The Deadly Charade

Episode aired Jan 13, 1977
1h

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7.4/10

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Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

While Betty is spending time with a group of friends tragedy strikes as one of the ladies is shot and killed during an alleged break-in. The leading suspect is the estranged husband of the v... Read allWhile Betty is spending time with a group of friends tragedy strikes as one of the ladies is shot and killed during an alleged break-in. The leading suspect is the estranged husband of the victim, but Barnaby and J.R. dig up evidence (and other possible murders) that indicates it... Read allWhile Betty is spending time with a group of friends tragedy strikes as one of the ladies is shot and killed during an alleged break-in. The leading suspect is the estranged husband of the victim, but Barnaby and J.R. dig up evidence (and other possible murders) that indicates it's one of the other friends.

Director
- Michael Caffey
Writers
- Calvin Clements Jr.
- Edward Hume
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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

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Director
- Michael Caffey
Writers
- Calvin Clements Jr.
- Edward Hume
Stars

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7/10

That guy is bloodthirsty!

When the story begins, Nugent (David Hedison) shoots his wife during a dinner party and then shoots himself in a non-fatal location. When guests (including Betty) come to the room and find the dead woman and injured man, Nugent comes up with a story...saying that some guy in a ski mask killed the woman and then shot him. He spends the rest of the episode trying to insure that others are blamed for the killing...making himself the sole heir to the wife's fortune.

This episode does what so many episodes of detective shows does...it has a killing that hits very close to home. Considering Betty is nearly killed and was kidnapped innumerable times on the show, she ought to consider some other line of work!

It's an interesting but not great episode. What I really DID like is that an important part of the show is a Chinese statue....the same statue used in a previous episode to bash someone over the noggin! I can't believe this was coincidental....and folks back in the 1970s might not have noticed this because they could only see episodes as they aired....not one after the other like I saw the shows today.