When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.When a prince who is well known as a playboy takes a sudden romantic interest in a shy, plain housewife, everyone is baffled and fascinated.
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- TriviaBrown make-up was applied to Jacques Bergerac in a vain attempt to make him look Indian. The incongruous French accent just adds to the confusion.
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Himself - Host: I suppose you're wondering how I escaped. Fortunately, my captor dropped a stitch at a crucial moment. In the event you may have missed a few Freudian overturns of our story, I should like to offer a brief explanation. Irene Cole was a compulsive knitter with a Madame Defarge complex. Howard Cole was an extrovert, who suffered from a regressive libido, an Oedipus complex, schizophrenia, and an extremely low sales resistance. Prince Burhan's sports car was obviously the symbol for his mother. He always wanted to drive her mad, and the accident wasn't caused by defective brakes at all. The automobile was psychosomatic, it has since undergone analysis and is now well-adjusted. I hope this makes everything clear. And now before I return, my sponsor will indulge in a bit of symbolism of his own. For which I can offer *no* explanation.
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Himself - Host: I hope you enjoyed that, I know Freud would have. Join us again next week when we shall be back with another story. Good night.
- SoundtracksFuneral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod
So it's vacation time and it's time to go rub elbows with snobs with bad attitudes. Irene's married to Howard...and let me make a small tidbit comment when it concerns Alan Hewitt. I've enjoyed a lot of old series when I was growing up and one of my favorites back then was 'My Favorite Martian'. Alan Hewitt showed up on that series as Detective Brennan and I genuinely thought the hair on his head was his own. It wasn't til later I saw a picture of him and saw him without his hair piece. Must say his piece looks as good as Pernell Robert's when he was on Bonanza.
Anyway, Irene and Howard are married and Howard likes other ladies. He's hanging out with an actress to the point where you'd think he was married to this actress instead of Irene. The other richie riches gossip about Irene looking the other way. There's a writer in this area that's there to write an article about the Prince. Anyway, the writer tosses in judgmental cracks that make it sound like Irene married Howard for his money and she'd be a fool to let that go. She knows her place. The writer is corrected. Irene's richer than Howard. The writer puzzles over why she'd put up with Howard's nonsense.
The Prince arrives and he treats Irene like she's the only one in the room. The two hang out but it doesn't turn into an affair. Irene talks about Howard all the time to the Prince. This irritates him. He acts like he's in love with Irene. Needless to say the rich people have something new to gossip about. Why is this good looking Prince paying attention to this plain looking, ordinary woman? Even Irene's puzzled over the Prince and confides to the writer what's going on. The writer tells Irene she's a challenge to the Prince and she'd never be able to keep him. Thought that was pretty cruel tbh. More on that later.
The Prince threatens to commit suicide because of Irene. Needless to say Irene didn't react well to that threat. Little bit of time passes and the Prince is involved in a car accident and is killed. New gossip subject: The Prince killed himself over Irene! Irene and Howard are going home. Irene looks in shock over everything that's happened.
The writer accidentally finds out some more details about the Prince's death. It wasn't suicide. It was simply an accident. More details spill out. The Prince was deeply in debt and he was just using Irene. The writer decides he must go tell Irene so she doesn't keep blaming herself over the Prince's death.
The writer goes to see Irene and Howard and sees how much things have changed for Irene and Howard. Howard's actually acting like a supportive husband to Irene and Irene has come out of her shell. She's dressing fancier, has new hobbies, and is involving herself with charities.
The writer decides to keep his mouth shut and not spoil this new life Irene and Howard are having. The actor turns to the camera and says a line that makes me cringe as he basically asks if they would tell.
I can't buy that last scene because the writer has already said some blunt things to Irene to start with. What's one more thing to unload on Irene? And for Irene to be living her best now, I guess the theme for the episode is 'It's good when you think somebody killed themselves over you. Have fun!'
I hate I sound so judgmental. I did enjoy the episode but all the characters were awful in one way or another.
- glitterrose
- Jul 6, 2022
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1