User Reviews

I think this is my first time watching "Barnaby Jones". It comes on Metv and the series comes on too late for me to watch it. I was only able to catch this episode because I had today off.

I'll start with Buddy Ebsen. I've been watching "The Beverly Hillbillies" lately and saw how hard of a time Max Baer Jr and Donna Douglas had with typecasting but it looks like Buddy landed on his feet and was able to get away from Jed Clampett.

Another point I want to link with what I mentioned above involves Bill Bixby. He worked for a lot of years and was able to move to different projects. But overall I think people think of nice guy characters he plays and might have a hard time even picturing him playing a bad guy. Bill's a great actor and I think he does a wonderful job here.

Also have to praise the writing. Bill's plays a golddigger in this episode and he's got a woman on the side. He gets angry with his side piece when she says she's called up his wife to invite her over. The side piece pretty much figures out on her own that any money belongs to his wife instead of to him. She rightfully calls him a gigolo and he ends up killing her after that's said.

There's also a storyline about the wife and how she's gone missing for a couple of weeks. Bill's character stalls people by saying she's not feeling well. I honestly thought he had killed the wife as well with the way he was acting but it turns out she's alive and Barnaby tracks her down and is able to nail Bill's character for the murder of his side piece.

Anyway, this episode was very enjoyable.