The Snoop Sisters With Mildred Natwick and Helen Hayes

I'm watching the episode you posted and it's the campiest, most naive, funniest thing I've seen in quite a while! The Honorable Morlock is certainly a Datalounger.

Look how classy they look and Mildred was only 67 when it was made (compared to Madonna at 63).

My grandmother called my younger brother “Snoop Sisters” because he was always rummaging through her house.

It wasn't a weekly show, OP.

Don't forget OP that in addition to the four regular episodes and pilot film, there was the similar "Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate."

Any show that can arrange a fist fight between Roddy McDowall and Vincent Price is OK in my book.

They should revive it for Meryl and Glenn.

There was also at the time "A Very Missing Person" starring Eve Arden, playing the character of Hildegarde Withers who was a spinster detective in the mid-1930's played by Edna May Oliver, Helen Broderick and Zasu Pitts. This TV movie, obviously a pilot, was quite modernized with Eve wearing a "brain bucket" (motorcycle helmet) and worried that by lending some hippies her hat, that they'd smoke it. John Beradino took time off from General Hospital to co-star as the police detective.

Loved it. Also the Jim Hutton version of Ellery Queen, which was the genesis of Murder, She Wrote.

Snoop Sisters was out of step with the times.

Years later, Murder She Wrote was.

It really is that simple.

Think of the difference between the 70s and the 80s.

The Snoop Sisters joined the NBC Mystery Movie lineup at the tail end of its popularity, and the end of the little-old-lady craze that brought Follies and 70, Girls, 70 (also starring Natwick) to Broadway a few seasons earlier. I remembered the series from my childhood and bought it on DVD when it was released -but it was a little disappointing. The characters were pretty one-dimensional. I'm sure it would have gotten better if it had been given a chance. The above-mentioned Ellery Queen (by the same creators of Columbo and Murder She Wrote) was much, much better. It really should have been given another season.

Millie...

The Snoop Sisters was shown on a rotational schedule along with other mystery shows, so each episode was only broadcast once a month.

[quote]The Snoop Sisters With Mildred Natwick and Helen Hayes

Yes, they were good...

But that lesbian sex!

I never have been able to look at a fur muff the same way

R8 Hmm...if it had made it to series I wonder if General Hospital would've been cancelled. Steve Hardy WAS still the lead star at the time and GH was always in danger of cancellation until Gloria Monty.

Am I the only one who finds Helen Hayes a fucking bore?

[quote] Am I the only one who finds Helen Hayes a fucking bore?

Helen had a Broadway theater named after her. And when they tore it down, they renamed another one for her.