Obviously when you get a bingo in this hotel, it is not a good thing. That's what the delightful Patricia Neal finds out in this truly gripping episode of "Ghost Story", one of the last episodes hosted by Sebastian Cabot before the show was revamped and became "Circle of Fear". Truthfully, only a handful of episodes of the show are worth rewatching, many of them starry but messy. That's not the case with this one.
Neal is staying at the hotel and when she tries to find out what has happened to her missing husband, all she is told is that he has checked out. The same thing happens to the friendly Alice Ghostley, shocked when her husband's number is called, and later found alone by Neal. Flashbacks to Neil and her husband driving to the hotel and Ghostley's declaration about all that planning for nothing has Neal haunted, especially as she hears the bingo caller repeatedly giving the numbers.
I figured out really quickly what was going on, but even then, I was intrigued to see how it would all play out. Veteran actor Craig Stevens is an important player as the hotel's assistant manager, sort of the Mr. Rourke in God's waiting room. In fact, this episode would have been a great pilot for a similarly themed series that shows the various characters in their transition. Neal (and that delightfully husky voice) could read the phone book and be fascinating, and even with certain elements of her stroke coming out in her performance (slow speaking and looking mistyfied), she is eternally beautiful, body and soul.
Neal is staying at the hotel and when she tries to find out what has happened to her missing husband, all she is told is that he has checked out. The same thing happens to the friendly Alice Ghostley, shocked when her husband's number is called, and later found alone by Neal. Flashbacks to Neil and her husband driving to the hotel and Ghostley's declaration about all that planning for nothing has Neal haunted, especially as she hears the bingo caller repeatedly giving the numbers.
I figured out really quickly what was going on, but even then, I was intrigued to see how it would all play out. Veteran actor Craig Stevens is an important player as the hotel's assistant manager, sort of the Mr. Rourke in God's waiting room. In fact, this episode would have been a great pilot for a similarly themed series that shows the various characters in their transition. Neal (and that delightfully husky voice) could read the phone book and be fascinating, and even with certain elements of her stroke coming out in her performance (slow speaking and looking mistyfied), she is eternally beautiful, body and soul.