As the KID-TVstaff prepares to produce an exclusive program about teen idol and rock musician Simon Gear, who is returning to his old hometown of Wellsburg, everything goes wrong.
The gunmen holding hostages at the Wellsburg Savings and Loan bank relay their demands over the air waves of KID-TV, a television station run by youngsters.
Minnie O'Reilly and Willow Eichenberry investigate the theft of valuable equipment from the television station when teenager Lennie Farini, a young delinquent on parole and assigned to the station, is accused of the crime.