Linc tries to help five women who've been sent out into the cold by an unfeeling hotel manager.Linc tries to help five women who've been sent out into the cold by an unfeeling hotel manager.Linc tries to help five women who've been sent out into the cold by an unfeeling hotel manager.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe name of the jazz quintet depicted in this episode was Liz Marshall and Her Martians. The group was fronted by Jessica Walter's character on bass. In real life, Jessica Walter's father, David, was a world-renowned bassist.
- GoofsKicked out of the Inn On The Park in the middle of the night, and with no transportation (or money to buy or rent transportation), the girls somehow end up 10 miles away on Shuter Street in downtown Toronto by dawn -- in heels, and immaculately coiffed and made up.
- Quotes
Manager: [Tod calls the hotel's manager looking for Linc] Five girls? They're here right now. Mr. Melonhead? Just a moment.
[She hands the phone to Linc]
Manager: Your name is Melonhead?
- Crazy creditsUnusually, a number of substantial speaking roles are completely uncredited, including the roles of Mrs. J Longsworth (the credit manager), the stripper, Walt's gin rummy partner, the police officer, the four guests Foxglove brings to the impromptu party (including Larry), the Telegram receptionist, and the Massey Hall stage manager.
- ConnectionsReferences The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- SoundtracksDay In, Day Out
(uncredited)
Music by Rube Bloom
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Performed by Gyo and Daphne for the strip club audition
Featured review
12/6/63 "A Long Way from St. Louie"
In fact, our heroes are in Toronto and taking a tour of it in a helicopter. They spot a group of attractive women camped out in Exhibition Stadium. They land and find out they are an all-girl band expelled from their hotel room. The boys take up their cause, even allowing them to stay in their own hotel room while they try to find a booking for them, (their agent has left them stranded.) One potential gig turns out to be a strip joint. They finally get hired for a charity ball. Meanwhile, they have to deal with the randy helicopter pilot, an Englishman who, (not unlike David Niven in "Separate Tables"), likes to brag about his non-existent war service. But this character, played by someone named Hedley Mattingly, is not a sympathetic character. He's just there for some unfunny comic relief.
When I first saw this episode years ago, I thought it was the silliest, least substantial episode of the show and a sign that the writers had run dry. Watching it again, it's not that bad. It's just not all that good, either. The most interesting aspects of it are that it's the one Route 66 episode that takes place outside the country and that three of the women in the band are young actresses that we'd be hearing more from: Jessica Walter, Patricia Harty and Linda Day (George). The other two, Virginia Wing and Susan Ringwood, were less successful . In fact, this is Ringwood's only credit.
There's a reference to Julie Newmar's Vicki character, which Linc says he knows all about because Tod keeps mumbling about her in his sleep, a very rare reference to a prior episode..
When I first saw this episode years ago, I thought it was the silliest, least substantial episode of the show and a sign that the writers had run dry. Watching it again, it's not that bad. It's just not all that good, either. The most interesting aspects of it are that it's the one Route 66 episode that takes place outside the country and that three of the women in the band are young actresses that we'd be hearing more from: Jessica Walter, Patricia Harty and Linda Day (George). The other two, Virginia Wing and Susan Ringwood, were less successful . In fact, this is Ringwood's only credit.
There's a reference to Julie Newmar's Vicki character, which Linc says he knows all about because Tod keeps mumbling about her in his sleep, a very rare reference to a prior episode..
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- Feb 12, 2016
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- Runtime50 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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