steveadl wrote:Here's a question I have out of left field: is Eve Anderson the person up the palm tree throwing coconuts down to Higgins? I freeze framed it but couldn't tell.
I ask as I remember reading a while ago on Rick Romer's blog that he remembers her climbing the trees and recalls her doing it for an episode of the show once. Or am I remembering wrong and making this up?
It looked like a man to me.
In "Ms. Jones," Higgins is the one up the tree, but in the shots from the ground, of course someone was doubling for Hillerman, and that could well have been Eve Anderson.
All I have to say about this ep is that Eileen Brennan was an incredible actress and I wish a couple of minutes had been carved out for Miss Babcock and Higgins to have a brief scene together.
I didn't realize you were so addicted to pool. It's not pool. Billiards. Snooker! Snucker. SNOOKER!
What horrible episode. A complete stinker. Soap opera garbage for a character who does not deserve this level of background story. If they're going to do a story on Carol Baldwin have it involve something like a murder mystery.
Probably my least favorite episode ever, which is amazing given how strong most of season 7 and 8 are. At least I'll never have to watch it again... I'd rather watch the tennis episode 10 times over than this (season 3 - Mixed Doubles).
When I saw this was a Baldwin-centric episode I was expecting not to like this one - AND I DIDN’T !
Total slush and mush lavished on the least likeable recurring character so I gave this one a “5” rating, the only time I’ve ever used the lowest rating.
Aside from Higgins incredulity at TM washing the car the only other thing that jumped out was the background extras in the final courthouse scene.
After TM picks up some of the scraps of the envelope given to Baldwin’s biological mother three people walk down the stairs behind him.
First there comes a woman, then a guy in a suit then there’s a bloke in a short sleeved shirt who pauses half way down the steps then continues after a couple of seconds - looks like he missed his cue !
I was watching on and off an episode of Barnaby Jones from 1975 the other day and it featured Eileen Brennan. In that episode she played a woman who gave up her daughter for adoption except the daughter was looking for her. It was the opposite of the MPI episode.
I never liked Carol but that was the writing's fault, not the actress'. I finally liked, and even cared about her here, and Kathleen Lloyd gave a fine performance.
Now, the bit player playing her fellow prosecutor... p-u!
I did not remember this episode at all, and wasn't looking forward to it, but ended up liking it a fair amount. I also remember Eilleen Brennan from Private Benjamin, and also from CLUE. After about 10 minutes I felt like I knew where this story was going to go, but I like the character stuff so much that I ended up not minding. I did find myself getting uncomfortable with the moral dilemma Magnum faced, and I think he should have said something to Carol sooner, or especially after Eilleen Brennan's character had that conversation with Carol. I thought they earned Carol being so upset at the end, but Magnum's little speech there got it all out in the open and worked in wrapping things up (for an 80's show).
