"Uninvited Peril" is a badly written episode of "Barnaby Jones"....so much so that I was really shocked.
It begins with a man calling his mother...crying that 'he's done it again'. This means he killed some woman. But instead of phoning the police, the mother tells him to dispose of the body.
The next day, the mother and her husband arrive at Barnaby's office. Only Betty is there and instead of having them wait or come back later, she listens to their case and agrees to find her missing son! Now remember...Betty is NOT a private detective...but she takes the case.
Later that night, the mother and her husband arrive at Betty's apartment and instead of questioning them about their lack of personal boundaries, she invites them to stay the night!!! Can Betty be that stupid?!
Now, so far, does ANY of this make any sense? No? Well, it gets better. Betty is able to locate the man...and she arrives just as he and his old boss get into a fight. Apparently, the boss learned the man is wanted by the police...and the young man attacks him. He is shot in the process but overpowers the man and takes Betty hostage. When the mother and her husband arrive a bit later, instead of freeing Betty they pull a gun and take her prisoner!! Again, does ANY of this make any sense?! What were the writers thinking?!
I would rank this among the worst written episodes of "Barnaby Jones" I've seen...and I've seen all of them up to this one. You wonder how the producers even allowed such a ridiculous thing to be made in the first place. It just never seems to make any sense...none. And the ending...well it completely sucked.
Overall, a completely terrible episode...and unlike a few other klunkers, you can't blame the Jedediah character for this. And, as I type this, I can't really think about anything I liked about this episode. Yes, it's that bad...REALLY bad.
By the way, in the story the man who was shot has type B blood and, incidentally, so does Betty. The odds of this are pretty slim as only 8.5% of the population has B...and BOTH being B...well that's hard to imagine. But why should that matter with an episode as bad as this one?!
It begins with a man calling his mother...crying that 'he's done it again'. This means he killed some woman. But instead of phoning the police, the mother tells him to dispose of the body.
The next day, the mother and her husband arrive at Barnaby's office. Only Betty is there and instead of having them wait or come back later, she listens to their case and agrees to find her missing son! Now remember...Betty is NOT a private detective...but she takes the case.
Later that night, the mother and her husband arrive at Betty's apartment and instead of questioning them about their lack of personal boundaries, she invites them to stay the night!!! Can Betty be that stupid?!
Now, so far, does ANY of this make any sense? No? Well, it gets better. Betty is able to locate the man...and she arrives just as he and his old boss get into a fight. Apparently, the boss learned the man is wanted by the police...and the young man attacks him. He is shot in the process but overpowers the man and takes Betty hostage. When the mother and her husband arrive a bit later, instead of freeing Betty they pull a gun and take her prisoner!! Again, does ANY of this make any sense?! What were the writers thinking?!
I would rank this among the worst written episodes of "Barnaby Jones" I've seen...and I've seen all of them up to this one. You wonder how the producers even allowed such a ridiculous thing to be made in the first place. It just never seems to make any sense...none. And the ending...well it completely sucked.
Overall, a completely terrible episode...and unlike a few other klunkers, you can't blame the Jedediah character for this. And, as I type this, I can't really think about anything I liked about this episode. Yes, it's that bad...REALLY bad.
By the way, in the story the man who was shot has type B blood and, incidentally, so does Betty. The odds of this are pretty slim as only 8.5% of the population has B...and BOTH being B...well that's hard to imagine. But why should that matter with an episode as bad as this one?!