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Millie's New Job
JordanThomasHall13 January 2020
Millie is taking a secretarial course at Bradbury Business College to get a better job. She feels she flunked her exam but is ecstatic to receive a letter in the mail that she passed. Millie goes through Ajax Employment Agency in Siler City to find interviews cut short without her having experience. The employment agency phones her with a job not requiring experience and she goes to Magazine Inc. Unknown to her, it is a newly set up front for two bookies on the run from police. Millie is tasked with beginning a list from the phone book of every citizen in Siler City. She obverses how poor magazine businessmen they are how subscriptions are bad and decides to help them out by signing up subscribers. Things can only go downhill.

In my opinion, this is an episode that builds up more suspense than it delivers. As noted in the trivia section, the two men on the wrong side of the law also played convicts in season one's comedic "Help on the Farm". The story is similar to "The Andy Griffith Show" season six episode "Aunt Bee Takes a Job". An additional connection is that the police head was played by Richard X. Slattery who also played the police head in Raleigh in "A Visit to Barney Fife".
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7/10
Bad remake with all-star character actors
vitoscotti27 November 2023
A dreadful remake of classic episode Aunt Bee Takes a Job from "The Andy Griffith Show". Even how bad it was it was still a worthwhile episode with a stellar cast of classic TV greats. Pretty Millie Swanson (Arlene Golonka) was the centerpiece which is always a plus. Likable bad guys Lewis Charles and Herbie Faye were excellent even though they weren't setup well by the writers.

Arlene Golonka stole the show lighting up the screen as she always does. Jack Dodson was humorous with his college fight song. Howard, and Emmett tagging along on a Sam and Millie movie date? Sam spends a lot of time at the office which is a part time position for such a small city. No Mayor MRFD?
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