Real Name/Secret Identity:
Richard H. Thorndyke
Universe/Franchise:
High Anxiety
First Appearance:
High Anxiety (1977)
Abilities:
Running psychiatric institutes and being afraid of heights
Occupation:
Psychiatrist/Administrator
Base of Operations:
Psycho-Neurotic Institute For the Very, Very...
Dirty Details Done Dirt Cheap:
Richard H. Thorndyke is a psychiatrist suffering from a fear of heights, or "high anxiety," as he refers to it. Thorndyke has just been appointed the new head administrator of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute For the Very, Very Nervous, where his strange colleagues, Dr. Montague and Nurse Diesel, have hatched an evil plan and framed him for murder. On his journey to clear his name, Thorndyke encounters the beautiful Victoria Brisbane, a mysterious woman he may or may not be able to trust, and finds himself in several situation where he must learn to overcome his fear of heights, including getting a room on the top floor of the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco and engaging in a climactic battle at the top of a clock tower.
