David Doyle from "Charlie's Angels." Ron Glass from "Barney Miller." Carol Lynley from " The Poseidon Adventure." Bernie Koppell from "The Love Boat." Skip Stephenson from "Real People." Florence Henderson from "The Brady Bunch." Far too many ABC guest stars for this murder mystery. None of them are quite as they seem but there's hardly enough time to do more than skim across the characters like a stone as H2H does their combination of "The Lady Vanishes" and "Murder on the Orient Express."
It's too bad they didn't make this into a two-hour episode. They barely have enough elbow room to spin out the story as it deserves to be told.
Still, for someone who grew up in the 1970s and watched too much television, it's nice seeing so many of the old faces, all of them lurking suspiciously.
Lynley is the queen of hysteria and one expects at any moment she'll fly into one of the panic attacks she does so well. But will she? That's the biggest source of tension.
Which of the guest stars is the killer? It's actually fairly obvious, but that's not the end of the story! It runs deeper than a straightforward murder yarn. Finding the killer is just the first door they have to open.
Jonathan runs along the top of the train. A rich businessman with diversified industries. Imagine Donald J. Trump, which is what Jonathan is, doing all that. So we have lots of action as well as detection.