Behind the cryptic/pointless title lies a lousy episode of "Naked City". Culprit is writer Stirlng Silliphant, concocting a lifeless, dull episode starring Cara Williams as a bitter woman whose alibi for her sugardaddy is resulting in the wrong man about to be put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing 23 minutes from now.
Franciscus bursts into her posh ($400 a month rent back in 1959) apartment and harangues her endlessly. But she won't budge and retract her false testimony to let the innocent 20-year-old live. She's too busy drowning her guilt in champagne will listening to a big-band playing on a deep-groove format LP.
Nothing happens; Franciscus' arguments are unconvincing and so little content is provided that I got to concentrate on how much cigarette smoking the two of them indulged in, years before TV banned the fatal habit.
Was this an opportunity for Stirling to make a case against capital punishment? Yes, but he decided not to. Cara does get to give a speech on how men dominate and stultify women, but that's about it in terms of making a point. I deduce that this was greenlighted because the series was over-budget (after 38 episodes) and did what TV series do in such a situation -make a segment with action, casting and everything else reduced to a minimum. In this case, only 3 actors total and one set.
Bert Leonard intones his usual spiel at the opening about filming entirely on location, not in a studio, but there's no reason this apartment set was on location.
Franciscus bursts into her posh ($400 a month rent back in 1959) apartment and harangues her endlessly. But she won't budge and retract her false testimony to let the innocent 20-year-old live. She's too busy drowning her guilt in champagne will listening to a big-band playing on a deep-groove format LP.
Nothing happens; Franciscus' arguments are unconvincing and so little content is provided that I got to concentrate on how much cigarette smoking the two of them indulged in, years before TV banned the fatal habit.
Was this an opportunity for Stirling to make a case against capital punishment? Yes, but he decided not to. Cara does get to give a speech on how men dominate and stultify women, but that's about it in terms of making a point. I deduce that this was greenlighted because the series was over-budget (after 38 episodes) and did what TV series do in such a situation -make a segment with action, casting and everything else reduced to a minimum. In this case, only 3 actors total and one set.
Bert Leonard intones his usual spiel at the opening about filming entirely on location, not in a studio, but there's no reason this apartment set was on location.