Jim Reed is back - and boy, is he angry! Does actor Kent McCord go a little bit overboard in his portrayal of Jim Reed in "ticked-off mode"? Or is Reed's anger correctly representative of home viewers who have had to go through bull-fooey like this?
Reed pays his local credit-bureau agency a visit because they say he's a deadbeat - (just like Vitto Scotti said in the previous episode!) - who doesn't pay his bills. Reed gets in to the head-guy's office ( sure, it's that easy - try it yourself) and let's him have it. The head-guy says his people don't make no mistakes. I half expected Reed to grab the guy by his collar, drag him over his desk and shove the nozzle of a 45 magnum in the head-guy's mouth. "Now whose credit looks bad?!!" Granted, the head-guy is being quite a dismissive jerk about the whole thing.
It would have been interesting and funny had the writer's ultimately revealed that, yes, Reed has been faulty with his credit payments. Of course, since this is OUR Officer Jim Reed, we know he's squeaky-clean and would never neglect his responsibilities.
Reed's ordeal results in a mistaken identity revelation. This leads to James A. Reed (not James R. Reed) considering just such a situation when the partners deal with a hit and run car accident in a grocery store parking lot. Thing is, the show's production goes out of the way to make it look like the "mistaken female driver" is indeed guilty. Her car has exacting damage and even sports dark-blue paint remnants which matches the car that had been hit at the store. The actress playing the mistaken driver even acts like she's guilty. So that's a bit of unrequired, faulty misdirection on the part of the show's production.
In a past episode, Malloy and Reed allowed a mini-bike riding terror get away with his crimes because the character was played by little Johnny Whitaker from the old TV series, "Family Affair". In this episode, they allow a Sports Store 'breaking and entering', camping equipment stealing criminal (and his kid brother) get away with his crimes because the character is played by little Willie Aames from the future TV series, "Eight Is Enough". Well, this time they let the boys get away with their crimes because the store owner doesn't want to press charges. Oh, and because the boys are originally from Montanna. They raise their kids real good up there in Montanna.
One nice, surprising thing to see in this episode is M & R getting it wrong. Besides the mistaken identity with the hit and run ordeal, the partners also haul off chasing a "bad guy" running from the scene of a robbery at a bar. The guy even has a gun. After capturing the dude, it's revealed that he's the bar manager and he was chasing the real robber. But then there's an oddity when Malloy, Reed and the manager get back to the bar. Officer Woods is there and he's escorting the real captured bad guy... out of the bar. Huh? The bad guy was still in the bar? Then who was the store manager chasing? But still, it's interesting that the writers and the show's production allowed viewers to see our Police heroes getting it wrong and then acknowledging it and apologizing for it. Nice work all around!
Reed pays his local credit-bureau agency a visit because they say he's a deadbeat - (just like Vitto Scotti said in the previous episode!) - who doesn't pay his bills. Reed gets in to the head-guy's office ( sure, it's that easy - try it yourself) and let's him have it. The head-guy says his people don't make no mistakes. I half expected Reed to grab the guy by his collar, drag him over his desk and shove the nozzle of a 45 magnum in the head-guy's mouth. "Now whose credit looks bad?!!" Granted, the head-guy is being quite a dismissive jerk about the whole thing.
It would have been interesting and funny had the writer's ultimately revealed that, yes, Reed has been faulty with his credit payments. Of course, since this is OUR Officer Jim Reed, we know he's squeaky-clean and would never neglect his responsibilities.
Reed's ordeal results in a mistaken identity revelation. This leads to James A. Reed (not James R. Reed) considering just such a situation when the partners deal with a hit and run car accident in a grocery store parking lot. Thing is, the show's production goes out of the way to make it look like the "mistaken female driver" is indeed guilty. Her car has exacting damage and even sports dark-blue paint remnants which matches the car that had been hit at the store. The actress playing the mistaken driver even acts like she's guilty. So that's a bit of unrequired, faulty misdirection on the part of the show's production.
In a past episode, Malloy and Reed allowed a mini-bike riding terror get away with his crimes because the character was played by little Johnny Whitaker from the old TV series, "Family Affair". In this episode, they allow a Sports Store 'breaking and entering', camping equipment stealing criminal (and his kid brother) get away with his crimes because the character is played by little Willie Aames from the future TV series, "Eight Is Enough". Well, this time they let the boys get away with their crimes because the store owner doesn't want to press charges. Oh, and because the boys are originally from Montanna. They raise their kids real good up there in Montanna.
One nice, surprising thing to see in this episode is M & R getting it wrong. Besides the mistaken identity with the hit and run ordeal, the partners also haul off chasing a "bad guy" running from the scene of a robbery at a bar. The guy even has a gun. After capturing the dude, it's revealed that he's the bar manager and he was chasing the real robber. But then there's an oddity when Malloy, Reed and the manager get back to the bar. Officer Woods is there and he's escorting the real captured bad guy... out of the bar. Huh? The bad guy was still in the bar? Then who was the store manager chasing? But still, it's interesting that the writers and the show's production allowed viewers to see our Police heroes getting it wrong and then acknowledging it and apologizing for it. Nice work all around!
