"77 Sunset Strip" The Hamlet Caper (TV Episode 1961) Poster

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7/10
The Play's the thing
bkoganbing10 February 2018
After a couple of strange incidents the producer/manager of a Shespeare Repertory theater company Neil Hamilton secures the services of Bailey&Spencer to find out who is trying to harm their lead actor Andrew Duggan. Duggan is appearing in a production of Hamlet.

He's also one very middle aged Hamlet not the youthful Prince of Denmark beset with doubts. Looks kind of ludicrous but Duggan has a monstrous ego and a celebrity status that needs feeding. He's also the kind of man that would attract people wanting to do him harm.

New Bailey&Spencer associate Richard Long from New Orleans gets the case and of course with a bit of snooping finds the culprit. This one has a different kind of ending, unusual but enjoyable.
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4/10
OK I'm being picky
mlbroberts1 May 2021
But in this episode - Rex trying to find out who is threatening a galling actor with too big an ego playing Hamlet - two things were particularly bothersome. First, Andrew Duggan as an actor playing Hamlet? At his age? Ludicrous, but ok, maybe it was meant to be. But please - they have him reciting the "To be or not to be" soliloquy itwice!

Rex finds out who the threat is and ends it but actually, I wish he hadn't. I'd have been happier if the egocentric middle-aged Hamlet who insisted on doing the same soliloquy twice were done in by the end. The fact that Rex does see he gets something of a comeuppance makes me give this a 4 and not a 1.
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