This episode shows Stu involved in espionage-type work in Berlin in 1959. Notably, we see that the Berlin Wall evidently did not exist yet, as there is no reference to it; Stu moves through checkpoints of the two sides, West and East.
The best part of the episode, to me, is the character played by Jacqueline Scott, who is lively. Fun, attractive and rather an enigma to the suspicious Stu, as befits a spy story! She was only in this one episode of the series, and I wish she had been in more. Some of the guest star actresses were in as many as five or six episodes, over the 5 regular seasons and the 20 episodes of season 6.
I like the episodes where, in imagination (assisted by the Warner Brothers backlot) we visit some foreign country. After all, Mission Impossible did the same thing, some ten years later!
Stu Bailey seems to always be the one chosen for these spy-type missions, probably because his backstory was that he had been in the OSS during World War II.
We don't see either Suzanne or Roscoe in this episode. I only started watching this series fairly recently, so I didn't realize that they appeared so sporadically, and that when they do appear, it's very brief. Jacqueline Beer (Suzanne) is so charming, I'm always hoping to see her with more screen time. I have read some of the synopses of later episodes, and I know she does have a bigger part in some of them.
There's a good feeling of espionage in this story. I've visited the famous museum about the Wall in Berlin, which has amazing exhibits and stories of the many brave people who tried to escape, and sometimes succeeded; others gave up their lives in the effort. It's well worth a visit, if you go to Berlin. There's a reason that the Communists of East Germany, and their agents, made believable villains: they deserved it. I hope to see more episodes of Stu matching wits with their sort, over the run of the series.
The best part of the episode, to me, is the character played by Jacqueline Scott, who is lively. Fun, attractive and rather an enigma to the suspicious Stu, as befits a spy story! She was only in this one episode of the series, and I wish she had been in more. Some of the guest star actresses were in as many as five or six episodes, over the 5 regular seasons and the 20 episodes of season 6.
I like the episodes where, in imagination (assisted by the Warner Brothers backlot) we visit some foreign country. After all, Mission Impossible did the same thing, some ten years later!
Stu Bailey seems to always be the one chosen for these spy-type missions, probably because his backstory was that he had been in the OSS during World War II.
We don't see either Suzanne or Roscoe in this episode. I only started watching this series fairly recently, so I didn't realize that they appeared so sporadically, and that when they do appear, it's very brief. Jacqueline Beer (Suzanne) is so charming, I'm always hoping to see her with more screen time. I have read some of the synopses of later episodes, and I know she does have a bigger part in some of them.
There's a good feeling of espionage in this story. I've visited the famous museum about the Wall in Berlin, which has amazing exhibits and stories of the many brave people who tried to escape, and sometimes succeeded; others gave up their lives in the effort. It's well worth a visit, if you go to Berlin. There's a reason that the Communists of East Germany, and their agents, made believable villains: they deserved it. I hope to see more episodes of Stu matching wits with their sort, over the run of the series.
