This is a decent episode for the series. It features a very young and very blonde Robert Foxworth as a doctor beau of Julie's who is hiding a deep, dark secret. Eight years previously, Foxworth and three of his fellow medicine men played a prank that went awry. Lou Antonio - the loser of the bunch - now wants to blackmail the others because he flunked out of med school and life isn't going the way he wanted. He's the manager of some weird bumper car/dune buggy place where people drive around in the mud for entertainment.
This could have been better had the big secret been something more sordid. The flashback sequence was actually kind of dull. Episodes that center around some tragic event from the past usually always appeal to me. However, I find the direction on this show isn't the greatest - it's so "meh".
There is an amusing moment where Pete is hit on by an aggressive library clerk. At first, I thought it was a very young, very chunky Melody Thomas Scott (of the Y & R) but it wasn't her. The most entertaining aspect of the whole thing is the deranged performance by a young Billy Dee Williams. It's so weird and out-there I didn't even realize it was him until the closing credits. Every line is delivered with teeth-gritting, bug-eyed, scenery-chewing intensity. It's been a while since I've seen him in one his later roles but don't remember a performance anywhere NEAR the insanity of this. Just WOW.
Anyway, there is an extended chase sequence through an underground parking garage that is above average for this show. A lot of times the climax in a MOD episode is underwhelming.
Not outstanding, but a decent performance from Foxworth (always reliable) and a ridiculous one from Williams make it memorable.
This could have been better had the big secret been something more sordid. The flashback sequence was actually kind of dull. Episodes that center around some tragic event from the past usually always appeal to me. However, I find the direction on this show isn't the greatest - it's so "meh".
There is an amusing moment where Pete is hit on by an aggressive library clerk. At first, I thought it was a very young, very chunky Melody Thomas Scott (of the Y & R) but it wasn't her. The most entertaining aspect of the whole thing is the deranged performance by a young Billy Dee Williams. It's so weird and out-there I didn't even realize it was him until the closing credits. Every line is delivered with teeth-gritting, bug-eyed, scenery-chewing intensity. It's been a while since I've seen him in one his later roles but don't remember a performance anywhere NEAR the insanity of this. Just WOW.
Anyway, there is an extended chase sequence through an underground parking garage that is above average for this show. A lot of times the climax in a MOD episode is underwhelming.
Not outstanding, but a decent performance from Foxworth (always reliable) and a ridiculous one from Williams make it memorable.