An emblematic episode in which John Forsythe returns to his home town after four years, explains to his sister and his friends that he's been incommunicado in Paris studying music and doing a bit of conducting, and learns that his father has died in what everyone suspiciously refers to as an "heart attack on the tennis court." Something is fishy here. Forsythe's father's fortune has been left to his sister and his brother-in-law. The funeral director admits under threat that an empty coffin was buried, that Dad's body was interred near his hunting lodge up in Maine. Further investigation leads to Forsythe being involved in one of those ironic twists for which the series became so well known.
It's a little sluggish, but it has a fine cast -- Forsythe, George McReady, Warren Stevens (whose face, if not whose name, you'll recognize), and Cloris Leachmen wearing one of those pointed conical brassieres more salacious than no bra at all. The ending seems pasted on, rather like one of those "It was all a dream" denouements, but the story keeps the viewer involved. We all want to find out if our worst fears are justified.
It's a little sluggish, but it has a fine cast -- Forsythe, George McReady, Warren Stevens (whose face, if not whose name, you'll recognize), and Cloris Leachmen wearing one of those pointed conical brassieres more salacious than no bra at all. The ending seems pasted on, rather like one of those "It was all a dream" denouements, but the story keeps the viewer involved. We all want to find out if our worst fears are justified.