Agents West and Frank Harper (William Schallert) investigate a series of disturbing incidents involving a raven hypnotizing high-ranking officials into committing crimes. aided by two different eye doctors who both call themselves "Dr.Horatio Occularis". The incidents lead the two agents to "The Raven", a group of would-be conquerors led by Professor Thaddeus Toombs (John Harding) and an EvilGenius called Tycho (Christopher Cary).

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!!Tropes present in this episode:
* BackwardsFiringGun: Raven eliminates the first Occularis (Bernard Fox), [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness who has outlived his usefulness]], by giving him one of these.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Raven's victims. Poor Frank is so afflicted that when he's brainwashed while posing as Mayor Sneed, he thinks he ''is'' Sneed after he's triggered. He tries to shoot Jim, who stops him by talking him into killing Frank Harper first, causing him to empty his gun into a mirror.
* CreepyRavens: Raven uses actual trained ravens to activate their {{Manchurian Agent}}s.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Tycho appears briefly, getting a much larger role in Part 2.
* FeelNoPain: The brainwashed victims. Unfortunately for Jim, he was only ''pretending'' to be brainwashed...
* FemmeFatale: Laurette (Michele Carey), who pretends to be an innocent bystander when Jim first meets her, is actually a murderous Raven agent.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Once again, UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant makes an appearance.
* LargeHam: Toombs and the second Occularis (Robert Ellenstein), both of whom are wonderfully overplayed.
* MadScientist: Raven is a whole organization of them.
* ManchurianAgent: What Raven's victims become, albeit temporarily.
* NebulousEvilOrganization: Raven.
* ShoutOut: The teaser has a woman reading from Creator/WaltWhitman's "Oh Captain! My Captain!"
* SlasherSmile: Occularis II does one while brainwashing Frank.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Michele Carey is billed as ''Michelle'' Carey in the end credits of both parts.
* TranquilizerDart: Laurette uses a remotely-triggered dart launcher to knock Jim out.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: During his brief MotiveRant, Toombs says that the members of Raven "want to rule the Earth and its inhabitants scientifically", which they think would be an improvement over the irrational leadership of current governments.
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