Another entertaining episode of my favourite TV series as a boy growing up. Written by regular ITC scripter Ray Austin, this one is set backstage at a theatre where during a variety show coincidentally attended by Jeff and Jeanie, a mind-reading act goes disastrously wrong.
Using Marty as his invisible Teller to his Penn, Jeff joins the bill as a replacement mind-reading act and soon uncovers a tale of deadly passion and jealousy which will claim more victims before Jeff and Marty finally flush out the guilty party in best assembled Agatha Christie fashion.
While I enjoyed the whole episode, I think I preferred the first half which had a number of humorous sequences, especially Marty's mid-show traipse across the stage to get to Jeff. The plot itself and denouement was perhaps just a little contrived and clichéd but I loved again the interplay between Mike Pratt's Jeff and Kenneth Cope's Marty although, as ever, would have been happier if Annette Andre's Jeanie had played a bigger part.
Still, I enjoyed the theatrical setting to the action, especially Jeff and Marty's take on the old mind-reading act, while eagle-eyed TV and movie buffs of the time will have fun spotting the very young David Jason and Valerie Leon in small supporting roles.
Using Marty as his invisible Teller to his Penn, Jeff joins the bill as a replacement mind-reading act and soon uncovers a tale of deadly passion and jealousy which will claim more victims before Jeff and Marty finally flush out the guilty party in best assembled Agatha Christie fashion.
While I enjoyed the whole episode, I think I preferred the first half which had a number of humorous sequences, especially Marty's mid-show traipse across the stage to get to Jeff. The plot itself and denouement was perhaps just a little contrived and clichéd but I loved again the interplay between Mike Pratt's Jeff and Kenneth Cope's Marty although, as ever, would have been happier if Annette Andre's Jeanie had played a bigger part.
Still, I enjoyed the theatrical setting to the action, especially Jeff and Marty's take on the old mind-reading act, while eagle-eyed TV and movie buffs of the time will have fun spotting the very young David Jason and Valerie Leon in small supporting roles.