Route 66: But What Do You Do in March? (1963)
Season 3, Episode 28
5/3/63 "But What Do You Do In March"
21 December 2015
This is a pretty weak effort after some good episodes. Janice Rule returns for the third time, ("A Lance of Straw" and "Once to Every Man") again as a woman too strong to get a man. She's a multi- millionaire heiress who has an on-going rivalry with her younger sister, played by Susan Kohner, in one of her last appearances before she retired from the business after a promising start to raise a family. She, too, had played a similar role in a prior episode, ("The Quick and the Dead" from the first season). That one was about race cars. This one is about speed boats.

The boys encounter them in a "cute meet" when Susan's speedboat cuts their fishing line and overturns their boat. There's a big race coming up, (Hosted by Guy Lombardo, of all people), and each sister has a boat in the race. They hire the boys to race their boats, (Why? Janice is not a racer but Susan appears to be one from the cute meet). Tod and Linc get very competitive with each other. I won't say who wins but Linc realizes that he can't have a worthwhile relationship with Janice. Tod, as usual, had no such illusions, (he probably remembered her from the prior episodes). This show actually reduces itself to utilizing comic relief from the world's most unfunny comedian, (Sammy Shore) and a series of scenes where characters either gets drenched by passing speedboats or gets shoved into the water.
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