The presence of Van Johnson and June Allyson who were fellow MGM contract players back in Angela Lansbury's salad days with Leo the Lion, make this Murder She Wrote episode a nostalgic treat.
Johnson is an inventor specializing in electronics and his research was in remote control. Allyson was and is his girl Friday who looks after the socially inept and eccentric Johnson.
Things get interesting when a car with no driver nearly runs down Stuart Whitman who once employed Johnson and is in Cabot Cove on purportedly Johnson's invitation. Then Whitman's partner Bruce Gray arrives and he's found dead on a road presumably the victim of a hit and run accident.
Although later on Sheriff Amos Tupper never needed to ask for Jessica Fletcher's help it was interesting to see some of the psychology that Angela Lansbury used on Tom Bosley to sign on to the investigation.
Lansbury is almost killed by the remote controlled car with Claude Akins saving her life. May have been his finest hour in that first year when he was a semi-regular.
June Allyson did more films with Van Johnson during their glory days at MGM than with any other leading man. For their fans especially, they should see this one.