A song tugs inside me, like a string pulling on my heart. It wants to fly free. Ivory Strade lives in a world of song. As she goes to school, as she eats breakfast, as she walks down the road, she creates melodies in her mind. Every sound she hears – a distant birdsong, the wind in the trees – becomes a symphony. No one knows about her music because Ivory is not like other ten-year-olds. When people speak to her, it's difficult for her to untangle...

When quilter Martha Rose heads out on her morning walk, she finds the battered body of baseball coach Dax Martin in the arroyo behind her house. Martha calls her boyfriend, LAPD homicide detective Arlo Beavers, but when he detains her sweet neighbor Ed for questioning, she is determined to find the killer. Dax was a bully and a blowhard who clashed with several people in the neighborhood over the new baseball stadium built in Martha's Encino backyard....

The 60's gave us "in crowds," "be-ins" and "love-in," and starting in 1968, the happening place for free-form comedy was Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, broadcast from beautiful downtown Burbank. Straight man Dan Rowan and wisecracking co-host Dick Martin led a gaggle of goofballs through a rapid-fire assault of one-liners, skits, bits and non sequiturs that left viewers in hysterics and disbelief. Anything and anyone in the public eye was a target....