The light-hearted tone of this episode recalls the Season 3 Classic, "Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing." This time it's a duo of actors people probably didn't expect to see together again -- Horace MacMahon and Harry Bellaver. Naked City had ended its run the previous May and here were those trusty cops transferred from NYC's 65th Precinct to the Upper Midwest.
The opening is great - the grouchy PR Director (Bellaver) for the Miss Downtown Minneapolis beauty contest stops several cars crossing a bridge into the city to select the millionth car. Surprise -- the Corvette is the lucky winner visiting this year's Aquatennial (a real Minneapolis festival first held in 1940.) Linc's driving so he gets honored with the job of judge at the beauty contest.
One reason why the harassed PR man is so grumpy (as he tells Linc in a later scene) is that he never expected to be in publicity; he always wanted to be a cop. Linc tells him that's funny, he looks just like a cop and asks if he hasn't seen him before - a bit of dialog that will slip by anybody who's never seen Naked City (like me until I discovered it on ME TV a couple of months ago. Route 66 and The Untouchables I remember from elementary school days but I must have left Naked City to the grownups.)
Todd sleeps through the whole meeting on the bridge. When the guys arrive at the Sheraton-Ritz Todd has to be ready to work for acoustic engineer Tammy Grimes (obsessed, zany, and gorgeous in Chanel-like suits). She's trying to convince the President (the marvelously dour MacMahon) of an acoustical engineering firm looking for a new Vice President for his company that she's his woman.
The opening is great - the grouchy PR Director (Bellaver) for the Miss Downtown Minneapolis beauty contest stops several cars crossing a bridge into the city to select the millionth car. Surprise -- the Corvette is the lucky winner visiting this year's Aquatennial (a real Minneapolis festival first held in 1940.) Linc's driving so he gets honored with the job of judge at the beauty contest.
One reason why the harassed PR man is so grumpy (as he tells Linc in a later scene) is that he never expected to be in publicity; he always wanted to be a cop. Linc tells him that's funny, he looks just like a cop and asks if he hasn't seen him before - a bit of dialog that will slip by anybody who's never seen Naked City (like me until I discovered it on ME TV a couple of months ago. Route 66 and The Untouchables I remember from elementary school days but I must have left Naked City to the grownups.)
Todd sleeps through the whole meeting on the bridge. When the guys arrive at the Sheraton-Ritz Todd has to be ready to work for acoustic engineer Tammy Grimes (obsessed, zany, and gorgeous in Chanel-like suits). She's trying to convince the President (the marvelously dour MacMahon) of an acoustical engineering firm looking for a new Vice President for his company that she's his woman.