This episode is more notable for its cast than its storyline.
Paul Sand is adorably funny as a dipsomaniac fellow author who finds himself in one inane situation after another. Kenneth Mars, who usually played comedically odd or amusing characters, plays a heavy and unsympathetic character. Diana Muldaur is her usual astringent self in a rare non-NBC role. Ron Masak makes one of a few of his guest appearances before he landed the role of Sheriff Mort Metzger following Tom Bosley and John Astin's sheriffs left the show (for vastly different reasons). Robert Reed is, shall we say, graphically flamboyant although the artistic milieu in which the story is grounded more than accommodates the characterization. The rest of the cast was not particularly memorable, for me anyway.
Paul Sand is adorably funny as a dipsomaniac fellow author who finds himself in one inane situation after another. Kenneth Mars, who usually played comedically odd or amusing characters, plays a heavy and unsympathetic character. Diana Muldaur is her usual astringent self in a rare non-NBC role. Ron Masak makes one of a few of his guest appearances before he landed the role of Sheriff Mort Metzger following Tom Bosley and John Astin's sheriffs left the show (for vastly different reasons). Robert Reed is, shall we say, graphically flamboyant although the artistic milieu in which the story is grounded more than accommodates the characterization. The rest of the cast was not particularly memorable, for me anyway.