Just One More Thing: Dead Weight

Notes and screenshots for Dead Weight: Originally broadcast on October 27 1971, starring Eddie Albert a a Major General with a lot to lose, Suzanne Pleshette as next on his list, Tim Carey as -- you guessed it -- Bert, and, of course, Peter Falk as Columbo.

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Dead Weight
Season 1, episode 3
Writer: John T.Dugan

Director: Jack Smight

Eddie Albert plays a decorated war hero who seduces the only witness to a murder he’s committed, and boy is he a rough cast. Did you know Albert was a legit war hero in real life? Saved the lives of almost fifty Marines under enemy fire.

Never mind Eddie Albert as the septugenarian* seducer of young Suzanne Pleshette. Booshwah. Has Pleshette ever gotten the credit she deserved? She’s given some thin gruel in this role but she infuses it with energy and subtlety, there’s a scene over a kiln where she broadcasts an array of emotions like a manic-depressive radio antennae on “scan”. There’s a scene over a kiln, I say. 

*I know, he was only in his Sixties.