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*Plot and ending analyzed*
I watched about ten episodes of this snooze fest before ultimately calling it quits. Richard Denning (Unknown Island (1948), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Target Earth (1954), Day the World Ended (1955), Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), and The Black Scorpion (1957)) is married to Barbara Britton, in what seems like the most dull marriage ever imagined.
They get stuck in silly situations where some murder or mystery just happens to follow them. What baffles me is how this sleuth-solving duo actually solved anything at all. Richard Denning is written to be an invertebrate weakling numbskull and simpleton. Barbara Britton is written to be a courageous and plucky woman. I don't care if the man is portrayed as a blundering idiot, but Barbara Britton has as much personality as a bag of corn starch. She is eminently boring. And so is Richard Denning.
Luckily each episode clocks in at 25 minutes, and they canned the series at season two. Watching it is a real trip to snooze-ville.
*Plot and ending analyzed*
I watched about ten episodes of this snooze fest before ultimately calling it quits. Richard Denning (Unknown Island (1948), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Target Earth (1954), Day the World Ended (1955), Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), and The Black Scorpion (1957)) is married to Barbara Britton, in what seems like the most dull marriage ever imagined.
They get stuck in silly situations where some murder or mystery just happens to follow them. What baffles me is how this sleuth-solving duo actually solved anything at all. Richard Denning is written to be an invertebrate weakling numbskull and simpleton. Barbara Britton is written to be a courageous and plucky woman. I don't care if the man is portrayed as a blundering idiot, but Barbara Britton has as much personality as a bag of corn starch. She is eminently boring. And so is Richard Denning.
Luckily each episode clocks in at 25 minutes, and they canned the series at season two. Watching it is a real trip to snooze-ville.