This is one episode whose plot is rather easy to figure out if you know about the plots of books like Camus' "The Stranger" or Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" or "The Legend of Saint Julian" by Flaubert. If you do, then you can quickly guess where the story is headed.
The show begins with a report about a double homicide. Two workers at a factory were killed with a .22 rifle and no one has any leads about the assailant. Eventually, after chasing some dead ends, the police look into a strange college student who is into existentialism and death.
The episode isn't bad but the character of the young man's aunt is pretty dumb and very one-dimensional. Virginia Gregg played this hyper-religious character and if you hadn't seen her last appearance on "Dragnet", you'd swear this woman was a terrible actress--but in "The Shooting" she did a great job. It just goes to show you that writing can make or break any performance. Still, despite this, it's a pretty good episode and worth seeing--even if its message could be construed as a plea to possibly ban books!!
The show begins with a report about a double homicide. Two workers at a factory were killed with a .22 rifle and no one has any leads about the assailant. Eventually, after chasing some dead ends, the police look into a strange college student who is into existentialism and death.
The episode isn't bad but the character of the young man's aunt is pretty dumb and very one-dimensional. Virginia Gregg played this hyper-religious character and if you hadn't seen her last appearance on "Dragnet", you'd swear this woman was a terrible actress--but in "The Shooting" she did a great job. It just goes to show you that writing can make or break any performance. Still, despite this, it's a pretty good episode and worth seeing--even if its message could be construed as a plea to possibly ban books!!