When one of Jessica's former students brings a play based on her novel to Broadway, she finds herself in the middle of a war between two rival critics.When one of Jessica's former students brings a play based on her novel to Broadway, she finds herself in the middle of a war between two rival critics.When one of Jessica's former students brings a play based on her novel to Broadway, she finds herself in the middle of a war between two rival critics.
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Did you know
- TriviaIf you look at Elliott's name plate the lettering is in the style of the series credits.The name of the theatre is the Woolcott. Alexander Wollcott was a critic back in the 30s, 40s and 50s.
- GoofsWhen Jessica says "oh no no, I still use my old bucket of bolts typewriter" a laugh is inserted into the middle of the sentence, to hide either a mistake or wrong word and it is very obvious. Angela Lansbury bobbles her line slightly when she says, "Oh, no, no. I still my use my good old bucket of bolts." It sounds as if "Jessica" chuckles at the joke she just made about her typewriter, or, less likely, that Angela chuckled about slightly flubbing her line.
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Eliot Easterbrook: Good evening. Elliot Easterbrook with your "Live At 5:00 Mini Cam" at the Woolcott Theatre. Do you know that it has been said that the theater is a temple? If so, it is a temple which has frequently worshiped false gods. Only time and astute critical judgment will tell if "Mainely Murder", which opens here tomorrow night, will honor the gods or, yet again, profane them.
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
One of Jessica's books has been made into a play which will soon debut. One of her old students has written the play and although she wants to show enthusiasm for the project, it's obvious to her that the play stinks. At the same time, a very caustic theater reviewer has made it his mission to destroy the play as he hates it even more. Inexplicably, however, another famous reviewer has apparently submitted a glowing review of the play. This makes sense later when they discover the second reviewer was murdered and his murderer apparently wrote the glowing review and submitted it by computer to the newspaper. What's really going on here?
Dean Stockwell is very entertaining as the caustic critic...haughty, condescending and, well, a real jerk. As for the murder and the rest of the episode, it's about average...which still makes it well worth your time.
- planktonrules
- Nov 24, 2022
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- Huntington Hartford Theater, Hollywood, California, USA(Broadway theatre exterior and interior.)
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