Hawkins (TV Series) Die, Darling, Die (1973) User Reviews

Murder not mercy

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 3 December 2014]

It's Julie Harris needing the assistance of Billy Jim Hawkins in this Hawkins story. She's the wife, the much younger wife of a college professor who was a shrewd investor during his life and accumulated quite a fortune in his life. Now he's terminally ill and bedridden and needs constant care and medication. When he doesn't get it he dies.

This might be a mercy killing, but there's an ambitious prosecutor in Sam Elliott who sees murder not mercy with the fortune hanging in the balance. That's why Harris needs the services of Jimmy Stewart quite badly.

Stewart in the episodes I've seen so far gets Perry Mason like acquittals. The shows are great, but they rely too much on Stewart's likability and charm. They haven't provided you with much in the way of alternative suspects as Mason shows and movies do.

Still because of Stewart this show and this episode was a good one.

Finally a Worthy Adversary

[TheFearmakers · 6/10 · 20 July 2021]

First episode so far where he has a prosecutor to contend with, a even fear a little, providing more anticipation for the 11th hour court scene than the truth behind the murder, and he's played by Sam Elliott, sans (perhaps even before) the famous mustache.

The rest of the episode concerning if Julie Harris helped her dying husband die is a bit slow, and doesn't make good use of James Stewart's Anatomy of a Murder co-star, Murray Hamilton.