User Reviews

This McMillan&Wife story is primarily known for two reasons. First it introduces Martha Raye as Nancy Walker's sister. Next year for the final season Raye took over the housekeeper role for the widowed Commissioner. Secondly this might be the only time you'll ever see Slim Pickens in a three piece business suit.

Pickens plays the role of the family attorney of Walker and Raye's aunt who has gathered the heirs for the reading of the will. Among those gathered are Lane Bradbury, Tab Hunter, and Walker and Raye. The beneficiaries start with Bradbury who gets it all, unless she's not around it's Hunter and so on down the scale. Hunter's in real need of money, he smothers his terminally ill aunt with a pillow to hurry things along because he's got creditors who break legs if they don't get their money.

But first Bradbury and then he's killed and someone's after Raye now who is number three. The original deceased may run out of heirs before Rock Hudson can solve the murder.

Susan Saint James is ever helpful and she pulls a stunt that actually forces the murderer's hand. But by that time Hudson has it pretty much solved. And it's not too hard to figure out who.

Still it's a fun episode.

Here we have a rich older lady expected to die, and her prospective heirs gather at her request. Of course, she dies, and the heirs are gathered for a reading of the will. One nephew is heavily in debt and being threatened if he doesn't get his part of the inheritance quickly.

At the reading of the will, there is no distribution of the estate as everyone expected. Instead, the young niece gets everything, with a chain of heirs if she or the next in line aren't around to receive the bequest. It's a ridiculous contrivance written only for the purpose of knocking off people one at a time. To me, it's just insulting to the viewer.

For the rest of the plot, I found it boring, and the few attempts at humor flat-lined. We're not going to watch the season without Sally, so we have one more to watch in the series, out of stubbornness, and then good riddance.