This episode looks so promising when the show started. We have a invalid women that was in some kind of automobile accident- and a housekeeper that looks like she could have been cast in 'Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte'. The poor invalid women will not let her husband come into her room making one thinks that perhaps the husband may have had something to do with the accident. Instead the housekeeper believes the husband is trying to poison his wife and takes some pills to Perry that the husband gave her to be giving to the invalid women.
That is how the episode starts off- and I am on the edge of my seat. Then enter Jerry Van Dyke. Sorry but I cannot take him in a serious acting part. He was good in the part and the acting was fine- but the entire show I was seeing him playing the banjo and fumbling around the stage. I know this is bad of me but the show seemed to fall when he entered the scene. It was nothing that Jerry did- it was the story took a turn away from what we were lead to believe was going to happen.
The story does come back around to the invalid women but it take a little time. Meantime we take a trip with Perry and Paul to New Orleans. We know it was New Orleans because they had a street sign that said 'Canal Street' and we are introduced to a person that as a terrible southern accent.
After getting back to LA the story returns -and again is interesting. I liked the episode but felt the middle part of the story was long and had little to do with the ending. It is still watchable.
note- fourth episode in a row without Della. Must still be visiting her aunt.