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Smaller Than Life

Thomas's attempt to impress a new girlfriend by taking hang-gliding lessons lands him in the hospital with a broken shoulder; Rick bails out his childhood friend Waldo Norris on a breaking and entering charge, but Waldo insists that he's an insurance claims investigator trying to prove that a valuable figurine that was reported as stolen is still in the possession of its owners; after they get shot at by a man ransacking Waldo's hotel room, Rick does a little digging and discovers that his friend has been lying to him, and has also stolen one of Higgins's sketches by conning him into thinking that he's a representative of the Smithsonian; Waldo then confesses that he's really a CIA operative and the figurine contains sensitive information; after some further checking, Rick is able to verify his story, and Higgins and T.C. agree to help Waldo and Rick -- that is, until Thomas does even more checking and discovers that Waldo was fired from the CIA years before; Waldo then claims that he

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  • Originally Aired October 13, 1983
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Production Code 7602
  • Network CBS
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Created June 27, 2015 by
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Name Type Role
J. Rickley Dumm Writer
Cork Hubbert Guest Star
Blackie Dammett Guest Star
Alika Chee Guest Star
Lani Kim Guest Star
Gene Price Guest Star
Lenore Kasdorf Guest Star
Alan J. Levi Director