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Joe's wife asks him about the nice watch he promised to buy her long ago. It seems he really has had no intention of buying it...but later reconsiders it. But to get the watch, he'll need to ask his boss for a raise. It just happens that the boss wants Joe to buy a present for a co-worker, Miss Wigglegood, and instructs Joe to buy her the watch. But when Mrs. McDoakes sees the watch, she naturally thinks it's for her and not the sexy office mate. Plus, the boss' wife shows up and the boss certainly won't admit to buying the lady a watch. What's to come of all this deceit?

This is a cute episode and I loved that the pretty lady was named 'Wigglegood'. Well worth seeing and all in good fun.

Joe McDoakes' wife wants a watch, and Joe finds a honey in a window. It's too expensive, so he shrugs and heads to work. There the office sexpot is winning an 'efficiency award', and the boss agrees to Joe's suggestion of the watch as a prize. Then his wife walks in....

It's a typically funny and mildly surreal entry in the series, with its three regulars: George O'Hanlon as Joe, Richard Bare as the writer-director, and Phyllis Coates as Joe's wife Alice; a far cry from playing Lois Lane to George Reeves' Superman. O'Hanlon became so typecast in the role of the urban male worker that it was no surprise he wound up as George in THE JETSONS.

AS HAS BEEN the habit ever since the genesis of this series, the matrimonial episodes are built around the time tested and nearly 100 percent effective ploy of invoking "the Battle of the Sexes." It is the central theme powers so many sitcoms (from I LOVE LUCY to MARRIED WITH CHILDREN) as well as those comic strips that appear in our newspapers such as: BRINGING UP FATHER (Maggie & Jiggs), BLONDIE and HI & LOIS.

AND THERE IS good reason to classify the MC DOAKES Series as a sort of "Comic Strip"' albeit one of celluloid, rather than print.

AS FOR TODAY'S guinea pig, this SO YOU NEVER TELL A LIE mixes up the Domestic situation with that of the ever present Work Place Romance; or, as in this case, the potential for the same.

THE SKILLFUL AND veteran writer/director, Richard L. Bare*, mixes in the mix-up of two proposed presents for two different women; with the point of intersection being Joe. The boss (Emory Parnell) is offering a prize for office efficiency; which just happens top be given to the shapely, young blonde. Joe's desire to buy a luxurious wristwatch for wife, Alice (Phyllis Coates) gets inadvertently thrown into the mix; resulting with one little "white" being the fodder for further confusion.

WE ALSO FIND that an overanxious Boy Scout Troop's Scoutmaster (Rodney Bell) injects further confusion into the fray. Incidentally character comedian, Rodney Bell is the same guy who has been cast as Joe's neighbor, Marvin in so many other previous installments.

IT IS WITH a huge dose of irony that Joe brings down the curtain. Seated at home with Alice, Joe closes things out with, a little white lie! What else?