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Full of 60s movie cliches. Ann-Margret, the ingenue, goes on a date with employer's randy son, Chad Everett, and when he tries to go all the way on first date, she breaks a vase over his head. Next morning, she gets called into his office and instead of being fired for refusing his advances, she is promoted to store buyer, as Chad Everett has now found his future wife. This is not a joke! Innocent, naive Ann goes to Paris and becomes the toast of Paris of course. She learns her predecessor slept with everyone to get the job done. Big surprise. Chad comes to Paris and to sort out the menage a trois she has with two other men. Do I need to go on? I won't reveal the silly predictable ending so not to add spoiler alert.

Watch this only to see the beauty of Ann-Margret and get an idea of what Chad Everett, Louis Jordan, and Richard Crenna looked like when they were young.

This series had some great actors and great entertainment and based on those two criteria, I would have probably given it a 10/10. However, it never answered my primary reason for watching it: what was Dr. Hynek's epiphany that changed him from a skeptic to a believer? Was it one particular case, a series of similar cases, or a series of selected cases? I guess I will have to hope that I run into son Joel Hynek to find out. Other than that, I was also disappointed that many of the episodes were so embellished to the point of being unrecognizable. Couldn't this series been made as a non-fictional telling of the work of Dr. Hynek and Project Blue Book? Is Capt. Quinn supposed to be the alter ego of Maj. Hector Quintanella, the actual Project Blue Book director? Were they really that involved with Russian spies? After 70 years, did the names and places have to be changed so much to protect the innocent, yet at the end of every episode a blurb was made to describe the actual event the episode was based on? Wouldn't the series have been just as interesting if the actual events were portrayed with little or no embellishment? These were some of the questions that bugged me with every episode. Has the History Channel gone over strictly to fiction and science fiction instead of the great work with previous documentaries and actual historic events? Time will tell, but as for me, I think ufology has not been advanced by this series.