So I need to review two complete episodes. The first, "The Dead Man" is a tale of a man's arrogance, such an arrogance that he revels in the pain of his subject. He has found a man who when signaled, shows symptoms of whatever has been programmed into his brain. When the good doctor, played by Carl Betz, the father on "The Donna Reed Show," taps, the guy becomes filled with sores, grey with a blood condition, or, in the final test, dead. I didn't catch where this guy came from other than he is rich and bored and interesting in the doctor's young, beautiful wife. There is that tussle that often takes place in shows like this, where despite his need for this not so subtle attraction to progress his research, he harbors some pretty serious anger. This leads to a great mistake. I remember this episode like it was yesterday, and the conclusion is to die for.
The second episode, "The Housekeeper," has the ever entertaining Larry Hagman married to a virago who has a fortune of seven million dollars. There is no pre-nup, so he must put up with her dalliances. Through a study of the black arts, using frogs, he has found a way to transfer the brain and personality from one person to another (at one point we are let in on his experiments where a pig crows and a rooster oinks. He puts out an add for an unattractive old lady with a kind heart. He hopes to transfer her kind demeanor to his wife's body, and get his hands on her money. This is utterly silly and yet delightful. When he and the old lady goes to the fancy restaurant, he orders frog legs. Interesting.
The second episode, "The Housekeeper," has the ever entertaining Larry Hagman married to a virago who has a fortune of seven million dollars. There is no pre-nup, so he must put up with her dalliances. Through a study of the black arts, using frogs, he has found a way to transfer the brain and personality from one person to another (at one point we are let in on his experiments where a pig crows and a rooster oinks. He puts out an add for an unattractive old lady with a kind heart. He hopes to transfer her kind demeanor to his wife's body, and get his hands on her money. This is utterly silly and yet delightful. When he and the old lady goes to the fancy restaurant, he orders frog legs. Interesting.