If you fear snakes, this will be a memorable episode since many of them are featured in key scenes. The murder scene at the beginning has a certain amount of suspense, since the victim's been locked in a room and can't find an anti-venom kit after being bit. While his inability to use the phone to call for help was explained (the extension in the other room had been taken off the hook), he didn't really cry out for help. And I think anyone in that situation would become desperate and probably break a window to get out and go for help. He died a little too easily.
The killer is revealed to the audience just after the victim dies. But when Barnaby shows up, it should be no mystery to him who's behind it. Especially since Andrew Prine's character is the only one hanging around there with something to gain. The dead man's daughter seems rather dense not to figure out he's behind everything, but apparently love is blind.
The episode would have been stronger if the adopted brother, played by Vince Van Patten, was a bit more of a bad seed. Where it seemed like he hated his father enough to kill him. So that Prine setting him up would have been more believable.
Negative: the stereotype hick sheriff. Positive: the on-location filming.
The killer is revealed to the audience just after the victim dies. But when Barnaby shows up, it should be no mystery to him who's behind it. Especially since Andrew Prine's character is the only one hanging around there with something to gain. The dead man's daughter seems rather dense not to figure out he's behind everything, but apparently love is blind.
The episode would have been stronger if the adopted brother, played by Vince Van Patten, was a bit more of a bad seed. Where it seemed like he hated his father enough to kill him. So that Prine setting him up would have been more believable.
Negative: the stereotype hick sheriff. Positive: the on-location filming.