Joe Flynn gives a decent performance as a second banana, something for which he was eminently qualified for after all of his second-banana TV roles and so-so bad guy roles (yes, Captain Binghamton on 'McHale's Navy', but various Disney live-action movies with Kurt Russell, too).
Here he plays a hapless crook who conveniently gets TV amnesia after stumbling onto Tony's stage show, being chased by two of the series first-half-season of unimpressive bad guys. Credit to vet actor George Murdock, though: he hams up the part of the main bad guy.
It's never explained why we should have much sympathy for George, who apparently went along with the robbery in 1942 for no particular reason other than that he's evil. Tony likes George, and it's Joe freakin Flynn, so we are just supposed to like George.
By the end of the episode, George has done a complete heel turn and is the good guy. Tony tosses some stage money into the air to distract two of the bad guys (the third one, Luble, seems to just disappear), and hops in a car driven off by George and his old girlfriend Betty. And you can see the hand of the stage hand opening the back door and steadying it for Bixby to jump in. Ah, the 70s, when they thought no one cared
At the end the bad guys go to jail (off-screen), the Japanese priest who runs the church where Tony is doing his benefit performance knows all about the stolen "aloha money", and there's a lame end-line about Tony making Betty's popcorn disappear. And so ends another so-so episode of 'The Magiciai". Keene Curtis is always good, Jerry doesn't have anything to do but conveniently fall for George luring him out of the room where he's at ("You had one job, Jerry..."), and Yvonne Craig is wasted in a bit part as George's doctor. She's initially harsh because female doctors get no respect, but then mellows to Tony's charms, and he invites her out to dinner. And we never see or hear from her again, and there's not even a kiss. Take a Valium,next time.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
Here he plays a hapless crook who conveniently gets TV amnesia after stumbling onto Tony's stage show, being chased by two of the series first-half-season of unimpressive bad guys. Credit to vet actor George Murdock, though: he hams up the part of the main bad guy.
It's never explained why we should have much sympathy for George, who apparently went along with the robbery in 1942 for no particular reason other than that he's evil. Tony likes George, and it's Joe freakin Flynn, so we are just supposed to like George.
By the end of the episode, George has done a complete heel turn and is the good guy. Tony tosses some stage money into the air to distract two of the bad guys (the third one, Luble, seems to just disappear), and hops in a car driven off by George and his old girlfriend Betty. And you can see the hand of the stage hand opening the back door and steadying it for Bixby to jump in. Ah, the 70s, when they thought no one cared
At the end the bad guys go to jail (off-screen), the Japanese priest who runs the church where Tony is doing his benefit performance knows all about the stolen "aloha money", and there's a lame end-line about Tony making Betty's popcorn disappear. And so ends another so-so episode of 'The Magiciai". Keene Curtis is always good, Jerry doesn't have anything to do but conveniently fall for George luring him out of the room where he's at ("You had one job, Jerry..."), and Yvonne Craig is wasted in a bit part as George's doctor. She's initially harsh because female doctors get no respect, but then mellows to Tony's charms, and he invites her out to dinner. And we never see or hear from her again, and there's not even a kiss. Take a Valium,next time.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?