87th Precinct: Give the Boys a Great Big Hand

A uniformed patrol officer finds a severed human hand inside a travel bag deposited tossed into a garbage can. The solution to the case hinges on two missing people: a merchant seaman with a reputation as a lady's man and a stripper who was the obsession of a photographer.

Episode Info

Episode number: 1x17
Production Number: 15908
Airdate: Monday January 15th, 1962

Director: Don Weis
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
Story: Evan Hunter

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Guest Stars

Dal McKennon As Dr. Blaney Recurring	Dennis McCarthy As Richards Recurring
Asa Maynor As Receptionist	Barry Atwater As Charles Tudor
George N. Neise As Piat	Lorna Thayer As Mrs. Livingston
Michael Forest (1) As Karl Andrade	Roxanne Arlen As Taffy
Suzi Carnell As Milie Andrade	Theodore Marcuse As Captain Comer

Main Cast

Robert Lansing As Det. Steve Carella	Ron Harper As Det. Bert Kling
Norman Fell As Det. Meyer Meyer	Gregory Walcott As Det. Roger Havilland

Recap

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Episode Notes

This episode is based upon the Ed McBain novel of the same name.

Gregory Walcott only appears in one scene at the beginning of the episode.

Asa Maynor was married in real life to Edd Byrnes who played Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip.

Episode Quotes

Taffy: You're a little too short for me.
Meyer: I could wear stilts.

Havilland: You think she could handle a meat cleaver?
Kling: I don't know but any girl with legs like that can't be all bad.

King: (about Mrs. Andrade) She doesn't look like the axe murderer type to me.
Carella: Who does? If you could tell a murderer by looking we'd be outta business.

Kling: (about Mrs. Livingston) Do you still feel the same way about mothers?
Carella: She's no mother.
Kling: What is she then?
Carella: Do I have to spell it?

Carella: Let's start with the mother
Kling: Why the mother?
Carella: Because I'm sentimental.

Analysis

A hand in the garbage can, plenty of hot chicks, good suspense, and a particularly nasty and psychotic villain make for a good episode.

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