Jeff handles this case, with just a few brief appearances by Stu. I'm going to have to get used to seeing Efrem Zimbalist smoking a pipe! He looks like an old-fashioned English professor!
The plot is a pretty good one. I liked that the villains were portrayed realistically, and were not typical hoodlums, of the kind we see so often in detective shows of this period. I also liked that we get to see Kookie getting out and about to help with the case; and it was fun to meet Roscoe for the first time! As for Suzanne, we get some flashes of her beautiful smile, and we get to hear her utterly delightful French accent. I do wish the directors and writers would figure out some ways to get the former Miss France out from behind that crummy switchboard cubicle! I know that does happen later sometimes, so we can look forward to that!
Kookie's cool-guy slang talk of 1958 does sound quite dated now, but it's fun to hear it, and his character adds zest to the episode--and to the entire series, for that matter.
Viewers of today will probably not be familiar with Roger Smith as an actor, unless they see this show. He's just in his mid-twenties here (as is Suzanne) but he has already proven that he can "carry" an episode on his own, without a big assist from the older and much more experienced actor, Efrem Zimbalist. I like them both very much. I have a little bit of a preference for Roger, because he is so witty, and when he flirts with the pretty ladies, he has this fun, impish gleam in his eyes.
The plot is a pretty good one. I liked that the villains were portrayed realistically, and were not typical hoodlums, of the kind we see so often in detective shows of this period. I also liked that we get to see Kookie getting out and about to help with the case; and it was fun to meet Roscoe for the first time! As for Suzanne, we get some flashes of her beautiful smile, and we get to hear her utterly delightful French accent. I do wish the directors and writers would figure out some ways to get the former Miss France out from behind that crummy switchboard cubicle! I know that does happen later sometimes, so we can look forward to that!
Kookie's cool-guy slang talk of 1958 does sound quite dated now, but it's fun to hear it, and his character adds zest to the episode--and to the entire series, for that matter.
Viewers of today will probably not be familiar with Roger Smith as an actor, unless they see this show. He's just in his mid-twenties here (as is Suzanne) but he has already proven that he can "carry" an episode on his own, without a big assist from the older and much more experienced actor, Efrem Zimbalist. I like them both very much. I have a little bit of a preference for Roger, because he is so witty, and when he flirts with the pretty ladies, he has this fun, impish gleam in his eyes.