Okay, so there's no arsenic, but there are two actresses starring in this who played the old ladies in separate TV productions, Mildred Natwick in 1959 with Dorothy Stickney and Helen Hayes a decade later with Lillian Gish. This was a reunion for the two, having co-starred just the year before together in the TV movie "Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate", and as sisters here, they appeared together in four movies playing the two delightfully snoopy Snoops
This is the pilot, focusing on the murder of faded movie star Paulette Goddard, looking gorgeous in her brief cameo. Jill Clayburgh is her daughter, while veteran actors Art Carney, Ed Platt, Bill Dana, Kurt Kasznar and Craig Stevens have other major part as either rather eccentric suspects or law enforcers. Hayes and Natwick are terrific together, in unison as they change directions as soon as they overheard something they want to snoop on, a great recurring gag. This obviously couldn't be a long-term installment of NBC 's "Sunday Night Mystery Movie" series, but it's definitely a precursor to "Murder She Wrote" and a nice send-up of Miss Jane Marple and Miss Hildegard Withers mysteries.
This is the pilot, focusing on the murder of faded movie star Paulette Goddard, looking gorgeous in her brief cameo. Jill Clayburgh is her daughter, while veteran actors Art Carney, Ed Platt, Bill Dana, Kurt Kasznar and Craig Stevens have other major part as either rather eccentric suspects or law enforcers. Hayes and Natwick are terrific together, in unison as they change directions as soon as they overheard something they want to snoop on, a great recurring gag. This obviously couldn't be a long-term installment of NBC 's "Sunday Night Mystery Movie" series, but it's definitely a precursor to "Murder She Wrote" and a nice send-up of Miss Jane Marple and Miss Hildegard Withers mysteries.