The Hottest Ticket in Town
Directed by Ray Austin
Written by Bob Shayne
Synopsis: A man gets into a limousine carrying a blue suitcase. The limo driver pulls a gun on him and demands he hand over the case, but the man
resists. In the struggle, the man is shot. The limo driver grabs the case and flees to a nearby waiting car.
Meanwhile, a young blonde, Dianne is waiting for concert tickets; she's been there all night. A guy from her new school talks her into buying three
more tickets for two girls and him. When she gets to the window, however, she is thwarted by a "Sold Out" sign.
Upset, she turns to her Aunt Cecilia, who in turn brings in her sons to help get four tickets to the hottest show in town. Mom successfully guilts her sons into doing what they can.
They first try the concert promoter, Rick offering him an exchange of their detective skills for some tickets. He unceremoniously tells them no deal.
Later, the promoter finds out that the suitcase full of his counterfeit tickets has been stolen and the man who was to deliver them is in the hospital
fighting for life. He's deeply concerned about the loss of the tickets when he remembers the visit from the Simons. He incorrectly assumes that the
brothers were there to sell him back his fraudulent tickets and sends two goons to get to the bottom of things.
AJ and Rick, having no success at the promoter's, try asking a friend of Rick's who sells...well, a little bit of everything. The guy can't help him,
though he gives them the address of someone who is selling suspiciously large amounts of concert tickets.
Skip to the two thieves. The one who'd shot the delivery guy is desperately afraid of being caught by the police and wants to flee the country. The
other one is too busy selling tickets to pay him much heed and heads off to deliver some of the ill-gotten, illegal gains.
As he drives off, the Simons arrive, hoping to get the four tickets. The remaining man assumes they're there about the shooting, punches Rick, and disappears out the back. Chagrin turns to
money signs in Rick's brain as he looks at the pile of concert tickets sitting on the table. Shoving them into the nearby suitcase, he assures AJ that they'll
return the tickets, get four for Dianne, and most likely a reward. AJ is highly dubious of his brother's motives, but goes along with it since it seems the moral thing to do.
The promoter's goons arrive as the Simons are leaving and find one discarded pile of tickets on the floor. They're more sure than ever that the
brothers stole the tickets in the first place. The guy who'd left to deliver some tickets overhears the goons and drives away, leaving the goons unaware of his presence.
Dianne is waiting for Rick and AJ when they return with the case full of tickets. They tell her to stay outside while they try to arrange something
better than the tickets. They go inside and AJ calls manager of the concert's star, Rick Brewster, offering the return of the tickets that they thought
were stolen but legal, and asking Brewster to pick them up personally. The manager agrees and then tells Brewster that someone's selling tickets for seats that don't exist.
The goons catch up with the Simons at their office. They bring in Danielle, pull out their guns and demand the suitcase. The Simons hand it over,
but not before getting the daylights knocked out of them. When they regain consciousness, they find Dianne bound and gagged but otherwise unharmed in the backroom of the office.
Brewster's manager arrives, all right, bringing a pair of policemen with him. The Simons try to explain what really happened, but the police aren't
buying it. Covertly, AJ calls Janet and leaves the phone pointing towards the officers so she can pick up what's going on. When the police start
hauling the Simons off, Janet distracts them so they can slip away.
Dianne, left behind, has realized that the guy dressed as a chauffeur is actually her idol, Brewster. She joyfully asks for an autograph, but
he blows her off, telling her to write his fan club where people are paid to sign his autograph. Dianne stares after him as he steals away, her face
showing her feelings of mortification and betrayal.
The Simons head to the concert arena, intent on asking the promoter a few questions about the tickets they now know are illegal. They are surprised by the ever-present goons with the
promoter and are held hostage. Brewster's manager has also figured out that the promoter must have created the illegal and confronted him.
When bribery didn't work, the promoter told one of the goons to go up to the catwalk with him and toss him over the side to certain death.
The Simons overpower the remaining goons. Rick runs to save the manager while AJ runs to tell Brewster what's going on. Rick arrives almost too late and dumps the tickets over the side of the
catwalk to get the goon's attention. He attacks Rick, throwing him over the side, but Rick catches hold of a convenient chain, after which the manager overpowers the goon.
AJ has a tough time getting Brewster to stop playing long enough to listen to him, but the avalanche of tickets gets everyone's attention. Rick
slowly descends down the chain until it ends, then grabs on to a large sign with the name "Rick" in lights (for Rick Brewster). The sign slowly lowers
him to the stage where Rick is greeted with applause from all present.
The boy from Dianne's school comes with her to the Simons to pick up the concert tickets. Brewster shows up to give them to her himself, with her ticket autographed. After he leaves, Rick
and AJ hide their smiles as the teenage Casanova awkwardly asks Dianne to go with him to the concert.
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