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Different names, but same plot as above mentioned episode of Cheyenne (episode 7 of the first season), only with less padding, as the Cheyenne episode was a full hour.

Even the final scene had as far as I can tell the same dialog.

Still a good episode, though; I saw this one before the earlier Cheyenne episode, and while watching the Cheyenne episode I kept thinking that I'd seen it before even though I knew I hadn't.

Maj. Heffler (Ray Teal) becomes Col. Bealey, Capt. Quinlan (Richard Denning) becomes Maj. Parker, and Lt. Rogers becomes Lt. Roberts, with the two Lieutenants having corresponding love interests who are daughters of different officers, and Cheyenne Bodie (Clint Walker) taking the Chris Colt part.

The blue-haired "scientist" seems to have been included solely to spew a blatant untruth about monogamy being solely a human practice and to promote deviancy as being "natural". And they didn't even show any of her many cats!

None of what she said had anything to do with anything else in this episode (or any other episode in this series); it was a very poor and puzzling decision to include this off-topic drivel.

That said, if you fast-forward through Professor Bluehair McCatLady's segment, the episode mostly follows the investigation begun in the season opener, hence the second star. It's just a shame that the producers felt the need to include this footage that would've been better spent on something like watching the investigators tie their shoes or pick their noses.

I gave this six episodes )about 5.9 more than it deserved), and it never got better than awful. Obnoxiously self-righteous teen who always knows better than her "stupid" parents, defies then regularly, after which the parents "realize" that they were the ones in the wrong. It's insufferable.

I realize that shows aimed at teens tend to prop up the teens, but in this show it's just so ham-handed that it's repulsive.