If you remember classic MATCH GAME with Gene Rayburn and the proverbial gag question... "Dumb Dora is so Dumb...." This episode picks up from there; one of Peggy's friends has a drinking problem and is not particularly smart. What's so surprising... WHY Peggy would hang with such a careless guy?
George Sanford Brown plays the man in question, called Brad, suspected of killing the owner of a liquor store. The scene of the crime is a total nightmare; Brown and his bud (who is shot) run off when robbers actually pull the job. Had they remained where they were, it would have been a different outcome. But that's tv land. Popular character actress Shirley O'Hara plays the victim's wife.
Brown said he took up acting to do "something fun", and stood with it the rest of his life. He's best known for THE ROOKIES, later working as a director. Robert Reed returns as the law, taking turns with Ward Wood. It was later revealed Reed got the role to give him something else to do. He was unhappy with his role on the BRADY BUNCH, eventually leading him to quit the show.
Interestingly, some of the chase scenes were filmed in and around the storage warehouses at Paramount Studios. You can spot antique furniture and other old stuff, used and re-used in hundreds of classic movies. If only they could talk, the stories they would tell, right?
Well directed by Stuart Hagmann, and I agree with the last reviewer, there are some dynamic camera angles to spice things up. Hagmann directed 4 episodes for the series, and also for MISSION IMPOSSIBLE.
First episode of SEASON 3 remastered CBS/Paramount dvd box set. 6 dvds. Released 2009. Nice sketch of Peggy beside Joe.
