Funny man Ken Berry is not persuasively serious in his story, trying to get his ice-cold high school daughters to accept his second wife. He might've wanted to stretch himself but this talented "F-Troop" alumnus was always best when he let himself go comedically.
Nanette Fabray is a middle-aged woman hiding a secret from her husband.
Gopher's parents are sailing: Ethel Merman playing a character an awful lot like . . . Ethel Merman. The woman who trained her voice to reach the gods and galleries of Broadway theatres is still unable to dial it back and by this time in her career no one expects her to. Audiences want the Ethel Merman they know. Then there's his pop: quasi-leading man of the movies and TV star Robert Cummings, looking like Death only half-warmed. In his opening credits picture Cummings looks like Dracula at noon. It's hard to believe, watching this episode, Cummings is going to outlive Merman. She looks full of life and he acts full of death. Fare-well to them both.
An uninteresting episode with three mostly-serious yarns to unravel.
Nanette Fabray is a middle-aged woman hiding a secret from her husband.
Gopher's parents are sailing: Ethel Merman playing a character an awful lot like . . . Ethel Merman. The woman who trained her voice to reach the gods and galleries of Broadway theatres is still unable to dial it back and by this time in her career no one expects her to. Audiences want the Ethel Merman they know. Then there's his pop: quasi-leading man of the movies and TV star Robert Cummings, looking like Death only half-warmed. In his opening credits picture Cummings looks like Dracula at noon. It's hard to believe, watching this episode, Cummings is going to outlive Merman. She looks full of life and he acts full of death. Fare-well to them both.
An uninteresting episode with three mostly-serious yarns to unravel.
