This episode will introduce many people to a young Barbara Eden. If there is any female with more absolute beauty and innocent kindness then please let us all know. Eden presents herself like the perfect female. And therein lies the trouble. This package (excuse me) is just too much. At planet earth's least likely venue for a manicurist she is able to supplant herself using the friendliest town mantra as a guise. Of course a bit of chaotic confusion ensues and it's classic in more than "small town" lack of sophistication. It's down to the battle of the sexes. And Eden is convincing in the fairer sex winning. Men, by nature perhaps, resists the simple act of a manicure until...until Barbara Eden appears. She could sell ice cubes to Eskimos as the saying goes. But wait, there's sure to be a flip-side as these things go. Just when she wins over the impossible audience of men the women of the town are appalled. As if just in time when Eden's character thinks Andy is on his knee inquiring that big question she has been won back by a suitor she was fleeing. Like wars when there is a vacuum there must be someone to fill the void and the ending is hilarious. A great episode that introduced many a TV viewer to a Jeanie of actress.
Review of The Manicurist
