Deposit with Caution

The ruin of this show continues with an episode with an absurd premise. A cop is framed to discredit his testimony for the defense in a murder trial. That would never happen. If he could provide an alibi for the defendant, the DA wouldn't be going to trial. If the DA was going to trial, the cop wouldn't be torpedoing his case.

Just dumb.

Besides that, the cliché-riddled writing continues. At least we were spared the wretchedly written voice-over exposition that has plagued earlier season six shows.

In this final season when Stu Bailey went out on his own this episode shows clearly the difference between when he had a partner as to now when he's on his own accepting a job in New York City. Back in the day of Bailey&Spencer the firm was practically an adjunct of the LAPD. Gone also is the ever steady Byron Keith as Lt. Gilmore of LA Homicide who the partners called on regularly and was a semi-regular in the cast.

The more traditional antagonism is present here between PIs and the cops. But it's a cop on suspension Harold J. Stone who hires the out of town Efrem Zimbalist to find out who framed him for being on the take by making a $20,000.00 deposit in his account. The bank teller swears it was Stone.

In this day of electronic surveillance this frame job could not be possible the way it was done. But this is now and back then was 1963.

I will saythat framing Stone was part of larger and very twisted scheme by the mastermind who did this thing.

Not a bad one from the last season. But I do miss the rest of the gang.