ABC
March 5, 1970
Sitcom
DVD
C+
I have to admit that some of the entertainment value for me in this Joseph-Bonaduce-written episode was exclaiming, "That doesn't make any sense." Ann goes to an audition for a role as "a typical emancipated woman" who's apparently supposed to be emasculating as well, but the producer has a tantrum and scares her. Then later she's thrilled to be called back to his office at 8 p.m., but the role he wants her to play is that of clumsy secretary to his lawyer, in order to prove that he didn't stab a man with a shish-kabob and the man instead stabbed himself. By the time Ann is holding a flaming shish-kabob in the courtroom and scaring that man, any realism has pretty much disappeared, not that it hasn't been slipping away from the show in the last two or three years anyway. Still, um, Ann wears some cute outfits. Oh, and there's another How Did This Tag Get Past the Censors tag, where Ann spills water in Donald's lap, she tries to help, and he says a line that sounds ad-libbed by Bessell: "Move your hand away."
Associate producer Lew Gallo and creator Sam Denoff are two of the men who go to the hat check stand. Alan Oppenheimer's third of four roles on the show is as Morgan Jerome. Allen Davis, who's Lionel Vernon, was the Desk Clerk in the Vegas episodes. Harvey J. Goldenberg, who plays Jones, would later be an Assistant Chef. Thirty-one-year-old Hal Williams, later of 227, has his first of three TG roles, as the Court Clerk.
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| Alan Oppenheimer shares my reaction. |
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