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Naked City: Memory of a Red Trolley Car (1962)
Bizarre episode
Ill-conceived. You have to wonder how this episode ever got past the 'pitch' stage.
Why is Barry Morse's character English? Just so they could cast Gladys Cooper as his mother?
Horace McMahon's Lt. Parker seems bemused and annoyed by the whole thing. The viewer will find it easy to identify with his take on it.
Writer Abram S. Ginnes contributed several episodes to this series and his other entries are all better than this one. Various characters come & go ... there's a couple of doctors, a stripper, an estranged wife, a nursing home attendant who flubs his lines (but they used the take) ... all their scenes seem like filler to spare the viewer from having to endure Barry Morse's overwrought performance for the whole 50 mins. Morse would later create a memorable character as the detective chasing David Janssen across the US in 'The Fugitive', but this isn't his finest hour.