Luther Heggs (
Don Knotts
) is a typesetter at a newspaper who longs for a chance to be a reporter in
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
. Editor Beckett (
Dick Sargent
) gives Luther his big break and assigns him to spend the night in a house generally considered to be haunted. The situation allows a broad canvas for Knotts to react to sight gags with the special brand of eye-popping nervousness that made him a star. Former Playboy Bunny
Joan Staley
plays the pretty girlfriend of star reporter Ollie Weaver (
Skip Homeier
).