Older sisters seek Gunn's help when a woman with a shot at love ignores a mountain of evidence suggesting her man is anything but lovely.Older sisters seek Gunn's help when a woman with a shot at love ignores a mountain of evidence suggesting her man is anything but lovely.Older sisters seek Gunn's help when a woman with a shot at love ignores a mountain of evidence suggesting her man is anything but lovely.
Bill Chadney
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- (uncredited)
Byron Kane
- Barney
- (uncredited)
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More of an exercise in perverse psychology than the usual Gunn trackdown. In fact, Jacoby makes only a brief cameo. The episode's hook is okay as fortune hunter Bowers (Harris) sets up an electrocution trap for his rich, unwanted wife. Seems like he's already murdered 4 or 5 wives before this, all of which were deemed accidents. Now he's got poor love-starved Maggie (Nolan) in his sights, except her ritzy sister Wilma (Wallace) smells a rat and hires Pete to check him out. So, can Pete make a difference before Bowers strikes again. All in all, I think the story would have had more suspense had we not been tipped off to Bowers guilt by the hook.
Anyhow, the short pudgy, rather charmless Harris makes an unlikely Romeo. But then Maggie is tragically love-lorn. Stealing the show however is that great old vet of a thousand house maids, Ellen Corby, as the third sister, Irma. Her ditzy remarks are a hoot. Then there's that surprise if pretty unbelievable ending that, in my view, flops as a twist. Anyway, Edie gets a brief appearance for us guys. Otherwise, it's a mixed 30-minutes of the usually stylish Peter Gunn.
Anyhow, the short pudgy, rather charmless Harris makes an unlikely Romeo. But then Maggie is tragically love-lorn. Stealing the show however is that great old vet of a thousand house maids, Ellen Corby, as the third sister, Irma. Her ditzy remarks are a hoot. Then there's that surprise if pretty unbelievable ending that, in my view, flops as a twist. Anyway, Edie gets a brief appearance for us guys. Otherwise, it's a mixed 30-minutes of the usually stylish Peter Gunn.
Did you know
- TriviaThe car driven by Wilma Goffney (Helen Wallace) is a Detroit Electric which was an electric car produced by the Anderson Electric Car Company. They made about 13,000 cars between 1907 and 1939. The same car can be seen in The Case of the Borrowed Baby (1962).
- GoofsThe photograph Pete shows to the poker players shows Henry (Robert H. Harris) and Maggie (Jeanette Nolan) each very surprised and looking directly at the camera. But when the flash went off, they were looking at each other, in profile to the camera. Not only that, the angle is wrong. The picture has Pete sitting almost directly behind Maggie, but where the photographer was standing, Pete is far off to the right. Also, there are people standing in the doorway behind Pete in the photo, but no one in sight when the picture is taken.
- Quotes
James Bond: When asked about his name by Peter Gunn at Mother's, the lawyer for Wilma & Irma Goffney simply responds "James Bond."
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- 25m
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- 1.33 : 1
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