The White Knight

I just caught this episode and thought it one of the more interesting, if for no other reason than the cast: a youngish Ted Knight as a policeman, a very young Jessica Walter, and a pre-Mission Impossible Steven Hill. The story of an otherwise charming but philandering politician with a self-pitying, alcoholic wife was not especially new in the movies and TV, even a half century ago, so nothing special here. However, the real joy of this episode is Susan Hayward lookalike Nancy Wickwire as the wife. She does a tremendous job and acts everybody else off the screen, including David Janssen. Embarrassing to admit I’d never heard of her till seeing her here. I guess she was quite a big deal in the soap operas of the Sixties and Seventies.