The show last night had something to do with a new process for carding wool and getting a contract for the sophisticated equipment. The defendant was John Larkin, who will forever be Mike Karr from The Edge of Night as far as I am concerned. Larkin was the voice of the radio Perry Mason.
In this episode Larkin's character is a renowned sculptor who found a new muse in Greece, a lovely young woman. The muse comes to the U.S.A. with the sculptor and her "harradin" of a mother. George Kennedy was in the cast. He was Larkin's factotum, I guess. And like everyone else, he despised the model's mother.
George: There’s words for women like that old lady and they ain’t just “mother.”
Shortly after that, we can add "murder victim" to the list of words for women like that old lady.
George on the stand: Any ambitious kid like this Theba who goes around dating every guy –
Defendant jumps up, shouting: You don’t know what you’re talking about. Shut up or I’ll shut you up!
HB: Despite Mr. Mason's diverting attempts to pull the wool -- and fancy Greek wool -- over our eyes, and despite his client's revealing outburst, let's go back to the moment when you found the defendant after the murder.
To get back to the defendant as sculptor, the life-sized sculpture of the lovely young Theba was something completely out of character for him. But he was smitten. The night of the murder, Theba turned down his marriage proposal and in a fit of pique, Larkin threw the statue into the ocean. At the end of the program, he is back to The Real World.
Defendant: You know, Perry, that statue I threw in the ocean? It was a lousy piece of corn to begin with.
Less than two years after this program originally aired, John Larkin was dead at 52. And the actress who played "that old lady" was 39 at the time.
In this episode Larkin's character is a renowned sculptor who found a new muse in Greece, a lovely young woman. The muse comes to the U.S.A. with the sculptor and her "harradin" of a mother. George Kennedy was in the cast. He was Larkin's factotum, I guess. And like everyone else, he despised the model's mother.
George: There’s words for women like that old lady and they ain’t just “mother.”
Shortly after that, we can add "murder victim" to the list of words for women like that old lady.
George on the stand: Any ambitious kid like this Theba who goes around dating every guy –
Defendant jumps up, shouting: You don’t know what you’re talking about. Shut up or I’ll shut you up!
HB: Despite Mr. Mason's diverting attempts to pull the wool -- and fancy Greek wool -- over our eyes, and despite his client's revealing outburst, let's go back to the moment when you found the defendant after the murder.
To get back to the defendant as sculptor, the life-sized sculpture of the lovely young Theba was something completely out of character for him. But he was smitten. The night of the murder, Theba turned down his marriage proposal and in a fit of pique, Larkin threw the statue into the ocean. At the end of the program, he is back to The Real World.
Defendant: You know, Perry, that statue I threw in the ocean? It was a lousy piece of corn to begin with.
Less than two years after this program originally aired, John Larkin was dead at 52. And the actress who played "that old lady" was 39 at the time.