If they're going to believably dress Julie Newmar as a man, then a fitted suit that clearly shows her hourglass is probably not the way to go. So, they lost me right then and there. Then the way the bad guy gets away from the scene of the crime seemed so unlikely given the circumstances that they lost me again. I mean, it would be like a vet going tot he zoo, an elephant drops to the ground right in front of them, and instead of going into immediate vet mode and trying to help, they just kind of saunter away to go see the giraffes. Big issue right there. Then there's the sound editing. I struggled to hear at one point, then the sound was overly-loud in the next. The dubbing is god-awful. The whole sound editing is uneven throughout. Not a good job. Jennifer looks off in this one, too. Now, the ruse is written nicely. From the beginning to the end, I like how Julie works thru the scenes with the three regulars. And the way the confusion about who the real Jonathan Hart is was actually pretty clever. One of the bad guys get rough with Jennifer this episode, which is not something we see a lot of. One of the things I really liked was Jonathan going directly into protective mode when Jennifer is summoned as a hostage. Also, when Jonathan says lovers and husband & wife are not mutually exclusive. Oooh, but wait, then Julie puts on another man-disguise and looks positively unconvincing to the point where I'm lost in laughter, again. BLOOPER ALERT --> Bad jump cut when the Rolls pulls up about 47 minutes in. And then to make things worse, the same line is written for Jonathan TWICE. "If we do, it could cause the Commissioner his life." This thing is so uneven. Parts of it were great for me, but others were just really badly done. I mean, i enjoyed it like an 8. But the crappy parts were like a 4. So, I'll split the difference at the 6. Note to Harry Winer, direction here, not so great.
5 Reviews
A change of Hart
coltras3515 June 2022
A female assassin ( Julie Newmar) takes Jonathan hostage, but he tells her he's Max, thus starts a cat and mouse situation. It's a weak episode, a bit unusual, but a bit flat places. However, it's not totally without any merits. It's well-written, Newmar oozes some menace and Jonathan puts his smart thinking into play.
To Julie Newmar... thanks for "nothin'" (Bad Brooklyn accent)
Malibukitten11 September 2020
This episode was SOOOOOOO BORING. Add to it Julie Newmar's stiff, wooden, TERRIBLE acting. I don't know which was worse, her puppet like acting, or that diabolically HORRIBLE accent that I think was meant to be Brooklyn. I vaguely recall seeing her in something else doing that abysmal accent, but I can't remember what. It's was like watching Sybil changing into other personalities!
Don't get me started on the rest of the cast, even Robert and Stephanie were just BAD, half the time they seemed to just stand around looking bewildered.
Don't get me started on the rest of the cast, even Robert and Stephanie were just BAD, half the time they seemed to just stand around looking bewildered.
What's with Julie's dialect?
schwa885 July 2020
Horrible acting and script
alk641 August 2019
Julia Newmeyer CANNOT act for the life of her. I thought the standards were higher in the past but it seems there were none at all. She was in all those many movies stiff as a Cat woman she once acted at all times, and yet cheered on for decades. Why?! A truly embarrassing episode.
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