Moving into their new home, Sally discovers a dead body inside one of the barrels but when Mac and the police arrive both barrel and body are gone.Moving into their new home, Sally discovers a dead body inside one of the barrels but when Mac and the police arrive both barrel and body are gone.Moving into their new home, Sally discovers a dead body inside one of the barrels but when Mac and the police arrive both barrel and body are gone.
- Dickerson
- (as Warren Kemmerling)
- Gene
- (as William Hurley Traylor)
- Wainright
- (as Larry Cook)
- Restaurant Patron
- (uncredited)
- Officer Ferguson
- (uncredited)
- Secretary
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe portrait of the man McMillan takes from the gallery was painted by Thomas J. Wright, the same man who painted all of the paintings used in Night Gallery (1969). Both shows were produced by Universal at the same time.
- GoofsIn one of the scenes by the warehouse where the barrels are stored, supposedly on the San Francisco waterfront, a sign is partially visible in the background that reads "Port of Lo" (clearly "Port of Los Angeles").
- Quotes
Commissioner Stewart McMillan: What have you found out, Enright?
Sgt. Charles Enright: Well, we're off to see Mr. Buchanan who runs the moving company, sir, but we searched both kinds of barrels in storage there but there's no barrel with a body in it.
Commissioner Stewart McMillan: What do you mean both kinds of barrels?
Sgt. Charles Enright: Well, there are two kinds of barrels, there are storage barrels and there are shipping barrels.
Commissioner Stewart McMillan: And the barrels we received are shipping barrels?
Sgt. Charles Enright: Right. Now I found it's not possible to store a shipping barrel but a shipping barrel you can store.
Sally McMillan: I'm not sure I follow that.
Sgt. Charles Enright: Let me simplify things. There are two kind of barrels: there are shipping barrels and there are storage barrels. A shipping barrel you can store and ship but a storing barrel you can only ship - I mean store; so you can ship a shipping and store a shipping but for storing you can only ship - I mean store...
Sally is out of control in this first episode of the series. She is meddling with the movers, interrupting everyone else's conversations so that she can chip in her wise remarks, and keeping tabs on everything her husband, the Police Commissioner (Rock Hudson), does. A total control freak to the highest degree.
Meanwhile the viewers are introduced to Sgt. Enright (played by John Shuck). He is basically the combination gofer, man-servant, secretary, and house-boy for Rock Hudson. Every time Rock Hudson gets an idea, he calls Sgt. Enright up, and tells Enright to do it. As a kid, I used to think Sgt. Enright was a mongoloid. He has some definite mongoloid features, such as his face is sunken in, and his nose is flat. Enright, like Chester on Gunsmoke, is not too bright.
Nancy Walker is also introduced as Mildred, the maid. Sally's mother used to employ Mildred, and when Sally got married, Mildred came along. Apparently Mildred is there to spy for Sally's mother, and to make sure that Rock Hudson does not abuse sweet young Sally.
For some reason, from around 1974 to the mid-1980s, vicious old ladies became popular. Bea Arthur as Maude, and later on in the Golden Girls was always criticizing and attacking everyone. Estelle Getty, was another nasty old biddy on Golden Girls. Nancy Walker was the lead in two tv shows after McMillan (Blansky's Beauties & The Nancy Walker Show). She also had a major role as Rhoda's mother in Rhoda, and in True Colors.
As drunken maid Mildred, Walker was always making nasty remarks about other people. She really exemplifies low class, and she was often falling over drunk when the McMillans got home. Nobody ever thought of doing an intervention, and getting her some alcoholics anonymous treatment.
Overall, this episode really drags. It is mostly about giving the characters a lot of time to show their eccentric quirks. I had to watch it in several parts, it was too boring to watch in one sitting.
- Johnny_West
- Jun 13, 2020