Town Father

The gossip among the denizens of Cabot Cove's beauty parlor is got some juicy items to discuss. Lee Purcell has arrived in town claiming that Mayor Richard Paul is the father of her two kids out in Wyoming. This is when Basil Hoffman is running against him for mayor. The issues are some zoning changes and some outside folks are backing Hoffman. Julia Adams Cabot Cove's real estate broker has also tossed her hat in the ring. Some want Angela Lansbury to run as she's the most well known figure from town. Even William Windom was asked.

Then Purcell is murdered and the blackmail scheme against Paul falls apart.

It's rather obvious who is behind all this, but I think it was silly to have Ron Masak and Angela Lansbury spending a lot time tracking down beauty parlor gossip.

Not one of the better MSW episodes.

A young woman is murdered when she arrives at a mayoral election claiming that Mayor Sam Booth is the father of her five children. Another comedic MSW with the usual gossip girls from the hairdressers, and bumbling mayor - it's an entertaining episode. I think Jessica should run for Mayor, too.

As a Wyoming native, the producers and scriptwriters have staged a rather typical ignorance of the facts about Wyoming, and Casper in particular

First, Annie Mae's accent is a kind of Appalachian hill folk dialect. Wyoming folk do not have such an accent.

Second, , Casper has a population of between 55-60 thousand, is the financial and Business capital of Wyoming's oil and natural gas industries, has a fine university and boasts a regionally acclaimed symphony orchestra; all of which would make IT the "Big City" vs. Sleepy Cabot Cove...

Another crude put-down of my home state by coastal fools.

It's election time in Cabot Cove, and shenanigans are happening to discredit the sitting Mayor. Town Father is perhaps my favourite episode in this sixth series,

Always great to see the crew from The Salon back, and gossiping more than ever before. It's fair to say The Mayor hasn't been my favourite character on the show, but here they've catered a story around him, he's portrayed as a bumbling, idiotic politician, and that works well. It's an episode that feels like it belongs in Series 5, which is all around more consistent than series 6, which is pretty patchy. What starts off as an almost light hearted farce, turns into something more gritty, and altogether more enjoyable. Loved it, 9/10.

Some greedy developers want to make massive changes to Cabot Cove...which will take away the nice small-town feel the residents love. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but these outside interests are full of dirty tricks...and create a scandal involving the current mayor (Richard Paul) and some mistress...complete with HIS kids! Amazingly, the townsfolk believe this lie very quickly and it makes the mayor's reelection seem very uncertain. As a result, folks start scrambling...looking for another candidate. And, repeatedly, they try to get Jessica to run for mayor.

While this is an enjoyable episode and all involving the group of gossips from the beauty shop are good, the show did have one problem. It simply made everyone in the town MUCH stupider than usual. No one questions if the woman is lying and no one bothers to check out the details of her allegations! This just seemed, well, like a big oversight to say the least. Still, it is worth your time.