Someone is found dead after the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics.Someone is found dead after the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics.Someone is found dead after the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics.
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Ron Cey
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen Mack and Murray do the where are you, they 'borrowed' it from Abbott and Costello in Rio Rita (1929).
- GoofsThe missing paint on the door frame could be seen before Buddy Hackett wedged the knife in it.
- ConnectionsReferences Rage in Heaven (1941)
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
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Taking a Stab at Hanging It up in the Boondocks
When Corrie Gruen (Beth Windsor) and Kip Howard (George Clooney) decide to marry, they face a few major problems, including a feud between his father, Mack Howard (Steve Lawrence), and her father, Murray Gruen (Buddy Hackett), a stabbing in the back, and murder in their secluded Catskill Mountains retreat.
It all begins in New York City, at the television studio at which Mack Howard performs his Comedy program. Three characters of this sequence, Manager Al (Daniel Chodos), Production Assistant (Paul Ganus) and Reporter Miss Kline (Pat Delaney) provide background material toward the plot of "No Laughing Murder," an episode bearing the alternate title of "No Laughing Matter."
Thirty years earlier, Mack and Murray were billed as "The Comedy Sensation of 1957," but over the years they have become estranged, they bickering over lost profits from videocassettes sales of their vintage programs.
And now, Mack's lovely peacekeeping wife, Edie Howard (Pat Crowley) gives Mack an ultimatum, as she plans to gather the troupes for a retreat at Hiawatha Lodge, a dilapidated Catskill resort isolated in upstate New York, which Murray Gruen has purchased to renovate with the assistance of sweetheart Norma Lewis (Sheree North).
Talent Agent Phil Rinker (Arte Johnson) and Business Manager Farley Pressman (George Furth) join in the forthcoming problems, as Kip and Corrie arrive at the old inn with Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), a dear friend of Corrie's late mother, Doris Gruen.
Twelve in all have access to Hiawatha Lodge, nine guests, who were locked inside on the night of its fateful incidents, plus Cook Henrietta (Alice Nunn), Doctor Worth (Richardson Morse) and unseasoned Acting Police Chief Wylie Ledbetter (David Knell), as the mounting feud turns deadly.
"No Laughing Murder" also alludes to a reference of the Classsic Film "Rage in Heaven" (1941), starring Ingrid Bergman, Robert Montgomery and George Sanders.
It all begins in New York City, at the television studio at which Mack Howard performs his Comedy program. Three characters of this sequence, Manager Al (Daniel Chodos), Production Assistant (Paul Ganus) and Reporter Miss Kline (Pat Delaney) provide background material toward the plot of "No Laughing Murder," an episode bearing the alternate title of "No Laughing Matter."
Thirty years earlier, Mack and Murray were billed as "The Comedy Sensation of 1957," but over the years they have become estranged, they bickering over lost profits from videocassettes sales of their vintage programs.
And now, Mack's lovely peacekeeping wife, Edie Howard (Pat Crowley) gives Mack an ultimatum, as she plans to gather the troupes for a retreat at Hiawatha Lodge, a dilapidated Catskill resort isolated in upstate New York, which Murray Gruen has purchased to renovate with the assistance of sweetheart Norma Lewis (Sheree North).
Talent Agent Phil Rinker (Arte Johnson) and Business Manager Farley Pressman (George Furth) join in the forthcoming problems, as Kip and Corrie arrive at the old inn with Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), a dear friend of Corrie's late mother, Doris Gruen.
Twelve in all have access to Hiawatha Lodge, nine guests, who were locked inside on the night of its fateful incidents, plus Cook Henrietta (Alice Nunn), Doctor Worth (Richardson Morse) and unseasoned Acting Police Chief Wylie Ledbetter (David Knell), as the mounting feud turns deadly.
"No Laughing Murder" also alludes to a reference of the Classsic Film "Rage in Heaven" (1941), starring Ingrid Bergman, Robert Montgomery and George Sanders.
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