I won't go into a synopsis of it as the 3 previous reviews do so and nicely. Rather I'll reflect on it from a personal viewpoint. This one does not have the usual storyline of PM episodes as it is a combo of both humor & drama. This was one of a number of 1963 to 1966 episodes that were withheld from syndication for a number of years until 1987 when WTBS started showing them, albeit heavily edited. After watching it a second time, I can tell that Brooks is a bit emotional when he sees the photo of little Caleb and his mother. Later when he points out other things that Ernest Stone didn't previously tell him, that said more than meets the eye (if one has a photographic memory, it is not uncommon to remember things at age 5) The scene at the Catholic school really brought it home to me as at the time I was in one and we dressed the same as the kids in the scene(uniform pants & white shirt/blouse) Sister Theresa (Irene Tedrow) was a dead ringer for one of the nuns there at the time. Highly unusual for 1963 is the revealing of a long standing, rock solid friendship between a white and a black man. This was the height of the civil rights era. As usual, Mason's battering cross examination revealed the real culprit. At the end, both Caleb & the two elderly ladies summed it up correctly, the former mentioning love and the latter having faith. Virtually forgotten today is Kate Manx (who plays Mrs. Ernest Stone) She only had a few film & TV credits and died about a year later at age 34. Very little is written about her.
Review of The Case of the Nebulous Nephew
