When Jennifer overhears an acquaintance and his mistress planning to murder his wife on the ski slopes, she and Jonathan jet off to Vail to prevent it -- but are they too late to save her on... Read allWhen Jennifer overhears an acquaintance and his mistress planning to murder his wife on the ski slopes, she and Jonathan jet off to Vail to prevent it -- but are they too late to save her on the ski trail?When Jennifer overhears an acquaintance and his mistress planning to murder his wife on the ski slopes, she and Jonathan jet off to Vail to prevent it -- but are they too late to save her on the ski trail?
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- TriviaIn this episode Kate is supposed to be older than her husband, however, both actors are actually the same age.
- GoofsJennifer enlists Jonathan's help to prevent the ski resort murder of their acquaintance's wife Kate, by her husband Halsey Matthews and his mistress, Marina Belson. Yet later, when Marina knocks on Kate's door and tells the Harts that she wants to speak with Kate "in private", the Harts oblige and leave the two alone, without a second thought. This is out of character for both of them, particularly considering that Jennifer is the one who overheard this woman speaking of with her lover of killing his wife Kate, and already one person is dead. Yet, they both leave Kate with her would be killer, without a care in the world, with no protesting, without even listening at the door for trouble, nor checking on her at all.
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Freelance writer Jennifer Hart (Stephanie Powers) is interviewing English punk rocker Syd Sado (Michael Des Barres) in a posh Los Angeles restaurant when he is paged. While he is gone she inadvertently overhears a couple at the table behind hers planning to commit murder on a ski vacation in Vail, Colorado. As the couple leave Jennifer recognizes the man - Halsey Mathews (Rod McCary).
Halsey is married to Kate (Juliet Mills) an older woman. It is painfully obvious to pretty much everyone he is having an affair with a twenty-something blonde (Shelley Smith) whom he at various times introduces as either a client or a public relations executive with his firm.
Jennifer and her financier husband Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) like to solve murder mysteries. That is the basis for this series. In this case they drop everything to take their own trip to Vail to keep Kate from being murdered by her cad husband - a guy neither of them ever much liked anyway. Of course things take a wildly unexpected turn resulting in a very different investigation for the socialite sleuths.
As far as TV series that featured Robert Wagner or Stephanie Powers go this one was by far the most successful. This episode two-thirds in to the first season helped establish it as a solid program. The shrewd casting of solid guest stars and immaculate production value played nicely off of the appeal of the leads.
Hart to Hart was one of the guilty pleasures I grew up with. A romance/adventure of the kind begun by 'The Thin Man' series of movies in the 1930s and continued elegantly with Cary Grant's later films 'To Catch A Thief', 'North by Northwest' and 'Charade' the idea was to present an attractive & sophisticated couple in a glamorous setting with mystery-solving as a shared passion.
There would be ever present danger in such mysteries but as with Hart to Hart threat to life and limb would never be taken as seriously as it perhaps should have been. A close call would be laughed off with a dry one liner and the hero and heroine would gleefully venture forth to the next phase of the adventure.
I never could get past the putrid disco soundtrack the show had. In this episode there is a lot of disco and sometimes the volume button on the remote doesn't work quite fast enough.
Halsey is married to Kate (Juliet Mills) an older woman. It is painfully obvious to pretty much everyone he is having an affair with a twenty-something blonde (Shelley Smith) whom he at various times introduces as either a client or a public relations executive with his firm.
Jennifer and her financier husband Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) like to solve murder mysteries. That is the basis for this series. In this case they drop everything to take their own trip to Vail to keep Kate from being murdered by her cad husband - a guy neither of them ever much liked anyway. Of course things take a wildly unexpected turn resulting in a very different investigation for the socialite sleuths.
As far as TV series that featured Robert Wagner or Stephanie Powers go this one was by far the most successful. This episode two-thirds in to the first season helped establish it as a solid program. The shrewd casting of solid guest stars and immaculate production value played nicely off of the appeal of the leads.
Hart to Hart was one of the guilty pleasures I grew up with. A romance/adventure of the kind begun by 'The Thin Man' series of movies in the 1930s and continued elegantly with Cary Grant's later films 'To Catch A Thief', 'North by Northwest' and 'Charade' the idea was to present an attractive & sophisticated couple in a glamorous setting with mystery-solving as a shared passion.
There would be ever present danger in such mysteries but as with Hart to Hart threat to life and limb would never be taken as seriously as it perhaps should have been. A close call would be laughed off with a dry one liner and the hero and heroine would gleefully venture forth to the next phase of the adventure.
I never could get past the putrid disco soundtrack the show had. In this episode there is a lot of disco and sometimes the volume button on the remote doesn't work quite fast enough.
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