This episode was a blend of jazz, society and gambling. It starts with a wedding in a chapel that reminded me of a funeral home setting. Perry and Della are there because Perry is an old friend of the bride's family. As she comes down the aisle to the beat of the familiar melody of Lohengrin played by a jazz quartet, baby, she sees one guest hand another a packet that she knows has incriminating photos of her little sister. Those pictures, Dad, will tarnish the reputation of the girls' father and she beats a path down the aisle in the other direction.
Jazz is played throughout for the background music and it is mellow. The bongo drum is used very effectively. One of the characters is named Bongo and he's played by Bobby Troup. A woman sings with the ensemble but Constance Towers was no Julie London. I see that Miss Towers is married to John Gavin, who was hot stuff. The defendant in this episode is James Drury, another TV hunk from the era.
As a jazz quartet plays at the front of the church before the bride makes her entrance, Della remarks to law student David Gideon sitting with them that she's surprised to hear that sort of music.
David: More and more churches are allowing modern music. Just listen to the radio on Sundays.
Even though the music is cool and the musicians throw in some of their cant, the people on the bride's home turf are prim and proper.
Employee: So whom do you think you're fooling? (emphasis added)
You wouldn't catch Bongo talking like that, baby. On the other hand, Paul and Perry are hip.
PD: Tragg and his men have some warm stuff.
PM: Shoot.
Tragg at the murder scene: Both parties were drinking straight whiskey, which a woman isn't like to do.
The victim is George Sherwin, the man passing the packet at the wedding. Perry is talking to the bride about her role in things.
PM: The penalties for blackmail and extortion are quite severe. I'm quite sure I could have taken care of George Sherwin ... without killing him.
Perry talks to Jack Grabba, who runs a gambling operation.
PM: Have you ever heard of George Sherwin?
JG: The two-bit song writer* that got himself knocked off last night? I wouldn't know him from Lawrence Welk.
Perry and Paul ran a test at the apartment complex where the killer lived, in order to check the reliability of an elderly janitor who was working the night Sherwin died. When it comes out in court, D.A. Burger is outraged.
HB: In a typical attempt to throw dust in the prosecution's eye, Your Honor.
*It sounded like Grabba said rapper, not writer, but I was watching the show as it was broadcast and there was no rewind. Sherwin was a composer, at any rate.
Jazz is played throughout for the background music and it is mellow. The bongo drum is used very effectively. One of the characters is named Bongo and he's played by Bobby Troup. A woman sings with the ensemble but Constance Towers was no Julie London. I see that Miss Towers is married to John Gavin, who was hot stuff. The defendant in this episode is James Drury, another TV hunk from the era.
As a jazz quartet plays at the front of the church before the bride makes her entrance, Della remarks to law student David Gideon sitting with them that she's surprised to hear that sort of music.
David: More and more churches are allowing modern music. Just listen to the radio on Sundays.
Even though the music is cool and the musicians throw in some of their cant, the people on the bride's home turf are prim and proper.
Employee: So whom do you think you're fooling? (emphasis added)
You wouldn't catch Bongo talking like that, baby. On the other hand, Paul and Perry are hip.
PD: Tragg and his men have some warm stuff.
PM: Shoot.
Tragg at the murder scene: Both parties were drinking straight whiskey, which a woman isn't like to do.
The victim is George Sherwin, the man passing the packet at the wedding. Perry is talking to the bride about her role in things.
PM: The penalties for blackmail and extortion are quite severe. I'm quite sure I could have taken care of George Sherwin ... without killing him.
Perry talks to Jack Grabba, who runs a gambling operation.
PM: Have you ever heard of George Sherwin?
JG: The two-bit song writer* that got himself knocked off last night? I wouldn't know him from Lawrence Welk.
Perry and Paul ran a test at the apartment complex where the killer lived, in order to check the reliability of an elderly janitor who was working the night Sherwin died. When it comes out in court, D.A. Burger is outraged.
HB: In a typical attempt to throw dust in the prosecution's eye, Your Honor.
*It sounded like Grabba said rapper, not writer, but I was watching the show as it was broadcast and there was no rewind. Sherwin was a composer, at any rate.