User Reviews

A hotel tycoon is killed, supposedly when he interrupted a robbery, but Joe takes a call from old friend Roy (Bing Russell) who says it was a hit. He offers to split the reward for the killer with Joe as Joe will act as front man with Roy providing the information. Then Roy is shot and killed in a rather unusual way. After that, Joe gets a call from famous photographer Carol Britton (Rosemary Forsyth) who offers him the same deal. He goes to Carol's house and get jumped and knocked out (That's a surprise!!) Joe did see a woman's body on the bed before getting hit. Joe sees Carol's boss and another office associate. He learns everyone loves Carol and that another office mate was killed in a hit and run a few weeks prior. Joe talks with Art who doesn't see a connection. (Another surprise!) Joe talks to a witness of the hit and run. The witness wonders if the headlights were on so it could have been a deliberate rundown. The witness, under duress, calls Joe and sets him up by giving him an address that has a phone that the bad guys wired with TNT. A unique way to get Joe but he, somewhat magically, figures it out and leaps through a window just as the bomb goes off. Joe sees the witness and learns he was threatened so Joe lets it slide. Why do bad guys always go through elaborate ways to get Joe? Just walk up and shoot him!

Joe learns the hotel rich guy had a partner (Jay Robinson) who is in a low security jail. He tells Joe the hotel chain is in league with the syndicate. Then Carol Britton appears! Carol was on vacation and says the widow of the hit and run victim was staying at her place. The widow actually called Joe. Seems the widow was separated from her husband and Roy was her boyfriend.

Carol reports she was at the hotel when the tycoon is killed and got some photos as the body was put in the ambulance. Carol and Joe hang out on the beach as they work together to get to the bottom of it. Very romantic. They set a trap by hanging out together so presenting the bad guys a two-for-one target that is too tempting to pass up. Plus Joe gets to date Carol! The bad guys grab the two at Carol's place. Turns out Carol's photos show Jay Robinson was at the scene of the crime and not in lockdown. The hit and run victim saw it in the darkroom as he developed the prints, He tried to blackmail Jay and got run over for the effort but not before telling others (his wife who told Roy) so they had to be killed too. Not surprised that Jay Robinson is the bad guy because he is always a slimy bad guy. Joe takes out Jay and his one henchman and the case is over.

Cast is good but not sure Rosemary Forsyth is that unforgettable. She is a beautiful woman but isn't quite right as an enchantress. Doesn't come across as a globe trotting photog. Not sure who I would have picked instead that would have been available back then. Linda Evans? Stephanie Powers? Maybe a British or French actress. I guess an enchantress is in the eye of the enchanted.

Don't think Joe got paid for this one. A decent episode with a slightly disappointing, routine ending. For being so smitten, Joe gets over Carol by the next episode and we never see her again.