Tod tries to rehabilitate a hostile young drug addict.Tod tries to rehabilitate a hostile young drug addict.Tod tries to rehabilitate a hostile young drug addict.
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- TriviaThis was one of George Maharis' favorite episodes.
- GoofsWhile Buzz and Todd are on the way out of town (away from the shrimp boats) they stop at place in the road where the water is quite close to the side of the road. Once out of the car they stand by the water talking. As the conversation continues some books float by. Todd says they are Charlotte's books; thrown over the side of her shrimp boat. The books are floating from above their direction of travel toward the direction they came from. Since these books are supposed to belong to Charlotte the direction of travel is all wrong.
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A loser of a script about a loser
Robert Duvall (miscast in a role that should have gone to Sal Mineo or some James Dean wannabe) gives an overwrought, cliched performance as a young drug addict in "Bird Cage on My Foot", a disappointing Route 66 episode that Silliphant makes both preachy and condescending.
Shot in Boston with touristy views of the Charles River but zero importance as a place with specific history or culture, the show has only five characters. We don't interact with the community, and by the end I realized that Silliphant had written more of a one-act play that should have played at some tiny space in the East Village rather than for television.
Duvall is introduced as a guy on the street who seems vaguely retar*ed, but tries to steal M & M's Corvette. Milner chases after him on foot, but has second thoughts when cop Mike Kellin asks him to press charges re: the Corvette incident.
Maharis is repulsed and wants nothing to do with Milner's sudden project to take Duvall under his wing to try and rehabilitate him, but later comes through as his Big Brother-type to guide him through withdrawal. George is the acting revelation of the hour, delivering monologues on addiction and caring to other people with great passion. It's revealed that his character as an adolescent was traumatized when a father figure succumbed and died.
Low point is a scene of Milner and his girlfriend suddenly waxing philosophically (courtesy of pretentious Silliphant writing) about how millions of people walk around lonely, not connected to each other, and I was afraid we'd have the Leonard or Dobkin control voice intone "there are eight million stories in the naked city..." from Silliphant's other hit show. The girl is played by model-turned actress Diana Millay, who I would see in many a 1960s TV series guesting but some 60-plus years later I realized she had made no impression whatsoever.
Shot in Boston with touristy views of the Charles River but zero importance as a place with specific history or culture, the show has only five characters. We don't interact with the community, and by the end I realized that Silliphant had written more of a one-act play that should have played at some tiny space in the East Village rather than for television.
Duvall is introduced as a guy on the street who seems vaguely retar*ed, but tries to steal M & M's Corvette. Milner chases after him on foot, but has second thoughts when cop Mike Kellin asks him to press charges re: the Corvette incident.
Maharis is repulsed and wants nothing to do with Milner's sudden project to take Duvall under his wing to try and rehabilitate him, but later comes through as his Big Brother-type to guide him through withdrawal. George is the acting revelation of the hour, delivering monologues on addiction and caring to other people with great passion. It's revealed that his character as an adolescent was traumatized when a father figure succumbed and died.
Low point is a scene of Milner and his girlfriend suddenly waxing philosophically (courtesy of pretentious Silliphant writing) about how millions of people walk around lonely, not connected to each other, and I was afraid we'd have the Leonard or Dobkin control voice intone "there are eight million stories in the naked city..." from Silliphant's other hit show. The girl is played by model-turned actress Diana Millay, who I would see in many a 1960s TV series guesting but some 60-plus years later I realized she had made no impression whatsoever.
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- Feb 24, 2024
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- Boston Common Park, Boston, Massachusetts, USA(Where Tod is chasing Arnie)
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- Runtime51 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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