If you remember the classic MATCH GAME with Gene Rayburn and the proverbial gag question... "Dumb Dora is so Dumb...." This episode picks up from there as one of Peggy's friends has a drinking problem and is not particularly smart. What's so surprising... is 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 as 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 his starring role in THE ROOKIES, later working as a director. Robert Reed returns as the law, taking turns with Ward Wood. It was later revealed that Reed got the role to give him something else to do as 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 the rest, stuff used and re-used in hundreds of old movies.
Very well directed by Stuart Hagmann, and I agree with the last reviewer, there are some dynamic camera angles to spice things up. Not bad. Hagmann directed 4 episodes for the series, and also for MISSION IMPOSSIBLE.
First episode of SEASON 3 remastered CBS dvd box set.