77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) Family Skeleton (1960) User Reviews

Worth watching

[shakspryn · 7/10 · 5 January 2022]

I was interested in this episode because I like Yvonne Craig, who is her usual very attractive self here! This episode is also notable for two fine guest performances, by Suzanne Storrs, and especially by Frank Gerstle. I was very impressed by Gerstle.

To compare this episode to, say, any of Perry Mason in the same year, 1960, PM is clearly the better show: just more exciting and dramatic. This outing of 77 is ok, but somewhat talky. As is standard on Warner Brothers TV shows of this period, a lot of the scenes are interiors, which is OK; but they aren't the most interesting interiors, again compared to Perry Mason. There are a number of small, pleasantly humorous moments among our regulars. This is a decent episode, but not a standout.

The women in his life

[bkoganbing · 4/10 · 18 January 2018]

It's a midnight call at Dino's from the family physician that gets Efrem Zimbalist involved in a kidnapping that the family wants to handle quietly. Walter Reed an old friend of Stu Bailey's is kidnapped and the family is asked to fork over a sizable ransom.

Reed married singer Gale Robbins and the obvious conclusion is that she who was running around with gangster Fred Gerstle is in this somewhere. A line taken by Reed's sister Yvonne Craig and secretary Suzanne Storrs. But you already know that will not be the case.

I had a lot of problems with Yvonne Craig cast as Reed's sister, that was way too big an obvious age spread. Similarly Gerstle as a gangster who might just have a heart of gold. This was not a Damon Runyon story.

Still the conclusion is a pip.

Family business

[searchanddestroy-1 · 25 December 2015]

Stu Bailey is needed after a kidnapping occurred against a wealthy doctor's son. The abducted is a seriously ill young man who needs an injection because of his illness, so the kidnapping is really for him a matter of life and death. You have to deal here with a rather complicated story, as many detective tales, private eye, I mean, and no P.D ones. There is nothing really exceptional here, unlike the previous episode I saw. I found it boring, compared with other segments. But I know that, among the more than two hundred episodes of the series, there will be a lot like this one. I only have to be patient and wait. Directed by Reginald Le Borg, a notorious B movies film maker.