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Yes what an exciting episode that sounds like an Agatha Christie novel TEN LITTLE INDIANS. After a movie industry tycoon died, all his relatives are convoked to hear and see on a film the last will of the deceased. Before he died he recorded his will which consists of a sort of treasure hunt for the heirs. A sort of game, where the potential heirs have to find a clue with a deadline of six hours; after this deadline, all the dead man's fortune will be given to charity organizations. All the guests are all close down in an abandoned mansion. This sounds very different from the other topics of the series, doesn't it? And it is, believe me. Watch out for Robert Conrad in a supporting character.

Okay, first off, on the Kookster scale this is a No Kookster. But wait! It's awesome anyway. A dead director films himself coordinating a treasure hunt in his house where every room is a set from one of his pictures and the guide is his able assistant director smoothly moving things along for his (dead) boss and breezily solving all unexpected problems. Everybody talks about real movies with a moral vs. self- indulgent Method Acting tripe (via Sam Fuller "Underworld USA" creepo hit man Richard Rust as whiny "actor," delivering "obliquely slanted persecutions"--I forget who said that). Then there's Clara, who's really Fay Wray--and whom Spencer not only adores but keeps staring at like a love-sick puppy and saying multiple times "I really loved you in Doctor X. I saw it three times." I never knew this about Spencer: He's got impeccable taste! In women--and in movies. And she lets him kiss her at the end! Kissing Fay Wray! Okay, it's 30 years after "Doctor X," and she's not in her bathing suit, but, seriously . . . Fay Wray!