magnetox1

My late mother worked for an American Express facility which in 1976 had just moved to Plantation, FL. Through some arrangement with the studio that was producing The New Howdy Doody Show, AMEX employees were invited to bring their children to fill up the "peanut gallery" for one day which was filming for one storyline (I think it was a week's worth of episodes) The question I have is, I don't see the plot I was in the peanut gallery for on the episode list. "The Phantom of Doodyville" . Nor are two other storylines listed that I definitely remember watching. "The Pied Piper of Doodyville" and "Happy Harmony's Birthday" Where are these? Does anyone remember these and when they were in the production order?

This story ran longer than it should have, there was no reason to drag it out another fifteen minutes or so past where the case was wrapped up. Cut out everything after the FBI agent leaves, and Benson's "so what happens to her now, toss her back out on the street?" (or whatever the line was). would have been a better ending. The entire "intervention" sequence was unnecessary, and the story would have been much better without it. There have been other episodes that had "you can't solve every problem" endings, so it's not as if there wasn't a precedent. This is just not a show that works if you have a "happy ending", it's supposed to be more realistic than that.