dynamic 22-year-old blonde and the attractive TV journalist wasn't exactly cordial. David had been allotted five minutes of Mary's popular interview program, “Showcase”…and no one had bothered to inform her of the change in advance. But Mary couldn't resent David's “intrusion” for long…not after she looked into his hypnotic green eyes. The romantic spell was broken suddenly when a poisonous coral snake, part of a special zoo exhibit intended for Mary's show, escaped from its cage, It was still missing when Mary became aware that something even more sinister had invaded Studio B…

Hero: David Carmichael
Heroine: Mary McLendon