User Reviews

The episode is a good one, and I won't go into the plot this time, but what impressed me most was the plethora of '60s TV stars who got a piece of this action. Joseph Ruskin and Richard Devon actually join the IMF team on this one, which is surprising, since we are used to them mostly playing the shady "bad guy" characters, especially Devon, whom I don't think I've ever seen play a good guy. From The Rifleman, The Twilight Zone, all the way through his role as Carmine Ricca in "Magnum Force," he's always the adversary. And then there's Roddy McDowall and John Crawford, who played criminals on the same team in the Batman TV series, with McDowall as the Bookworm, and John Crawford as one of his henchmen. And with John Larch in the cast, every name just mentioned offered some of the best remembered characters from the Twilight Zone series! Val Avery was a very busy actor in his day, extremely versatile in shows as diverse as The Fugitive (where he joins Greg Morris, both playing prison cons), The Odd Couple, Starsky and Hutch, and countless others. It's great to see so many veteran actors in one episode, and all of them were well established in TV roles, all of them living comfortably in the spacious San Fernando Valley.